1. What is the name of the 'lost city' in South America discovered in 1911 by the Indiana Jones like adventurer Hiram Bingham?
2. The 'Shining Path' (or Sendero Luminoso) is an infamous revolutionary guerrilla movement in which South American country?
3. What is the capital of Peru?
4. Name the five countries that border Bolivia.
5. What is the meaning of the name ?Sendero Luminoso?, the name of the Peruvian guerrilla group?
6. What is the name of the lost city of the Incas discovered in Peru in 1911?
7. Which civilisation built Machu Picchu?
8. What is the unit of currency in Peru?
9. What animal provides 50% of all the protein eaten in Peru?
10. Which two South American countries have borders with Ecuador?
11. What is the capital of Peru?
12. Lake Tittikaka is in Peru and what other country?
13. In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a brass statue of which famous western character?
14. Name either of the 2 countries that have shores on Lake Titicaca?
15. Located in Chile and Peru, what is the name of the desert which is considered to be the driest place on Earth?
16. Bordering Bolivia and Peru, what is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world?
17. Through how many countries does the Amazon river flow?
18. The lines in a Peruvian desert which depict stylized animals which can only be seen from the air are called what?
19. What was the name of the raft that Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Peru to Polynesia on?
20. Which group of people first used gold fillings?
ANSWERS
1. Machu Picchu
2. Peru
3. L ima
4. Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west
5. Shining Path
6. Machu Pichu
7. The Incas
8. Nuevo Sol
9. The Guinea Pig
10. Columbia & Peru
11. Lima
12. Bolivia
13. Winnie the Pooh
14. Bolivia and Peru
15. Atacama desert
16. Lake Titicaca
17. 3 (Peru, Colombia, Brazil)
18. Nazca lines. Found in the Nazca desert
19. Kon Tiki
20. Incas of Peru
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