Question

During a moonlit rendezvous in a silent film, a woman from one of these places describes a dance hall and a brass band that appear superimposed over the shot. After spending the day in a fantastical one of these places, the Man and the Woman nearly drown during a storm in F. W. Murnau’s film Sunrise. Eugen (“OY-ghen”) Schüfftan invented a process that combines miniatures and mirrors for a film titled for one of these places, which is sometimes shown with a score by Giorgio Moroder. Below one of these places, a character imagines workers who pull levers resembling clock faces (10[1])being fed to Moloch. The New Tower of Babel (10[1])stands over one of these places in a silent film in which Rotwang constructs a “machine human.” For 10 points, what sort of place titles a science (10[1])fiction film (10[1])by Fritz Lang? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: city [accept a fictional city; accept Metropolis; accept the city woman; accept dystopia until read; prompt on funfair, carnival, or circus by asking “what larger kind of location is being described?”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kai MadgwickManchesterSouthhampton B9910
Albert NyangLSE ACambridge A10810
Alessandro d'AttanasioCambridge DBristol A13510
Eveline OngOxford ADurham B13710
Edward FogelBirminghamBristol B14010
Justin LeeImperial ALSE B14010
Zayyan MahmoodSouthampton AImperial B14110
Ian McDowellCambridge COxford B14110
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltWarwick A14110

Summary

2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley2024-11-16Y2100%0%0%138.50
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y1100%0%0%114.00
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern2024-11-16Y9100%0%11%126.89
2024 ACF Winter at Online2024-11-16Y888%0%13%117.86
2024 ACF Winter at UBC2024-11-16Y3100%0%33%134.33
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida2024-11-16Y475%0%0%140.33
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford2024-11-16Y9100%0%0%131.33