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Exploring Bolivia: A Quiz on Its Government, Culture, and Geography

Test your knowledge about Bolivia's government, culture, and geography with this engaging quiz!

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1 What type of government does Bolivia have?

2 What is the calling code of Bolivia?

3 What time offset in UTC is Bolivia in during daylight savings?

4 The population density of Bolivia: How many people are there per square kilometre?

5 Which of the following is an officially recognised ethnic group in Bolivia?

6 Who of the following is/was the leader of Bolivia?

7 Some 40,000 German-speaking ________ live in eastern Bolivia.

8 Who played Mercado in the movie Bolivia?

9 Which of the following titles did Bolivia have?

10 What is the population of Bolivia?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia.
  • the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world.
  • the rodents Thomasomys ucucha from Ecuador and Oxymycterus hucucha from Bolivia were both named after the local Quechua word for "mouse".
  • the Bolivian Socialist Republican Party supported the military governments that ruled the country in 1935–1937, 1939–1940 and 1940–1943.
  • indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly.
  • more than a hundred people were killed by the military junta of Natusch Busch during its 16-day reign in Bolivia in 1979.
  • the Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia is one of the best objects for calibrating Earth observation satellites.
  • the Viceroyalty of La Plata—covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay—was the last viceroyalty created by Spain.
  • under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
  • when Bolivian veteran trade unionist Román Loayza Caero announced his presidential aspirations in 2009, the Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), which he had led for nine years, publicly denounced his candidature.
  • the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of Bolivia in 1985.
  • the late Paleozoic environment of the Chaco-Tarija sedimentary basin of Bolivia has been likened to that of present-day Labrador Sea.
  • the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid, not the Bolivian.
  • in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia, the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors.
  • former Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus.
  • Amantaní, an island on Lake Titicaca, is also known as the "Island of the Kantuta", the national flower of Peru and Bolivia.
  • Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James, and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia.
  • Óscar Zamora Medinaceli, a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia.
  • Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia.
  • Bolivian right-wing senator Roger Pinto Molina owns 3,269 hectares of land in Porvenir.
  • Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán, former president of the parliamentary Defense Committee of Bolivia, was educated in Israel.
  • Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB.
  • after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold.
  • even though the first specimens of the Bolivian rodent Oecomys sydandersoni were collected in the 1960s, it was not formally described as a distinct species until 2009.
  • Begonia boliviensis, one of the species used the production of the first hybrid tuberous begonia raised in England, was introduced from Bolivia by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce.
  • UMOPAR, the anti-narcotics forces in Bolivia, funded and trained by the U.S. government as part of the War on Drugs, staged an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Bolivian government in 1984.
  • Philip Goldberg (pictured), former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, was the eighth chief of mission in U.S. diplomatic history declared persona non grata and expelled from a country where he was serving.
  • Bolivian Mollo culture drinking cups included a built-in straw.
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