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 being fed to Moloch. The New Tower of Babel 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 fiction film by Fritz Lang? (10[2])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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
Nicholas NguyenUF DUF E14010
Khanh NguyenUF AUCF A14010
Jordan DavidsenUF BFlorida Tech B14110
Samuel StellaFlorida State University AFlorida Tech A1410
Carter TomaskyFlorida Tech AFlorida State University A1410

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