Packet 2: Bonus 8
A 2012 film by Miguel Gomes in which an explorer is eaten by a crocodile takes its title from this director’s 1931 “Story of the South Seas,” titled Tabu. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this silent-era German director of The Last Laugh. Both Werner Herzog in 1979 and Robert Eggers in 2024 remade a horror film by this director that features Count Orlok.
ANSWER: F. W. Murnau [or Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau; or Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe] (The horror film is Nosferatu.)
[10h] Murnau’s Sunrise inspired this director’s series of Six Moral Tales, each of which involves a committed man being tempted by another woman. That series includes this director’s films Claire’s Knee and My Night at Maud’s.
ANSWER: Éric Rohmer [or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer]
[10e] Murnau’s depiction of Mephisto in his film Faust is quoted in the “Night on Bald Mountain” segment of this 1940 animated film, whose music was conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
ANSWER: Fantasia
<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 18.57 | 95% | 60% | 31% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever | C R A B S | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Dour Straits | No Country for Old Quizzers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs | Dielectrical Materialism | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy | Vacuous Tortoise | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
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 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |