ghosts - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

A flesh-eyed mother rules the 13th town of these beings in a novel whose protagonist meets a television-handed one of them. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these creatures that inhabit a stretch of wilderness the unnamed 7-year-old protagonist must flee into to escape a raiding party.

ANSWER: ghosts [or spirits; or ogbanje]

[10m] The ghost Azaro joins the Party of the Rich in this author’s The Famished Road. This Nigerian author also wrote the follow-up novels Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches.

ANSWER: Ben Okri

[10e] In My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the narrator is worshipped like a god at one of these locations after his head swells in size. Yoruba legends about Eshu bear similarities to a legend about Robert Johnson meeting the devil at one of these locations.

ANSWER: crossroads

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	17.00	90%	70%	10%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	88%	50%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	100%	58%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Stanford B	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Brock	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
Guelph	Western A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Western C	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto E	10	10	10	30
UBC B	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Simon Fraser	Western B	0	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10
Florida C	Florida B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame B	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Northwestern C	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Brown	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	10	10	10	30
MIT	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30
Yale	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
Claremont	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Carleton College	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Bruin	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Imperial C	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	City St. George's	0	10	10	20
Durham	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	LSE	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
UCL	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Vassar	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Georgetown	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Catholic	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	RIT	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Rochester	0	10	10	20