Question

Children with this physical quality who ate only beans and claimed to be from “St. Martin’s Land” appeared near Woolpit (15[1])in the 1100s. A grindylow-like spirit with teeth with this quality named Jenny drowns children in stagnant Yorkshire ponds. Lady Raglan dubiously claimed (15[1])architectural motifs named for a man with this quality, featuring (15[1])faces with vegetation sprouting (15[2])from the mouth, (15[1])represent an ancient pagan deity. Chimneysweeps wear conical frames to portray a (*) Jack dressed in this quality during May Day celebrations. A figure named for this quality arrives at a feast holding a bough of holly and an axe. One rhyme claims “married in [this quality], ashamed to be seen.” A figure named for this quality trades a fox, a doe, and a boar for kisses originally given by his wife. For 10 points, Gawaine accepts a beheading challenge from a knight of what color? ■END■

ANSWER: green [accept the Green Children of Woolpit; or Jenny Greenteeth; or the Green Man; or Jack in the Green; or the Green Knight; prompt on male or man until read with “what other quality does he have?”]
<Yang, Mythology>
= Average correct buzz position

Back to tossups

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nick Jensen>:3Oh the Missouri1915
Tanis Nielsenpurdoobie brothers2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind4215
Todd MaslykMichiganmalcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1)5215
Matt BollingerBHSUChicago B5615
Dylan MinarikNoli Me TangerineNobodaddy but you5615
Taylor HarveyCharlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawlineChicago A Minus Minus5915

Summary

2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024Y6100%100%0%47.33
2024 ESPN @ Columbia03/23/2024Y7100%57%0%69.00
2024 ESPN @ Duke03/23/2024Y2100%100%0%41.50