Packet 4: Bonus 18
This actor was hospitalized after recording a scene where he eats shoes for his film The Gold Rush, which placed second in a landmark Expo 58 poll of classic films. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this silent film actor who adopted the screen persona of “the Tramp.” This actor also wrote and directed The Great Dictator, which played on the similarity of his mustache to Adolf Hitler’s.
ANSWER: Charlie Chaplin [or Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin]
[10m] The Gold Rush fell 5 votes short of defeating this film for first place in a widely-publicized Expo 58 poll. This Sergei Eisenstein silent film dramatizes a real-life 1905 mutiny.
ANSWER: Battleship Potemkin [or Battleship Potyomkin]
[10h] This director’s 1924 film about a hotel doorman, The Last Laugh, placed 11th in the same Expo 58th poll. Max Schreck plays Count Orlok in this director’s 1922 film Nosferatu.
ANSWER: F. W. Murnau [accept Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau or Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe]
<Fine Arts - Other, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 04
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 19.17 | 96% | 83% | 13% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 83% | 17% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |