boats - 2025 ACF Fall

Tossup

One of these objects partly titles a film in which an unmanly college student in love with Kitty King rolls through town on a hospital bed during a cyclone. Steve McQueen’s Deadpan is inspired by a film partly titled for one of these objects (-5[1])in which a house facade falls around Buster Keaton. (-5[1])A 1925 film titled for one of these (-5[1])objects (-5[1])shows a (-5[1])woman holding her trampled son in front of a line of troops. An (10[1])animated short partly titled for one of these objects shows a music-eating goat playing (10[1])“Turkey in the (10[1])Straw” and (10[1])was (10[1])the wide-release debut of Mickey Mouse. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[4])a pram (10[3]-5[1])rolls (10[1])down (10[2])the Odessa (10[3])steps in a Sergei Eisenstein (10[1])film (10[1])titled for (10[2])what type (10[1])of vehicle (10[1])named Potemkin? (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[2])

ANSWER: boats [or ships; accept steamboat; accept riverboat; accept battleship; accept Battleship Potemkin; accept Steamboat Willie; accept Steamboat Bill Jr.]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	WashU Grizzlers	43	-5
Jason Lee	Rutgers A	Maryland C	52	-5
Ethan Erickson	Boston College B	Boston University B	60	-5
John Shelly	Rowan	George Mason C	61	-5
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts C	63	-5
Daniel Kim	Maryland A	Maryland B	76	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	NYU A	90	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Tufts A	93	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Chipola College	95	10
Danny Cutbill	RIT A	Cornell D	96	10
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	McMaster A	102	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	George Mason B	102	10
Ben Schindelman	Vassar A	Johns Hopkins	102	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Amherst A	102	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge B	102	10
Micah Lauzon	Dartmouth B	Boston College A	105	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brandeis Mozart	105	10
Matthew Kohn	Williams A	Brown A	105	10
Henry Rutherford-Braun	British Columbia B	British Columbia C	105	10
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Princeton	107	10
Luke Houtz	Arizona State B	Washington Sockeye	107	10
Kevin Liu	Texas	Washington Chum	107	-5
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Pink	107	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	British Columbia A	108	10
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Arizona State A	109	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Washington Masu	109	10
Yiwei Jiang	NYU C	Columbia B	111	10
Cy Stavros	Vermont A	UConn A	111	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Atlantic	111	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Brandeis Bach	116	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Williams B	117	10
Yun Loh	Penn	Stony Brook	119	10
Yuval Klein	Williams C	MIT B	119	10
Nico Lotto	Vassar B	Rutgers C	121	10
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Lehigh B	123	10
Elliot Earley	Sheffield B	Edinburgh A	125	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	NYU B	126	10
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	Rowan	126	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	Rutgers A	126	10
Colette Giezentanner	WashU Grizzlers	Purdue A	126	10
Ohm Patel	Boston University B	Boston College B	126	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	Dartmouth C	126	10
Thomas Newill	Tufts C	Southern Connecticut State University A	126	0
Tri Lam	Washington Chum	Texas	126	0
Isabella DePrimo	Washington Chinook	Boise State	126	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	1	100%	0%	125.00
UK (South)	UK	1	100%	0%	102.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	1	100%	0%	102.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	17%	110.75
Midwest	US	1	100%	100%	126.00
Northeast	US	12	92%	17%	111.36
Pacific	US	9	89%	11%	110.25
Southeast	US	1	100%	0%	95.00
Upstate NY	US	1	100%	0%	96.00