Geography: South America

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Animals

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Eastern

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Northern

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Movies

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The Amazon

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Southern/Western

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Trivia

100

What type of animal is a Toucan?

A) A Bird

B) An Insect

C) A Reptile

A) A Bird

100

What is the name of the mountain in Rio de Janeiro that looks like a large granite rocket, and has a cable car that zips tourists up to its top?

A) Copacabana Beach

B) Corcovado Mountain

C) Sugarloaf Mountain

100

What South American country was named after a famous European Explorer?

A) Colombia

B) Ecuador

C) Venezuela

A) Colombia. Named after Christopher Columbus

100

What Pixar movie sent an old man and a little boy 'sailing' down to Venezuela's Angel Falls?

A) Brave

B) Soul

C) Up

100

On what continent is the largest rainforest located on Earth?

A) Africa

B) Asia

C) South America

100

How did Chilian island of Easter Island, with its 1,000 moai head statues, get its name?

A) It's what the inhabitants called the island

B) It was discovered on Easter Sunday

C) It's where the Easter Bunny comes from

B) It was discovered on Easter Sunday (April 5) in 1722

100

How many countries are located in South America?

A) 12

B) 20

C) 24

A) 12

200

What type of animal is an Anaconda?

A) An Amphibian

B) An Insect

C) A Snake

200

The most famous landmark in Brazil is the 125-foot tall statue of Christ the Redeemer. Which Brazilian city does it overlook?

A) Brasilia

B) Copacabana

C) Rio de Janeiro

200

True or False: The Bolivian capital city of La Paz, located high up in the Andes Mountain Range, is the world's highest capital city?

A) True

B) False

A) True

200

What animated film series is about a bunch birds avoiding smugglers in Brazil?

A) Minions

B) Rio

C) Surf's Up

B) Rio

200

The rainforests of the Amazon basin carries one fifth of the world's fresh water, and produces over what percentage of the world's oxygen?

A) 10%

B) 20%

C) 50%

Over 20%

200

What South American country has penguins and the Glaciers National Park?

A) Argentina

B) Chile

C) Ecuador

A) Argentina

200

South America has the 2nd longest river in the world (at 3,825 miles long). What is this river's name?

A) The Amazon River

B) The Mississippi River

C) The Nile River

A) The Amazon River

300

What type of animal is an Iguana?

A) An Amphibian

B) A Lizard

C) A Mammal

B) A Lizard

300

True or False: Brazil is the only country in South America where Portuguese is the main language spoken?

A) True

B) False

A) True

300

What Incan "Lost City" of Peru is considered one of the most important sites in the world for archaeologists?

A) El Dorado

B) Machu Picchu

C) Nazca Lines

B) Machu Picchu

300

What Walt Disney film had an Incan emperor cursed into turning into a llama?

A) The Emperor's New Groove

B) The Road to El Dorado

C) The Three Caballeros

A) The Emperor's New Groove

300

Amazonian Giant Water Lilies can grow to 6 feet wide and support up to how much weight?

A) 10 pounds

B) 100 pounds

C) 300 pounds

B) 100 pounds

300

On what South American island chain can you spot many animal species that are not found anywhere else on Earth?

A) Easter Island

B) The Galapagos Islands

C) The Hawaiian Islands

B) The Galapagos Islands

300

South America's largest lake, which is located on the border of Bolivia and Peru, is called what?

A) Lake Bolivia

B) Lake Titicaca

C) Lake Victoria

A) Lake Titicaca

400

What type of animal is a Black Howler?

A) A Bird

B) A Monkey

C) A Snake

B) A Monkey

400

The Olympic Games have only been held once in South America. Which year and which city hosted those games?

A) 2000 Summer Olympics in Athens

B) 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

C) 2018 Summer Olympics in 2016 Summer Olympics

B) 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

400

True or False: The Andes Mountains are the longest mountain chain in the world?

A) True

B) False

A) True. The Andes Mountain Range runs from north to south for 4,505 miles.

400

What classic Universal Monster movie creature was discovered on the South American continent?

A) The Creature from the Black Lagoon

B) The Mummy

B) The Wolf Man

A) The Creature from the Black Lagoon

400

Of the many different variety of trees and plants in the Amazon Rainforest, many of our medications are created from those plants. One type of plant is the cocoa tree. What do we get from the cocoa tree?

A) Chili Powder

B) Chocolate

C) Tylenol

B) Chocolate

400

On Easter Island, about how many monumental statues, called moai, have been found, so far?

A) 10

B) 100

C) 1,000

C) 1,000 Moai

400

What mountain range runs North to South through the entire continent of South America?

A) The Alps

B) The Andes

C) The Rockies

B) The Andes

500

What animal is noted for their slowness of movement, and for spending most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central America?

A) Jaguars

B) Scarlet Macaws

C) Sloths

500

What is the name of the amazing waterfall(s) shared between Brazil and Argentina?

A) Angel Falls

B) Iguazu Falls

C) Niagara Falls

B) Iguazu Falls

500

About 2,000 years ago, the Nasca people of Peru etched drawings in the desert floor. From airplanes, we can see these pictures of whales, monkeys, and other figures. What is the theory of why these lines were formed?

A) Its a Natural Phenomenon

B) Markers for Water Sources in the Desert

C) Runways for the Ancient Aliens

500

British Secret Agent James Bond has visited South America a couple of times, but in which movie sees him getting lost in the Carnival parade crowds, hang-gliding over Iguazu Falls, and searching for a rocket base in the dense Amazon Jungle?

A) Goldfinger

B) Moonraker

C) Quantum of Solace

B) Moonraker

500

True or False: The Amazon River Basin is about the same size as all of the 48 states of the mainland US combined?

A) True

B) False

A) True

500

True or False: The ice cap in Argentina is so large that it is similar to ones that exist in Antarctica and Greenland?

A) True

B) False

A) True

500

True or False: South America has both some of the wettest places on Earth with its rainforests, and also the driest place on Earth, the Atacama desert in Chile?

A) True

B) False

A) True

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What type of freshwater fish lives in the South American rivers, and they can become extremely aggressive eaters?

A) Carp

B) Piranha

C) Tuna

B) Piranha

600

What musical style is often called Brazil's national music, a music style that combines the musical traditions of the country's different populations?

A) The Reggae

B) The Salsa

C) The Samba

600

Bolivia's Uyuni Salt Flat is the world's largest inland area of what?

A) Diamonds

B) Salt

C) Sand

B) Salt

600

In 1942 Walt Disney premiered the movie 'Saludos Amigos', which had Donald Duck, Goody, and few new characters such as José Carioca; even Walt Disney himself made a cameo appearance. What world wide event caused this movie to be made?

A) The Great Depression

B) The Latin Invasion

C) World War II

C) World War II; the movie was commissioned by the US Government as part of 'The Good-Neighbor Program.'

600

On what continent is the Amazon Rainforest located on?

A) Africa

B) Asia

C) South America

600

One popular South American conspiracy theory is that at the end of World War II, many high-ranking Nazi members snuck out of Germany and made a new home in Argentina. Who was the highest ranking Nazi member of World War II?

A) Adolph Hitler

B) Dwight D. Eisenhower

C) Winston Churchill

A) Adolph Hitler

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South America has a _________, wet climate with hot temperatures and heavy rainfall.

A) Cold

B) Tropical

C) Dry

B) Tropical