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Exploring Mexico City: A Quiz on its Culture and Features

Test your knowledge about Mexico City with this engaging quiz covering its political, cultural, and historical aspects.

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1 After years of demanding greater political autonomy, residents were given the right to directly elect the Head of Government and the representatives of the ________ Legislative Assembly by popular vote in 1997.

2 What is the leader of Mexico City called?

3 Another American author, ________ also lived in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of the city for some time.

4 Who played She the movie Mexico City?

5 What type of thing is Mexico City?

6 Mexico City is one of the few cities in the world with a ________ culinary school and restaurant.

7 Aeroméxico (Skyteam) and Mexicana (________) are based at this airport, and provide codeshare agreements with non-Mexican airlines that span the entire globe.

8 No other city in ________ offers the breadth of high-end shopping available in Mexico City, only the city of São Paulo that comes in a close second place.

9 Haute, fusion, kosher, vegetarian and ________ cuisines are also commonly available.

10 [29] The invasion culminated with the storming of ________ in the city itself.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City was once a mint for manufacturing coins and even housed the Supreme Court of Mexico.
  • the National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War, in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine.
  • the Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church (pictured) in Mexico City may be in danger of collapsing.
  • the Interactive Museum of Economics in Mexico City is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics.
  • the first printing press in the Americas started operations in 1539 in a house in Mexico City that is still standing.
  • the Centro Urbano Benito Juárez apartment complex in Mexico City was mostly destroyed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
  • the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers.
  • the Palacio de Cultura Banamex in Mexico City was the site where Agustín de Iturbide accepted the offer to become Mexico's first emperor after the war of independence from Spain.
  • the Palacio de la Autonomía in Mexico City is where the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México gained autonomy from direct government control.
  • the site of Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural work was Mexico City's Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters.
  • there is a monument in Colonia Obrera, Mexico City, to the seamstresses who died here during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
  • the building in Mexico City currently housing the Museo de Charrería, a museum for Mexican rodeo, was originally a 16th-century monastery dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat.
  • the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos, in Mexico City, provides more than 85 million public transport rides annually, using exclusively electric trolleybuses and light rail cars.
  • the Teatro de la Ciudad (pictured) was the most important cultural venue in Mexico City until the Palacio de Bellas Artes was finally finished in the 1930s.
  • the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City organises an annual parade (pictured) of giant fantastical creatures called alebrijes.
  • the Caricature Museum of Mexico City has featured cartoons and sketches by Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco.
  • the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market in Mexico City has about 1,500 square meters of mural work done by students of Diego Rivera.
  • La Merced Cloister, a monastery complex in Mexico City, is known for its Baroque and Moorish architectural elements.
  • San Ildefonso College (pictured) in Mexico City is considered the birthplace of Mexican muralism.
  • Colonia Asturias in Mexico City is named after the first major football stadium built in the city.
  • Colonia Algarín in Mexico City has restaurants which are recommended for their pozole.
  • Mexico City's La Santisima Church (pictured) has sunk nearly 3 metres (9.8 ft) since it was built in the 1780s.
  • masked Mexican professional wrestler Metro is sponsored by the major Mexico City newspaper "Metro" and has the paper's logo on his tights.
  • Tepito in Mexico City is nicknamed barrio bravo ("fierce neighbourhood") due to crime and its production of pro boxers.
  • a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company.
  • remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today.
  • the altarpiece of the Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City is said to contain a splinter of the original cross of Jesus, authenticated by the Vatican.
  • no one is sure why, despite his victory at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces in 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla retreated from Mexico City.
  • in Mexico City's Zócalo, 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick.
  • efforts to remove street vendors in the Tlaxcoaque area of Mexico City have resulted in threats to public officials.
  • half of the population of Colonia Buenos Aires in Mexico City makes a living from selling used auto parts.
  • Mexican pilot Alberto Braniff was the first pilot to fly a plane over Mexico City.
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