Geography- Brain Brawl

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What is the largest river in South America?

Maracaibo

What is the second largest city in Venezuela?

Maracaibo

What is the capital of the state of Yucatán?

Merida

What is the largest city in terms of population in the Western Hemisphere?

Mexico City

Which Caribbean country's capital was the primary shipbuilding center in the 1700s?

Havana, Cuba

What is the highest capital city in the world?

La Paz, Bolivia

What is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world?

Lake Titicaca

What is the largest freshwater lake in South America?

Lake Titicaca

What city has the oldest and largest cathedral in the America?

Mexico City, Catedral Metropolitano de la Ciudad de Mexico

What butterfly species is known to make an annual migration to central Mexico?

Monarch Butterfly

What is the capital of Peru?

Lima

What Incan's site's buildings are said to 'dance'; that is, they bounce through earthquake tremors and then fall back into place?

Machu Picchu

In which city is the Prado Museum located?

Madrid

How many mainland and island countries make up South America?

16

What percentage of Colombian territory has not been populated?

55%

Where is the widest avenue in the world?

9 de julio, Buenos Aires, Argentina

How many miles is Cuba from the United States?

90 miles

Where is the largest reef system of the Northern Hemisphere?

Belize, Belize Barrier Reef Reserve

What is the largest city in Spain?

Madrid

What are the longest rivers in Colombia?

Magdalena and Cauca

In what region of Spain is the city of Huelva located?

Andalucía

What South American country is the famous for gauchos?

Argentina

What countries share the waterfall of the Iguazu?

Argentina and Brazil

What is the capital of Colombia?

Bogota

Which South American countries have no outlet to the sea?

Bolivia and Paraguay

Lake Titicaca is located between what two South American countries?

Bolivia and Peru

What is Belize's former name?

British Honduras

What is the capital of Argentina?

Buenos Aires

Which strait connects Spain and Morocco?

Gibraltar

What is the second-largest city in Mexico?

Guadalajara

In what sea is Cuba located?

Caribbean

In which Spanish region is the city of Toledo?

Castile--La Mancha

What Mexican city is most famous for its cajeta, a type of milk candy?

Celaya

What are the two Spanish enclave territories within mainland Africa?

Ceuta and Melilla

The Atacama Desert, the world's driest desert, is located in what South American country?

Chile, one millimeter of rain per year

What university campus is considered a masterpiece of early 20th century architecture and urban planning?

Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, Venezuela

Where is Volcan Purace?

Colombia

What is the most important archaeological place in Honduras?

Copan Ruins

What is another name for the Gulf of Maracaibo in Venezuela?

Coquivacao

What are the names of the mountain ranges that cross Colombia?

Cordilleras Oriental, Occidental, and Central

Where is the Irazu volcano?

Costa Rica

Which country refers to itself as El Cocodrilo because of its shape?

Cuba

What was the capital of the Inca empire in Peru?

Cuzco

What is the longest river in Spain?

Ebro

Quito is the capital of which South American country?

Ecuador

Where are the Galapagos Islands?

Ecuador

What is the smallest country in Central America?

El Salvador

What is the name of the former Spanish colony that gained independence in 1968?

Equatorial Guinea

On which continent is Spain located?

Europe

Which volcano is considered the highest active volcano in the world today?

Nevada Ojos del Salado (6887 meters tall, on the border of Chile and Argentina)

What country in Central America is called the land of lakes and volcanoes?

Nicaragua

What is the longest river in Venezuela?

Orinoco

What two oceans does the Panama Canal connect?

Pacific and Atlantic

Where do Kunas Indians live?

Panama and Colombia

Asuncion is the capital city of which nation?

Paraguay

What rivers are a natural border between Paraguay and Argentina?

Paraguay, Parana, and Iguazu

What park in El Salvador holds more than 400 different kinds of trees?

Parque Nacional El Imposible

What parks has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any park in the world?

Parque Nacional de Manu, Peru

In what country does the Amazon River begin?

Peru

In what country is the lost city of Machu Picchu?

Peru

In which country would you find the Nazca lines?

Peru

What is the name of the rainforest plateau that covers one-third of Guatemala?

Petén

What is the highest mountain peak in Mexico?

Pico de Orizaba

What mountain range divides Spain and France?

Pirineos o Pirineo (Pyrenees)

Which country shares the Iberian Peninsula with Spain?

Portugal

What city was regarded as the world's largest industrial complex of the 16th century?

Potosi, Bolivia

What Spanish name does the capital of Haiti have?

Puerto Principe

San Juan is the capital of what Caribbean country?

Puerto Rico

Where is El Yunque, the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System located?

Puerto Rico

What is unique about the gardens of Xochimilco?

They float

What rivers forms part of the border of Mexico and the United States?

Rio Grande

What are the highest waterfalls in the world?

Salto Angel in Venezuela (3,212 feet)

What is the capital of Costa Rica?

San Jose

What city was founded in 1498 shortly after Christopher Colombus' arrival on the island and had the first cathedral and hospital built in the New World?

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Where the most famous Roman aqueduct in Spain?

Segovia

What are the names of Mexico's three mountain ranges?

Sierra Madre Occidental Sierra Madre Oriental Sierra Madre del Sur

In what country are the caves of Altamira located?

Spain

What is the capital of Honduras?

Tegucigalpa

What four states of the US border Mexico?

Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California

What is the Spanish archipelago to the southwest of Spain?

The Canary Islands

What countries border Mexico?

United States, Guatemala, and Belize

Where is the tourist attraction Punta del Este?

Uruguay

Which region in Spain in known as the land of flowers, light, and love?

Valencia

Which peninsula did the Maya inhabit?

Yucatan

In which Mexican state is Chichen Itza?

Yucatán

What is the largest Mexican freshwater that is also extremely shallow?

lago de Chapala

What are the grasslands of Argentina called?

pampas

Where are the ruins of the Mayan cities of Chichen Itza and Uxmal?

peninsula de Yucatan, Mexico

What makes Isla Kalahuta in Bolivia a famous place?

pre-Inca stone tombs dating from 800 CE

What metal is mined near Taxco?

silver

The city of Granada, Spain, houses which large Moorish fortress?

the Alhambra

What mountain range stretches along the west coast of South America?

the Andes

What is the body of water between Baja California and the Mexican mainland?

the Gulf of California

Which sea borders Spain?

the Mediterranean

What is the name of the highway that runs through North and South America?

the Pan-American Highway

What is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, located in South America?

the waterfalls of Iguazu, Argentina


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