Question
Leontine Sagan directed a hit 1931 film from this country that uses an all-female cast to tell the story of a girl falling in love with her female teacher. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country whose premier sexologist co-wrote the 1919 gay romance Different From the Others. The bisexual director of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and the androgynous star of The Blue Angel were from this country.
ANSWER: Germany [or Deutschland] (The 1931 film is Mädchen in Uniform. The sexologist is Magnus Hirschfeld. The director is Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and the actress is Marlene Dietrich.)
[10h] Different From the Others stars this actor, whose lead role in 1928’s The Man Who Laughs inspired the look of the Joker. A close-up on this actor in heavy eyeshadow as the somnambulist Cesare (“CHEZ-ah-ray”) is a defining image of German expressionism.
ANSWER: Conrad Veidt (“fight”) [or Hans Walter Conrad Veidt] (Cesare appears in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.)
[10m] This non-German director’s 1924 German film Michael follows an artist’s romances with his male model and a countess. This director allegorized Nazi occupation to a 17th-century witch hunt in the film Day of Wrath.
ANSWER: Carl Theodor Dreyer [or Carl Th. Dreyer]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 14.67 | 93% | 33% | 20% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | var merchants | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |