F. W. Murnau - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 2: Bonus 8

A 2012 film by Miguel Gomes in which an explorer is eaten by a crocodile takes its title from this director’s 1931 “Story of the South Seas,” titled Tabu. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this silent-era German director of The Last Laugh. Both Werner Herzog in 1979 and Robert Eggers in 2024 remade a horror film by this director that features Count Orlok.

ANSWER: F. W. Murnau [or Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau; or Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe] (The horror film is Nosferatu.)

[10h] Murnau’s Sunrise inspired this director’s series of Six Moral Tales, each of which involves a committed man being tempted by another woman. That series includes this director’s films Claire’s Knee and My Night at Maud’s.

ANSWER: Éric Rohmer [or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer]

[10e] Murnau’s depiction of Mephisto in his film Faust is quoted in the “Night on Bald Mountain” segment of this 1940 animated film, whose music was conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

ANSWER: Fantasia

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
42	18.57	95%	60%	31%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Execute Order 6 7	10	10	10	30	MHE
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	C R A B S	10	0	10	20	ME
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	10	30	MHE
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	0	10	20	ME
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	10	30	MHE
Catholic University A	JHU	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago !A	Invective Against Swans	10	10	10	30	MHE
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 7	10	10	10	30	MHE
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	0	10	10	E
Dour Straits	No Country for Old Quizzers	0	0	10	10	E
Guelph Cloze	Licence to C. Wright Mill	0	0	10	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Dielectrical Materialism	10	10	10	30	MHE
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	0	0	10	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	0	0	10	10	E
Indiana	1000000 Delinquents	10	0	10	20	ME
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	10	10	10	30	MHE
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	UNC Charity	10	10	10	30	MHE
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Contessa Dora	10	0	10	20	ME
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	BHSU	10	10	10	30	MHE
NYU A	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	10	20	ME
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	0	10	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	0	10	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 8	0	0	10	10	E
Penn State	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	10	10	30	MHE
Rosslyn Academic Team	Mike and Psmith	10	0	10	20	ME
Shipping Down from Ballston	Habitat 67	10	10	10	30	MHE
St. Marx	Maybe Ever	0	0	0	0
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	0	0	10	10	E
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	10	20	ME
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	0	10	20	ME
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	0	10	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	10	20	ME
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	10	10	30	MHE
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC B	0	0	10	10	E
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	[Redacted]	10	0	10	20	ME
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Northwestern	0	10	10	20	HE
UBC A	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	0	0	0	0
Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	10	0	10	20	ME
W&L+Friend	Lex	0	0	10	10	E
WashU	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	10	0	10	20	ME
You Don't Have the Cards	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	10	0	10	20	ME

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%