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Exploring Chile: A Quiz on Geography, Culture, and History

Test your knowledge about Chile's geography, culture, and history with this engaging quiz!

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1 What does the following picture show?  Beach in Viña del Mar   German influence is visible in southern Chile. Puerto Octay.   Parinacota Volcano in northern Chile   Chilean notes currently in circulation (The $500 bill is no longer in circulation)

2 How many square miles is Chile in area?

3 Which is the largest city in Chile?

4 What is the native name for Chile?

5 Novelist José Donoso's novel The Obscene Bird of the Night is considered by critic ________ to be one of the canonical works of Twentieth Century Western literature.

6 Luis Ayala was twice a runner-up at the French Open and both Ríos and Fernando González reached the ________ men's singles finals.

7 What type of government does Chile have?

8 What does the following picture show?  The port of San Antonio   Grey Glacier in southern Chile   Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley) near San Pedro de Atacama   Bernardo O'Higgins, Supreme Director of Chile

9 The northern ________ contains great mineral wealth, primarily copper and nitrates.

10 What is the leader of Chile called?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Chilean football club Cobreloa reached the finals of South America's principal club competition, the Copa Libertadores, in 1981, only four years after the club's founding.
  • the magnitude-8.5 1922 Vallenar earthquake in Chile caused a series of tsunamis that reached as far away as Japan and Australia.
  • the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake, that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile, caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand.
  • the Australian Ambassador to Chile, Crispin Conroy, once proposed marriage to Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala.
  • in the Penguins' Rebellion, over 800,000 Chilean high school students demanded education reforms from the government of Michelle Bachelet.
  • former Chilean presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber was the main organizer of the 2004 APEC annual meeting held in Santiago, Chile that year, and the president of APEC's Senior Officials Meeting II.
  • in the 1920s and '30s, various countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Chile issued Art Deco stamps.
  • the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile, controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet, and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget.
  • the Atherton oak and red bopple nut of Queensland, and the Chilean hazel of Chile are relatives of the macadamia which produce edible nuts.
  • the archaeological site of Chan-Chan gives its name to the Chanchaense Complex, a archaeological culture extending acoss Chile from 37° to 55° South.
  • the current Foreign Minister of Chile, Alejandro Foxley (pictured), served both in the cabinet of Salvador Allende in the 1970s and in the first cabinet after the restoration of democracy in 1990.
  • though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth.
  • the Phenes raptor dragonfly is the largest Odonata in Chile.
  • the Ross Casino in Pichilemu was the first casino in Chile.
  • the Cementerio General de Chile is the final resting place for Chilean presidents.
  • the Chilean National Plebiscite of 1980, which affirmed General Pinochet as president and approved a new constitution for Chile, was marked by irregularities.
  • following his return to Chile in 1880, the newspaper editor Recaredo Santos Tornero established the country's first paper mill.
  • during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina.
  • Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco has the distinction of having an open cluster and a 4 m (13 ft) telescope in Chile (pictured) named after him.
  • Socialist Paulina Veloso, exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile, has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents, including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006 to 2007.
  • Heraldo Muñoz, former National Supervisor of the People's Stores under Allende, is now Chile's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations.
  • Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession.
  • New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Chile and China.
  • Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist Fernando Krahn had to leave his country in order to escape from the 1973 coup d'état.
  • Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria.
  • John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Olga Maturana was elected the first Mayoress of Pichilemu, Chile, in 1951.
  • Friar Camilo Henríquez (pictured), a founding father of Chile and editor of Chile's first newspaper, was interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition for possessing banned Enlightenment philosophy, including books by Rousseau and Mercier.
  • a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006.
  • Titanium La Portada is expected to briefly become the tallest skyscraper in Chile, before being overtaken by Torre Gran Costanera of the Costanera Center complex.
  • Sara Larraín, who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election, was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile.
  • QUIET, an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Chile, will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  • Raymond Monvoisin was a French painter and Legion of Honor recipient invited by the Chilean government to establish an Academy of Painting in Santiago, and who also dabbled in mining and ranching.
  • Chile's current Interior Minister, Andrés Zaldívar, was also a senator and cabinet member in pre-Pinochet democratic Chile, a prominent democracy activist, and member of the successful opposition to the subsequent military regime.
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