This island’s cuisine features a sometimes sweet ajilimójili (“ah-hee-lee-MOH-hee-lee”) sauce, which is often featured alongside pasteles at Christmas celebrations. A jello-like coconut pudding similar to maja blanca from this island typically topped with cinnamon is called tembleque (“tem-BLEH-keh”). The ají caballero (“ah-HEE cah-bah-YEH-roh”) is a hot pepper native to this island used to make its Pique (“PEE-keh”) sauce. People on this island often use breadfruit to replace plantains when making (*) tostones (“tohs-TOE-nehs”) de pana. Broth, meat, and chicharrónes typically accompany a bowl or dome of mashed plantains in a dish from this island called mofongo. A type of shaved ice served in a cup native to this island often flavored with tamarind or guanábana are called piraguas. Arroz con gandules is the national dish of, for 10 points, what Caribbean island territory of the United States? ■END■
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| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 14 | -5 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Master and Margaritaville | 17 | 15 |
| Kethan Raman | UCLA A | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 21 | -5 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Quatumvirate | 28 | 15 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto A | 32 | 15 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan B | Ohio State D | 35 | -5 |
| El Sanzalone | evil women enjoyers | Auburn 2026 | 36 | 15 |
| Victor Prieto | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Free Agents 1 | 37 | 15 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | South Dakota School of Mines | 52 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 56 | -5 |
| Scarlett Rutter | Claremont B | girl 15 whale i mean they | 60 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Lexington | 62 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Carleton | 63 | -5 |
| Nathan Ouyang | Michigan C | Michigan A | 64 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto E | 64 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester | 64 | -5 |
| Jack Haley | Ohio State C | Ohio State B | 65 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | Art of Premature Signaling | 65 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | SIUE | 65 | -5 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | Haverford B | 65 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | UBC | 65 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 65 | -5 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | UCLA B | 65 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 67 | 0 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 67 | 10 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | Georgetown | 67 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | MSJ | 68 | 10 |
| Lyle Brenner | Billy's Bastion | Too much from you lately | 69 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 75 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 83 | 10 |
| Naomi Joseph | Oberlin | Michigan D | 86 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Illinois B | 86 | -5 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | NYU B | 86 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Sheffield B | 86 | 10 |
| Keefe Yang | Gruh | Illinois Orange | 87 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill B | Waterloo A | 87 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan B | 88 | 10 |
| Alex Salcido | UCSB | Caltech | 88 | 10 |
| Ameya Bhalerao | mongeese | Goober Gang | 88 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Guelph | 88 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Missouri | 88 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Charmander | Truman State | 88 | 10 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | CWRU | 88 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago A | 88 | 10 |
| Gavin Wagner | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 88 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Egypt Airlines Haters | 88 | -5 |
| Nick Marinni | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | we need new names | 88 | -5 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University B | 90 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 92 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Mason C | 93 | -5 |
| Liam Austin | Toronto E | Toronto B | 93 | 10 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | George Mason A | 94 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Lancaster | 100 | -5 |
| Yechan Kim | Brown | MIT | 101 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa A | Simon Fraser | 111 | 10 |
| Ian Chang | Carleton | UW A | 112 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Edinburgh | 112 | -5 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Mac A | 113 | 10 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | Claremont A | 122 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University A | 125 | -5 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont B | 128 | 10 |
| Daniel Carlton | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 129 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield A | Birmingham | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA B | UCSD | 129 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 129 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Brandeis | 129 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State University A | UW B | 129 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 129 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 130 | 10 |
| Mikolai Davis | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 130 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA A | 130 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Chicago B | 130 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Rutgers | 130 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason C | Maryland B | 130 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | NYU C | 130 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial | Warwick C | 130 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC | Toronto C | 130 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto D | Toronto Metropolitan | 130 | 10 |
| Patrick Minsker | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 130 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Billy's Bastion | 130 | 10 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | BU | 130 | 10 |
| Effa Longe | MIT | Brown | 130 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Belmont | 130 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | South Dakota School of Mines | Alberta | 130 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 130 | 10 |
| Fierro Grey | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 130 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Warwick A | 130 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial A | 130 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Cambridge | 130 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | WashU Bulbasaur | 131 | 10 |