Never the percentage guess, so I need to brush up on the clues that will help me isolate this country as an answer when needed. Maldonado department does not equal Venezuela just because of the F1 driver.
Questions
Used to measure the performance of the uterus during childbirth, Montevideo units were created by which double-barreled doctor alongside Hermógenes Alvarez? He was the first Uruguayan to be nominated for a Nobel Prize.
ROBERTO CALDEYRO-BARCIA
Having an unusual circular shape that forces the traffic to slow down, Laguna Garzón Bridge was designed by which architect who died in 2023 after suffering an aneurysm?
RAFAEL VIÑOLY
Taking its name from a local 18th century figure who shares their surname with a famous film director, which coastal department within Uruguay is on the country’s border with Brazil? The border city of Chuy makes up one urban area with its Brazilian sister town of Chuí.
ROCHA
Its name coming from a member of Italian explorer Sebastian Cabot’s crew who was left in charge during the 16th century, the coastal department of Maldonado is home to which high point of Uruguay, part of the Sierra Carapé hills?
CERRO CATEDRAL / CERRO CORDILLERA
The white and blue stripes on the flag of Uruguay represent the country’s original number of departments. Though those divisions have since increased to 19, how many were there to start with?
NINE
Son of the president from 1990 to 1995, who became president of Uruguay at the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020? The second part of his surname comes from his mother, a politician herself.
LUIS LACALLE POU
Though there are descendants alive today, which indigenous people were effectively wiped out at the 1831 Massacre of Salsipuedes, that event being named for a creek that means ‘leave if you can’ in Spanish?
CHARRÚA
First established by the Portuguese in 1680, what is the full three-word name of the city in south-west Uruguay that has its historic quarter listed as a World Heritage Site? Maybe take a stroll along the Calle de los Suspiros, which ominously translates as the ‘Street of Sighs’.
COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO
Ushering in a period of military dictatorship that lasted for nearly 12 years following a coup in 1973, which president who had taken office the previous year was forced to resign himself in 1976? He was later charged for murders carried out during this period, dying in 2011 while under house arrest.
JUAN MARÍA BORDABERRY
His image having graced banknotes, which Uruguayan wrote the epic love poem “Tabaré”, a tale where the titular character falls for the Spaniard Blanca? His son was a noted sculptor who created a monument to him as well as public works such as the Obelisk of Montevideo.
JUAN ZORRILLA DE SAN MARTÍN
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