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In a film in this language, a young girl finds a leftist soldier in a deserted animal pen after being deeply affected by an American monster (-5[1])movie. In a film in this (15[1])language, the protagonist peers through a store window at a street where protestors are beaten with sticks; that scene reveals her child’s father had joined a paramilitary that shoots (15[1])protestors. This language is spoken in the political allegory The Spirit of the Beehive. This language’s word for friend names a group of (*) three affiliated directors, one of whom made a scene in which the camera follows a nanny swimming into the sea to save a child. In a (10[1])film in this language, the protagonist moves in with a fascist stepfather and is (10[1])led by a stick insect into a magical stone maze. For 10 points, name this main language spoken in the movies (10[1])Roma and Pan’s Labyrinth. (10[1]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Spanish [or Español]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Owen MimnoNYU ALehigh A26-5
Eddie FuhrerLehigh ANYU A3215
Cody CoonBardColumbia C6115
Jake GrodnerPrincetonRutgers11010
Andrea LadinoNYU BNYU C12410
Cooper RohColumbia AGatherer14510
Emily FarleyLehigh BColumbia B14910
Moses KitakuleColumbia BLehigh B1490

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%33%17%103.50
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%25%0%121.50
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y3100%33%0%98.67
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y5100%60%0%85.80
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%33%0%109.33