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South America Country by Name Origin - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 31 times
- The average score is 9 of 16
Answer Stats
| Origin | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| An imaginary line around the Earth | Ecuador | 100%
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| Silver | Argentina | 93%
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| Simon, leader in the Spanish American wars of independence | Bolivia | 86%
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| "where the land ends" | Chile | 83%
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| The wood of a tree that once grew plentifully along it's coast | Brazil | 79%
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| Francisco de Miranda, a revolutionary, used the name as a term for all of so-called Spanish America | Colombia | 79%
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| "little Venice" | Venezuela | 76%
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| "land of water" | Guyana | 62%
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| From a Quechua word implying land of abundance | Peru | 62%
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| "river where the bird lives" "river of the painted birds" "river of the snails" "winding river" | Uruguay | 59%
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| "water that gives birth to the Ocean" "born of water" | Paraguay | 55%
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| From a Taino (Arawak-speaking) indigenous people | Suriname | 48%
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| A British naval official | Falkland Islands (UK) | 31%
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| French form of an American Indian word that means "land of waters" | French Guiana (France) | 14%
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| The islands were tentatively named "Sandwich Land" by Cook | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) | 14%
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| Named after it's discoverer, who was searching for a presumed large southern continent | Bouvet Island (Norway) | 0%
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