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Peru Country Quiz

Can you guess these facts about the country of Peru?
Quiz by alberici
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Last updated: May 17, 2020
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First submittedDecember 30, 2015
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Clue
Answer
Capital of Peru
Lima
Empire that ruled Peru at the time
of the Spanish conquest
Inca Empire
Capital city of the above
Cuzco
Conquistador who conquered
that empire
Francisco Pizarro
Ancient city that is Peru's most
popular tourist attraction
Machu Picchu
High altitude lake shared
with Bolivia
Lake Titicaca
Smaller version of a llama
Alpaca or Vicuña
Most-spoken language
Spanish
Most-spoken indigenous language
(Hint: starts with Q)
Quechua
Fertilizer that was once plentiful
on the Chincha Islands
Guano
Second and third largest cities
(name either)
Trujillo / Arequipa
Clue
Answer
Currency of Peru
Sol
National cocktail
Pisco Sour
Mountain range that runs
through Peru
Andes
Plateau region of the above shared
by Peru and Bolivia
Altiplano
Maoist guerrillas who terrorized
the country in the 1980s
Shining Path
Former President who rid the country
of the above, but was convicted of
human rights abuses and fled to Japan
Alberto Fujimori
Dish made of raw fish marinated
in citrus
Ceviche
Animal known as "cuy" when it
is eaten as food
Guinea Pig
Seed, starting with Q, that grows in
highland areas and is a trendy
health food worldwide
Quinoa
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Level 74
Dec 17, 2016
Peru's currency is not 'New Sun' anymore. Its just 'Sun' since 2015.
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Level 75
Aug 14, 2020
It's never been "sun", aaactually. Obviously the word is "sol", but that's actually from the latin 'solidus', not the Spanish word for sun. The currency was named after the Incan sun god 'Inti' for a while in the 80's.
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Level 83
May 26, 2023
I imagine the coincidence of word wasn't that much of a coincidence though.
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Level 81
Dec 21, 2016
Nice quiz!
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Level 74
Feb 23, 2017
Guanaco?
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Level 89
Oct 10, 2019
Just put guano and you'll get one answer.
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Level 75
Aug 13, 2020
Aren't guanacos about the same size as llamas?
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Level 89
Aug 13, 2020
They're smaller, but they're not exactly llamas.
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Level 44
Aug 9, 2023
There are 4 camelids in South America. The llama and the alpaca are the domesticated ones. The guanaco and the vicuña are the undomesticated ones.
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Level 65
Feb 25, 2017
alas, I put 'pizco', maybe consider that as correct
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Level 9
Feb 4, 2018
'Pizco' is not the correct form for writte Pisco .Well ... in spanish that is the good form ( i am peruvian )(its my english rigth?)
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Level 75
May 17, 2020
Your English is much better than my Spanish.
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Level 72
Aug 20, 2020
Maybe they spell it Pizco in Cuzco... :)
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Level 77
Sep 12, 2020
Only when they're pizzed.
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Level 65
Feb 25, 2017
4 and pleased!
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Level 54
Feb 25, 2017
Check out my ecuador country quiz!
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Level 57
Feb 26, 2017
Thank you for this!!! Peruvian here!
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Level 53
May 19, 2019
With respect of llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos, they are well known as south american camelids and are very different species. Peru has the greater population of alpacas with more than 3'500,000 individuals. Chile buy peruvian alpacas in the south of Peru and made very good deal selling them to Australia, Italy and USA where they are trying to grow this species up to industrialize it.
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Level 65
Dec 17, 2019
Please, accept "Sendero Luminoso" (even if it doesn't quite fit the clue...)
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Level 86
May 18, 2020
Agreed. I did not know the English word for the group, and though I see that Shining Path is the accepted English translation, it isn't quite the same as the Spanish "luminoso".
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Level 75
Aug 13, 2020
Agreed. This is one where it could be possible to be a unilingual English speaker and still only know the Spanish name.
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Level 75
Aug 14, 2020
Whenever they were mentioned in English-speaking countries it was always 'Shining Path' - it would be weird for an English speaker to only know the Spanish name and not what it means in English, no?
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Level 77
Sep 12, 2020
Alex. You're wrong. I'm English and read and listened to English news media referring to Sendero Luminoso.
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Level 75
Jan 9, 2021
Maybe it's different in whatever part of England you're from Cardinal, but the BBC always uses Shining Path. A quick look at UK newspaper websites shows that the vast majority also use Shining Path.

It makes sense because Shining Path is the accepted English version, like 'Viet Cong' or 'NLF' was used instead of 'Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam'(!)

Anyway the clue is '_____ Path'.

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Level 48
Feb 3, 2023
The simple solution would be to remove the "__Path" hint and accept either Shining Path or Sendero Luminoso.

I'm german and I only knew the name Sendero Luminoso, but not the english name of that group. My english is not perfect so I tried entering "illuminated" and something with light but it just wouldn't accept that... :D

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Level 77
May 23, 2020
Vicuña is spelled incorrectly.
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Level ∞
May 23, 2020
Okay, fixed.
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Level 79
Jul 11, 2020
Seems like I don't know much about Peru (10/20).
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Level 60
Aug 13, 2020
Yeah. Compared to that, I knew more about Uzbekistan than Peru. When i attempted the Uzbekistan quiz, i got all but one answer. As for Peru, i barely got half in the first try.
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Level 72
Aug 20, 2020
I think Uzbekistan is less well known than Peru, which forces the quiz maker to find easier, more general clues. Usually with these country quizzes, the better the country is known, the harder the quiz will be.
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Level 79
Apr 6, 2021
Did better this time (14/20).
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Level 79
May 25, 2021
Now 17/20!
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Level 62
Jul 26, 2020
Got Pizarro because of Claudio Pizarro lol

Werder Bremen

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Level 66
Aug 8, 2020
Hello Peruvians! I lived in your country for only one year, but it was one of the richest of my long life. Picture this: on my first visit to Machu Picchu, there were about 20 of us. Only 4 of us stayed overnight.. Climbed Huaynu Picchu the next morning- just 3 of us all alone up there.

We lived in San Isidro, my daughter was born at the Clinica Anglo-Americano.

A sol was equal to 4 cents.

Thanks for the memories, alberici.

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Level 75
Aug 13, 2020
Thanks for sharing your memories.
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Level 75
Aug 14, 2020
I came for a holiday and I've been here for 5 years so far!
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Level 75
May 5, 2023
Make that 8 years...
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Level 75
Aug 13, 2020
I can't believe how many people knew cuy.
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Level 75
Aug 13, 2020
I only knew it because my grandson has pet guinea pigs and was horrified to learn that people eat them. I tried to explain it is no different in our country where some people have pet rabbits, while other people raise or hunt them to eat. That didn't make him feel one bit better.
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Level 65
Aug 10, 2023
I tried rat, gerbil, hamster...
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Level 66
Aug 13, 2020
I keep spelling quinoa quinea... smh
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Level 33
Aug 13, 2020
Can i get my country Uruguay a quiz? Thanks.
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Level 50
Aug 13, 2020
can you accept bird poop for guano? guano literally means bird poop
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Level 74
Aug 14, 2020
Nope. "Guano" is the correct English term, even though a loanword from Spanish.
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Level 90
Aug 14, 2020
Guano does not literally mean bird poop. Guano is the excrement of sea birds and/or bats. Not all bird poop is guano, and not all guano is bird poop.
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Level 57
Aug 25, 2021
peru and bolivia aren't the only in the altiplano, chile also
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Level 60
Feb 10, 2023
17/20 but couldn't spell "ceviche" or "quinoa". =(
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Level 72
Aug 9, 2023
Back in the 1950s Mad Magazine ran a parody of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not," the original trivia site, called "Believe It Or Don't." The only item that has stayed with me all these years was their gag "Did you know that you can boil eggs in the water of Lake Titicaca?" In smaller print below it said "Of course you have to heat it up first." I used that old joke for years, always eliciting groans.

That joke may not survive the century, as Lake Titicaca, like Lake Chad and the Caspian Sea, slowly disappears.

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Level 68
Jan 6, 2024
Got 7/20… Surprised the average score is much higher…