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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