LAC Geography
CSIS Americas Staff
LAC Fun & Not so Fun Facts
CSIS Fun Facts
100

What is the biggest island country in the Caribbean?

Cuba

100

Arianna once showed up to work with no voice because she had screamed and yelled too much the previous day during this team's soccer game. 

Boca

100

The ironically-named Partido Revolucionario Institucional held power in this country for 70 consecutive years. 

Mexico

100

CSIS Americas Senior Advisor Ambassador Brownfield served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, Colombia, and ____

Chile! 

200

Venezuelan migrants/refugees now represent 16% of this LAC nation's population

Aruba

200

Linnea hopes to buy a cabin in the woods in this state. 

Maine

200
Name the 4 South American countries that do not have Spanish as their official language. 

Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname. 

200
Former Director of the CSIS International Security Program who was just nominated as Biden's Deputy Secretary of Defense.

Kathleen Hicks

300

Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world (in terms of elevation). It is located on the border of these two countries. 

Bolivia and Peru

300

Name of CSIS Americas staff member who claims to be vegan.

Moises

300

Diosdado Cabello is an ironically-named balding politician serving as the President of the National Constituent Assembly in this country. 

Venezuela 

300

When was CSIS founded?

1962

400

The __ desert, located in ____ (country) is the driest nonpolar place in the world. 

Atacama Desert, Chile

400

CSIS VP and Americas Program director Dan Runde is married to a woman from this Latin American country. 

Argentina

400

Argentine people traditionally eat this food on the 29th of the month. 

Gnocchi

400
Name 2 women on the CSIS Board of Trustees. 
500

This Latin American country home to the largest known reserves of asphalt, and it is the origin of the 'limbo'. 

T&T

500

Shakira, honorary president of the entire Western Hemisphere, was born in this Colombian city. 

Barranquilla

500

This South American country is generally understood to be the best country in the region in terms of food, culture, lifestyle, nature, art, and beaches (despite its recent troubles)

Venezuela

500

The name of this CSIS initiative can be abbreviated to SOS. They have a microsite that tracks maritime militias near the Spratly Islands. 

Stephenson Ocean Security Project

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