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

Test your knowledge about Colombia's geography, culture, and history with this engaging quiz.

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1 Colombia also shares maritime borders with Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and ________.

2 What role did Colombia play in the movie Perdurabo?

3 The most well-known Colombian genres are ________ and vallenato, the latter now strongly influenced by global pop culture.

4 [10][11] With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after ________.

5 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Colombia?

6 Colombia has "exported" many famous players, such as Freddy Rincon, Carlos Valderrama, Iván Ramiro Córdoba, and ________.

7 Who of the following is/was the leader of Colombia?

8 What does the following picture show?  Nariño Palace, presidential residence.   Financial district in Medellín.   Current President Juan Manuel Santos   Nariño Palace, presidential residence.

9 Pastrana also began to implement the ________ initiative, with the dual goal of ending the armed conflict and promoting a strong anti-narcotic strategy.

10 What is the capital of Colombia?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis vexillaria was discovered in 1867 by plant collector David Bowman and introduced from Colombia to England in 1873 by a fellow Veitch employee, Henry Chesterton.
  • the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto.
  • the Carrikeri Harlequin Frog, a critically endangered toad endemic to northern Colombia, was recently rediscovered after an absence of 14 years.
  • the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay (monument pictured) was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty.
  • the Colombian actress and beauty queen Liliana Lozano was shot to death two days after the murder of her boyfriend, the drug lord Leonidas Vargas.
  • over 60.1% of Colombian families are below the poverty threshold.
  • the palm Aiphanes deltoidea, which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts of Colombia, Peru and Brazil, is present at such low densities that it is considered a rare species.
  • the Colombian palm Aiphanes leiostachys is an endangered species, while two other Colombian endemics in the same genus, Aiphanes duquei and Aiphanes lindeniana, are vulnerable to extinction.
  • the Catedral de San Nicolás in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia was built because the original church was believed to have been possessed by evil spirits.
  • the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts.
  • the painter Andrés de Santa Maria (pictured) was the pioneer of impressionism and modern art in Colombia.
  • there are more than 50 protected natural areas in Colombia, including: Cali, "El mono Hernández", Estoraques, Hermosas, McBean, Munchique, Nevados, Puracé, Rosario y San Bernardo, Salamanca, Santa Marta, Tamá and Tuparro.
  • 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.
  • the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela.
  • the national park Sumapaz Paramo in Colombia, is the largest Paramo ecosystem in the world.
  • the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics is the Colombian government agency in charge of managing the airspace, civil aviation, and the aviation industry in Colombia.
  • the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States.
  • on November 15, 1992, members of the Colombian National Police gunned down nine members of a church youth group in Medellín.
  • in addition to teaching underprivileged youth, Giovanni Buscaglione designed such architectural works as Colombia's Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora del Carmen.
  • Clímaco Calderón was President of Colombia for only one day.
  • Claudia Blum de Barberi is a Colombian politician and psychologist, who became the first woman to ever be elected President of the Congress of Colombia.
  • El Infiernito (pictured) is an archaeological site in Colombia, which served as a center of purification rites for the Muisca people, as well as a rudimentary astronomical observatory.
  • fossils from the Paleocene-age Cerrejón Formation in Colombia are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforests.
  • Colombian billionaire entrepreneur Carlos Ardila Lülle has expanded from his start in the soft drink business with television channels and a soccer team.
  • Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation.
  • Colombian writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio wrote La Casa Grande, a novel based on the events of the Santa Marta Massacre, an event which also featured prominently in his friend Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
  • over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described.
  • Gustavo de Greiff, Colombia's first Attorney General responsible for prosecuting druglords, advocated for drug decriminalization during the height of the United States's War on Drugs in Colombia.
  • during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power, the death metal band Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in Bogotá, Colombia, and performed in front of 80,000 people.
  • in 1955, pressure from the Catholic Church and Conservatives forced the Colombian military government of Rojas Pinilla to close down the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo trade union centre.
  • in Colombia there were 2,832 murders of trade unionists between 1 January 1986 and 30 April 2010, making it the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist.
  • by the time he returned to England in 1878 after collecting plants in Colombia, German plant collector Guillermo Kalbreyer had lost more than half of his collection.
  • before a hitman shot Colombian drug lord Leonidas Vargas to death in his hospital bed, the shooter asked a neighboring patient whether he was Vargas.
  • Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María, became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement.
  • about 22% of all reported species of mammals in Colombia are endangered or critically endangered.
  • Colombia and India established diplomatic relations on January 19, 1959.
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