Question
A character with this profession claims to want to do one "meaningful deed" while confessing to a fake priest who wears whiteface and a long black robe. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this profession of a Max von Sydow-played character who, in a 1957 film, makes a wager for his life with a hooded stranger he meets on a rocky beach.
ANSWER: knight [accept riddare; accept cavalier or chevalier; prompt on sir or nobleman; prompt on military man or soldier; prompt on crusader]
[10e] The knight Antonius Block loses a chess game to Death in this Swedish director's film The Seventh Seal.
ANSWER: Ingmar Bergman
[10h] Description acceptable. When Death comes for the knight, a servant girl identified in the credits as having this condition whispers "it is the end." In Bergman's Persona, the nurse Alma cares for an actress with this condition.
ANSWER: mute [accept nonverbal; accept descriptions of them not speaking or not being able to talk]
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Data
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 37 | 11.62 | 76% | 38% | 3% |