Packet H: Bonus 15
In a 1992 essay in Sight & Sound, B. Ruby Rich coined a type of “Queer Cinema” described by this adjective, which is exemplified by Todd Haynes’s film Poison. For 10 points each:
[10e] What adjective appears in the names of both an auteur-driven Hollywood movement of the 1970s and an experimental French movement whose films include Breathless?
ANSWER: new [or nouvelle; accept New Hollywood or French New Wave or Nouvelle Vague]
[10h] Rich’s essay cites this director’s queer film The Living End, which preceded his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in this Japanese-American director’s film Mysterious Skin.
ANSWER: Gregg Araki
[10m] Rich praised My Own Private Idaho, which starred Keanu Reeves and an actor with this surname as hustlers. In a 2012 film, an actor with this surname played Freddie Quell, who joins Lancaster Dodd’s cult “The Cause.”
ANSWER: Phoenix [or Bottom; accept River Phoenix or Joaquin Phoenix or River Jude Bottom or Joaquin Rafael Bottom] (The latter film is The Master.)
<EW, Other Fine Arts> | Packet H - Yale A, Ohio State C, Illinois C, Virginia Tech B, MIT A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 15.30 | 82% | 44% | 27% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Columbia B | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Maryland A | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Columbia C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| NYU B | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 10 | 16.00 | 80% | 50% | 30% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 75% | 75% | 50% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 38% | 25% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 11 | 13.64 | 82% | 36% | 18% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 88% | 63% | 38% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |