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Brazilian cities: unusual and interesting facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 87 times
- The average score is 11 of 15
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| With a name meaning "saviour", this hub of Bahia state is home to over 3 million people and was Brazil's original capital. | Salvador | 93%
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| The police in this city, whose name is Portuguese for Bethlehem, sometimes ride around on buffaloes. | Belem | 92%
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| Taking design elements from Le Corbusier, this central city was begun in the 1950s and has a distinctive modern cathedral. | Brasilia | 87%
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| Hospitals in this Amazonian city ran out of oxygen during the 2020 pandemic. | Manaus | 82%
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| In 2024, a woman wheeled her dead uncle into a bank here under the pretext of getting him to co-sign for a loan. This city has hosted the Olympics and the World Cup final. | Rio de Janeiro | 82%
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| Pelé played for the football team of this port near São Paulo, which has Latin America's largest seaport. | Santos | 82%
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| Germany beat Brazil 7-1 here in a World Cup semi-final, with the Germans going 5-0 up in the first half hour. It is the capital of Minas Gerais. | Belo Horizonte | 76%
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| In 2021, a cheeky macaw managed to turn off the water supply valve in a bus station in this state capital of Mato Grosso do Sul. | Campo Grande | 66%
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| A man threw a passion fruit at coronavirus protesters in this state capital in Paraná, hitting a 73-year-old lady on the head. | Curitiba | 65%
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| Before the World Cup, Brazil fans broke into a training centre in this megacity and attacked their own players. | Sao Paulo | 63%
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| A giant sculpture proposed to be built in this Pernambuco state capital was so rude-looking that people stormed the city hall to protest against it. | Recife | 62%
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| A plane flight from this Pará city to Belem crashed after the pilots and air traffic controllers were distracted by listening to a football match on the radio. | Marabá | 58%
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| Edmundo, a footballer from this Rio suburb, is famous for boozing with a chimpanzee and killing several people while drink-driving. | Niteroi | 56%
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| There were piranhas swimming in the flooded streets of this southern city in spring 2024. | Porto Alegre | 49%
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| In a protest against COVID-19 measures, a newspaper office in this town fell victim to an arson attack - by a fireman. | Olímpia | 38%
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