Statistics for Andalusia Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Largest city	Seville	93%
Cubist painter born in Málaga	Pablo Picasso	85%
He started his first voyage to the Americas from Palos de la Frontera in the same year	Christopher Columbus	84%
City home to the Mezquita-Catedral and the Alcázar (with a namesake in Argentina)	Córdoba	77%
Most famous dance that originated in the region	Flamenco	74%
Term for North African and Iberian Muslims, often used more broadly	Moors	74%
Palace in Granada and World Heritage Site	Alhambra	73%
Major mountain range (with a namesake in California)	Sierra Nevada	68%
Term for the attempt of Spanish kingdoms to capture the Iberian peninsula	Reconquista	62%
The Fall of Granada completed the above process. It took place in this year	1492	60%
Name given to the region by Muslims during the Middle Ages	Al-Andalus	60%
This mighty caliphate ruled the region in the early 700s	Umayyad Caliphate	48%
Fortified wine that is called jerez in Spanish	Sherry	42%
The Roman Empire reached its greatest extent during the reign of this emperor, born in Andalusia	Trajan	34%
1929 surrealist short film by Buñuel and Dalí: An Andalusian ___	Dog	27%
Virtuoso acoustic guitarist: Paco __ ____	de Lucía	24%
American author who wrote about said palace while staying there in 1829	Washington Irving	10%