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Miami City Trivia

Can you guess these facts about the city of Miami and its suburbs?
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Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: August 4, 2020
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First submittedJune 29, 2020
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County that Miami is part of
Miami-Dade
Most common country of birth for foreign-born Miami residents
Cuba
Movie, starring Al Pacino, about a drug lord from that country
Scarface
Hurricane that struck in 1992
Hurricane Andrew
Lead singer of "Miami Sound Machine"
Gloria Estefan
Suburb, starting with H, that is 94.7% Hispanic
Hialeah
Miami lawyer who became the first female Attorney General of the U.S. in 1993
Janet Reno
Most famous neighborhood in Miami Beach
South Beach
1930s architectural style that the above is known for
Art Deco
Italian fashion designer who was killed in Miami Beach in 1997
Gianni Versace
Ethnic neighborhoods in Miami whose names start with Little
Little Haiti
Little Havana
Lagoon that separates Miami from Miami Beach
Biscayne Bay
Miami's NBA team
Miami Heat
Buddy cop movie set in Miami starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence
Bad Boys
1980s TV series starring Don Johnson as an undercover cop
Miami Vice
Miami has the world's largest port for this type of ship
Cruise Ship
Nearby city whose airport has the code FLL
Fort Lauderdale
Miami is known as the "capital" of this international region
(despite, technically, not being part of it)
Latin America
Miami's nickname, based on how quickly is has grown
The Magic City
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Level 82
Jun 29, 2020
No question about the country/state? Also I presume it's only US Americans that consider it the LA capital ...
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Level 80
Jun 29, 2020
Capital of the Bermuda Triangle? Yeah, maybe...
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Level 88
Jul 21, 2020
Some US Americans, maybe. I've never heard it referred to as such, personally. I've never been to the area, though.
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Level 52
Jul 21, 2020
It’s called the capital of Latin America by Latinos. We are known as a safe haven for Latinos who escaped from bad situations in their own country. There is also NYC, but Miami is closer. We have a bunch (and I mean A BUNCH) of Cubans, but we also have Brazilians, Spaniards, Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Hondurans, Salvadorians, Haitians (thanks to France they are technically Latino), and Argentinians. For example, I’m part Brazilian, Cuban, and Spanish. We don’t care about ethnicities. In fact, some of us don’t care if you were an illegal immigrants.
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Level 76
Jul 21, 2020
As a latinamerican, I have never heard or read anyone, anywhere, in any country, call Miami the capital of Latin America. Yet another example of appropiation by the US, what a surprise. >__>
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Level 70
Jul 21, 2020
Google "capital of Latin America" and Miami is overwhelmingly the result with articles not just from the US but from the BBC and others with the nickname reaching back more than 30 years. At this point, it's not just some "appropriation," and even it is, it's been a pretty damn successful one.
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Level 78
Jul 22, 2020
Successful or not, it doesn't make sense to me. Even the first article in Google search begins "With the largest Latin American population outside of Latin America..."
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Level 76
Jul 24, 2020
Most of those Google results are from english speaking sites. Not a good counterargument to the "appropiation" argument when most of your references are from the appropiators. And even then, in Google's second page there's one mention of Mexico and another of Los Angeles. Also from anglo websites.

Now, if you search for "capital de Latinoamerica", the results change dramatically. Barely one mention of LA, with another one of Buenos Aires (but only as cultural capital), and that's it. Ergo, this would indicate that latinamericans don't consider Miami the "capital of Latin America", only (or mostly) the anglos do. In other words, appropiation.

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Level 82
Jun 29, 2020
Good quiz though !
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Level 85
Jun 30, 2020
Check wording of last clue.
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Level 66
Jul 7, 2020
I did absolutely horribly one this one... only got 2 ... and the most guessed answer wasn't one of them..

Edit: well hey, atleast I beat 1,1% of the people haha

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Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
Dexter is a better show than Miami Vice.
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Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
And I'd like to mention a movie set in Miami that was better than Bad Boys but right now I can only think of 2 Fast 2 Furious and that might actually be worse.
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Level 82
Jul 21, 2020
Thought of one. Two actually. Ace Ventura and Wild Things.
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Level 72
Jul 21, 2020
+1 for Ace Ventura! And +.5 for Dexter. It was one of my favorites at first, but the last few seasons turned really bad...
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Level 82
Jul 25, 2020
I only thought season 8 was bad, and I didn't even mind the ending as much as most people did.
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Level 78
May 11, 2021
I hear there is a new series of Dexter planned as the ending received so many complaints...

As a show it surpasses Miami Vice by some distance.

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Level 85
Jul 15, 2021
The best movie set in Miami (by a fairly wide margin) is Moonlight.
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Level 68
Jul 21, 2020
Correction: “Based on how quickly is has grown”- is should be it.
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Level 52
Jul 21, 2020
Though, I hate the weather, I love the fact I was born in Miami. I love the culture here. I might be biased but I don’t care.
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Level 67
Aug 20, 2020
Guessed randomly for a lot of these. And Scarface is a great movie