Question

William H. Martin depicted giant chickens and other animals on some of these products inspired by American myth. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these products collected in deltiology, which is similar to the field of philately. The album cover for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was altered from one of these products.
ANSWER: postcards [accept postals; accept picture postcards; prompt on photographs; prompt on pictures; prompt on mail]
[10e] Some tall-tale postcards reference the belief that sprinkling this substance on a bird’s tail prevents it from flying away. While on a cyclone, Pecos Bill created a natural feature of the West named for this substance.
ANSWER: salt [or sodium chloride or NaCl; or rock salt or table salt; accept Great Salt Lake]
[10h] Tall-tale postcards also featured this creature, which arose after hair tonic spilled into the Arkansas River. Infection by cotton molds may have inspired accounts of this creature, which is known as loðsilungur (“LOATHE-see-loon-goor”) in Iceland.
ANSWER: fur-bearing trout [or fur-bearing fish or hairy trout or furry trout; prompt on trout or fish or salmonids; reject “salmon”]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AMinnesota B100010
Chicago AHouston A100010
Chicago BVirginia A1010020
Chicago CPenn State A0000
Columbia ARutgers B0000
Cornell AIowa State A0000
Cornell BGeorgia Tech B0000
Georgia Tech AFlorida B0000
Harvard APenn A1010020
Imperial AJohns Hopkins A100010
Indiana AFlorida A010010
MIT AIllinois A1010020
Maryland AVanderbilt A1010020
North Carolina AUC Berkeley A010010
Northwestern ANYU A0000
Purdue AToronto A010010
South Carolina AColumbia B010010
Stanford AClaremont A1010020
Texas AMcGill A10101030
UC Berkeley BYale A0000