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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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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


Florida A	Florida B	10	10	10	30
UCF A	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	0	10