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)
<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-6
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 16.51 | 86% | 49% | 30% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contessa Dora | Mike and Psmith | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| JHU | UNC Charity | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Munir Siddiqui Fan Club | https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Rosslyn Academic Team | Catholic University A | 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% |