Uruguay
This capital city gets its name from the meaning "I see a mountain."
What is Montevideo?
This capital city is home to widest road in the world.
What is Buenos Aires?
This capital city is the second largest desert city in the world behind Cairo.
What is Lima?
Bolivia has this many capitals.
What are two?
This capital city is famous for its vibrant graffiti culture and murals.
What is Bogota?
Uruguay hosted the first edition of this soccer event in 1930.
What is the World Cup?
Argentina is the birthplace of this type of dance often performed in pairs.
What is the tango?
This Spanish conquistador founded the capital in 1535.
Who is Pizarro?
This indigenous empire expanded across many modern-day countries, including Bolivia
What is the Incan Empire?
Colombia is the world's leading producer of this green gemstone.
What are emeralds?
Uruguay has the world's longest one of these, lasting about 5 minutes with 105 musical bars making up the composition.
What is a national anthem?
In 1892, Argentina was the first country to solve a murder using this type of evidence to identify the criminal, a process which is commonplace in criminal forensic investigations today.
What are fingerprints?
This dish is made with seafood and citrus, and is popular in costal regions of Peru.
What is ceviche?
Bolivia has this branch of the military, despite being land-locked today.
What is a navy?
In 1982, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez won this world-famous award in the Literature category, and has joined a long list of its famous awardees, including: Albert Einstein, MLK, Marie Curie, Ernest Hemingway, and Bob Dylan.
What is the Nobel Prize?
There are more of this animal than humans in Uruguay.
What are cows?
This region of Argentina contains the city Ushuaia, called "the end of the world."
What is Patagonia or Tierra del Fuego?
There are 4,000 varieties of this edible tuber in Peru.
What are potatoes?
Bolivia is named after this South American independence leader, who is often called the George Washington of South America or el Libertador.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Ten percent of this rainforest lies within the borders of Colombia.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
On a beach in Uruguay there is a statue of this body part in the sand.
What is a hand?
This term for money in Argentina comes from the word for silver.
What is plata?
This city was discovered by Europeans in 1911, about 450 years after it was built.
What is Machu Picchu?
The world's largest deposit of this valuable metal was in Potosi.
What is silver?
The second largest celebration of this festival (often associated with Rio, Brazil) occurs in Baranquilla.
What is carnival?