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How well do you know Mexico?

10 rounds, 100 points

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Mexico Quiz: How Well Do You Know Mexico?

What Is in the Mexico Quiz?

Ten rounds, alternating between four-option questions and puzzles. The five questions ask what Cinco de Mayo actually commemorates, what an eagle and a snake told the Aztecs to do, which metal the country leads the world in producing, which everyday food did not originate here, and where a famous asteroid struck. The puzzles are different in kind: a run of five where you decide whether a city is Mexican, a run of five where you decide whether a well known person is Mexican, two ordering rounds where seven countries are already in the right order by population and then by area and you place Mexico among them, and one round where a color on the Mexican flag has been replaced and you drag a slider until it looks right.

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 the window seat. 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: Mexico remains a mystery.

The bottom band ends where it does on purpose. A player tapping at random averages about 39 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 Mexico

Mexico has about 130 million people and close to two million square kilometers of land, which makes it the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world by a wide margin, ahead of Spain itself several times over. It is a federation of thirty-one states plus the capital, and while Spanish is what nearly everyone speaks, the constitution recognizes sixty-eight indigenous languages alongside it, Nahuatl and Maya the most widely used among them.

The capital sits in a high valley at around 2,250 meters, on the bed of a lake the Spanish drained after the conquest, which is why parts of it are still sinking by several centimeters a year. The country runs from desert in the north to rainforest in the south and is one of the handful officially counted as megadiverse, holding something like a tenth of all known species. The largest pyramid on Earth by volume stands at Cholula, under what most visitors take for an ordinary hill.

The border with the United States runs more than three thousand kilometers and is the most crossed in the world. Every autumn monarch butterflies arrive in the fir forests of Michoacán after a journey of up to four thousand kilometers, and every November families mark the Day of the Dead, which is on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage and is not, despite the costumes, a version of Halloween.

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. 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, five 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, the Bolivia quiz, the India quiz, the Philippines quiz and the Zambia 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.

  1. Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday. What does it actually mark?The end of the revolution · Independence from Spain · A battle won against France · The first president taking office
  2. Is this a Mexican city?Managua · Quetzaltenango · Oaxaca · Guadalajara · San Antonio
  3. An eagle eating a snake told the Aztecs to do what?Build their city on that spot · Make ready for a dry period · Choose a new king · Go to war with their neighbours
  4. Order by population: insert Mexico at the correct positionBangladesh · Brazil · Ethiopia · Japan · Nigeria · Pakistan · Russia
  5. Mexico produces more of which metal than any other country?Silver · Tin · Copper · Gold
  6. Fix the color that has been changed on the flag
  7. Which of these foods did NOT come from Mexico?Chocolate · Rice · Chili peppers · Vanilla
  8. Is this person Mexican?Frida Kahlo · Salma Hayek · Enrique Iglesias · Carlos Santana · Andrés Manuel López Obrador
  9. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit which part of Mexico?The Sonoran desert · The central highlands · The Baja California coast · The Yucatan peninsula
  10. Order by area: insert Mexico at the correct positionAlgeria · DR Congo · Indonesia · Iran · Libya · Saudi Arabia · Sudan

What Else Is on Quizebra?

Quizebra has six daily geography games, including Name the Flag, Guess the Country and Find the Color, whose slider this quiz borrows. 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.