Saludos PTYOLO! Excuse the lateness of my response, I haven't visited this site in some time. I am not Panamanian, but I have lived in Panama for many years
The original quiz had more questions, more directly related to Panamanian culture, but some of them would be very difficult to know unless the quiz taker had spent some time in Panama, so the quiz was edited before being selected as a featured quiz
Perhaps . . . but Noriega was definitely a dictator, and a very unpopular one at that. And he was definitely deposed by US military forces. The fact that he was a graduate of the School of the Americas and a CIA asset before and after his rise to power doesn't really change that. There is a possibility that Noriega's predecessor's death in a plane crash was no accident, but this remains unproven. And if it was a bomb that downed Torrijos' plane, it still would be unclear if the CIA was behind the plot, instead of Noriega just killing his boss because of his own boundless ambition
I really sucked at this one.. and I can't spell isthmus .. I actually had it down a while ago, but guess I forgot again (only known this word since a year max, from this site, and never having heard anyone say it doesn't help. I guess in english speaking countries you would have learned the word at a young age during basic geography lessons)
So......I'm taking this quiz (thank you, Elijah), and then reading Djila's comment about there perhaps being more questions that could be asked about this country; and thought "Yeah, for sure! Lots of interesting history there!"
So, I have created a quiz and submitted it as "Panama-20 questions."
Please check it out. It should be fun for anyone who has lived,worked and/or traveled there; interesting for those who would like to know more about it; and impossible for anyone who only knows that it's down there between Costa Rica and Colombia and has a canal running through it.
this must be the first country quiz not to ask for the capital city. i’d suggest adding it as a question even if it is obvious, partly for consistency, and partly because it’s still a good fact to know about a country. other quizzes have the country name as an answer anyway.
My favorite geography factoid: Panama is the only country in the world where you can stand in one place with Pacific to the east and the Atlantic to the west.
Even though the military is controlled by the government, I think it's a bit odd to say that the military is a part of the government that was abolished. The question makes it sound like it was one of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial branches) that was abolished. I think the question should be rephrased.
It is incorrect to say Henry Morgan was a pirate. He was a privateer. The difference is that a privateer is a person (with a ship) who has a licence from his government to take military action against ships and sometimes land belonging to or aiding his country's enemies. A pirate does not have such a licence, and usually attacks other ships indiscriminately. Morgan had a privateer licence (letter of marque) from the English government issued when England and Spain were at war, in response to Spanish attacks on English shipping. While his attack in 1671 was after a peace had been signed, being at sea, he was unaware of that. In any case, the term "pirate" is wrong.
I disagree. The hair splitting distinction between "privateer" and "pirate" at the time was only appreciated by the English, and I wouldn't be surprised if the word only exists in English. (It doesn't exist in Spanish) The fact that Henry Morgan had a license to commit piracy - sacking coastal cities and attacking commercial shipping for personal gain - doesn't make him any less a pirate. It simply meant that the English would tolerate it and give him safe harbor. I certainly don't think any Panamanian would acknowledge a distinction between the two words
So, I have created a quiz and submitted it as "Panama-20 questions."
Please check it out. It should be fun for anyone who has lived,worked and/or traveled there; interesting for those who would like to know more about it; and impossible for anyone who only knows that it's down there between Costa Rica and Colombia and has a canal running through it.