suspense - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 9: Bonus 4

Answer the following about early innovations in the cinematic use of split screen, for 10 points each.

[10e] A celebrated triangular split screen during a phone call appears in a 1913 short titled for this concept by Lois Weber. Alfred Hitchcock was nicknamed the “master of” this concept that he contrasted with surprise.

ANSWER: suspense

[10m] A man of this title profession dreams of a mother and daughter who appear in a circular split screen in a 1903 short by Edwin S. Porter. Bumbling men of this profession host a disastrous ball in a Czech film by Miloš Forman.

ANSWER: fireman [or firemen; or firefighter; accept fire department or fire brigade; accept Life of an American Fireman or The Firemen’s Ball]

[10h] This director invented the Polyvision system for a multi-colored, panoramic triptych scene that required three projectors. A 1927 historical epic by this director partly inspired a legendary never-made film by Stanley Kubrick.

ANSWER: Abel Gance [or Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon] (The epic is Napoleon.)

<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-9

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
42	17.86	98%	52%	29%

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Conversion

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

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	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%