Question

A flock of geese brings Sergei to one of these places after he and his sister Olga sneak out while their mother is away. A benevolent spirit appearing as an old woman with a chicken’s beak called the kikimora frequents these places. A cat, dog, and birch tree allow one figure to escape another of these places (-5[1])after receiving pie, bread, and a ribbon. In an alternative version of that story, the inhabitant of one of these places kicks out a visitor with a (*) “mother’s blessing,” but gives her a skull. Horsemen clad in white, red, and black ride to one of these places, where they vanish at a gate made of bones. Angry domovoy (-5[1])can burn down these places. Vasilisa the Fair is sent by her stepmother to one of these places to retrieve fire. For 10 points, Baba Yaga lives in (10[1])one of what places that walks on chicken legs? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: houses [or homes or households or huts; accept hearths or fireplaces or chimneys; prompt on fences or gates until read by asking “what place does it enclose?”; prompt on doors or keyholes, prompt on forest with “what place in a forest?”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawa AToronto56-5
David GayowskiOttawa BMcDouble West-Carleton114-5
Micah ColemanWaterlooOttawa C14210
Nicolas EdwardsMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa B15210
Sky LiTorontoOttawa A15210

Summary

2023 ARCADIA at UC BerkeleyPremiereY2100%0%0%116.50
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton UniversityPremiereY3100%0%67%148.67
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont CollegesPremiereY1100%0%0%119.00
2023 ARCADIA at IndianaPremiereY5100%0%0%123.80
2023 ARCADIA at RITPremiereY2100%0%50%119.50
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTLPremiereY3100%33%0%123.67