How well do you know Bolivia?

10 rounds, 100 points

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Bolivia Quiz: How Well Do You Know Bolivia?

What Is in the Bolivia Quiz?

Ten rounds, alternating between four-option questions and puzzles. The four questions ask how many languages the constitution makes official, what one Bolivian mountain paid for the Spanish Empire with, a change the government made to a public clock in 2014, and what a dish eaten all over the country actually is. The puzzles are different in kind: a run of five where you decide whether a city is Bolivian, a run of five where you decide whether a well known person is Bolivian, two ordering rounds where seven countries are already in the right order by population and then by area and you place Bolivia among them, and two rounds on a color slider.

The two slider rounds are not the same puzzle twice. The first works the way it does on every other country quiz: one color on the Bolivian tricolor has been replaced and you drag until it looks right. The second is on the Wiphala, the checkered flag that has been Bolivia's second official flag since 2009, and there every color has been turned at once, so you are putting a whole palette back rather than fixing one stripe.

There is no timer and no daily reset. Nothing is revealed between rounds, so the result screen is the first time you find out how any round went. It shows your score out of a hundred, a verdict, and what each of the ten rounds was worth.

What Does Your Score Mean?

The quiz ends with one of five verdicts. 90 to 100 points: You could give the tour. 75 to 89 points: You've earned a second singani. 60 to 74 points: Good enough for small talk. 45 to 59 points: You've only seen it on a map. 0 to 44 points: Bolivia remains a mystery.

The bottom band ends where it does on purpose. A player tapping at random averages about 38 points of 100, nearly all of it partial credit from the two ordering rounds and the color slider, so guessing never earns a verdict that reads as praise. A score of 60 or more means you answered rather than guessed.

Facts About Bolivia

Bolivia has about 12.4 million people in roughly 1.1 million square kilometers, which makes it the fifth largest country in South America and one of the most thinly settled. A large share of them live on the altiplano, a plateau between two ranges of the Andes that runs at around 3,700 meters, high enough that arriving visitors are routinely told to spend a day doing nothing. Spanish is the most widely spoken language, with Quechua and Aymara after it, and the country's formal name has been the Plurinational State of Bolivia since 2009.

It has been landlocked since the War of the Pacific took its coastal province in 1879, and it has never accepted the loss. It still keeps a navy, several thousand strong, which patrols Lake Titicaca and the rivers of the Amazon basin, and it still marks a Day of the Sea every March. Lake Titicaca itself sits at about 3,810 meters and is shared with Peru.

The Salar de Uyuni in the southwest is the largest salt flat on Earth at around 10,500 square kilometers, and the brine under it holds one of the biggest lithium deposits anywhere. The country is also among the most biologically varied in the world, with Andean peaks above 6,500 meters and Amazon lowlands inside the same borders.

Where Do the Questions Come From?

Every question's correct answer was checked against a published source before it shipped, and the decoys were checked too, for the opposite reason: a decoy that turns out to be true would give the question two defensible answers.

The population and area figures behind the two ordering rounds come from the same dataset the rest of the geography games use, so a country's rank here matches its rank in Order the Country and Match the Country. The Wiphala was drawn for this quiz rather than taken from the flag set, and its seven colors were matched to the reference file every published rendering of that flag derives from. Scoring and sources work the same way on every country quiz, and are set out in full on the country quizzes page.

Are There Quizzes for Other Countries?

Yes, two more, and each one is built the same way with its own questions, its own cities and people, and its own ordering rounds. There are the Germany quiz and the India quiz.

The 10 Rounds

Every round in this quiz, with what it asks and what it offers. No correct answer is marked, and the ordering rounds list their other countries alphabetically rather than in the real order, so nothing here is given away.

How many languages does Bolivia's constitution make official?37 · 68 · 2 · 11
Is this a Bolivian city?Oruro · Arequipa · Antofagasta · Cochabamba · La Paz
For 200 years, one Bolivian mountain paid for the Spanish Empire. With what?Copper · Tin · Silver · Gold
Order by population: insert Bolivia at the correct positionBelgium · Czechia · Dominican Republic · Haiti · Jordan · South Sudan · Tunisia
In 2014 Bolivia changed the clock on its congress building. How?It was replaced by a sundial · Its hands now run backwards · It shows two time zones at once · It now has only one hand
Fix the color that has been changed on the flag
Turn every color on the Wiphala back to where it belongs
What is a salteña, eaten all over Bolivia?A spiced beef stew · A fermented maize drink · A fried corn pancake · A baked savory pastry
Is this person Bolivian?Che Guevara · Butch Cassidy · Jaime Escalante · Evo Morales · Simón Bolívar
Order by area: insert Bolivia at the correct positionAngola · Colombia · Ethiopia · Mali · Mauritania · Niger · South Africa

What Else Is on Quizebra?

Quizebra has six daily geography games, including Name the Flag, Guess the Country and Find the Color, whose slider both of this quiz's color rounds borrow. There are six football games built the same way.

Everything is free, nothing needs an account, and the daily games reset at midnight London time.