Question
Boarding school students in this country fear the ghost of Miss Caroline, a teacher whose spirit is called Madam Koi Koi after the noise made by her red high heels. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this modern-day country haunted by ghosts such as phantom children called abiku and ogbanje.
ANSWER: Nigeria [or the Federal Republic of Nigeria]
[10e] In another Nigerian boarding school ghost story, the student Oroma reveals that her hairstyles are always so good because she had this quality. Ichabod Crane is pursued by a horseman with this quality.
ANSWER: headless [accept equivalents such as being decapitated or not having a head; accept descriptions relating to being able to detach their head and carry it around]
[10m] Nigerian students may trade stories of Mami Wata, who is often described as one of these creatures. In an 1837 fairy tale, one of these creatures dies and turns to seafoam before becoming a sylph.
ANSWER: mermaids [accept merfolk or mermen; accept The Little Mermaid]
<Jaimie Carlson, RMP - World Mythology> ~20950~ <Editor: Ganon Evans>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
Data
| Dunbar | Winston Churchill B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Heights | Mira Loma | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maggie Walker C | Carl Sandburg | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |