Q 01/05

Which conquistador founded Bogotá in 1538?

A) Francisco Pizarro

B) Nikolaus Federmann

C) Sebastián de Belalcázar

D) Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Answer · why

D) Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Months later two rival expeditions, Belalcázar's from the south and Federmann's from Venezuela, reached the same plateau, ...

Q 02/05

Which indigenous people inhabited the Bogotá savanna before the Spanish arrived?

A) Guaraní

B) Muisca

C) Quechua

D) Mapuche

Answer · why

B) Muisca

Muisca. Famed as goldsmiths, they had no gold of their own: they mined salt on the plateau and traded with neighbouring peoples for the metal.

Q 03/05

By what name was Bogotá known under Spanish colonial rule?

A) San Felipe

B) Santiago

C) La Asunción

D) Santafé

Answer · why

D) Santafé

Santafé. The name was borrowed from a town in the founder's native Spain, and for centuries the city was styled Santa Fe de Bogotá, pairing it with th...

Q 04/05

Which future head of state, then a 21-year-old law student, was caught up in Bogotá's 1948 riots?

A) Salvador Allende

B) Augusto Pinochet

C) Fidel Castro

D) Hugo Chávez

Answer · why

C) Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro. In town for a student congress, he joined the crowds and took a rifle from a police station they had overrun, later calling the uprising...

Q 05/05

Which 1819 battle cleared Simón Bolívar's path into Bogotá?

A) Carabobo

B) Boyacá

C) Ayacucho

D) Pichincha

Answer · why

B) Boyacá

Boyacá. The fight near a river bridge ended with most of the royalist army and its commander taken prisoner, and Bolívar rode into the capital three d...