Packet C: Bonus 7
A flesh-eyed mother rules the 13th town of these beings in a novel whose protagonist meets a television-handed one of them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these creatures that inhabit a stretch of wilderness the unnamed 7-year-old protagonist must flee into to escape a raiding party.
ANSWER: ghosts [or spirits; or ogbanje]
[10m] The ghost Azaro joins the Party of the Rich in this author’s The Famished Road. This Nigerian author also wrote the follow-up novels Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches.
ANSWER: Ben Okri
[10e] In My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the narrator is worshipped like a god at one of these locations after his head swells in size. Yoruba legends about Eshu bear similarities to a legend about Robert Johnson meeting the devil at one of these locations.
ANSWER: crossroads
<Waterloo A, World Literature> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 15.69 | 92% | 53% | 13% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Dartmouth A | Bowdoin A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Harvard B | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Southern Connecticut State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Yale | Brandeis A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 10 | 17.00 | 90% | 70% | 10% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 50% | 25% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 57% | 14% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 16.67 | 100% | 58% | 8% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 63% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |