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100

What Indigenous group is Evo Morales a part of?

Aymara

100

Who confessed to a Lithium coup in Bolivia in 2020? :)

Elon Musk

100
What congressperson and senator introduced the Green New Deal?

Who are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Edward Markey?

100

Name 5 countries in Latin America

this is an easy one...

100

What is the most common letter in the English alphabet?

E

200

Who came to power in Ecuador in 2007?

Rafael Correa 

200

When was the oil boom in Latin America? (hint in the 21st century ~ 14 years)

2000-2014

200

What's considered green technology? (name at least two things)

solar panels, electric cars, vertical farming, LED lights, self-sufficient buildings, etc.

200

What percentage of the world's oxygen is created in the Amazon Rainforest?

20%

200

What do nephologists study?

Clouds.
300

Who was the racist lady who came into power in Bolivia after Morales was ousted in 2019?

Jeanine Áñez Chávez

300

What did the Spanish want to extract from the Latin American soil during early imperialism?

Silver and Gold

300

When was the Green New Deal initiated?

2019

300

Which two countries is Lake Titicaca located in?

Peru and Bolivia

300

What artist first achieved notoriety through graffiti epigrams?

Jean-Michel Basquiat first achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams.

400

What did the projects of the Pink Tide involve?

New constitutions the incorporated the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment (Evo Morales Vivir Bien/Rafael Correa Buen Vivir)

400

What is consulta previa and explain its relevance to resource exctractivism?

international legal norm adopted by a bunch of states; right of directly affected communities to be consulted prior to extractive process that can affect territories and/or environment 

400
Describe at least on of the main goals of the Green New Deal
  • Achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers
  • Create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States
  • Invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century
  • Secure for all people of the United States for generations to come: clean air and water; climate and community resiliency; healthy food; access to nature; and a sustainable environment
  • Promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (“frontline and vulnerable communities”)
400

In what country will you find Angel Falls?

Venezuela

400

ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with this song 

What is Waterloo?

500

Define the Pink Tide in Latin America

a political wave and perception of a turn towards left-wing governments in Latin American democracies moving away from the neoliberal economic model at the start of the 21st century

500

What is dependence theory?

Dependency theory is of the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former.

500

Do you think the Green New Deal would do too much? Not enough? Is a perfect plan? Why?

Argue your opinion!
500

What is Bad Bunny's real name?

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio

500

Pronounce all of our last names correctly

Poste, Acquarulo, Giarratana