Packet 8: Bonus 6
Using high values of this quantity creates the sense of distracting fluidity dubbed the “soap opera effect,” though it is occasionally used for experimental films like Sleep Has Her House. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this value that was 16 for much of the silent era but, for most of film history, has been set at 24.
ANSWER: frame rate [or frames per second or FPS; accept refresh rate or frame frequency]
[10m] The 48 FPS IMAX HD format debuted at an expo in this decade. A film movement named for a year in this decade included Thomas Vinterberg’s high-frame-rate film Festen and Lars von Trier’s The Idiots.
ANSWER: 1990s [prompt on ’90s; prompt on Dogme 95]
[10h] 60 FPS was used for the experimental film Night of Dreams by Douglas Trumbull, who also innovated this technique while making the “Stargate” sequence for 2001. In this distorting technique, a slide with a cut in it is placed in front of the lens.
ANSWER: slit-scan cinematography [or slit-scan photography]
<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | Q. Playoffs 8 (Editors 8)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 14.58 | 88% | 54% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Brown | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech A | Bruin | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| MIT | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Cornell | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pittsburgh | Cambridge | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Purdue | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Swarthmore | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| UC Berkeley B | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| WashU | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 14.58 | 88% | 54% | 4% |