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9 for 10 - Bolivia Trivia Quiz

Answer the first nine questions about Bolivia correctly and you will find the first letters of the answers spell the answer to the last question.

A multiple-choice quiz by minch. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
minch

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
150,505

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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5090

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Top 10% Quiz

Last 3 plays: rossian (10/10), Guest 103 (0/10), debbieh6659 (10/10).

Question 1 of 10

1. Bolivia is mainly a mountainous country. What is the name of these mountains?

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the administrative capital of Bolivia?

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Question 3 of 10

3. Originally silver was important in Bolivia. What was the next metal to have a large impact on the Bolivian economy?

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which mountain in the Cordillera Real mountain area is one of the more difficult ascents in the area and wasn't ascended until 1928? Hint

Aconcagua

Illampu

Alpamayo

Huascaran

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Question 5 of 10

5. Bolivia is a landlocked country. What country lies to the northwest of Bolivia?

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Question 6 of 10

6. This animal has always been very useful to many Bolivians, both as a supplier of wool and a beast of burden.

Answer: (One word- five letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Bolivia has three official languages. Spanish and Quechuan are two of them. What is the third? Hint

Portuguese

Araucanian

Panoan

Aymaran

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Question 8 of 10

8. Bolivia was in the news in October 2003 because of unrest over the plans to export this resource to the USA.

Answer: (Two words)

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Question 9 of 10

9. What Bolivian city, situated in the Andes south of Paz near Lake Poopo, was founded by the Spanish because of the silver deposits found in the area?
Hint

Santa Ana

Oruro

Magdalena

El Carmen

10. If you have answered the above questions correctly the first letters will spell the name of the high plateau region of Bolivia. If you didn't get to answer all the questions, maybe you will still be able to work out the answer. Then go back and see if knowing the first letter of the answer helps.

Answer: (One word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Bolivia is mainly a mountainous country. What is the name of these mountains?

Answer: Andes

There are two ranges of the Andes in Bolivia, the Cordillera Occidental,which lies between Bolivia and Chile, and the Cordillera Oriental which is in the west central area.

2. What is the administrative capital of Bolivia?

Answer: La Paz

La Paz is the administrative capital. It is 12,000 feet about sea level which makes it the highest capital city in the world. The judicial capital is Sucre.

3. Originally silver was important in Bolivia. What was the next metal to have a large impact on the Bolivian economy?

Answer: tin

Bolivia was one of the world's leading producer of tin. However, the market for tin declined in the 1980s, and it is no longer so important in Bolivia's economy. Large reserves of lithium have also been discovered in Bolivia but extracting the lithium had not commenced by 2014.

4. Which mountain in the Cordillera Real mountain area is one of the more difficult ascents in the area and wasn't ascended until 1928?

Answer: Illampu

Illampu is 20,892 feet high but its terrain and steep peak mean the climb is trickier than other mountains in the range of a similar elevation. A trio of climbers made it to the top in 1928. Aconcagua is in Argentina and is South America's highest mountain at 22,834 feet. Huascaran and Alpamayo are in Peru.

5. Bolivia is a landlocked country. What country lies to the northwest of Bolivia?

Answer: Peru

Brazil lies to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile to the southwest. At one time Bolivia extended to the Pacific, but after the War of the Pacific in the late 19th century, Chile seized the Bolivian province of Atacama.

6. This animal has always been very useful to many Bolivians, both as a supplier of wool and a beast of burden.

Answer: Llama

The llama is a domesticated animal that belongs to the camel family.
They have been used in the Andes as pack animals for over four thousand years.

7. Bolivia has three official languages. Spanish and Quechuan are two of them. What is the third?

Answer: Aymaran

Aymaran is the language of the people who inhabited the area before the Spanish came.

8. Bolivia was in the news in October 2003 because of unrest over the plans to export this resource to the USA.

Answer: natural gas

Natural gas has been very important to Bolivia's economy in recent years. It is exported to other South American countries, but there are plans to export to the USA. As Bolivia is landlocked it means that a pipeline must go through Chile to reach the coast. This has caused a lot of controversy.

9. What Bolivian city, situated in the Andes south of Paz near Lake Poopo, was founded by the Spanish because of the silver deposits found in the area?

Answer: Oruro

Oruro lies at an altitude of 12,159 feet. It has a population of just under 200,000.

Answer: Altiplano

The Altiplano is the plateau situated between Bolivia's two mountain ranges. Lake Titicaca, which lies between Bolivia and Peru is in the northern part of this area.

Source: Author minch

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