Statistics for South America Country by Name Origin

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Origin	Answer	% Correct
An imaginary line around the Earth	Ecuador	100%
Silver	Argentina	93%
Simon, leader in the Spanish American wars of independence	Bolivia	86%
"where the land ends"	Chile	82%
The wood of a tree that once grew plentifully along it's coast	Brazil	79%
Francisco de Miranda, a revolutionary, used the name as a term for all of so-called Spanish America	Colombia	79%
"little Venice"	Venezuela	75%
"land of water"	Guyana	64%
From a Quechua word implying land of abundance	Peru	64%
"river where the bird lives" "river of the painted birds" "river of the snails" "winding river"	Uruguay	61%
"water that gives birth to the Ocean" "born of water"	Paraguay	57%
From a Taino (Arawak-speaking) indigenous people	Suriname	50%
A British naval official	Falkland Islands (UK)	32%
French form of an American Indian word that means "land of waters"	French Guiana (France)	14%
The islands were tentatively named "Sandwich Land" by Cook	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK)	14%
Named after it's discoverer, who was searching for a presumed large southern continent	Bouvet Island (Norway)	0%