Statistics for Geographic Alphabet Quiz- South America

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Description	Starting Letter	Answer	% Correct
Major mountain range running across the western edge of South America, longest continental mountain range in the world	A	Andes	100%
Capital and largest city of Argentina, on the Rio de la Plata estuary	B	Buenos Aires	100%
Most populous Spanish-speaking country and northernmost country is South America	C	Colombia	100%
South Atlantic archipelago claimed by Argentina, administered by the United Kingdom	F	Falkand Islands	100%
Smallest (by area) and only Dutch-speaking country in mainland South America	S	Suriname	100%
Capital and largest city of Peru, founded in 1535 by the Spanish, led by Francisco Pizarro	L	Lima	94%
Capital and largest city of Ecuador, one of the world's highest national capital cities (elevation)	Q	Quito	94%
Second-largest city in Brazil, on Guanabara Bay, its residents are called "cariocas"	R	Rio de Janeiro	94%
Archipelago of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Ecuador, visited by Charles Darwin	G	Galápagos Islands	88%
Second-largest city in Colombia, capital of the department of Antioquia	M	Medellín	81%
Sparsely populated region at the southern end of South America, shared by Chile and Argentina	P	Patagonia	81%
Largest lake in South America, on the border of Bolivia and Peru, the world's highest navigable lake	T	Titicaca	81%
Capital and largest city of the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Norte, its name means "Nativity" in Portuguese, it is one of the South American cities nearest to Western Europe and Africa	N	Natal	75%
Major river in Venezuela (and part of Colombia), third largest river by discharge volume of water	O	Orinoco	63%
Third-largest city in Chile, one of the region's most important seaports, headquarters for the Chilean National Congress	V	Valparaíso	56%
Mountainous and marshy area of dense rain forest separating South America from Central America, and the breaking up the Panamerican Highway	D	Darién Gap	50%
Argentinian province, located between the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers, its name means "between rivers" in Spanish	E	Entre Ríos	31%
Largest city in the Peruvian Amazon, it is the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road–it is accessible only by river and air	I	Iquitos	31%
A cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America, named after a Prussian naturalist	H	Humboldt Current	25%
World's largest salt flat, located in southwestern Bolivia	U	Uyuni	25%
River in north Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon River and one of the largest clear water rivers in the Amazon basin	X	Xingu River	25%
Largest city in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, a major industrial, financial and commerce center	J	Joinville	19%
World's largest single drop waterfall by volume of water flowing over it, located on the Potaro River in Guyana	K	Kaieteur Falls	6%
Group of islands in Chile, north of Cape Horn and part of the Cabo de Hornos National Park, named after an English chemist and physicist	W	Wollanston Islands	6%
Small city in north-central Venezuela, capital of the Venezuelan state of Yaracuy	Y	Yaritagua	6%
State of Venezuela, in the northwest of the country, surrounding most of Lake Maracaibo, bordering Colombia to the west	Z	Zulia	6%