Hans Zimmer - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

During the early 2000s, dozens of films accompanied violent visuals with a usually female singer wailing vaguely Middle Eastern music, even when the film isn’t set in the Middle East. For 10 points each:

[10e] This German composer popularized that trope with his score for Gladiator. His collaborations with Christopher Nolan include The Dark Knight, Inception, and Interstellar.

ANSWER: Hans Zimmer [or Hans Florian Zimmer]

[10m] The trope makes plentiful use of this interval, found between the sixth and seventh scale degrees of a harmonic minor scale. This is the interval between F and the G-sharp above it.

ANSWER: augmented second [prompt on second]

[10h] Before the 2000s, the trope was associated with Biblical stories, such as this rock musician’s score for Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. His only other feature film scores are for Birdy and Rabbit-Proof Fence.

ANSWER: Peter Gabriel [or Peter Brian Gabriel]

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Columbia A	Indiana	10	10	0	20	EM
Columbia B	Vanderbilt	10	0	0	10	E
Cornell A	Virginia Tech	10	10	0	20	EM
Florida	British Columbia	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia State	Ottawa	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech	Toronto C	10	10	0	20	EM
Illinois A	Toronto A	10	0	0	10	E
Iowa State	Chicago B	10	0	0	10	E
Michigan	Ohio State	10	0	0	10	E
Minnesota	Johns Hopkins	10	0	0	10	E
NYU	Arizona State	10	10	0	20	EM
North Carolina A	UC Berkeley A	10	10	0	20	EM
Penn State	Yale	10	0	10	20	EH
Stanford	Chicago A	10	0	10	20	EH
Texas	Harvard	10	10	0	20	EM
UC Berkeley B	WUSTL B	10	0	0	10	E
UCF	Maryland	10	0	0	10	E
WUSTL A	Rutgers	10	10	0	20	EM
Waterloo A	Northwestern	10	10	0	20	EM
Waterloo B	LSE	10	0	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	20	15.00	100%	40%	10%