Brock's Brain Busters
Taylor's Trivia Teasers
Don't Call me Captain Campbell
Wyatt's Witty Wesponses
Blake's Been There
100
Tree whose roots grow in salt water.
mangrove
100
The U.S. took what two islands from Spain in 1898?
Cuba and Puerto Rico
100
What type of reform in needed in the region?
land
100
More than 2.2 million people live in Havana, which is the capital of what country?
Cuba
100
The Bahamas make up more than _____ islands northwest of Cuba.
700
200
Tree from which cocoa beens are harvested-and chocolate is made.
cacao tree
200
Martinique is unique in that it was formed by a what?
volcano
200
What Central American country has the highest standard of living?
Costa Rica
200
Today more Puerto Rican's live in NYC than ______, the capital of Puerto Rico.
San Juan
200
A mulatto is a mix of European and _____ descent.
African
300
Bauxite is an ore in which we make what type of metal?
aluminum
300
How many countries make up Central America?
7
300
What country is a commonwealth of the United States?
Puerto Rico
300
What is the only country in the Caribbean to NOT have a market economy, in fact, they have a command economy.
Cuba
300
A mestizo is a mix of native indian and ____ descent.
European
400
Europeans established ____ plantations in the Caribbean.
sugarcane
400
What country first sent explorers to Central America?
Spain
400
Creole and _____ are the official languages in Haiti.
French
400
What is the isthmus that links North and South America?
Central America
400
The last country in Central America to gain their independence was ____.
Belize
500
What is the only non-Spanish speaking country in Central America?
Belize
500
Who built the Panama Canal in the early 1900s?
The U.S.
500
Santo Domingo, the captial of ____, is the largest city in the region.
Santo Domingo
500
The Greater Antilles islands includes Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and _____.
Puerto Rico
500
In what year, (you were all born already) did the U.S. give control of the Panama Canal back to Panama?
1999
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