| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Female convicts at a large prison in Bogota participate in an annual fashion show. | Colombia | 94%
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| President Maduro claimed that the late Hugo Chavez communicated with him in the form of a live bird. | Venezuela | 75%
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| This country is home to the world's only marine lizards. | Ecuador | 65%
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| The biggest-ever earthquake was in this country, which is home to a cat species called the kodkod. | Chile | 59%
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| The police force of this nation was the first ever to use fingerprinting; the world's highest volcano is also here, on the Chilean border. | Argentina | 56%
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| The world's longest hot dog (203m) was made in this landlocked nation. | Paraguay | 55%
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| A former French, Dutch, then British colony, this is the world's fastest-growing economy. | Guyana | 51%
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| It is thought that Portuguese took its word for "turkey" from this Andean country's name. | Peru | 46%
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| A cruiser from this large nation fired on dolphins in WW1, mistaking them for a German submarine. | Brazil | 41%
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| This was the first country to get rid of McDonald's. It makes the mind-altering product coca beer instead. | Bolivia | 37%
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| At 93%, this is the world's most afforested country by percentage of land use. | Suriname | 32%
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| This country's capital banned salt from restaurants. Its 2010-15 president lived in a small, ramshackle house. | Uruguay | 30%
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