Statistics for Belize Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Bordering nations	Mexico	95%
	Guatemala	94%
Official language	English	92%
Belize gained independence from this nation on 21 September 1981	United Kingdom	85%
Currency	Belize dollar	79%
Capital	Belmopan	76%
This type of natural disaster killed 2500 people in 1931 and remains the deadliest natural disaster in Belizean history	Hurricane	71%
Largest city	Belize City	68%
The most practiced religion in Belize, at 40.1%	Catholicism	66%
The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sancturay was founded in 1990 and was the first wilderness sanctuary for this predatory mammal	Jaguar	36%
The Belize Barrier Reef, a popular tourist destination, was described by this British naturalist as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies"	Charles Darwin	28%
This National Tree towers over the Belizean rain forest and was a major export in the early 20th century	Mahogany	11%
Belize became the first country in the world to ban this type of fishing in December 2010	Trawling	10%
The National Animal is Baird's tapir, the largest land mammal of the American tropics, which is also known as the mountain ____, though it is more closely related to the horse and rhinoceros	Cow	8%
However, this activity is legal, although most actions which facilitate it are not	Prostitution	8%
Name of the traditional breakfast food of deep-fried dough pieces	Fry jack	6%
Foreign ________ are not permitted to enter the country	Homosexuals	2%