Bell Questions: Third Quarter

Question 1

Which country was named after a great South American Patriot?

Answer 1

Bolivia

Question 2

Name both of the South American countries that have no coastline

Answer 2

Paraguay and Bolivia

Question 3

What is the longest river in South America?

Answer 3

Amazon River

Question 4

What is the name given to the large, treeless plains south of the Amazon?

Answer 4

Pampas

Question 5

At the mouth of which river is Montevideo?

Answer 5

Rio de la Plata

Question 6

What is the official language of Brazil?

Answer 6

Portugese

Question 7

What is the capital of Ecuador?

Answer 7

Quito

Question 8

What strait separates Chile from Fierra Del Fuego?

Answer 8

Strait of Magellan

Question 9

What country owns the Galápagos Islands?

Answer 9

Ecuador

Question 10

Which country owns the Falkland Islands?

Answer 10

The United Kingdom

Question 11

What is the capital of Columbia?

Answer 11

Bogotá

Question 12

In which mountain range is Macchu Picchu?

Answer 12

Andes Mountains

Question 13

Where is lake Maracaibo?

Answer 13

Venezuela

Question 14

What is the sacred city of the Incas?

Answer 14

Cuzco

Question 15

What is the original name of Easter Island?

Answer 15

Rapa Nui

Question 16

What type of land is Panama?

Answer 16

Isthmus

Question 17

What is the largest lake in all of Central America?

Answer 17

Lake Nicaragua

Question 18

All of Central America lies in what is commonly known as what?

Answer 18

The Tropical Zone

Question 19

Where is Aruba located?

Answer 19

Caribbean Sea

Question 20

What is the largest city in the Caribbean?

Answer 20

Havana

Question 21

What ancient civilization lived in the Yucatan peninsula?

Answer 21

Mayans (exact verbage not known)

Question 22

What kind of music is Jamaica famous for?

Answer 22

Reggae

Question 23

The Caribbean has long been dominated by what agricultural industry?

Answer 23

Sugar

Question 24

Into what two groups are the Antilles separated?

Answer 24

Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles

Question 25

What large body of water borders Mexico to the east?

Answer 25

Gulf of Mexico

Question 26

In which South American country is Dutch the official language?

Answer 26

Suriname

Question 27

Who conquered Peru in 1532?

Answer 27

Francisco Pizarro

Question 28

What Andean empire did King Pachacuti extend in the 1400s?

Answer 28

Inca Empire

Question 29

What U.S. state does Tijuana share a border with?

Answer 29

California

Question 30

What is the name given to the narrow inlets caused by glacial erosion that are found along the coast of Greenland?

Answer 30

Fjords

Question 31

Formerly known as British Honduras what is the only Central American country where English is the official language?

Answer 31

Belize

Question 32

What is the name of the highest point in North America?

Answer 32

Denali

Question 33

What is the largest freshwater lake in North America?

Answer 33

Lake Superior

Question 34

What is the largest island of the north American continental shelf?

Answer 34

Greenland

Question 35

What is the longest river in North America?

Answer 35

Missouri River

Question 36

What is the largest city in North America? (population)

Answer 36

Mexico City

Question 37

What river separates the United States and Mexico?

Answer 37

Rio Grande

Question 38

What is the largest Caribbean island?

Answer 38

Cuba

Question 39

Who did the United States negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with?

Answer 39

France

Question 40

What country did the United States buy Alaska from?

Answer 40

Russia

Question 41

What was the bloodiest war in US history?

Answer 41

Civil War

Question 42

What is the name of the southernmost point of South America?

Answer 42

Tierra del Fuego

Question 43

What is the major religion in South America?

Answer 43

(Roman) Catholic

Question 44

What ancient civilization built Machu Picchu?

Answer 44

Incan Empire

Question 45

The driest place in the world is a desert in South America called what?

Answer 45

Atacama Desert

Question 46

Who helped Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru achieve their independence from their colonial rulers?

Answer 46

Simon Bolivar

Question 47

Which tribe was native to the Virgin Islands (gist)?

Answer 47

The Caribs

Question 48

What Latin American country had the biggest slave population?

Answer 48

Brazil

Question 49

What resource was discovered in 1695 in colonial Brazil?

Answer 49

Gold

Question 50

What country built the Panama Canal?

Answer 50

The United States