In a dance style from this country, four performers who each represent an element wear straw hats with colorful ribbons and limp to imitate old men. A dance style from this country whose name derives from the Arabic word for syrup was repopularized after a 1919 visit by Anna Pavlova. The designs of an enslaved woman from India are legendarily said to have inspired dresses worn by dancers from this country called china [chee-na]. In a dance style from this country, a male dancer (*) kicks his leg above his female partner’s head as she picks up a hat. Performances of this country’s jarabe [ha-RA-bay] tapatio dance are often accompanied by an ensemble whose performers wear cowboy-inspired suits; those ensembles from this country traditionally perform songs like “La Cucaracha.” For 10 points, name this home country of mariachi music. ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Ani Perumalla | Penn State A | WUSTL | 51 | 15 |
| Jack Lewis | MTSU | Vanderbilt B | 60 | -5 |
| Eric Gunter | North Carolina | Stanford | 63 | -5 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | Ottawa | Toronto Sprout | 94 | -5 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia A | Lehigh A | 97 | -5 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo Bust | Toronto Penguin World War | 97 | -5 |
| Lexi Terman | Rutgers | Columbia B | 98 | -5 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton | Yale | 113 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Gatherer | NYU A | 117 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford | North Carolina | 118 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Franklin | Toronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl | Waterloo Cali | 118 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Ohio | 124 | 10 |
| Brady Pinter | Belmont | Georgia Tech A | 124 | 10 |
| Gabe Forrest | Squidward Community College | Truman State | 124 | 10 |
| Eli Mendoza | NYU C | Lehigh B | 127 | 10 |
| Annie Williams | NYU B | Bard | 127 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State | Iowa | 127 | 10 |
| Penelope Graham | USN A | Georgia Tech C | 127 | 10 |
| Collin Nadarajah | WUSTL C | WUSTL A | 127 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 130 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western | Penn State B | 130 | -5 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | WUSTL J | 130 | -5 |
| Jocelyn Dicent | Columbia B | Rutgers | 131 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto Pilk | Toronto cDNA | 133 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Gatherer | 138 | 10 |
| Eddie Fuhrer | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 138 | 10 |
| Thomas Flexer | Penn State B | Case Western | 138 | 10 |
| Alan Wu | Vanderbilt B | MTSU | 138 | 10 |
| Jonah Schwartz | WUSTL J | SIUE | 138 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto Sprout | Ottawa | 138 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto Penguin World War | Waterloo Bust | 138 | 10 |