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Question

A monster from this country removes a ball-shaped organ called the shirikodama from people’s anuses. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this country home to the river-spirit kappa. Cats in this country often transform into yōkai like bakeneko and nekomata.

ANSWER: Japan [or Nippon-koku; or Nihon-koku]

[10m] Nekomata are fire-throwing cat yōkai with this physical characteristic. This physical characteristic indicates the age and power of shapeshifting trickster spirits who serve as messengers of Inari.

ANSWER: having multiple tails [accept being two-tailed or nine-tailed; accept having a forked tail] (The unnamed trickster spirits are kitsune.)

[10h] Inari alternately takes the form of a fox, a serpent, or one of these animals. Women with the bodies of these animals called jorōgumo are yōkai who kidnap and eat young men.

ANSWER: spiders

<BJ, Mythology>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	18.75	100%	50%	38%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	22.50	75%	75%	75%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	18.57	100%	29%	57%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	16.67	83%	67%	17%

Data


Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
girl 15 whale i mean they	Art of Premature Signaling	10	10	10	30
Claremont B	Jason B	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	Caltech	10	0	0	10
UCSB	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCSD	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Ohio State D	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Billy's Bastion	10	0	0	10
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	10	10	10	30
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	0	20
Lexington	Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Brown	Harvard	10	0	0	10
MIT	Belmont	10	10	0	20
RIT	Boston University	0	0	0	0
Michigan C	Oberlin	10	10	0	20
Catholic University of America	George Washington	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
CWRU	George Mason C	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Georgetown	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Haverford B	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	Haverford A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Rutgers	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Ohio State B	10	10	10	30
Arizona State University A	Alberta	10	10	10	30
Arizona State University B	Carleton	10	10	10	30
UW B	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	10	20
Washington Connections	UW A	10	0	0	10
Auburn 2026	Goober Gang	10	10	10	30
MSJ	Illinois Orange	10	0	0	10
mongeese	Mahjonng Masters	10	0	0	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	evil women enjoyers	10	10	10	30
Gruh	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	0	0	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	we need new names	10	10	0	20
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	Quatumvirate	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Egypt Airlines Haters	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	0	20
Free Agents 1	Notre Dame + Epic Games	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Warwick C	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cambridge	10	0	0	10
Master and Margaritaville	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	10	10	30
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	0	0	10
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Truman State	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	10	30
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	10	0	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	0	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	SIUE	10	0	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	0	0	0
WashU Squirtle	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Edinburgh	10	0	10	20
LSE	Lancaster	10	0	10	20
Sheffield A	Manchester	10	10	10	30