Round 9: Tossup 13

A wooden plank retrieved by one of these creatures is adorned with Judas’s future thirty pieces of silver and later transforms the Queen of Sheba’s goat hoof into a human foot as per the Arabic translation of the Kebra Negast. (-5[1])Kublai Khan may have mistaken raffia palm fronds (10[1])as parts of these creatures, one of which was allegedly mistaken for a mountain by Ibn Battuta. A necromancer tricks Aladdin (10[1])into requesting (10[1])that an object belonging to this “liege lady” of the genies be hung from his dome. After his ship is destroyed by this type of creature, a man finds himself (10[1])beset upon by an old man who wraps his legs around his head and refuses to let go. In one text, merchants roll meat into a “valley of diamonds” before raiding the nests (10[1])of these creatures. (10[2])For 10 points, name these enormous birds (10[1]-5[1])encountered by Sinbad in the Arabian Nights. (10[1]) (10[2]0[2])■END■

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