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Question 1: Montevideo stands on the north shore of which river estuary?
(A) Arroyo Grande
(B) Yí River
(C) Tacuarembó River
(D) Rio de la Plata
Question 2: It was founded in what year?
(A) 1725
(B) 1726
(C) 1727
(D) 1728
Question 3: It was founded by the Governor of Buenos Aries in a pre-emptive move against the Portuguese What was his name?
(A) George
(B) Louis
(C) Bruno Mauricio de Zabala
(D) Charles
Question 4: Which highway links Buenos Aries in Argentina to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, passing through Montevideo, Uruguay?
(A) The Pan American Highway
(B) Leonel Viera Bridge
(C) General Artigas Bridge
(D) Libertador General San Martín Bridge
Question 5: Which 16th-century Italian-born explorer gave Rio de la Plata its name, around 1526?
(A) Giuseppe Garibaldi
(B) Umberto
(C) Sebastian Cabot
(D) Francisco Piria
Question 6: What is the name of the Uruguayan national hero whose body rests in its own mausoleum?
(A) Juan Antonio Lavalleja
(B) Luis Eduardo Pérez
(C) Fructuoso Rivera
(D) Jose Gervacio Artigas
Question 7: What was the name given to the final war of liberation from Portugal (1825- 1828)?
(A) The Cisplatine War
(B) The Platine War
(C) The Paraguayan War
(D) The Uruguayan Civil War
Question 8: What was the name given to the group of revolutionaries who brought about the liberation?
(A) The Immortal 31
(B) The Immortal 33
(C) The Immortal 35
(D) The Immortal 37
Question 9: When was the ‘Universidad de la Republica’ founded?
(A) 1845
(B) 1847
(C) 1848
(D) 1849
Question 10: Who was the Montevideo-born statesman credited with transforming Uruguay from an unstable dictatorship into a viable democracy?
(A) Jose Batile y Ordonez
(B) Fructuoso Rivera
(C) Juan Antonio Lavalleja
(D) Luis Eduardo Pérez
Question 11: What is the name of the former seat of National Legislation?
(A) The Colonia
(B) The Canelones
(C) The Cabildo
(D) The Durazno
Question 12: What is the name of the very large State enterprise?
(A) NCAPA
(B) ANCAP
(C) CAPAN
(D) None of Above
Question 13: The head office of which international organization aimed at establishing the conditions for a Latin American Common Market, is to be found in Montevideo?
(A) Latin Uruguay Integration Association
(B) Latin Australia Integration Association
(C) Latin Britan Integration Association
(D) Latin American Integration Association
Question 14: Where is the Uruguayan national football stadium?
(A) Batile y Ordonez Park
(B) Rosedal del Prado
(C) Parque de la Amistad
(D) Parque Rivera
Question 15: What is the name of the Montevideo-born poet whose work, particularly ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ was acclaimed posthumously by the European surrealists?
(A) Delmira Agustini
(B) Marcelina Almeida
(C) Isidore Ducasse
(D) Enrique Amorim
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