Round 11: Tossup 18

A screenwriter and his secretary fall in love while co-writing a script titled for this object in a 1964 film whose title was taken from a Cole Porter song featuring the phrase “when it sizzles.” In a Vertigo-esque scene directed by Alexander Mackendrick, the camera swivels around this object as a foundry operator and London banker chase after some schoolgirls. Replicas (15[1])of this object made from melted stolen gold are the MacGuffins of that Ealing Studios comedy, The Lavender Hill Mob. Melvyn Douglas’s Count Leon is asked, “must you flirt?” when he points this object out on a (*) map using Ninotchka’s finger. This object is destroyed in the final shot of (10[1])The Great Race. In a 1957 Stanley Donen comedy, this structure is the final backdrop for a song sung by a trio of magazine editor Maggie, the model Jo, and the photographer Dick Avery. For 10 points, name this structure atop which Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn dance at the climax of the Funny Face song “Bonjour Paris.” ■END■ (10[1])

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