Question
According to a Scottish rhyme, “He wha tills” these places, “nae luck again shall hae,” but“he wha cleans” them, “an easy death shall see.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify these locations which trap unsuspecting people with the sound of beautiful music when they step inside. These locations appear as groups of mushrooms created when certain creatures dance.
ANSWER: fairy rings [accept elf rings or pixie rings; accept on fairy circles, elf circles, or pixie circles; accept ronds de sorcières; accept Hexenringe; accept clych y Tylwyth Teg]
[10e] In his History of the Northern Peoples, Olaus Magnus claims fairy rings are refreshed by this spirit, who implores the audience “think but this, and all is mended” in his apology at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
ANSWER: The Puck [accept Robin Goodfellow; accept pwca; accept púca; accept Hobgoblin or Hob Goodfellow]
[10h] If you ever need to save someone from a fairy ring’s spell, you can use a stick from this kind of tree to pull them out. Diarmuid kills the giant Searbhán so his lover Grainne can eat berries from one of these trees.
ANSWER: rowan trees [accept rowanwood; accept mountain-ashes; accept Sorbus aucuparia; accept cairtheand; accept caorthann; accept Cerdinen; accept criafol; accept cwic-beám; accept caorann]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |