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>

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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y417.50100%25%50%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y215.00100%0%50%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y313.33100%33%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y616.67100%0%67%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y220.00100%50%50%
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y310.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y518.00100%20%60%

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