Q 01/05

Which indigenous people have farmed Lake Titicaca's terraced shores since before the Incas and still live around it today?

A) The Guaraní

B) The Mapuche

C) The Aymara

D) The Nahua

Answer · why

C) The Aymara

The Aymara: they were working the lake's stone terraces before the Incas arrived, and they later absorbed the island-dwelling Uros, who gave up their ...

Q 02/05

Titicaca is often described as the world's highest what?

A) Tidal lake

B) Navigable lake

C) Freshwater lake

D) Volcanic lake

Answer · why

B) Navigable lake

Navigable lake: the title counts only lakes worked by large ships. Plenty of small pools lie far higher, among them one in the summit crater of Ojos d...

Q 03/05

Lake Titicaca's surface lies about 3,810 metres up, higher than the summit of which famous mountain?

A) Mont Blanc

B) Mount Fuji

C) Kilimanjaro

D) Mount Elbrus

Answer · why

B) Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji: Japan's highest peak reaches only 3,776 metres, yet Puno, a city of more than 100,000 people, sits on Titicaca's shore above that height.

Q 04/05

Titicaca is often called South America's largest lake, but which bigger Venezuelan rival, open to the sea, is sometimes ranked first?

A) Lake Valencia

B) Guri Lake

C) Lake Maracaibo

D) Lagoa dos Patos

Answer · why

C) Lake Maracaibo

Lake Maracaibo: at about 13,500 square kilometres it dwarfs Titicaca, but a strait links it to the Gulf of Venezuela and sea water mixes in, so many g...

Q 05/05

How have buses long crossed Lake Titicaca's Strait of Tiquina?

A) By tunnel

B) By barge

C) By causeway

D) By cable car

Answer · why

B) By barge

By barge: each bus is floated across on a flat pontoon while its passengers follow in a separate boat. A bridge has been proposed for decades, but the...