Geography- Brain Brawl
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
