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Question

In honor of Halloween, answer the following about Caribbean entries in user Geodesaurus’s yearly October TikTok series “Spooky Lake Month,” for 10 points each.

[10m] A 2020 entry covered this island’s natural lake of pitch, or asphalt. Calypso music was likely created on this island in cities like Port of Spain, which is the capital of a nation with this island listed first in its name.

ANSWER: Trinidad [or Iëre or Kairi; reject “Trinidad and Tobago”]

[10e] A 2021 entry detailed the non-lake bioluminescent Mosquito Bay on Vieques (“vee-AY-kess”), an island east of this larger island formerly home to a radio telescope at Arecibo. San Juan is the capital of this US territory.

ANSWER: Puerto Rico [or Borinquen or Borikén]

[10h] Entries in 2020, 2023, and 2024 have concerned these water-filled sinkholes in Karst topography, which due to their frequency in the Yucatán Peninsula have a Spanish name likely derived from Mayan.

ANSWER: cenotes (“say-NO-tays”)

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	43%	43%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Florida	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	20.00	100%	70%	30%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	89%	33%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	14.00	100%	30%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	20.00	100%	56%	44%
North	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	26.25	100%	75%	88%
South Central	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	17%	67%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	17.50	83%	58%	33%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	20.00	80%	100%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%

Data


Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Boss Bandit	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	UC Irvine	10	10	10	30
USC B	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA D	10	10	0	20
UCLA E	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
USC A	UCLA F	0	10	10	20
UCSD B	Claremont C	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Ottawa D	10	10	0	20
McGill B	McGill C	10	10	10	30
Ottawa A	McGill E	10	10	0	20
Carleton A	Ottawa C	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Florida B	10	10	10	30
UCF A	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	Ohio State D	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	WVU A	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Louisville C	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
CWRU C	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
WVU B	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Michigan State B	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State C	Michigan State D	10	10	0	20
JMU B	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Liberty B	William & Mary B	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Liberty C	10	10	10	30
NCSU B	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Tusculum A	10	10	10	30
VCU A	UNC A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech C	Virginia A	0	10	10	20
Duke A	Virginia Tech A	0	0	0	0
William & Mary A	William & Mary C	10	10	0	20
George Mason C	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
Penn	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Rowan	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers D	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Stony Brook	Princeton	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
William Woods University A	Illinois Canada	0	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	WashU Grizzlers	10	10	10	30
Iowa A	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Rose-Hulman A	Iowa B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	Illinois Urbana	10	10	0	20
Purdue D	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
WashU Grolars	Illinois Champaign	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin B	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Minnesota	Macalester	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	0	10	0	10
Southern Connecticut State University A	Boston University B	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Alberta A	Texas	10	10	10	30
Alberta B	Boise State	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Washington Masu	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	Washington Chinook	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	Washington Coho	10	10	10	30
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Washington State	Washington Chum	0	10	10	20
Washington Atlantic	Washington Steelhead	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma A	Kansas State A	0	10	0	10
Murray State College B	Harding	0	10	10	20
Tulsa A	Nebraska B	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma B	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Nebraska C	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Murray State College A	Tulsa B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Auburn B	10	10	10	30
Auburn C	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Clemson A	Auburn A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Chipola College	Mississippi State A	10	10	10	30
Sewanne	Tennessee Tech	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt C	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Durham C	10	10	10	30
Durham D	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh D	Edinburgh C	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
York	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Southampton	Cambridge E	10	10	0	20
Cardiff	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Oxford	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Warwick	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
ESF	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
RIT B	RIT A	10	10	10	30
Rochester	Cornell C	0	10	0	10