Q 01/05

Which country is, with Paraguay, one of South America's only two landlocked nations?

A) Uruguay

B) Bolivia

C) Ecuador

D) Suriname

Answer · why

B) Bolivia

Bolivia lost its whole coast to Chile in the War of the Pacific, which left it and always-inland Paraguay as South America's only landlocked countries...

Q 02/05

Which philosopher's sister co-founded Nueva Germania, a would-be 'pure German' colony in Paraguay?

A) Karl Marx

B) Friedrich Nietzsche

C) Immanuel Kant

D) Arthur Schopenhauer

Answer · why

B) Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth co-founded it with her antisemitic husband Bernhard Förster, but the colony faltered, he killed himself, and sh...

Q 03/05

The capital was founded on 15 August 1537 as the first capital of which Spanish governorate?

A) New Granada

B) Rio de la Plata

C) Upper Peru

D) Nueva Toledo

Answer · why

B) Rio de la Plata

The date is the feast of the Assumption, hence the name; Buenos Aires had been abandoned and was refounded from Asuncion decades later.

Q 04/05

Over 90 percent of Paraguayans speak which indigenous language, the highest rate in Latin America?

A) Quechua

B) Guarani

C) Aymara

D) Mapudungun

Answer · why

B) Guarani

It shares official status with Spanish, which is actually spoken by slightly fewer people, about 87 percent.

Q 05/05

Besides Spanish and Guarani, which language is widely spoken in Paraguay's eastern border departments?

A) Portuguese

B) Quechua

C) French

D) Italian

Answer · why

A) Portuguese

Portuguese is spoken by the 'Brasiguayos', Brazilian settlers and their descendants, drawn in their tens of thousands to the eastern border region as ...