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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 in which a house facade falls around Buster Keaton. A 1925 film titled for one of these (-5[1])objects shows a (-5[1])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 (10[1])Straw” and was the wide-release debut of Mickey Mouse. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[3])a pram rolls down the Odessa (10[1])steps in a Sergei Eisenstein (10[1])film (10[1])titled for (10[1])what type of vehicle named Potemkin? ■END■ (10[2]0[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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentPositionValue
Ethan EricksonBoston College BBoston University B60-5
Christopher BradleySouthern Connecticut State University ATufts C63-5
David CiardellaVermont BTufts A9310
Elliott GomesDartmouth AAmherst A10210
Micah LauzonDartmouth BBoston College A10510
Sidarth EratMIT ABrandeis Mozart10510
Matthew KohnWilliams ABrown A10510
Cy StavrosVermont AUConn A11110
Dylan TanouyeTufts BBrandeis Bach11610
Jack MeyersBrown BWilliams B11710
Yuval KleinWilliams CMIT B11910
Ohm PatelBoston University BBoston College B12610
Andrew ParkHarvardDartmouth C12610
Thomas NewillTufts CSouthern Connecticut State University A1260

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