cats - 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern

Question

A white one of these animals who runs a marijuana greenhouse in Colorado partially titles a Kelly Link collection of fairy tale retellings. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these animals, one of which is a transformed princess who aids one brother in a set of impossible tasks. An anthropomorphic one of these animals appears “in boots.”

ANSWER: cats [accept “The White Cat” or White Cat, Black Dog; accept Puss in Boots]

[10m] A corpse must be left out to avoid the horrors of the “White Road” in Link’s retelling of a tale about four animals from Bremen who have this occupation. A figure with this occupation serves as a ratcatcher in another German town.

ANSWER: musicians [accept “The Town Musicians of Bremen” or “The Bremen Town Musicians” or “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten”; accept Pied Piper of Hamelin or Pan Piper of Hamelin]

[10h] The lesbian narrator feels the moon influencing her in a Link retelling inspired by a tale about a boy who “does not know” this emotion. In the Dionysiaca, two Greek gods of this emotion serve as Dionysus’s charioteers.

ANSWER: fear [or being afraid or scared or clear equivalents; accept Deimos or Phobos; accept “The Boy Who Did Not Know Fear” or “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear” or “The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear” or “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was” or “Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	21.00	90%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	23.33	83%	100%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	21.67	83%	83%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	24.44	100%	89%	56%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	23.75	100%	88%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	8	26.25	88%	100%	75%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


WashU B	Miami	10	10	0	20
Purdue D	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
UIUC B	SIUE A	10	10	0	20
UChicago A	UChicago C	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	UChicago D	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	WashU D	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	UIUC C	10	0	10	20
UIUC D	Notre Dame	10	10	0	20
Purdue C	WashU C	10	10	10	30