Howard Hughes - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 6: Bonus 15

This director used extensive miniatures to shoot the elaborate aerial “dogfight” scenes in a 1930 film known for its shot of a Zeppelin emerging from the clouds. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this director of Hell’s Angels. Leonardo DiCaprio played this reclusive media mogul in Martin Scorsese’s biopic of him, The Aviator.

ANSWER: Howard Hughes [or Howard Robert Hughes Jr.]

[10m] Howard Hughes produced a 1932 crime film of this title that was directed by the similarly named Howard Hawks. The protagonist dies in front of a statue reading “The World is Yours” at the end of another film of this title.

ANSWER: Scarface

[10h] This film discusses tales about Hughes’s reclusion from Clifford Irving’s dubious autobiography of him. Subjects in this docudrama include the art forger Elmyr de Hory and the director’s then-partner Oja Kodar.

ANSWER: F for Fake (by Orson Welles)

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.51	86%	49%	30%

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Conversion

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

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	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%