Statistics for South America Decoder

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	hint	answer	% Correct
R	2016 Olympic host city	Rio de Janeiro	95%
A	country named after the Latin word for silver	Argentina	93%
M	_____ Picchu, lost city of the Incas	Machu	93%
E	what Ecuador means in English	equator	86%
L	is it a camel? a sheep? an alpaca is definitely one	llama	83%
U	FIFA World Cup's first winner in 1930	Uruguay	81%
A	_____ Falls, the world's highest, in Venezuela	Angel	77%
G	the continent's only cricket-playing nation	Guyana	73%
B	this capital didn't exist before 1956	Brasília	72%
Q	Ecuador's second largest city	Quito	59%
Á	desert region whose largest city, Arica, gets 1 inch of rain every 16 years	Atacama	49%
Í	the girl from here looks straight ahead, not at me	Ipanema	45%
C	Chile leads the world (⅓ of world production) in mining this mined ore	copper	44%
A	the continent's highest peak	Aconcagua	32%
	Colombian novelist	Gabriel García Márquez	32%
Z	Argentinian traditional dance, a near-homonym of samba	Zamba	25%
G	Paraguay's currency, also one of its official languages	guarani	24%
E	__ Alto, the world's highest metropolis near La Paz	El	23%
R	Argentina's 3rd largest city, 3 hours drive from BA	Rosario	23%
R	Brazilian province, named after Marechal Rondon	Rondônia	21%
I	Peruvian city (pop 470,000); the world's largest you cannot drive to	Iquitos	10%