Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Honduras?

A) Tegucigalpa

B) Comayagua

C) San Pedro Sula

D) El Progreso

Answer · why

A) Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa is not quite the capital alone: the constitution names it and Comayagüela, its twin across the Choluteca River, as joint capital, though n...

Q 02/05

The Spanish word honduras literally means what?

A) Hills

B) Storms

C) Rivers

D) Depths

Answer · why

D) Depths

Depths. Columbus is said to have thanked God for getting his ships out of "those depths", and the cape he named on the same voyage is still called Gra...

Q 03/05

By what nickname are Hondurans commonly known in Spanish?

A) Ticos

B) Guanacos

C) Chapines

D) Catrachos

Answer · why

D) Catrachos

Catrachos is said to come from General Florencio Xatruch: locals who greeted his Honduran troops on their return from battle in the 1850s called them ...

Q 04/05

Which great Maya city in western Honduras is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

A) Tikal

B) Caracol

C) Palenque

D) Copán

Answer · why

D) Copán

Copán's greatest king, known as 18 Rabbit, was captured and beheaded in 738 by the ruler of Quiriguá, a smaller city that had been his own vassal.

Q 05/05

In Honduras, the longest known Maya inscription is carved into what kind of structure?

A) Ball court

B) Royal tomb

C) Stairway

D) City wall

Answer · why

C) Stairway

Stairway: its steps record a royal dynasty glyph by glyph, but many of the blocks had tumbled out of place before it was excavated, and scholars are s...