Brazilian Basics
The color green on the Brazilian flag represents this aspect of the Brazilian landscape.
The flora and fauna of Brazil
What Brazilian super model is married to Tom Brady?
Gisele Bundchen
Brazil has been the leading exporter of what aromatic bean for 150 years?
The coffee bean
True or False: There are four official languages of the United States!
False
Brasilia, designed and made official in 1960, was designed by which famous architect to resemble an airplane, with the Monumental Axis as the fuselage?
Oscar Niemeyer
Name each of the Lusophone countries in Africa.
Angola, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, and Cape Verde
Though his father named him for Thomas Edison, Edson Arantes do Nascimento is the name on the birth certificate of what Brazilian soccer forward that FIFA named as the top player of the 20th century?
Pelé
American style hash browns are made of what vegetable?
Potato
What country besides Canada or Mexico can you walk to from the U.S.?
Russia
In 2021, the U.S. state of Delaware became home to the largest warehouse of what gigantic corporation? It may share its name with a Brazilian river, but it has a lot of American parcel power.
Amazon
South America’s second largest rainforest after the Amazon, the Gran Chaco is divided between Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and which landlocked country?
Paraguay
What U.S. singer from Houston, Texas holds the record for most Grammy nominations?
Beyoncé
An American Snickerdoodle is a type of what?
What is the name of the popular post-apocalyptic video game franchise set in "Capital Wasteland," sharing its title with the term for residual radioactive material in the atmosphere?
Fallout
Which Brazilian online-only bank was founded in 2013, became a unicorn fintech startup, and is now the largest “neobank” in Latin America?
Nubank
What is Brazil’s rank on the list of largest countries by area?
5th in the world
Which reality TV star did Forbes name the youngest "self-made billionaire ever" in 2019?
Kylie Jenner
In the U.S. South, it's common to put which legume in your Coca-Cola?
Peanuts!
After remixing his "Si Se Puede" call-to-action as a campaign slogan, what U.S. president declared March 31 a federal commemorative holiday honoring César Chávez?
Barack Obama
There are very few words in English that come from Tupi, an indigenous language of Brazil - one such word however is that of what type of fish, whose name is also used in Tupi to mean "scissors?"
Piranha
Which Brazilian national park is home to some of the country's first cave paintings dating back more than 25,000 years?
Serra da Capivara National Park
Which artist made history in 2020 as the youngest winner of the Grammys' four main categories?
Billie Eilish
Rocky Mountain oysters, most often served in the western US and Canada, are the testicles of which animal?
Bull
Known as Fright Fest, the Halloween-oriented haunt event with attractions and themed "Scare Zones" is an annual staple at what chain of theme parks?
Six Flags
BRIC was an acronym created in 2001 for the four biggest developing economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China). What fifth country was added in 2010, making the acronym BRICS?
South Africa