The Exorcist - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet B: Bonus 10

This film’s title character, who appears at an archaeological dig in Iraq in the opening scene, was played by Max von Sydow, a frequent collaborator of Ingmar Bergman. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin. In this film, the priest Lankester Merrin rids the young girl Regan MacNeil of her demonic possession.

ANSWER: The Exorcist

[10m] Friedkin’s decision to insert flashes of the demon’s face was inspired by jarring shots from Night and Fog, Alain Resnais’s (“reh-NAY’s”) documentary on this subject. Claude Lanzmann made a nine-hour documentary about this subject.

ANSWER: the Holocaust [or the Shoah; or the concentration camps; accept descriptions of the genocide of Jews in Europe during World War II or equivalents; prompt on World War II or WWII; prompt on genocide] (Lanzmann’s film is Shoah.)

[10h] This film’s depiction of a resurrection inspired Friedkin to show the actual exorcism. In this 1955 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the seemingly mad Messianic figure Johannes brings Inger back to life after she dies in childbirth.

ANSWER: Ordet [or The Word]

<Oxford B, Other Fine Arts> | Packet B - Queens A, UCLA B, Edinburgh B, St. Georges A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
74	13.78	85%	41%	12%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20	EM
Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30	EMH
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
Binghamton A	Cornell B	10	10	0	20	EM
Binghamton B	Rochester	10	0	0	10	E
Birmingham	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10	E
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Brown	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10	E
CWRU A	Michigan B	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	0	0	10	E
Cardiff	Warwick A	10	10	0	20	EM
Carleton College	Claremont	10	0	0	10	E
Central Florida B	Florida B	10	0	0	10	E
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Chicago C	Indiana A	10	10	0	20	EM
Chicago D	Indiana C	0	0	0	0
Chicago E	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10	E
Columbia A	NYU A	10	10	0	20	EM
Cornell C	RIT	10	10	0	20	EM
Dartmouth B	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10	E
Duke	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10	E
Florida A	Florida C	10	0	0	10	E
Georgetown	Catholic	10	10	0	20	EM
Georgia Tech B	Bruin	10	0	0	10	E
Guelph	UBC A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Harvard A	Yale	10	10	0	20	EM
Illinois B	Chicago B	10	0	0	10	E
Illinois C	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
John Jay	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	0	20	EM
Johns Hopkins B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10	M
Kentucky	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Liberty B	William and Mary	10	0	0	10	E
Liberty C	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10	E
Louisville A	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10	E
MIT	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20	EM
Maryland B	Maryland A	10	10	0	20	EM
Maryland C	Vassar	10	0	0	10	E
McGill A	McMaster B	0	0	0	0
McGill B	McMaster A	10	0	0	10	E
Michigan State	Michigan A	0	10	0	10	M
Minnesota A	Missouri B	10	0	0	10	E
Missouri A	Washington B	10	0	0	10	E
Montpellier	Southampton B	10	0	0	10	E
NC State A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Northwestern C	Indiana B	10	0	0	10	E
Ohio State A	CWRU B	10	0	0	10	E
Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20	EM
Ohio State C	Michigan C	0	10	10	20	MH
Penn State	Cornell A	10	10	0	20	EM
Purdue A	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10	E
Rutgers A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20	EM
Simon Fraser	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20	EM
South Carolina A	Virginia	10	0	0	10	E
Southampton A	Oxford C	10	10	0	20	EM
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10	M
Swarthmore	Columbia B	10	0	0	10	E
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	0	20	EM
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	0	0	10	E
Toronto B	Toronto G	10	10	0	20	EM
Toronto E	Carleton University	10	0	0	10	E
UBC B	Toronto D	10	0	0	10	E
VCU	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10	E
Vanderbilt B	Alabama B	10	0	0	10	E
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	10	0	0	10	E
Wake Forest	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10	E
WashU A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10	E
WashU B	Mississipi State	10	10	0	20	EM
Washington A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10	E
Waterloo A	Toronto C	10	0	10	20	EH
Waterloo B	Western A	10	0	0	10	E
Western C	Toronto F	10	0	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	13.33	33%	67%	33%
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	14.00	90%	30%	20%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	12.00	40%	60%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	10.00	78%	11%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	11.25	75%	25%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
UK	Main Site	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%