Q 01/05

Nicaraguan-born human rights campaigner Bianca became famous in the 1970s as the wife of which rock star?

A) Keith Richards

B) Mick Jagger

C) Rod Stewart

D) David Bowie

Answer · why

B) Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger. Bianca Jagger, born in the capital, married him in 1971 and, after the marriage ended, traded the jet set for a second career as a human-...

Q 02/05

Nicaragua holds which distinction among Central America's seven countries?

A) Most populous

B) Least populous

C) Largest in area

D) Smallest in area

Answer · why

C) Largest in area

Largest in area. Yet it ranks only third in population: almost all of its people live in the western half, leaving the Caribbean side thinly settled.

Q 03/05

Which two countries border Nicaragua by land?

A) Guatemala and Panama

B) El Salvador and Panama

C) Honduras and Costa Rica

D) Honduras and Guatemala

Answer · why

C) Honduras and Costa Rica

Honduras and Costa Rica. In the 1980s the rebels fighting Nicaragua's government kept their camps just across both borders, striking from the north an...

Q 04/05

In 1980 the new Sandinista government launched a national 'crusade' that sent teams across the countryside to teach what?

A) First aid

B) Reading

C) Farming

D) Marksmanship

Answer · why

B) Reading

Reading. The literacy crusade cut adult illiteracy from more than half of the population to under 15 percent and won Nicaragua a UNESCO prize.

Q 05/05

Which crop, grown on the cooler slopes of Nicaragua's northern highlands, is one of the country's largest exports?

A) Tea

B) Cocoa

C) Coffee

D) Rubber

Answer · why

C) Coffee

Coffee. The bushes need the mild air of the higher slopes, so the crop comes mostly from the hills of the north, a region that also raises cattle and ...