Question

This figure’s name may derive from a folk song describing “jovial” men demanding beer at a time when “ale was new.” According to Webster’s Second, the enslaved Bube (“boo-bay”) people of Fernando Po considered this figure a Bantu duppy ghost. The Adventures (10[1])of Peregrine Pickle describes this figure with three rows of teeth and blue smoke emerging from his nostrils during hurricanes. Shellbacks dressed as a king, a queen, and this figure watch as “Pollywogs” drink hot sauce and aftershave “truth serums” in drag ceremonies celebrating the crossing (-5[1])of the equator. In some stories, this figure was a barkeep who kept drunkards (10[1])in ale (10[1])cases before (10[1])selling (10[1])them into slavery. Welsh pirates may have derived this figure’s name from their (10[1])patron saint (10[2])and the name (10[1])of a biblical prophet who spent (10[1])three days in a fish. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])sailors feared dying (10[2])and becoming (10[1])trapped (10[4])in (10[1])what figure’s (10[1])underwater “locker”? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Davy Jones [accept Davy Jones’s locker; prompt on Davy or Jones] (The third line refers to the U.S. Navy’s line-crossing ceremony.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%4%126.38

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Matt JacksonChicago ADuke A4010
Henry CafaroChicago CHarvard A86-5
Joel MilesMinnesota AUC Berkeley A10010
Conor ThompsonIowa State APenn A10210
Leah HonsingerFlorida AChicago B10410
Todd MaslykMichigan AMinnesota B10510
Cormac BeirneMcGill AYale B11810
Natan HoltzmanStanford AOhio State A12010
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ARutgers B12010
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto ATexas A12310
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech ABrown A12910
Jim FanNorth Carolina AIndiana A13410
Alana DickeyVirginia ASouth Carolina A13410
Michał GerasimiukYale AWUSTL A13410
Isaac MammelMaryland ACornell A13710
Ani PerumallaPenn State ARutgers A14010
Albert ZhangColumbia BJohns Hopkins A14010
Kevin ParkClaremont AWUSTL B14210
Carlos DoebeliImperial AHouston A14310
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern AColumbia A14310
Justin WytmarIllinois AGeorgia Tech B14310
Halle FriedmanNYU AUC Berkeley B14310
Ricky LiMIT ACornell B14410
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AFlorida B14610
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AChicago C14910