Question
After escaping one situation with the help of a fish and a butterfly, this character is captured by a cockchafer while traveling downstream in a lilypad boat. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who avoids marriage to a nasty mole by flying away with a swallow she helped rehabilitate while working as a domestic servant for a field mouse.
ANSWER: Thumbelina
[10h] In Hans Christian Andersen’s version, Thumbelina is born from one of these plants after her mother plants it at the insistence of a witch. An English folk song titled for a personification of this crop mentions his kinsmen Sir William White Wine and Thomas Good Ale.
ANSWER: barley [or barleycorn; accept John Barleycorn]
[10e] Thumbelina is first put in peril when she is kidnapped by one of these animals who seeks a wife for her son. One of these animals transforms into a prince after kissing a princess in a Brothers Grimm tale.
ANSWER: frog [or toad; accept “The Frog Prince”]
<Taylor Harvey, Mythology>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 0% | 67% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 20% | 60% |
Data
| Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Joy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | La Clique du Château | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Waterloo Hatsune | Toronto Weary | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo Miku | Toronto Rofl | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |