Bonus
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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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 97 | 18.56 | 95% | 55% | 36% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont A | UC Irvine | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| UC Santa Barbara | UCLA D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA B | UCLA A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA E | UCLA C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCSD B | Claremont C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| USC A | UCLA F | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| USC B | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 100% | 20% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 43% | 43% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| Florida | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 20.00 | 100% | 70% | 30% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 89% | 33% | 44% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 30% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 26.25 | 100% | 75% | 88% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 17.50 | 83% | 58% | 33% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |