Packet 1: Bonus 9
Sianne Ngai’s (“see-ANN nye’s”) Theory of the Gimmick reads this film alongside Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Bottle Imp” as examples of the gimmick as financial structure. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this David Robert Mitchell film set in a blighted Detroit at an indeterminate time. In this film’s final shot, Jay and Paul walk holding hands as an out-of-focus figure trails behind them.
ANSWER: It Follows
[10m] Another chapter of Theory of the Gimmick analyzes Stan Douglas’s artworks based on this Technicolor horror film. This first of the Three Mothers films stars Jessica Harper as an American dancer studying in Europe.
ANSWER: Suspiria (directed by Dario Argento)
[10e] Ngai’s book also considers the gimmick inherent to “physical extremity” in this director’s film Fitzcarraldo. This German directed the 1979 remake of Nosferatu the Vampyre and Aguirre (“ah-GHEE-ray”), the Wrath of God.
ANSWER: Werner Herzog [or Werner Stipetić]
<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.25 | 88% | 50% | 25% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brown | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago B | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Columbia A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia B | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Georgetown | Northwestern B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | H |
| Illinois A | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Maryland A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Maryland B | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Minnesota | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| NYU B | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Ohio State | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Purdue | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Rutgers | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Texas | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCF | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Vanderbilt | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia Tech | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 16.25 | 88% | 50% | 25% |