Question
In a film based on one of this author’s works, the camera constantly cuts from a boy on a bus to a clock approaching 1:45 p.m., which is when a bomb blows up the bus. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author whose work was the basis of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Sabotage. At the beginning of a different film based on one of this author’s works, The Doors’ song “The End” plays as several images superimpose over a man in bed staring at a ceiling fan.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (Sabotage is based on The Secret Agent.)
[10e] Marlon Brando portrays Kurtz in this Francis Ford Coppola film which sets Heart of Darkness in the Vietnam War.
ANSWER: Apocalypse Now
[10m] Conrad’s story “The Duel” inspired this director’s first film The Duellists. For his second film, this director used Joseph Conrad’s novel Nostromo to name a ship which gets terrorized by a xenomorph.
ANSWER: Ridley Scott (The other film is Alien.)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
Data
| Columbia Ly-α | Rochester B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell Wind | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell Fire | Rochester A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell Earth | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |