Q 01/05

El Camino Real, the royal road through Albuquerque, ran north from where?

A) Guadalajara

B) Veracruz

C) Mexico City

D) Monterrey

Answer · why

C) Mexico City

Mexico City sat at the far end of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and its place on that road made the villa founded in 1706 a trading and military o...

Q 02/05

Albuquerque was named for a Spanish nobleman then serving as viceroy of where?

A) Peru

B) New Spain

C) New Granada

D) Río de la Plata

Answer · why

B) New Spain

New Spain's viceroy had appointed the governor who founded the villa in 1706, and the governor named the new settlement in his honour when he reported...

Q 03/05

Which letter was dropped from Albuquerque's original Spanish spelling?

A) An extra L

B) An extra Q

C) An extra R

D) An extra U

Answer · why

C) An extra R

An extra R: the first one was dropped over the years, but the town in Spain that the name comes from still spells itself Alburquerque.

Q 04/05

Albuquerque is the county seat of which county?

A) Sandoval

B) Bernalillo

C) Valencia

D) Santa Fe

Answer · why

B) Bernalillo

Bernalillo the county is distinct from Bernalillo the town, which sits just north in Sandoval County.

Q 05/05

Which tech giant was founded in Albuquerque in 1975?

A) Apple

B) Oracle

C) Qualcomm

D) Microsoft

Answer · why

D) Microsoft

Microsoft started there because Albuquerque was home to MITS, maker of the Altair computer that Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote their first software f...