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South America Quiz Questions and Answers
87 Most Important South America Quiz Questions and Answers (Quiz 1- 20) Part 1
1) Which major city is the easternmost point of South America?
Answer: Recife (Pernambuco).
2) What is the main agricultural produce of Guyane?
Answer: Sugarcane.
3) Which country is South America’s biggest rubber producer?
Answer: Brazil.
4) Which country was once called New Granada?
Answer: Columbia.
5) Where does South America’s longest river have its source?
Answer: In the Andes.
6) Which is the only country in South America with an ‘Atlantic’ and a “Pacific” coast?
Answer: Columbia.
7) Which is the biggest city in South America?
Answer: São Paulo.
8) Which country is the biggest livestock-raiser in South America?
Answer: Argentina.
9) What is Brazil’s largest coastal city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro.
10) Which share Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: Chile and Argentina.
11) Which is the largest lake in South America?
Answer: Lake Maracaibo.
12) Where is New Amsterdam?
Answer: Guyana.
13) What is the capital of Uruguay?
Answer: Montevideo.
14) Which port does Bolivia use in Chile?
Answer: Arica.
15) Which is the only Portuguese – speaking country in South America?
Answer: Brazil.
16) What is the great river of Brazil called?
Answer: Amazon.
17) Which is Venezuela’s main river?
Answer: Orinoco.
18) Which country has the greatest share of the mountains of the Guiana Highlands?
Answer: Venezuela.
19) Apart from the Andes and ranges connected to it, what is the major mountain range in Argentina?
Answer: Cordoba Mountains.
20) Only two countries in South America do not enjoy a coastline. Which are they?
Answer: Paraguay and Bolivia.
South America Quiz Questions and Answers (Quiz 21- 40) Part 2
21) Which is the Southernmost provincial Capital in Chile?
Answer: Punta Arenas.
22) Which country is the biggest producer of oil in South America?
Answer: Venezuela.
23) Which is the capital of Paraguay?
Answer: Asuncion.
24) To which does Easter Island, in the Pacific, belong?
Answer: Chile.
25) As part of a border settlement, from which country did Peru get its Tacna province?
Answer: Chile.
26) Which river divides Paraguay into its two distinct halves?
Answer: Paraguay.
27) On which river is George Town?
Answer: Berbice.
28) In which country is the llama reared for its wool?
Answer: Peru.
29) To whom do the Juan Fernandez Islands belong?
Answer: Chile.
30) Which Mountain range stretches from Venezuela to Southern Chile?
Answer: Andes.
31) After which intrepid navigator is the largest Chilean Province named?
Answer: Magellan.
32) What is the chief mineral produce of Guyana?
Answer: Bauxite.
33) Which river is shared by Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil?
Answer: Parana.
34) Where is Porto President Stroessner a town named after the country’s President?
Answer: Paraguay.
35) What major water bodies do the straits of Magellan link?
Answer: The Atlantic and the Pacific.
36) Which country in South America has the coldest average temperature?
Answer: Chile.
37) What is the great plateau of Brazil called?
Answer: Mato Grosso.
38) Which two Caribbean territories lie off the coast of South America?
Answer: The Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago.
39) Which is Ecuador’s chief port?
Answer: Guayaquil.
40) What is the southernmost physical feature of South America?
Answer: Cape Horn.
South America Quiz Questions and Answers (Quiz 41- 60) Part 3
41) In which country is the Westernmost part of South America?
Answer: Peru.
42) On which river is Manaus?
Answer: Negro.
43) What is Sucre’s importance?
Answer: It is the legal capital and seat of the Judiciary of Bolivia.
44) The night life of which Argentinian city is ‘ comparable to that of Paris?
Answer: Buenos Aires.
45) Which country is divided into just two provinces – Oriental and Occidental?
Answer: Paraguay.
46) Of all the capitals of the South American countries on the Pacific rim, which is the one closest to sea level?
Answer: Lima.
47) Which capital is near Mount Cotopaxi?
Answer: Bogota.
48) Why was Ecuador so named?
Answer: Because the Equator passes through it.
49) What does over a third of Uruguay’s exports comprise?
Answer: Meat, and other animal products.
50) In which country does the Amazon have its source?
Answer: Peru.
51) Before Brasilia became the capital of Brazil in 1960, which was the country’s capital?
Answer: Sao Paulo.
52) In which country would you find the Madeira and the Negro?
Answer: Brazil.
53) Which island country is almost a part of the delta of a major South American river?
Answer: Trinidad and Tobago.
54) Where exactly is Devil’s Island?
Answer: Off the coast of French Guiana.
55) What is Argentina’s desert called?
Answer: Patagonia.
56) Which South Atlantic island or islands were until 1985, dependencies of a British territory near Argentina?
Answer: South Georgia and South Sandwich.
57) Which is the most urbanised Latin American nation?
Answer: Venezuela.
58) Which country was Spain’s principal vice royalty in South America?
Answer: Peru.
59) What is the major mineral export of Chile?
Answer: Copper.
60) Which is the largest island in the estuary of the Amazon?
Answer: Marajo island.
South America Quiz Questions and Answers (Quiz 61- 87) Part 4
61) Which is described as “the highest navigable lake in the world”?
Answer: Lake Titicaca.
62) Which is the capital of Chile?
Answer: Santiago.
63) Which are the two rivers that flow into the Rio de la Plata?
Answer: Parana and Uruguay.
64) With which country does Columbia share its shortest international border?
Answer: Panama.
65) Which is the capital of French Guiana?
Answer: Cayenne.
66) Which is Ecuador’s best known Volcano?
Answer: Cotopaxi.
67) Which country in South America is famous for its emerald mines?
Answer: Columbia.
68) Which part of South America receives the highest annual rainfall?
Answer: The Brazilian coast around the mouth of the Amazon.
69) Which two South American countries have large East Indian population?
Answer: Guyana and Suriname.
70) Which is the highest mountain in South America?
Answer: Aconcagua.
71) Where is Mount Chimborazo?
Answer: Ecuador.
72) Which South American country is a major producer of silver?
Answer: Peru.
73) Much of which country comprises hundreds of islands?
Answer: Chile.
74) Of which country is Paramaribo the capital?
Answer: Suriname.
75) Which port do the two landlocked countries of South America mainly use?
Answer: Santos, Brazil.
76) On which Peak in Peru are there the remains of a splendid Inca city?
Answer: Machu Picchu.
77) Which South American country is a major producer of tin?
Answer: Bolivia.
78) Which countries share the waters of Lake Titicaca?
Answer: Peru and Bolivia.
79) Which is the Southernmost physical feature of South America?
Answer: Cape Horn.
80) Angel Falls is said to be the highest waterfall in the world. Where is it?
Answer: Venezuela.
81) Which part of South America is called the driest place in the world?
Answer: The Atacama Desert, Chile.
82) Which South American country does the Tropic of Capricorn divide almost equally in two?
Answer: Paraguay.
83) Which large island territory about 1000 km from its coast does Ecuador own?
Answer: Galápagos Islands.
84) In which State is the Federal District of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil?
Answer: Goiás.
85) Which is the Chief Port of Chile?
Answer: Valparaiso.
86) Which is the highest seat of Government in South America?
Answer: La Paz.
87) In which country in South America is Natal, a major city?
Answer: Brazil.
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