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]
<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 16.51 | 81% | 47% | 37% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Marx | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | Lex | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| [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 |
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% |