Sorry for missing a couple of days. My host took the site offline because it was getting hammered by by some kind of bot(s) and their ticket response time was unimpressive. If you missed my 80s Squared round on Saturday you might want to check it out; I thought it was pretty good.
I don’t think we’ve done South America yet. Let’s do South America.
- What is the name of the archipelago off the southernmost tip of South America that includes Cape Horn? Though it is considered part of the Andean Volcanic Belt, the name of the archipelago actually derives from the many native-built bonfires spotted by early European explorers.
- What is the only South American country whose nationwide official language is English? For a tasteless example, “Please pass the Kool-Aid” is a sentence they would understand there.
- If you need to sail away from Venezuela or Colombia you might want to take what second largest (by discharge) river in South America whose tributaries include the Apure, Caura, and Meta rivers?
- During the 1973 coup, Chile’s President Salvatore Allende shot himself to death with an AK-47 bearing the inscription “To my good friend Salvador from ___, who by different means tries to achieve the same goals” . What first name completes the inscription?
- Though The Tick believed him to be a dog with a remarkable talent, in fact the animal shown below is a perfectly ordinary South American rodent. Give either the actual species of the animal or the proper name given to this specimen by The Tick.
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- Tierra del Fuego
- Guyana
- Orinoco River
- Fidel
- capybara, Speak
