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After meeting the title character of this film in a theater, a woman quotes the toast “Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.” A sequel to this film includes a notorious scene in which Lili undresses to pose for a painting by Marya Zaleska. Early in this film, a Jerusalem cricket, often mistaken for a bee, climbs out of a tiny coffin. George Melford used this film’s (-5[1])sets to simultaneously shoot a Spanish-language version with (-5[1])Lupita Tovar. (10[1]-5[1])The face of this film’s title character is bathed in shadow except for his eyes after he says, “I never drink [pause] (10[1]-5[1])wine.” This (-5[1])film’s title character says, “Listen to them. Children of the (10[1]-5[1])night. What music (10[1]-5[1])they make,” upon (10[1])hearing wolves howl near his (-5[2])castle. For (-5[1])10 points, name (-5[1])this (10[1])1931 Tod Browning (10[2])film starring Bela (10[1]0[1])Lugosi (10[1])as a (10[1])vampire. (10[10])■END■

ANSWER: Dracula (The sequel is Dracula’s Daughter.)
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y2295%0%50%138.29

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Jim FanNorth Carolina AVanderbilt77-5
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaMaryland85-5
Qingyu ZhangFloridaCornell B8710
Mattias EhatammWaterloo ALSE87-5
Teigue KellyPenn StateRIT109-5
Henry BonWinona StateBritish Columbia10910
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AArizona State111-5
Todd MaslykMichiganColumbia A121-5
Athena ShaddenTexasColumbia B12110
Jakob MyersIndianaIllinois B12410
Ryan RosenbergNYUVirginia124-5
Justin WytmarIllinois AToronto C12710
Simon ZimmermanOhio StateStanford132-5
Thomas TibbettsUCFVirginia Tech132-5
James McCurleyHarvardCornell A134-5
Ned TagtmeierChicago AMinnesota137-5
Nathan SheffieldMITYale13810
Alvin GuoChicago BRutgers14110
Charles HangWUSTL AIowa State14110
Tim MorrisonStanfordOhio State1440
Wenying WuToronto BWUSTL B14410
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto ANorth Carolina B14510
Cormac BeirneLSEWaterloo A14710
Jaik HavlickArizona StateUC Berkeley A14810
Nathan ZhangCornell AHarvard14810
Isaac MammelMarylandOttawa14810
Moses KitakuleColumbia AMichigan14810
Foster HughesMinnesotaChicago A14810
Joseph ChambersVirginiaNYU14810
Cade ReinbergerRITPenn State14810
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BGeorgia State14810
Noah ChinVirginia TechUCF14810
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltNorth Carolina A14810