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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Mexico City

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about Mexico City and its environs?
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Last updated: March 7, 2025
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1. What was name of the Aztec city on which Mexico City was built?
Tenochtitlan
Teotihuacan
Tikal
Tulum
2. What is the elevation of Mexico City in meters?
-25
0
350
2,240
3. Which of these artists lived in Mexico City?
Salvador Dalí
Francisco Goya
Frida Kahlo
Pablo Picasso
4. When did Mexico City host the Summer Olympics?
1968
1976
1996
Never
5. What now-gentrified area of the city was the subject of a 2018 movie by Alfonso Cuarón?
Chapultepec
Juárez
Polanco
Roma
6. What religious figure appeared to Juan Diego in the village of Guadalupe in 1531 AD?
Michael the Archangel
Saint Peter
The Holy Spirit
The Virgin Mary
7. Who built the Museo Soumaya to house his gigantic art collection?
Admission is free!
Gael García Bernal
Vicente Fox
Emperor Maximillian
Carlos Slim
8. What plaza lies at the heart of Mexico City?
Plaza Azteca
Plaza Independencia
Plaza de la Libertad
Plaza Zócalo
9. What is the neighborhood of Xochimilco known for?
A cavern with millions of bats
An ancient pyramid where human sacrifice was conducted
Bullfighting
Canals with boat rides and mariachi bands
10. How did the god Huitzilopochtli signal to the Mexica people where they should build their city?
A rainbow over a lake
A talking coyote
An eagle on a cactus eating a rattlesnake
Blood raining from the sky
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12 Comments
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Level 62
Mar 8, 2025
You have been making these a lot recently.
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Level 57
Mar 9, 2025
If you are interested, since there is no series for these quizzes yet, I listed them in this playlist as well as on this map. Let's cover it with hundreds of multiclour circles!
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Level 76
Oct 23, 2025
Now there's even a badge
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Level 87
Mar 8, 2025
Well that would explain why their coins depict an eagle on a cactus eating a rattlesnake.
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Level 80
Mar 9, 2025
And their flag.
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Level 86
Mar 11, 2025
Well, it's Mexico's Coat of Arms, after all.

It's only natural it is so heavily depicted.

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Level 80
Mar 9, 2025
I like how (currently) 68% chose Mexico City's Olympic year to be 1968.
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Level 85
Mar 10, 2025
This is very satisfactory :)
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Level 93
Jun 5, 2025
Just for curiosity's sake, is there a specific order for when these quizzes get featured on the front page or is it random?
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Level 55
Jun 6, 2025
WHY ARE PEOPLE THINKING PLAZA DE LA LIBERTAD GUYS? ZOCALO ZOCALO
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Level 27
Oct 8, 2025
hard quiz, guessed most of these
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Level 66
Jan 12, 2026
60% are the last answer