It's never been "sun", aaactually. Obviously the word is "sol", but that's actually from the latin 'solidus', not the Spanish word for sun. The currency was named after the Incan sun god 'Inti' for a while in the 80's.
With respect of llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos, they are well known as south american camelids and are very different species. Peru has the greater population of alpacas with more than 3'500,000 individuals. Chile buy peruvian alpacas in the south of Peru and made very good deal selling them to Australia, Italy and USA where they are trying to grow this species up to industrialize it.
Agreed. I did not know the English word for the group, and though I see that Shining Path is the accepted English translation, it isn't quite the same as the Spanish "luminoso".
Whenever they were mentioned in English-speaking countries it was always 'Shining Path' - it would be weird for an English speaker to only know the Spanish name and not what it means in English, no?
Maybe it's different in whatever part of England you're from Cardinal, but the BBC always uses Shining Path. A quick look at UK newspaper websites shows that the vast majority also use Shining Path.
It makes sense because Shining Path is the accepted English version, like 'Viet Cong' or 'NLF' was used instead of 'Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam'(!)
The simple solution would be to remove the "__Path" hint and accept either Shining Path or Sendero Luminoso.
I'm german and I only knew the name Sendero Luminoso, but not the english name of that group. My english is not perfect so I tried entering "illuminated" and something with light but it just wouldn't accept that... :D
Yeah. Compared to that, I knew more about Uzbekistan than Peru. When i attempted the Uzbekistan quiz, i got all but one answer. As for Peru, i barely got half in the first try.
I think Uzbekistan is less well known than Peru, which forces the quiz maker to find easier, more general clues. Usually with these country quizzes, the better the country is known, the harder the quiz will be.
Hello Peruvians! I lived in your country for only one year, but it was one of the richest of my long life. Picture this: on my first visit to Machu Picchu, there were about 20 of us. Only 4 of us stayed overnight.. Climbed Huaynu Picchu the next morning- just 3 of us all alone up there.
We lived in San Isidro, my daughter was born at the Clinica Anglo-Americano.
I only knew it because my grandson has pet guinea pigs and was horrified to learn that people eat them. I tried to explain it is no different in our country where some people have pet rabbits, while other people raise or hunt them to eat. That didn't make him feel one bit better.
Back in the 1950s Mad Magazine ran a parody of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not," the original trivia site, called "Believe It Or Don't." The only item that has stayed with me all these years was their gag "Did you know that you can boil eggs in the water of Lake Titicaca?" In smaller print below it said "Of course you have to heat it up first." I used that old joke for years, always eliciting groans.
That joke may not survive the century, as Lake Titicaca, like Lake Chad and the Caspian Sea, slowly disappears.
It makes sense because Shining Path is the accepted English version, like 'Viet Cong' or 'NLF' was used instead of 'Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam'(!)
Anyway the clue is '_____ Path'.
I'm german and I only knew the name Sendero Luminoso, but not the english name of that group. My english is not perfect so I tried entering "illuminated" and something with light but it just wouldn't accept that... :D
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We lived in San Isidro, my daughter was born at the Clinica Anglo-Americano.
A sol was equal to 4 cents.
Thanks for the memories, alberici.
That joke may not survive the century, as Lake Titicaca, like Lake Chad and the Caspian Sea, slowly disappears.