Question

After a boy snaps a rabbit’s neck in a film by this director, the camera cuts to a close-up showing drops of its blood on wheat stalks. In a film by this director, an animation of a man bursting into flames accompanies a girl discussing how her late father was struck by lightning in the Pyrenees. In a film by this director, a woman falls into alcoholism after a man taunts her by whistling the “Radetzky March.” (15[2])A man masturbates (-5[1])with a scarf owned by (*) Bronco Henry near a watering (10[1])hole on his ranch in a film by this director. At the end of a film by this director, a character receives a prosthetic finger after surviving a fall into the sea while tied to the title object. In that film by this director, the mute musician Ada leaves her marriage to a New Zealand settler. For 10 points, what director of The Power of the Dog became the first woman to win the Palme d’Or for her film The Piano? ■END■

ANSWER: Jane Campion [or Elizabeth Jane Campion]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanford+A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs7615
Kevin Yenumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuCry of the Common Loon7615
Swapnil GargBerkeleyWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?79-5
Stephen LiuWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Berkeley8910

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%67%33%80.33
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y367%0%33%124.50
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y367%33%33%82.50
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y633%0%33%112.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%0%93.67
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%33%0%105.33