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Studio Ghibli Jeopardy

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Round 1

The Films

$200
Miyazaki's 2023 semi-autobiographical film is titled 'The Boy and the' this.
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This 2008 film features a goldfish princess who wants to become human.
$600
This 1988 film features two sisters and a giant forest spirit.
$800
This 2004 film follows Sophie, cursed into old age, and a walking, magical home that strides on chicken legs.
$1000
In this 1989 film, a young witch moves to a seaside town and starts a flying courier business on her broom.

Iconic Characters

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In 'Princess Mononoke,' the wolf-raised heroine's name is this.
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This large, gray, rotund forest spirit is the studio's mascot.
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The multi-legged cat-shaped vehicle in 'Totoro' is this creature.
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Kiki's sarcastic talking black cat companion is named this.
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In 'Spirited Away,' this masked spirit hoards gold and grows monstrous.

The Masters

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The studio is based in this Japanese city, home to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka.
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This co-founder directed the heartbreaking war film 'Grave of the Fireflies.'
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This legendary director co-founded Ghibli and made most of its famous films.
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This composer scored nearly all of Miyazaki's films with sweeping orchestral music.
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The studio's name, 'Ghibli,' refers to a hot wind and a type of this WWII-era machine.

Themes & Settings

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'Porco Rosso' features a WWI flying ace who has been transformed into this animal.
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Many Ghibli films feature strong, brave protagonists of this gender.
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'Princess Mononoke' and many films carry a strong message about this natural theme.
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'Nausicaa' takes place in a poisonous forest of giant fungi called the 'Sea of' this.
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This recurrent mechanical motif in the studio's films often reflects the creator's childhood fascination with his family's wartime business.

Spirited Away

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The young heroine of 'Spirited Away' is named this.
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Yubaba renames Chihiro this shorter name to control her.
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The witch who runs the bathhouse and takes Chihiro's name is this character.
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The mysterious boy who helps Chihiro is revealed to be the spirit of this kind of waterway.
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Chihiro's parents are transformed into these animals after eating spirit food.

Behind the Scenes

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This American studio partnered to distribute many Ghibli films in the West.
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The Ghibli-inspired theme park that opened in 2022 is located in this Japanese prefecture near Nagoya.
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'Spirited Away' surpassed 'Titanic' to become the highest-grossing film ever in this country at the time.
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Miyazaki has announced his retirement multiple times but keeps returning to make more of these.
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Ghibli films are known for being animated primarily using this traditional technique rather than computers.

Double Jeopardy

The Films

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Isao Takahata directed this 1991 film about a Tokyo office worker reflecting on her childhood while visiting a rural farm in the countryside.
$800
Released in 1994, this comedy features shapeshifting tanuki trying to prevent the destruction of their habitat by humans.
$1200
This 2013 film, the final work of Isao Takahata, reimagines a traditional Japanese folktale about a girl born from a glowing bamboo shoot.
$1600
In this 2010 film, a tiny person living under floorboards befriends a young boy with a heart condition.
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This 1995 film centers on a middle-school girl who finds a cat statuette and discovers a budding romance with a young violin maker.

Iconic Characters

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This young apprentice wizard in 'Howl's Moving Castle' is actually a young boy who assists the titular magician.
$800
This fiery, sarcastic flame-demon acts as the heart and engine of Howl's magical traveling home.
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This young girl, the protagonist of 'When Marnie Was There', moves to a seaside town and becomes obsessed with a mysterious mansion.
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This noble, antlered creature in 'Princess Mononoke' holds the power of life and death over the forest.
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In 'Castle in the Sky', this young mining apprentice finds a mysterious girl falling from the sky wearing a glowing crystal.

The Masters

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The animation legend who directed 'The Secret World of Arrietty' and 'When Marnie Was There' later left the studio to co-found Studio Ponoc.
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Before joining Ghibli, Miyazaki worked at this legendary Japanese animation company, contributing to films like 'The Castle of Cagliostro'.
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This animator directed 'Whisper of the Heart' but sadly passed away at a young age, preventing him from becoming a primary Ghibli successor.
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This longtime Ghibli producer has been instrumental in casting and marketing almost every film in the studio's history.
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Before co-founding the studio, this director helmed a famous 1974 television series based on a classic Swiss children's novel.

Themes & Settings

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Many Ghibli films take place in this type of rural Japanese landscape, celebrating nature and traditional village life.
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This retro-futuristic aesthetic featuring complex gears and steam-powered machinery is prominently displayed in films like Castle in the Sky.
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The concept of 'Ma', a Japanese term for this, is often cited by Miyazaki as the reason for the slower, meditative pacing of his films.
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Many of the studio's protagonists must learn to balance these two opposing forces, representing technological industrialization and nature.
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A recurring theme in the studio's work is the transition from childhood to this stage of life, often symbolized by newfound responsibility.

Spirited Away

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This giant infant son of the bathhouse owner later accompanies Chihiro to Zeniba house.
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The name of the witch who is Yubaba's identical twin sister and lives in a peaceful cottage far away.
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This spider-like spirit works in the bathhouse boiler room and requires coal-dust spirits to keep things running.
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The giant baby who belongs to Yubaba is eventually transformed into this smaller, less demanding creature during his journey.
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Chihiro must perform this task to prove her identity to her parents when Yubaba offers to let her choose them from a group.

Behind the Scenes

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The studio is famously located in this specific residential area of Tokyo, which also hosts the famous Ghibli Museum.
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Miyazaki famously insisted on using almost entirely this method for the complex crowd scenes in 'The Wind Rises'.
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The studio's name is derived from a word used by Italians to describe this, reflecting Miyazaki's love for aviation.
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In a unique effort to encourage artistic growth, Isao Takahata once famously gave this low rating to one of Miyazaki's early films to push him.
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Though the studio is famous for traditional techniques, this digital technology has been used sparingly in specific scenes since the late 1990s.

Final Jeopardy · Ghibli Legacy

This 1984 Miyazaki film, made just before Ghibli's founding, is considered the studio's spiritual first film and features a warrior princess protecting a windswept kingdom in a poisoned world.
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