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

Ecuador is Spanish for 'equator'; the line of zero latitude crosses the country just north of the capital, where the Mitad del Mundo monument marks it...

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 Ecuadorian peso

B) The euro

C) The real

D) The US dollar

Answer · why

D) The US dollar

Ecuador adopted the US dollar in 2000 after its old currency collapsed to 25,000 to the dollar in the 1998–99 banking crisis; the country issues its o...

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

Antonio José de Sucre led the patriot army that won the 1822 battle freeing the Ecuadorian highlands from Spain; the currency named after him lasted f...