Memorize these and you could recognize 42.9% of all South America clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colombia | 9 | You'd "C" Cucuta, Cali, & Cartagena in this country |
| 2 | Chile | 8 | The Atacama desert, site of driest spot in world, ironically is on Pacific coast of this country |
| 3 | Venezuela | 7 | With season from October to February, the only South American country whose national sport is baseball |
| 4 | Bolivia | 6 | Once known as Upper Peru, it has had over twenty presidents since World War II |
| 5 | Argentina | 5 | This "Land of Silver" exports little silver, but more beef than any other S. American country |
| 6 | Peru | 5 | The name of this capital city is a corruption of Rimac, the river on which it lies |
| 7 | Uruguay | 4 | Montevideo is the capital of this country that Fodor's calls "the Switzerland of South America" |
| 8 | Suriname | 4 | Henck Arron was prime minister of this country when it gained its independence in 1975 |
| 9 | Ecuador | 4 | 3 of the 4 countries on the continent that border on the Pacific Ocean |
| 10 | the Amazon | 3 | It's estimated that this river pours over 55 million gallons of water into the Atlantic Ocean every second |
| 11 | Paraguay | 3 | This small landlocked country is the only one in the world w/a flag whose front & back differ |
| 12 | Montevideo | 3 | This Uruguayan capital is across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires |
| 13 | Brazil | 3 | In the past, 12- to 14-year-old brides were not unusual in this Portuguese-speaking country |
| 14 | the Orinoco | 2 | The northernmost river basin in South America is this one, centered in Venezuela |
| 15 | the Isthmus of Panama | 2 | South America's first people are believed to have come from North America by way of this isthmus |
| 16 | Rio de Janeiro | 2 | The favelas, or slums of this Brazilian city, were the setting for the film classic "Black Orpheus" |
| 17 | Portugal | 2 | A Spanish navigator got to Uruguay 1st, but it was this country that established the 1st settlement |
| 18 | Lima | 2 | A line drawn due south from Washington, D.C. passes through this capital of Peru |
| 19 | La Paz | 2 | A Paulisto hails from Sao Paulo, Brazil & a Paceño is from this Bolivian city |
| 20 | Guyana | 2 | The People's Temple run by Jim Jones was in the jungle of this country |
| 21 | French Guiana | 2 | It's the only remaining European territory on the South American mainland |
| 22 | Caracas | 2 | This Venezuelan city is home to the liberators; Bolivar & Miranda were born there |
| 23 | Brasilia | 2 | In 1957, Oscar Niemeyer was made director of architecture of this new capital city |
| 24 | the Sugarloaf Mountain | 2 | This odd-shaped mountain rises above Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro |
| 25 | the Pampas | 2 | Argentina, where the wind comes sweepin' down this fertile plain with about 3/5 of the country's people |
| 26 | the condor | 2 | Ecuador's coat of arms shows the Andean, not the Calif., variety of this vulture |
| 27 | the Atacama | 2 | In 1884 Bolivia lost its Pacific coastline to Chile along with its portion of this desert |
| 28 | Simon Bolivar | 2 | Near death, this liberator wrote "The most sensible action to take in (Latin) America is to emigrate" |