Statistics for Mexico City Trivia

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Type of natural disaster that devastated Mexico City in 1985	Earthquake	96%
Event hosted by Mexico City in 1968	Summer Olympics	94%
Female painter known for her self-portraits	Frida Kahlo	89%
Country that occupied Mexico City in 1847	United States	81%
Closest world capital to Mexico City	Guatemala City	77%
Exiled Soviet leader who was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940	Leon Trotsky	72%
Historical capital of the Aztec Empire in the 15th century	Tenochtitlan	72%
World's richest person between 2010-2013	Carlos Slim	56%
Husband of the above who painted murals	Diego Rivera	55%
Mexico City is one of two capitals in the Americas that was founded by indigenous people. What is the other one?	Quito	40%
Black-and-white Alfonso Cuarón movie about a middle class family's maid in the 1970s (was nominated for Oscar Best Picture in 2019)	Roma	40%
Only inland city whose urban area is more populous than Mexico City	Delhi	32%
Spanish abbreviation of Mexico City	CDMX	30%
Municipality where all the figures above lived	Coyoacán	25%