Q 01/05

Commuters in La Paz glide over the traffic on the world's largest urban network of what?

A) Trolleybuses

B) Cable cars

C) Monorails

D) Funiculars

Answer · why

B) Cable cars

Cable cars arrived in 2014 under the name Mi Teleférico, linking La Paz with El Alto on the plateau above, and every station has both a Spanish and an...

Q 02/05

La Paz puts young people on its streets dressed as which animals to teach road rules to drivers?

A) Jaguars

B) Penguins

C) Zebras

D) Giraffes

Answer · why

C) Zebras

Zebras in full costume dance through the streets of La Paz to make drivers and pedestrians aware of traffic rules, turning road safety into street the...

Q 03/05

The Witches' Market in La Paz is famous for selling the dried fetuses of which animal as offerings to Pachamama?

A) Guinea pig

B) Condor

C) Puma

D) Llama

Answer · why

D) Llama

Llama fetuses top a bundle of herbs and sweets that is burned for Pachamama, the earth mother; one popular ceremony asks her to keep the builders of a...

Q 04/05

San Pedro in La Paz, where residents buy their own rooms and tourists once took tours, is what kind of place?

A) A prison

B) A monastery

C) A hospital

D) An army barracks

Answer · why

A) A prison

A prison in name, San Pedro runs like a walled town: inmates buy or rent their cells, hold jobs inside and often live with their families.

Q 05/05

Which grim nickname did the cliff-edge route from La Paz to the Yungas valleys earn for its crash record?

A) Devil's Staircase

B) Death Road

C) Widow's Pass

D) Road of Tears

Answer · why

B) Death Road

Death Road once claimed 200 to 300 lives a year; a modern highway now carries the traffic, and about 25,000 tourists a year visit the old route, many ...