Question

According to some traditions, cooking with eggshells can be used to find these creatures. (10[1])In one story, a heroine rescues Tam Lin from a queen of these creatures. (10[6])In one tradition, (10[2])these creatures’ (10[3])ancestors (10[1])were defeated at the Battle of Magh (10[1])Tuireadh (10[2])(“my TEER-ugh”). These creatures, who comprise the Seelie court, (10[6])are (10[2])often (10[1])referred to (10[1])using (10[1])euphemisms (10[3]-5[1])like (10[2])“good (10[1])neighbors.” (10[1])After being defeated (10[1])by the Milesians, (10[1]-5[1])the ancestors of these creatures migrated into namesake “mounds.” These are the creatures most commonly thought to kidnap infants and replace (10[1])them with changelings. (10[3])The death of a family (10[2])member was heralded by the wail (10[1])of one type of these creatures. (10[2])For 10 points, name these (10[1])magical creatures of the (10[1])British Isles who the Victorians interpreted as small, winged (10[1])humans. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: fairies [or fairy or fae or fair folk; accept banshees or Bean Sídhe or Aos Si (“ace shee”) or Daoine Sith or Queen of the Fairies; accept fairy mounds or fairy forts; accept changelings until read; accept Seelie or Unseelie until “Seelie” is read; prompt on little folk or hidden folk or wee folk; prompt on Tuatha de Danann]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tom HainesDurham AEdinburgh1310
Jake Meltzer (DII)CWRU A (UG)Michigan State C (UG)2710
Daniel Lian (DII)Michigan C (UG)Kenyon B (DII)2710
Keerthana Krishnan (D2)Texas CTexas D2710
Zaid Asif (D2)NYU BTexas A2710
Eve MarambaUF CUCF A2710
Lucas JohnsWarwick ABristol A2710
Shardul ParthasarathyUIUC BPurdue A3010
Collin Leck (D2)Central OklahomaNYU A3010
Eve FleisigBerkeley CBerkeley A3210
Ben LaFondCambridge BSouthampton B3210
Lucy DennetWarwick BImperial B3210
Owen Arneson (D2)MissouriTexas B3310
Hazel DePreist-SullivanBard AColumbia B4010
Oscar O'FlanaganImperial ABristol B4110
Delia CropperOxford ATeam 14110
Mark TawfikRutgers CLehigh A4810
Ivonne ZhouPenn APenn State A4810
Rohan Navaneetha Raj (DII)Ohio State B (DII)Pitt B (UG)4810
Euan McCubbin (UG)UW BUBC A4810
Tiffany ZhouUF BUF A4810
Paige CrawleyOxford BBirmingham4810
Sophia GnadingerUChicago DUIUC D4910
Max KoldaNotre DameWashU D4910
Wren Buehler (D2)Vassar AOregon State5010
Alex BakerCambridge CLSE B5210
Sophia ArnoldSIUE AUChicago B5310
Michal GerasimiukStanford MStanford L5410
Nihal ChatraJohns Hopkins AColumbia A5410
Jacob PuthipirojNorthwestern AWashU C54-5
Nicholas NguyenUF DFlorida Tech B5410
Kevin Zheng (UG)Michigan BOhio State C (DII)5510
Andre WongLSE ASouthampton A5510
Vincent ZhangPenn BPenn State B5610
Bee Sackett (DII)Kenyon A (UG)Michigan State B (UG)5710
Claire Harvey (D2)Vassar BMississippi State6010
Danila KabotyaIndiana AUIUC A63-5
Coby TranUChicago CWashU B6310
ArielPitt AMichigan D8410
Meredith Wiper (DII)CWRU B (UG)CWRU D (DII)8710
Joyann Hua (DII)UBC BAlberta8710
Valerie UnzuetaFlorida Tech AUF E8710
Ethan BositaStanford ABerkeley B9210
Jack CaseyUIUC CUChicago A9210
Chloe Wei (D2)McGill EArkansas9810
Rahul Rao-PothurajuRowan AHaverford A10410
Truman Fillbrandt (UG)UW ASFU10410
Cyrus ZhouWUSTL AOle Miss10910
Joel DickerSouthampton BSouthampton A11310
Davis JohnsonPurdue DIndiana B12210
Luke NashDurham BCambridge D12310
Justin WytmarUIUC AIndiana A12410
Alexander NicholsUCF BFlorida State University A1240