Some really brutal questions in this set, but when you have lost cities only being discovered in 1972, what do you expect?
Questions
With similar buses colloquially being known as a ‘chicken bus’ across Central America, what is the alternative name of the Colombian chiva, a wooden bus whose name means ‘goat’?
ESCALERA (Meaning ‘ladder’ or ‘stairs’)
In what year was the Battle of Boyacá, with Colombian independence being recognized soon afterwards?
1819
With the United States being the first to recognise its independence, in which year did Panama secede from Colombia, a year after the end of the Thousand Days’ War?
1903
Reaching their zenith between the 4th and 7th centuries, which Colombian people are noted for their gold work characterized by technical accuracy and detailed designs?
QUIMBAYA
What is the name for a gold-copper alloy particularly associated with the Quimbaya culture? The name was given by the Conquistadors when such metals were found.
TUMBAGA
Which Pre-Columbian culture was a group of chiefdoms in the region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, right in the north of the country? Only discovered in 1972, the lost city of Ciudad Perdida is associated with this people.
TAIRONA
Following on from the Republic of New Granada, Colombia experimented with federalism under what Confederation of 1858 that lasted until 1863?
GRANADINE CONFEDERATION
Conservation International labelled 17 countries as what in 1998 that is suggestive of rich ecological life, of which Colombia gets one of the highest scores on the index, narrowly leading in the list of different bird species? Look out for 1,863 Colombian bird questions coming soon…
MEGADIVERSE (COUNTRY)
Sharing its name with a modern day Colombian department, what was one of the three departments of Gran Colombia, bordered on the West by Quito and on the East by Venezuela?
CUNDINAMARCA
Who were the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americas during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period? Apparently, they hunted glyptodons.
PALEO-INDIANS
With archaic being the second one, what are the other four stages in American archaeology as defined by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips?
LITHIC, FORMATIVE, CLASSIC, POST-CLASSIC
At which archaeological site in Bolivar department in the Lower Magdalena basin has evidence of the Archaic period been found, including a ring composed primarily of clam shells?
PUERTO HORMIGA
Having the usual petroglyphs, which archaeological site with a rock shelter and cave system is one of the first evidences of settlement in the Americas, sharing the second part of its name with a Pokémon?
EL ABRA
Which archaeological site in Cundinamarca is one of the earliest evidences for human habitation in the Americas, sharing its name with some falls which the Bogotá river goes over, once a popular site for suicides?
TEQUENDAMA
The archaeological site of Tibitó, where bones of Haplomastodon have been found, lies on which Altiplano associated with the Muisca people?
CUNDIBOYACENSE
Home to various early cultures, which river valley is specifically situated between the Central and Eastern ranges of the Colombian Andes?
MAGDALENA
Which pre-Columbian culture’s ancestral territory comprised the valleys of the Sinú and San Jorge rivers as well as the coast around the Gulf of Morrosquillo? Their language died out over 200 years ago, but over 300,000 people still identify as this ethnicity.
ZENÚ
Amerindian groups like the Muisca, Zenú, Quimbaya and Tairona developed what political system with a pyramidal structure?
CACICAZGOS
The Altiplano Cundiboyacense covers parts of which two departments?
CUNDINAMARCA AND BOYACÁ
The Quimbaya inhabited which river valley between the Western and Central ranges of the Colombian Andes?
CAUCA
Reached by Columbus’ companion Alonso de Ojeda in 1499, which northernmost peninsula in South America is shared between Colombia and Zulia state in Venezuela?
GUAJIRA
Which conquistador mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the Colombian city of Santa Marta?
RODRIGO DE BASTIDAS
Having a six-word name and set up in 1510 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, what was the first settlement founded by the Conquistadors to become a stable settlement?
SANTA MARÍA LA ANTIGUA DEL DARIÉN
What is a Gulf on the northern coast of Colombia bound by the Gulf of Darién to the north and the Darién gap to the west?
GULF OF URABÁ
Which conquistador explored the territories of Colombia, founding Santa Fé de Bogotá, the future capital? He named the territory the New Kingdom of Granada, searched for El Dorado and is a possible model for Don Quixote.
GONZALO JIMÉNEZ DE QUESADA
What main settlement of the Muisca Confederation is maintained in the name of Colombia’s highest skyscraper, with the addition of BD at the front?
BACATÁ
Which conquistador who conquered Quito and founded Cali, died of natural causes after being sentenced to death in Cartagena?
SEBASTIÁN DE BELÁLCAZAR
Which ‘la ciudad blanca’ is capital of the Cauca department and was founded by Sebastián de Belálcazar, founder of Quito and Cali? In 2005 it was declared by Unesco as the first City of Gastronomy.
POPAYÁN
Which German conquistador is a significant figure in the history of Klein-Venedig, the concession granted to the Welser banking family, and is known for his quest for El Dorado?
NIKOLAUS FEDERMANN
The Orinoquía region, one of the five natural regions that belong to the Orinoco watershed, is also known by which two-word Spanish term?
LLANOS ORIENTALES
Figures in which House of Trade in Seville contributed to the develop of nautical science in Spain?
CASA DE CONTRATACIÓN
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, which lies in which northern coastal department that has Santa Marta as its capital?
MAGDALENA
Played by Benjamin Bratt in the 2007 film adaptation, which doctor is the third in the love triangle with Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza in “Love in the Time of Cholera”?
JUVENAL URBINO
Inspired by real-life events, the short work “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” tells in a pseudo-journalistic construction the story of whose murder by the Vicario twins?
SANTIAGO NASAR
Which 1975 Gabriel García Márquez work is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant?
AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH
Who is the pathetic protagonist of Gabriel García Marquez’s “The General in his Labyrinth”, who is a prematurely aged man who is physically ill and mentally exhausted?
SIMÓN BOLÍVAR
Originally titled “This Town of Shit”, which 1962 Gabriel García Márquez novel’s first published edition has been disowned by the author? Some of the characters later appear in “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
IN EVIL HOUR
Which 1994 Gabriel García Márquez novel tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who contracted rabies and was believed to be a miracle worker, with her copper hair continuing to grow after death?
OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS
Which 1955 work by Gabriel García Márquez, seen as a testing ground for many of his ideas, is celebrated for the first appearance of Macondo?
LEAF STORM
Which 2004 novella by Gabriel García Márquez sees a journalist who has just celebrated his 90th birthday seek to have sex with a 14-year-old prostitute, but instead discovers love for the first time in his life?
MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES
A major siege during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, at which battle on Colombian soil in 1741 was a British attack conclusively defeated, with the focus of the warring parties afterwards shifting to the ongoing War of the Austrian Succession? Scottish pirate metal (This is a new genre to me as well!) band Alestorm sung a song about it.
CARTAGENA (DE INDIAS)
Rarely actually establishing places to trade slaves on the African continent themselves, the Spanish operated what system where they contracted with merchants to provide labour for their colonies?
ASIENTO (DE NEGROES)
A place where smuggled goods from the Viceroyalty of New Spain were distributed, which department named for a Spanish city and situated on the northern Colombian coast has Montería as its capital?
CÓRDOBA
Giving his name to a clematis flower with his image appearing on the 2,000 peseta note prior to the Spanish adoption of the Euro, which botanist who died in Bogota led an expedition where he used the Río Magdalena to explore Colombia’s interior? Alexander von Humboldt stayed with him in 1801 during a visit to Latin America.
JOSÉ CELESTINO MUTIS
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