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Chile Country Quiz

Can you answer these questions about the country of Chile?
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What is the capital of Chile?
Santiago
Which city is home to the Chilean National Congress?
Valparaiso
What is the official language of Chile?
Spanish
Which island is famous for its extant monumental statues ?
Easter Island
What is the indigenous name of the above?
Rapa Nui
What is the name of the monolithic human figures of that island?
Moai
What is the name of the southernmost island group of Chile?
Tierra del Fuego
What strait separates the above from mainland South America?
Strait of Magellan
What is the southernmost point of mainland American continent?
Cape Horn
Which desert in northern Chile is the driest one in the world?
Atacama
What is the name of the semi-arid region that compromises of southern half of Chile?
Patagonia
What is the name of the highest active volcano in the world?
Ojos del Salado
In which mountain range is the above located?
Andes
After what war did Chile receive its northern coasts from Bolivia and Peru?
War of the Pacific
Who was the first ever Marxist to ever be elected president in a country
with liberal democracy?
Salvador Allende
Which anti-communist dictator and general overthrew the above and served as the
president of Chile from 1974 until 1990?
Augusto Pinochet
Which Chilean Nobel Prize winning poet often wrote in green ink?
Pablo Neruda
What is the currency of Chile?
Peso
What is the name of the main indigenous people of Chile?
Mapuche
Chuquicamata in Chile is the name of the largest mine of what type of metal in the world?
Copper
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Level 56
May 24, 2020
I believe Moai is the correct spelling.
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Level 76
May 22, 2021
Chilean Patagonia is not 'semi-arid'. It actually has a very high rainfall.
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Level 67
Jun 25, 2023
Furthermore, the verb "compromises" is not used idiomatically in the question whose answer is Patagonia. The question should be rewritten. Perhaps the verb "comprise" was in mind.