Who was known as "The Liberator" of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia?
Simon Bolivar
100
Top three exports from Colombia
Coffee, citrus, illegal narcotics
100
Most popular religion in the region
Roman Catholicism
100
This country was defeated by Britain in the 1982 Falklands War, over two islands this country calls "Las Malvinas"
Argentina
100
Lima is the capital of what country?
Peru
200
He overthrew Juan Batista's regime in 1959 to turn Cuba into a Communist state
Fidel Castro
200
Chile is the world's largest exporter of this mineral
Copper
200
The four-day Brazilian festival prior to Lent is called
Carnival
200
What Latin American country has 2,600 miles of coastline from north to south?
Chile
200
What Chilean island is famous for its large stone-head statues?
Easter Island
300
This Mexican revolutionary fought against both rich Mexican elites and Americans in what is known as the "Mexican Revolution" of the 1910's
Pancho Villa
300
The most popular export of Venezuela
Petroleum
300
What season is it right now in Argentina?
Summer
300
Which country has the states of Yucatan, Chihuahua and Baja California?
Mexico
300
Who devised his theory of evolution while examining wildlife in the Galapagos Islands?
Charles Darwin
400
This agreement, in 1493, drew a line that split South America between Spain and Portugal. At the time, they thought that this was dividing the New World evenly between the two explorer nations.
Treaty of Tordesillas
400
This country has had many riots and demonstrations in the past year -- some say it has bankrupted the government by spending so much on soccer stadiums, while the poor and middle class are shrinking rapidly
Brazil
400
This is the most popular Latin American immigration destination for Europeans
Argentina
400
What is the name of the achipelago (group of islands) at the southern tip of South America?
Tierra del Fuego
400
Name the two landlocked countries of Latin America
Bolivia and Paraguay
500
Pop artist Madonna portrayed this wife of an Argentinan nationalist leader who ruled from 1946 to 1955, and tried to introduce democracy and eliminate poverty
Eva Peron ("Evita")
500
The original Latin American member of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Mexico
500
The national language of Brazil is
Portuguese
500
What is the name of the mountain range in the western portion of South America?
Andes
500
Name the impoverished country on the island of Hispanola where a form of French is the dominant language