Statistics for Peru Country Quiz

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Capital of Peru	Lima	98%
Most-spoken language	Spanish	95%
Empire that ruled Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest	Inca Empire	91%
Ancient city that is Peru's most popular tourist attraction	Machu Picchu	90%
Mountain range that runs through Peru	Andes	89%
Smaller version of a llama	Alpaca or Vicuña	83%
High altitude lake shared with Bolivia	Lake Titicaca	68%
Seed, starting with Q, that grows in highland areas and is a trendy health food worldwide	Quinoa	67%
Capital city of the above	Cuzco	61%
Most-spoken indigenous language (Hint: starts with Q)	Quechua	56%
Conquistador who conquered that empire	Francisco Pizarro	54%
Animal known as "cuy" when it is eaten as food	Guinea Pig	46%
Fertilizer that was once plentiful on the Chincha Islands	Guano	44%
Dish made of raw fish marinated in citrus	Ceviche	43%
National cocktail	{Pisco} Sour	33%
Maoist guerrillas who terrorized the country in the 1980s	{Shining} Path	33%
Currency of Peru	Sol	33%
Plateau region of the above shared by Peru and Bolivia	Alti{plano}	31%
Second and third largest cities (name either)	Trujillo / Arequipa	29%
Former President who rid the country of the above, but was convicted of human rights abuses and fled to Japan	Alberto Fujimori	27%