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

Test your knowledge on Guatemala with this engaging quiz covering its history, geography, and culture.

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1 The population density of Guatemala: How many people are there per square kilometre?

2 [citation needed] It extended from the modern Mexican states of Tabasco and ________ (including the then separate administration of Soconusco) to Costa Rica.

3 During this era ________ became an important crop for Guatemala.

4 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Guatemala?

5 What is the capital of Guatemala?

6 When was Guatemala established?

7 Hernán Cortés, who had led the Spanish conquest of Mexico, granted a permit to Captains Gonzalo de Alvarado and his brother, ________, to conquer this land.

8 What are people from Guatemala known as?

9 What does the following picture show?  Zunil   Tz'utujil men in Santiago Atitlán   Language Map of Guatemala, according to the Comisión de Oficialización de los Idiomas Indígenas de Guatemala. The "Castilian" areas represent Spanish.   Lake Atitlán

10 There are many contemporary music groups in Guatemala from Caribbean music, salsa, punta (________ influenced), Latin pop, Mexican regional, and mariachi.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Classic period Maya city of Punta de Chimino was one of the last cities to survive the political collapse of the Petexbatún region of Guatemala.
  • the Classic Maya archaeological site of Yaxchilan, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, is known for its preserved sculpted lintels (example pictured) detailing the dynastic history of the city.
  • the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth.
  • the Classic Period Mesoamerican archaeological site of Bilbao on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala, features a significant amount of sculpture with ballgame imagery.
  • the Classic Period Maya site of El Zotz, in Guatemala, takes its name from the enormous quantity of bats that live in a cave under the ruins.
  • the hieroglyphic inscriptions at the Early Classic Maya city of Bejucal in northern Guatemala were all made within a narrow 40 year period.
  • the Classic Period Maya city of Ixtutz in the Maya Mountains of Guatemala was lost for more than a century after its discovery in 1852.
  • the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat.
  • the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala.
  • the Guatemalan Black Howler and Mantled Howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala.
  • the powerful Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Balberta, in Guatemala, abruptly collapsed around AD 400.
  • the small Maya city of Itzan in the Petén region of Guatemala featured an unusually large quantity of sculpted monuments.
  • the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico, dedicated to the god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage, attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala.
  • the monuments of the ancient Maya city of Seibal in Guatemala display an unusual mix of Maya and foreign elements.
  • the language of the Guatemalan ethnic group of Maya called Itza, who once ruled over Chichen Itza, is almost extinct even though there's still an estimated population of 30,000 of them.
  • the ancient city of Tikal (pictured) in Guatemala was one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya civilization.
  • the important Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Montana, in Guatemala, was a colony founded by the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan, in Mexico.
  • the Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala was one of the first places to be settled in the Maya lowlands.
  • the Maya archaeological site of El Tintal, in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall.
  • Norman Lind, who among other things survived Operation Sunshine of World War II, was killed many years later by a landmine in Guatemala.
  • Takalik Abaj, an archaeological site in lowland Guatemala, has one of the greatest concentrations of Olmec-style sculpture outside of the Gulf of Mexico coast.
  • Temple I (pictured), in the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, is a 47-metre (154 ft) high funerary monument dedicated to king Jasaw Chan K'awiil I who died in AD 734.
  • Maximón, a saint venerated in the highlands of Guatemala, drinks whiskey, smokes cigarettes and grants prayers for revenge.
  • La Amelia, a small Maya archaeological site in Guatemala, features hieroglyphic panels describing the ritual sacrifice of a bound captive who is rolled into a ball and thrown to his death.
  • Chitinamit in Guatemala was the first capital of the highland K'iche' Maya.
  • Gukumatz (depiction pictured), one of the Feathered Serpent deities of the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala, was said to carry the sun across the sky in his jaws.
  • Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals.
  • Temple V (pictured) of the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Tikal, in Guatemala, was the first pyramid discovered at the site.
  • a Maya ruler of Ixlu, a small ancient city in Guatemala, claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal.
  • nine Mayan languages are spoken in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango.
  • the archaeological site of Topoxte (pictured) has the best surviving example of Postclassic Maya architecture in the Petén region of Guatemala.
  • the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá in Guatemala has what is possibly the largest free-standing worked monolith (pictured) in the New World.
  • looters at the Maya archaeological site of Holtun in Guatemala uncovered a series of large stucco masks flanking the main stairway of the principal pyramid.
  • in 1968 American archaeologist A. Ledyard Smith received the Order of the Quetzal from the Guatemalan government for his services to the cultural heritage of the country.
  • according to indigenous chronicles, the Chajomá kingdom was one of the three principal kingdoms in highland Guatemala before the Spanish Conquest.
  • despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition.
  • LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ".
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