Question

A man who visits three of these places while searching for the “thrice-ninth” kingdom is told to blow three horns successively louder to avoid getting eaten. A piece of bread covered in salt and wrapped in cloth can pacify angry spirits in these places, which may be occupied by benevolent female spirits with chicken beaks called kikimora. (10[1])While following a doll’s instructions, (10[1])a girl witnesses three subsequent riders wearing white, red, and black (-5[1])entering one of these places. (10[1])A barabashka is an angry subtype of a spirit of these places called domovoi. Vasilisa (10[1])the Beautiful sought fire in one of these places surrounded by a fence (10[1])of bones and supported by chicken legs. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])sweets make up what type of location (10[1])in the Grimm Brothers fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel?” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: houses [or households or homes or huts; accept hearths; accept Baba Yaga’s house; prompt on walls or courtyards or keyholes by asking “of what places?”; prompt on forests by asking “what sort of place in the forest?”; prompt on buildings]
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Summary

Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%118.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%115.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%117.83
Midwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%67.50
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%118.33
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%0%93.80
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%112.00
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%102.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%0%116.00
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%10%98.40
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%13%99.00
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y3100%0%67%130.00

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Antoni KluzowskiWarwick ACambridge E5610
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Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge AManchester9210
Ben LaFondCambridge BSouthampton A10510
Eugenia TongImperial BOxford C11210
Elliot CosnettOxford BImperial A11210
Fahim AfzalCambridge DWarwick B11510
Arvin BoraghiCambridge CSouthampton B12210
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CDurham13210