ramen - 2025 NAFTA - Buzzpoints

Packet 3: Bonus 6

After a frame story in which a movie theater patron is berated for loudly eating chips, a film opens with a scene in which an old man observes, caresses, and finally consumes this food. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this food that is the obsession of a former OB/GYN in that film. A genre humorously named for this food was begun by a 1985 comedy in which a truck driver aids a young widow in her mastery of its preparation.

ANSWER: ramen [accept specific types of ramen like shoyu ramen; prompt on noodles or soup or broth]

[10e] “Ramen Westerns” like Tampopo are named in homage to this Italian director’s Spaghetti Westerns, which include Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

ANSWER: Sergio Leone

[10m] Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo and Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man exemplify a spinoff of the Spaghetti Western named for this substance. This substance is central to a scene set in a cemetery in the French Quarter in Easy Rider.

ANSWER: acid [or LSD; or lysergic acid diethylamide; accept acid Western]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.51	81%	47%	37%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	50%	0%	50%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	22.00	80%	60%	80%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%