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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. A 1925 film titled for one of these objects shows a woman holding her trampled son in front of a line of troops. An animated short partly titled for one of these objects shows a music-eating goat playing “Turkey in the Straw” and was the wide-release debut of Mickey Mouse. For 10 points, a pram rolls down the Odessa steps in a Sergei Eisenstein film titled for what type of vehicle named Potemkin? ■END■ (10[1])

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

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK1100%0%125.00
UK (South)UK1100%0%102.00
Eastern Canada (2)US1100%0%102.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS12100%17%110.75
MidwestUS1100%100%126.00
NortheastUS1292%17%111.36
PacificUS989%11%110.25
SoutheastUS1100%0%95.00
Upstate NYUS1100%0%96.00