Question
Samuel L. Jackson narrates a film inspired by an unfinished work by this author that discusses his relationships with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Medgar Evers. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author of the books that inspired Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro and Barry Jenkins’s film If Beale Street Could Talk.
ANSWER: James Baldwin [or James Arthur Baldwin]
[10h] The narrative structure of I Am Not Your Negro resembles that of Tongues Untied, one of the “signifyin’” films this director made with poet Essex Hemphill that examine American society’s views of gay Black men.
ANSWER: Marlon Riggs [or Marlon Troy Riggs]
[10m] In I am Not Your Negro, footage from a Gus Van Sant film inspired by this event is shown after Baldwin declares that America is “not the land of the free.” A 2003 documentary uses a recreational sport played by this 1999 event’s central figures as a motif to examine its causes.
ANSWER: Columbine High School massacre [prompt on school shootings] (The Van Sant film is Elephant. The documentary is Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore.)
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
Data
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |