| Hint | Meaning | Answer | % Correct |
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| Capital of Mexico | Place of the Mexicah | Mexico City | 100%
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| Allied with the Spaniards against the Aztecs | Place of corn bread | Tlaxcala | 100%
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| Oldest continously inhabited city in the Americas, modern day suburb of Puebla | Its etymology has been explained either as "where water falls," or "place of those who fled" or a combination of the two. | Cholula | 67%
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| East of Mexico City, named after the poet-king of Texcoco | coyote with a fasting collar | Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl | 67%
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| Major port city in Veracruz | site of the Snake | Coatzacoalcos | 67%
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| Called Cuauhnāhuac in Nahuatl, name modified for spanish. Nicknamed the "City of Eternal Spring" by Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century. | near the woods" | Cuernavaca | 67%
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| Mexico's third most-populous municipality after Tijuana and the 16 boroughs of Mexico City, also the most-populous suburb of Greater Mexico City. | "windy hill" or "hill devoted to Ehecatl" (the wind god) | Ecatepec de Morelos | 67%
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| Capital of Guatemala | Guatemala City | 67%
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| Vacation spot #1 | Land of deer | Mazatlan | 67%
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| The city is located in a mountain valley at an elevation of 2,330 meters in Guatemala | the place of the quetzal bird | Quetzaltenango | 67%
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| Capital of Honduras (name probably of Nahua origin) | Several different proposed origins | Tegucigalpa | 67%
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| Capital and largest city of the Chiapas | Tuxtla Gutiérrez | 67%
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| Located in north-central Mexico, the city had its start as a Spanish mining camp in the mid-16th century. Native Americans had already known about the area's rich deposits of silver and other minerals. Due to the wealth that the mines provided, [Redacted] quickly became one of the most important mining cities in New Spain. | people of the grasslands | Zacatecas | 67%
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| Vacation spot #2 | where the big reeds were destroyed or washed away | Acapulco | 33%
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| City in Puebla with a number of notable cultural events, the most important of which is the El Huey Atlixcayotl, a modern adaptation of an old indigenous celebration | either "water in the valley" or "water on the ground" | Atlixco | 33%
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| District of Mexico City that contains the previous answer, named after the last emperor of the Aztecs | one who has descended like an eagle | Cuauhtemoc | 33%
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| City in Guatemala originally called Xinabajul in the Mam language before the Spanish conquest | place of the ancients (or ancestors) | Huehuetenango | 33%
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| Known for hosting many diverse festivals that celebrate traditions and costumes earned through the years from the ancient natives. | Tehuacán | 33%
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| City in Jalisco | Land in the Corner | Tlajomulco de Zúñiga | 33%
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| Near Mexico City | the middle land | Tlalnepantla | 33%
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| second-largest city in Veracruz after the city of Veracruz to the southeast. | spring in the sand | Xalapa | 33%
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| Near Mexico City | Your house amongst the trees | Cuautitlan Izcalli | 0%
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| Municipality to the northwest of Mexico City | Naucalpan | 0%
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| City to the north of Tenochtitlan in Moctezuma's day, site of 1968 massacre of student protesters, now a neighbourhood in Mexico City | Tlatelolco | 0%
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| Near Mexico City | among the tule plants | Tultitlan | 0%
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