Q 01/05

What is the capital city of Ecuador?

A) Quito

B) Cuenca

C) Lima

D) Guayaquil

Answer · why

A) Quito

Guayaquil on the coast is the bigger city and main port, but the seat of government sits high in the Andes. Quito is either the highest or second-high...

Q 02/05

Ecuador's name is literally the Spanish word for what?

A) Sunrise

B) Equator

C) Highland

D) Emerald

Answer · why

B) Equator

The line of zero latitude runs through the northern suburbs of Quito, where the Mitad del Mundo monument marks the spot.

Q 03/05

Which two countries share a land border with Ecuador?

A) Colombia and Venezuela

B) Peru and Bolivia

C) Colombia and Peru

D) Peru and Brazil

Answer · why

C) Colombia and Peru

Colombia lies to the north and Peru wraps around the east and south, with the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador is one of the smallest countries in S...

Q 04/05

What currency has Ecuador used since 2000?

A) The sucre

B) The euro

C) The Ecuadorian peso

D) The US dollar

Answer · why

D) The US dollar

The old national currency collapsed to 25,000 to the dollar in the 1998–99 financial crisis, and the country switched on 13 April 2000. Ecuador still ...

Q 05/05

Ecuador's former currency, in use from 1884 to 2000, was named after which independence hero?

A) Antonio José de Sucre

B) José de San Martín

C) Bernardo O'Higgins

D) Simón Bolívar

Answer · why

A) Antonio José de Sucre

He commanded the patriot army that won the Battle of Pichincha in 1822. The currency died in the 1998–99 crisis and gave way to the US dollar.