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100
Costa Ricans often give coffee to who in their family.
What is their babies and small children?
100
Costa Rica is home to around 175 amphibians, 85% of which are of this type of amphibian.
What is a frog?
100
Costa Rican women do not take their husband's last name. The woman uses her full maiden name for life. This is True or False.
What is TRUE?
100
The capital of Costa Rica is this city.
What is San Jose?
100
The approximate number of people that live in Costa Rica.
What is 4.6 million people?
200
The government hopes to make this language a "national second language."
What is English?
200
Costa Rica has this kind of climate.
What is tropical/subtropical?
200
The currency of Costa Rica is referred to as this.
What is the colon?
200
The colors on the Costa Rican flag consist of these colors?
What is red, blue, and white?
200
93% of the country is made up of this ethnicity.
What is white or mestizos?
300
Costa Ricans have a fondness for action movies from this time period. Films starring Chuck Norris or Jean-Claude Van Damme get frequent showing on local TV.
What are 80s action movies?
300
Costa Rica is home to more than 500,000 species, which represents nearly 4% of the total species estimated worldwide, making Costa Rica one of the 20 countries with the highest biodiversity in the world. Of these 500,000 species, a little more than 300,000 are ___________.
What are insects?
300
This natural occurrence happens about 2 to 40 times a month in Costa Rica and is something we are used to here in Southern California.
What is an earthquake?
300
Costa Rica is known around the world for what kind of bean.
What is the coffee bean?
300
16% - 24% of the people in Costa Rica are currently living in this kind of condition.
What is extreme poverty.
400
Costa Rica ranks at what position on the lists for the world's best surfing, sports-fishing, dive spots and great mountain hiking.
What is the TOP of the list?
400
Costa Rica earns more than 2 billion dollars a year from this industry?
What is the tourist industry?
400
It might shock you to see a lot of Costa Ricans carrying around this tool. However, it is common purpose tool and is used for absolutely everything in rural areas and it should not worry you!
What is a machete?
400
The country of Costa Rica has this type of government.
What is a democratic government?
400
Over 77% of population adheres to this type of religion, but many describe it as a "lukewarm" practice of this type of religion.
What is Catholicism?
500
Nearly all Catholic churches in Costa Rica face this direction on the compass.
What is west?
500
Which of America's major fast chains are found in Costa Rica?
What is McDonalds, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Burger King, KFC?
500
There are usually none of these in Costa Rica so people get used to giving directions in relation to landmarks.
What is a street name?
500
in 1968 President Oscar Arias Sánchez did this to the Costa Rican Military.
What is abolished the military?
500
29,000 people in Costa Rica are descendants from this group.
What is Costa Rica's indigenous population?