Chile Trivia

1. Chile is located on the west coast of South America. How would you briefly describe the shape of Chile?

From Quiz A Chilean Challenge

Answer: long and thin

Chile is a ribbon-like country that snakes its way down the west coast of South America from a latitude of 17S to 56S. It is 4,270 km (2,653 mi) long from north to south, but averages a mere 177 km (110 mi) in width. At its northern end, Chile has borders with Peru and Bolivia, while its eastern border with Argentina is the world's third-longest land border, at 5,150 km (3,200 mi).

From Quiz Easter Island Challenge

Answer: Pacific Ocean

Easter Island forms one of the vertices of Polynesia (Hawaii and New Zealand are the other two). It is 2,237 miles west of continental Chile.

From Quiz Mysterious Easter Island

Answer: Chile

It was annexed to Chile in 1888, and until 1965 the Chileans literally kept the natives as prisoners on their own island! Now it's a province of Chile.

From Quiz Touring the North of Chile

Answer: The foot of a small hill

Pedro de Valdivia founded 'Santiago de nueva extremadura' at the foot of 'Cerro Santa Lucia'. For some reason the locals totally neglected this hill for about 350 years until it was decided it should be a park. From the top there is a nice view over the city, smog allowing. Santiago does have a river: the Mapocho, but its the only one. I have found no springs, hot or cold, near Santiago and although Inca influence probably reached this far south, the same goes for Inca roads.

From Quiz Punta Arenas vs. The Ozone Layer

Answer: Strait of Magellan

Punta Arenas is the world's southernmost large city, and has a population of around 117,000 people. It is also known as Magellanese, and is twinned with the town of Bellingham, Washington. Only Ushuaia is further south that Punta Arenas, but it is a small town with a population of only 30,000.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Chile

Answer: Argentina

Chile's length, 2,650 miles, is about ten times its average width! Most of this eastern border is with Argentina.

From Quiz All About Chile

Answer: South America

Chile is on the Pacific coast, and stretches from Peru to the southern tip of the continent.

From Quiz A Chilean Challenge

Answer: Andes

The Andes are the world's longest continental mountain range, extending over 7,000 km (4,300 mi) from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in the north, through Bolivia and Peru to the southern section in Argentina and Chile. The Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela are actually submerged peaks of the extreme northern end of the Andes. The southern end of the Andes is located at Cape Horn. The Himalayas are in Asia, the Urals are often considered the boundary between Europe and Asia, and the Southern Alps are in Australia.

From Quiz Easter Island Challenge

Answer: Stone statues

There are over 800 moai on Easter Island and they were mainly carved from compressed volcanic ashes, found at Rano Raraku crater. Most of them were carved between 1250 and 1500 A.D.

From Quiz Mysterious Easter Island

Answer: Sala y Gomez Island

Sala y Gomez Island is only 258 miles east of Easter Island, but it is uninhabited, making Easter Island one of the most remote inhabited islands on Earth. Pitcairn is 1,260 miles West, Chile is 2,300 miles to the east, and Tahiti is 2,515 miles to the West.

From Quiz Viva Chile!

Answer: El Teniente

Chuquicamata is the largest open pit copper mine in the world. El Capitan is just Spanish for The Captain, and Codelco is Chile's largest copper mining corporation.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Chile

Answer: copper

The mining of copper, iron and nitrates have always been important in Chile's economy.

From Quiz All About Chile

Answer: Santiago

The official name is Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. Santiago was founded by Pedro de Valdivia, a Spanish conqueror. Santiago has a population of over five million people, a sizeable portion of Chile's seventeen million total population.

From Quiz A Chilean Challenge

Answer: Pacific Ring of Fire

The Pacific Ocean is surrounded by seismically-active regions which include 452 active volcanoes and around 75% of the world's dormant volcanoes. They are associated with plate movements as oceanic plates are subducted (pulled under) the continental plates that surround them. The 'ring' forms a horseshoe shape from the southern tip of Chile north along the western coast of South and North America, westwards along the Aleutian Islands, and down the east coast of Asia through Japan and the Philippines to Indonesia and New Zealand. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a divergent plate boundary that runs through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; the Great Rift Valley refers to a divergent plate region in Africa; the San Andreas Fault is a portion of the Ring of Fire, located in the US state of California.

From Quiz Mysterious Easter Island

Answer: moai

Not much is known about these massive statues, carved by the native islanders centuries ago. The average head is about 13.29 feet tall, and weighs 13.78 tons! Ruff is the kind of volcanic stone they are made out of, a toki is the tool used to carve them, and an ahu is the flat mound or stone platform some moai sit on!

From Quiz Viva Chile!

Answer: Region de Arica y Parinacota

Region Metropolitana is in central Chile where you will find Santiago. Region de Los Lagos and Region del Biobio are both further down south.

From Quiz Santiago de Chile

Answer: Region Metropolitana

Chile has 12 regions and the metropolitan region. This one is the only one that doesn't have a number. For Chileans It is impossible to be wrong on this one.

From Quiz Touring the North of Chile

Answer: 'El Norte Chico'

'Chico' means 'small'(as in 'small kid' or 'little boy'), 'pequeño' means 'little', 'proximo' means 'near' and 'sur' means 'south'. So they just call it 'The Big North' and 'The Small North'. 'The Big North' consists of the two regions of Tarapaca and Antofagasta, 'The Small North' consists of the regions of Atacama and Coquimbo. Most of this area is desert or semi-desert with little agriculture but lots of minerals.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Chile

Answer: Ojos del Salado

Ojos del Salado is on the Chile Argentina border. It rises to a height of 22,572 feet and is the second highest peak in the Andes. Tortolas and Tupungato are also on the Chile Argentina border. Ostenso is in Antarctica.

From Quiz Easter Island Challenge

Answer: 63 sq. miles

Very small!

From Quiz Mysterious Easter Island

Answer: 64 square miles

This makes it bigger then Disney World (48 square miles), but a little smaller than Washington, D.C.(69 square miles). It was created by three volcanoes over two million years ago.

From Quiz Viva Chile!

Answer: 16

There are 16 regions which includes the Region Metropolitana (which is not numbered). In October 2007 the Region de Tarapaca was split into two and the Región de Arica y Parinacota was formed.

From Quiz Santiago de Chile

Answer: A big earthquake

Chile has had many big earthquakes.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Chile

Answer: nitrate & nitrates &nitratine

Bolivia and Peru fought for the control of the Atacama province, a region that was rich in nitrates. In 1884 Bolivia ceded this province to Chile.

From Quiz All About Chile

Answer: 16

The country is divided administratively into 16 regions, each one with its capital, and divided as well in provinces.

From Quiz Easter Island Challenge

Answer: Ahu Tongariki

In 1960 an earthquake in the coast of Chile generated an enormous tidal wave on Easter Island's coast, hitting Ahu Tongariki, destroying the platform and sweeping the moai hundreds of meters inland. In 1992 a Japanese restoration team brought cranes to the island and restored the massive Ahu, placing the 15 moais back to were they used to be.

From Quiz Viva Chile!

Answer: Atacama

The Atacama desert can be found in the 3rd region of Chile. Chuquicamata is a mine. Arica and Rancagua are both cities.

From Quiz Touring the North of Chile

Answer: Loa

The Loa river is Chile's longest with an official length of 443.85 km (275.85 mi). This is quite a feat considering that Chile is no wider than 430 km (265 mi) anywhere. It only manages to do so because it describes a big "U". The Baker river is in the far south and is the largest river with a flow 870 m3/sec compared to Loa's measly four. The Bio-Bio in central Chile is, by Chilean standards, also large and is a popular rafting destination. The Elqui river valley near La Serena is famous for production of Pisco, the national brandy (excellent stuff). Check www.dga.cl for more info on Chile's waters.

From Quiz Punta Arenas vs. The Ozone Layer

Answer: Sunbeds (Tanning Beds)

Presumably, the people of Punta Arenas assume that if they have a tan, they are less likely to get skin cancer, but there is an inherent risk with using sunbeds (tanning beds). They emit dangerous UV radiation, which is the primary cause of skin cancer.

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Chile

Answer: Cape Horn

The first European to sail round Cape Horn was a Dutchman. He named it after his home town of Hoorn. Storms, currents and icebergs make this a very dangerous area for sailors.

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