1. Match the holiday with its faith and representative country

   A. Eid al Fitr (end of Ramadan)	1. Hindu (Singapore)
   B. Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent)	2. Jewish (USA)
   C. Vaisakhi (Solar New Year)	3. Islamic (Oman)
   D. Shavuot (laws given to Moses)	4. Christian (Venezuela)

2. True or false: An early Scandinavian calendar was based upon the phases of the moon.
3. The solar year, which reflects the approximately 365 days and six hours it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun, was made the basis of a calendar in 46 BC by:

   A. The Aztecs

   B. The Polynesians

   C. The Romans

4. Pope Gregory XIII made the last day of the Julian calendar Thursday, October 4, 1582. The next day was Friday, October 15 -- the first day of the new Gregorian or Western calendar. However, Protestant princes ignored the papal bull and continued using the Julian calendar for many years. Match the countries with the year they adopted the Gregorian calendar.

   A. England	1. 1700
   B. Germany	2. 1752
   C. Russia	3. 1918

5. Lunation refers to the interval from one new moon to the next, and is the basic unit for the oldest calendars of record. True or false: The Islamic, or Hijrah, calendar has 354 days.
6. True or false: Belgium is one of the top trading nations in the world, yet has one of the shortest workweeks.
7. What's a normal workweek? If you are on the job Saturday through Wednesday, you are in:

   A. Tortola

   B. Belize

   C. Bahrain

8. True or false: Christmas Eve and the first full day of Hanukkah fall on the same date in 1997.
9. The Chinese calendar has major cycles of sixty years, and minor cycles of twelve years, each named for an animal. Which is not one of the twelve years: Rat, Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Eagle, Monkey, or Rooster (or Cock).
10. The Romans named their days after planets, and Dies Veneris eventually evolved into our favorite -- Friday! Match Venus' day with its language.

    A. Vendredi	1. Spanish
    B. Venerdi	2. Italian
    C. Viernes	3. French

Answers

1. A, 3; B, 4; C, 1; D, 2
2. False. Calendars in environments such as Sweden and Finland, where the end of winter is a major event, were based upon the seasons of the year.
3. C. The Julian calendar was a sweeping reform implemented by Julius Caesar. It is still the calendar of Eastern Orthodox churches, and runs approximately thirteen days behind the Gregorian.
4. A, 2; B, 1; C, 3
5. True. The Hijrah is a lunar-based calendar. With a lunation being twenty-nine and one-half days long, the lunar year has 354 days -- eleven days less than a solar year.
6. True. At 35.8 hours, the Belgian workweek is one of the shortest in the world.
7. C. Friday is the Muslim Holy Day, and in Islamic countries such as Bahrain, most practicing Muslims take off Thursday and Friday.
8. True. However, Hanukkah begins at sundown on the evening prior to the 24th.
9. The Eagle is not one of the twelve. The other animals are the Horse, Ox, Sheep (or Goat), Dog, and Pig (or Boar).
10. A, 3; B, 2; C, 1

1. Sir Winston Churchill inspired millions with the line, "...[T]his was their finest hour." True or false: He was referring to World War II veterans who died for their countries.
2. One of the most famous speeches ever given in Mexico is known as the grito de Dolores (cry from Dolores). This 1810 speech was:

   A. Pancho Villa's cry of defiance toward the United States

   B. A sermon for Mexican independence

   C. The last words of rebel Emiliano Zapata

3. In 1860, an Italian patriot warned, "Women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children ... " True or false: This dictum came from Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi.
4. "The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood." Which of the following men spoke these famous words?

   A. German chancellor Otto von Bismarck

   B. Statesman Klemens von Metternich

   C. Wilhelm I, King of Germany

5. French revolutionist Maximilien Robespierre urged people to "be generous toward the good, compassionate with the unfortunate..." True or false: Robespierre himself was judged leniently when he was later arrested.
6. "Deign to grant to Venezuela a government preeminently popular, preeminently just, permanently moral." What South American patriot made this speech in 1819?

   A. Simón Bolívar

   B. Bernardo O'Higgins

   C. José de San Martín

7. The term "New World Order" is not new. True or false: In 1947, Brazilian diplomat Oswaldo Aranha proclaimed, "The United Nations stands for the new order..."
8. During World War I, Cardinal Désiré Joseph Mercier lamented to his countrymen, "Today the hymn of joy dies on our lips." What country was he from?

   A. Austria

   B. Belgium

   C. The Netherlands

9. Sir John Macdonald gave many speeches supporting the Canadian federation. True or false: Macdonald became the first prime minister of Canada.
10. While on trial in 1964, Nelson Mandela gave a four-hour speech in his defense. Which of the following points were included?

    A. That he was not a Communist

    B. That he had fought against both white and black domination

    C. That many of his people were forced to live like serfs

    D. All of the above

Answers

1. False. He was referring to the British people, rallying them to support the war effort in 1940.
2. B. The sermon was given by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the parish priest of Dolores, Mexico, in 1810.
3. True.
4. A. Bismarck gave this speech in 1862 to a group of King Wilhelm's ministers. He became known as the Iron Chancellor.
5. False. Robespierre was executed by guillotine.
6. A. Bolívar gave this address in the town of Angostura, which has been renamed Ciudad Bolívar.
7. True. Aranha was a president of the United Nations General Assembly.
8. B. This line was from a sermon he delivered in occupied Brussels in 1916.
9. True.
10. D. Mandela spent more than twenty-seven years in prison. He quoted from this defense speech in another speech after his release in 1990.

1. Many sports are televised in the United States. In 1996, the longest-running locally produced sports show went off the air in Boston. Which of the following sports was featured on this show?

   A. Basketball

   B. Baseball

   C. Candlepin bowling

2. In the winter sport of curling, a stone weighing more than forty pounds is slid along the ice toward a target zone. Curling rivals ice hockey as the national sport of Canada. True or false: Canadians are credited with adding the use of brooms to curling.
3. Participants in this Nordic sport must be able to cross-country ski and shoot a rifle. This Olympic sport is called:

   A. The mogul

   B. The biathlon

   C. The luge

4. True or false: Legend says that the Italian pastime of boccie dates backabout 2,000 years.
5. An Olympic bobsled team from a Caribbean country inspired the 1993 filmCool Runnings. Which country was this team from ?

   A. Aruba

   B. Bermuda

   C. Jamaica

6. True or false: Cricket is a leading sport on all of the following Caribbean islands: Antigua, Babbados, and Trinidad.
7. Precursors to the game of golf were played in many countries, including France, England, and the Netherlands. True or false: One of the first modern golf organizations was established in Scotland.
8. In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador fought a brief war. What sporting eventled to the outbreak of this war?:

   A. Baseball

   B. Basketball

   C. Soccer

   D. Synchronized swimming

9. Although the modern game of tennis was first played in Wales in 1873,precursors to the sport were around for centuries. True or false: Tennis wasmentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare.
10. Australian Rules football is colloquially known down under as:

    A. Arvo

    B. Footy

    C. Two-up

Answers

1. C. A variant of bowling indigenous to New England, candlepin had been featured on Boston's channel 5 for thirty-seven years.
2. False. The Scots were the first to use a broom to sweep the ice clear of snow from the path of a curling stone. Canadians added many innovations, including bringing the game indoors onto specially prepared sheets of ice.
3. B. The sport is believed to have evolved from hunting on skis.
4. True. Roman legionnaires are said to have invented boccie during the Punic Wars.
5. C.
6. True. This is not surprising, since they are all former British colonies.
7. True. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers was established in Edinburgh in 1744.
8. C. The five-day Soccer War ended when El Salvador withdrew from Honduran territory.
9. True. Racket games are mentioned more than once, and the term tennis balls appears in the comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
10. B. Arvo is Australian slang for "afternoon," whiletwo-up is a game played with two spinning coins.

What motivates people to buy things? Why do you make the decisions you do? Here are some different priorities around the world.

1. Which of the following Japanese concepts is an important motivational factor?

   A. Giri

   B. Kanban

   C. Zaibatsu

2. "What do you do?" is a normal icebreaker in the USA. To a great extent, a person's job defines who he is. True or false: US citizens often worry about how their jobs will affect their health.
3. Bolivians purchase a product because:

   A. It's the best technology.

   B. Their family will love it.

   C. It's the best price.

4. True or false: In Germany, outstanding technology is usually "the steak and the sizzle" for the consumer.
5. You live in Saudi Arabia and want to purchase a fancy new widget. It is so expensive that you need a loan. Why aren't you charged any interest?

   A. Because Islam prohibits charging interest

   B. Because you own the bank

   C. Because of your good looks

6. Your fine English features have faded along with your youth, and a big promotion is pending. You want that job! True or false: You pop over to the plastic surgeon.
7. There is a morale problem among the workers in your factory in Sweden. You fix it by:

   A. Giving them extra paid-vacation days

   B. Giving them certificates of merit

   C. Giving them free tuition grants

8. True or false: Australians value status and prestige and have a keen sense of etiquette.
9. You have been working out the details of another meeting with your Asian supervisors. However, they always seem to know everything about you, your operation, and the issue at hand, and have decided on the outcome of the meeting before you ever set foot in the door. Why should you even bother going?

   A. Because they said so

   B. To gain consensus

   C. To get frequent-flyer miles

10. Time may equal money in Switzerland, but managing your time in microseconds is viewed askance by every one of these ethnic groups except:

    A. Native South Africans

    B. Arabs

    C. Polynesians

    D. Latin Americans

    E. White South Africans

Answers

1. A. Giri means duty or sense of obligation, and motivates much of Japanese life. Kanban is an advertisement, while zaibatsu is a network of companies. (None of these words translates exactly.)
2. False. If they get sick, they probably worry about how it will affect their jobs.
3. B. Family is the highest priority.
4. True
5. A. Saudi Arabia is a theocracy. Banks, like individuals, are subject to Islamic precepts.
6. False. Most English find it curious how US executives can't cope with aging, and would not consider their opportunity for promotion enhanced by a facelift or tummy tuck.
7. A. Certificates are not too impressive, and tuition is free in Sweden, but quality of life (i.e.: a big vacation) is key.
8. False. The French, oui; the Aussies, no.
9. B. Many meetings in Asia may seem ceremonial, but the good of the group -- reaching a consensus -- is often the primary goal.
10. D. Many cultures view time as flexible, but white South Africans have inherited their English and Dutch ancestors' insistence on punctuality.

1. Match the volcanoes with their countries.

   A. Etna	1. Hawaii
   B. Izalco	2. Ecuador
   C. Mauna Loa	3. El Salvador
   D. Cotopaxi	4. Italy

2. True or false: Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere.
3. Match the lakes to their lands.

   A. Great Bear	1. South Australia
   B. Titicaca	2. Sweden
   C. Nicaragua	3. Canada
   D. Eyre	4. Peru
   E. Vänern	5. Nicaragua

4. True or false: South America has a desert with the highest elevation in the world.
5. Earth is riddled with caverns -- from enormous ones loaded with stalactites and stalagmites to those smoothly eroded by eons of water. To what countries do these caves and caverns belong?

   A. Devil's Hole	1. Spain
   B. Fingal's Cave	2. Puerto Rico
   C. Jenolan Caves	3. Bermuda
   D. Crystal Caves	4. England
   E. Altamira Cave	5. Scotland
   F. Las Cuevas de Camuy	6. Australia

6. Venezuela's Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world. True or false: The second-highest waterfall, 3,110-foot Tugela Falls, is also in Venezuela.
7. With approximately 200 geysers, Yellowstone National Park has the most spectacular displays of geothermal energy existent today. However, the world-record geyser -- blasting 1,500 feet -- is:

   A. Pele, in Hawaii

   B. Waimangu, in New Zealand

   C. Caliente, in Mexico

8. Colombia's huge salt mine at Zipaquirá is so large that it can fulfill all of South America's salt needs. True or false: There is a cathedral large enough for 10,000 worshipers carved into this mine, 450 feet underground.
9. There are tens of thousands of glaciers on the earth's surface, and approximately seventy-five percent of the planet's fresh water is stored in them. True or false: Glaciers exist on every continent except Africa.
10. True or false: Mt. Waialeale, a volcanic peak on Kauai, Hawaii's oldest island, is the wettest place on earth.

Answers

1. A, 4; B, 3; C, 1; D, 2
2. True. Aconcagua is in the Andes, shared by Argentina and Chile, and reaches 22,834 feet.
3. A, 3; B, 4; C, 5; D, 1; E, 2
4. True. It's the 600-mile-long Atacama Desert. Valuable for its nitrate deposits, Chile annexed it from Peru in the War of the Pacific (1879 to 1883).
5. A, 4; B, 5; C, 6; D, 3; E, 1; F, 2
6. False. Tugela Falls is in South Africa.
7. B. Unfortunately, many of New Zealand's geysers have been destroyed by recent geothermal-energy development.
8. True. Dedicated in 1954, it is a major tourist attraction.
9. False. Australia is the only continent without glaciers. (Based upon the seven accepted continental divisions of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.)
10. True. Mt. Waialeale feeds seven rivers on Kauai.

1. France has a literary tradition unsurpassed by any nation. Match the French authors with their works.

   A. Gustave Flaubert	1. Nausea
   B. Jean-Paul Sartre	2. Germinal
   C. Émile Zola	3. Madame Bovary

2. True or false: The all-time best-selling German fiction writer is Karl May, author of Wild West adventures.
3. Match the following Caribbean authors (and their works) with their island homes.

   A. Austin Chesterfield Clarke, Growing Up Stupid under the Union Jack	1. St. Kitts
   B. Michelle Cliff, Claiming an Identity They Taught Me To Despise	2. Guadeloupe
   C. Pedro Mir, Cuando Amaban las Tierras Comuneras	3. Barbados
   D. Caryl Phillips, A State of Independence	4. Dominican Republic
   E. Simone Schwarz-Bart, Between Two Worlds	5. Jamaica

4. True or false: V.S. Naipaul, author of A Turn in the South and An Area of Darkness, is a native of Trinidad and Tobago.
5. Isabel Allende, acclaimed author of The House of the Spirits and The Stories of Eva Luna, is the niece of the late president of which Latin American country:

   A. Argentina

   B. Brazil

   C. Colombia

   D. Chile

6. The novels of B. Wongar were hailed as the work of a talented Australian Aborigine. Many Australians were outraged when it was revealed that "Birimbir Wongar" was not Aboriginal at all, but of European descent. True or false: B. Wongar's true ancestry is Irish.
7. While all of these authors are of Irish descent, none lives in Ireland. Match the authors with their long-time countries of residence.

   A. Patrick O'Brian, the Aubrey/Maturin series	1. United States
   B. Edna O'Brien, Time and Tide	2. France
   C. John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas	3. England

8. An insult match between two characters in a long (usually epic) poem is known as:

   A. Leitmotif

   B. Roman à clef

   C. Flyting

   D. Feuilleton

9. Belgian author Georges Simenon wrote at least 250 novels under many pseudonyms, seventy-six of which featured the Parisian inspector Maigret. True or false: Like his fictional creation Maigret, Simenon was a man devoted and faithful to his wife.
10. Which Japanese author won the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature?

    A. Yukio Mishima

    B. Masuji Ibuse

    C. Kenzaburo Oe

    D. Kobo Abe

Answers

1. A, 3; B, 1; C, 2
2. True. The Western tales of Karl May outsell such world-renown German authors as Günter Grass, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann.
3. A, 3; B, 5; C, 4; D, 1; E, 2
4. True. Although, V.S. Naipaul left his Trinidad birthplace in 1950.
5. D. Isabel Allende's father, Salvador Allende, was the first and only Marxist elected as head of state in Latin America. He died during a coup in 1973.
6. False. B. Wongar's ancestry is even more unlikely -- he is of Serbian descent.
7. A, 2; B, 3; C, 1. Of these authors, Edna O'Brien is the only one who writes about Ireland. However, her work was often banned in Ireland, so she moved to London.
8. C. The best example of a flyting match is in the sixteenth-century Scots poem Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie.
9. False. The impulsive Simenon was quite different from Maigret. A notorious roué, Simenon was married twice and claimed to have slept with 10,000 women!
10. C. The author of such haunting works as Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness and A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe has often written fictionalized versions of his tribulations in raising his mentally impaired son, who is a musical prodigy.

1. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart made their first film together, To Have and Have Not, on which Caribbean island?

   A. Aruba

   B. Barbados

   C. St. Kitts

   D. Cuba

   E. Martinique

2. In the 1962 epic Taras Bulba, the country that doubled for medieval Poland was:

   A. Spain

   B. Argentina

   C. Scotland

   D. Nicaragua

3. The 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid opens in the American West but ends in a fatal shootout in South America. True or false: Butch and Sundance (in both the film and real life) were killed in Bolivia.
4. The 1965 comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines chronicles an airplane race between which two cities?

   A. San Francisco to New York City

   B. New York City to London

   C. London to Paris

   D. Rome to Berlin

5. Several James Bond films, including Dr. No (1962), Thunderball (1965), and Never Say Never Again (1983), were filmed partially in Jamaica. True or false: Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, often used Jamaican locations because he had a vacation house on the island.
6. True or false: The 1966 film Hawaii was set solely on the Big Island of Hawaii.
7. One of the lesser-used film genres is the education form, in which the plot focuses on the main character learning about life. Match the following education films with the countries in which they take place:

   A. Peppermint Soda (1977)	1. Brazil
   B. Educating Rita (1983)	2. England
   C. Blame It on Rio (1984)	3. Australia
   D. The Mango Tree (1977)	4. France

8. True or false: The source for the 1990 film Tune in Tomorrow ... (which features Peter Falk and Keanu Reeves) was Eva Luna, by Chilean author Isabel Allende.
9. Filmmakers sometimes choose movie titles too long for movie marquees. Match these overlong titles with their locales:

   A. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1966)	1. Wales
   B. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)	2. Germany
   C. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain (1995)	3. United States

10. Italian film director Federico Fellini used Marcello Mastroianni as the leading man in several of his most famous films. Which film was not directed by Fellini?

    A. City of Women (1981)

    B. Ginger and Fred (1986)

    C. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)

    D. La Dolce Vita (1960)

Answers

1. E. The bad guys in this film were Nazis and the Nazi-controlled Vichy French government.
2. B. This odd choice was due to the economic policies of Argentine President Juan Perón (Evita's husband), who refused to allow Hollywood studios to take their profits out of Argentina. Spending it wasn't a problem when Argentina became medieval Poland for the film Taras Bulba.
3. True
4. C
5. True. In fact, some of Ian Fleming's other James Bond adventures were also set in Jamaica, including the short stories Quantum of Solace and Octopussy. However, when Octopussy became a film, the Jamaican locale was dropped.
6. False. The film Hawaii spans events from the South Pacific island of Bora Bora to New England, but most of the action takes place on the island of Maui.
7. A, 4; B, 2; C, 1; D, 3
8. False. Tune in Tomorrow ... was adapted from Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa.
9. A, 3; B, 2; C, 1
10. C. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow starred Marcello Mastroianni but was directed by Italian director Vittorio De Sica.

1. Brazil is the largest country in South America -- so big that it shares a border with all but two South American nations. Chile is one, and the other is:

   A. Ecuador

   B. Bolivia

   C. Paraguay

   D. Guyana

2. True or false: Vatican City, the site of the Holy See, is one of the twenty official regions of Italy.
3. Which of these South American cities is on the same longitude as New York City?

   A. Buenos Aires, Argentina

   B. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

   C. Bogotá, Colombia

   D. Caracas, Venezuela

4. The United States of America has expanded enormously from its original thirteen colonies. Some of this expansion came through war, some through sales. Match the purchase with the country that sold it to the United States.

   A. Louisiana Purchase	1. Mexico
   B. Alaska	2. Spain
   C. Gadsden Purchase	3. Russia
   D. Florida	4. France

5. One of the most famous directions given in children's literature is "Second star to the right, and straight on till morning." While the destination of this book's journey is fictional, the starting point is not. True or false: That starting point is in England.
6. It's time for a vacation, so you spin the globe, close your eyes, stick out your finger, and hit an island at approximately nineteen degrees north latitude. You call your travel agent to book some R & R. Which one of the following islands is not at nineteen degrees north latitude?

   A. Haiti

   B. Hawaii

   C. Dominican Republic

   D. Trinidad

7. No se habla ingles. What is the only country in Central America where English is its official language?

   A. Panama

   B. El Salvador

   C. Guatemala

   D. Belize

8. Oh Canada! Put these Canadian provinces in order from west to east.

   A. Saskatchewan

   B. British Columbia

   C. Manitoba

   D. Alberta

   E. Ontario

9. True or false: Sweden used to own Norway.
10. After World War II, the former Soviet Union occupied these islands claimed by Japan.

    A. Kyushu

    B. Malvinas

    C. Kurils

    D. Okinawa

Answers

1. A. Ecuador only shares borders with Colombia and Peru.
2. False. Vatican City is a separate sovereign nation that covers 109 acres.
3. C. Bogotá, Colombia. Both cities are at about seventy-four degrees longitude. From east to west, the cities are Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Bogotá.
4. A, 4. France sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States in 1803 for $15 million.
   B, 3. Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million.
   C, 1. Mexico sold the Gadsden Purchase to the United States in 1854 for $10 million.
   D, 2. Spain reluctantly sold Florida to the United States in 1819 for $5 million.
5. True. The book is J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and these are the directions from the Darling home in London to Never Land. Captain Kirk liked the directions so much he used them in a Star Trek movie.
6. D. Trinidad, which lies off the coast of Venezuela, is between ten and eleven degrees north latitude.
7. D. Belize, which used to be known as British Honduras.
8. B, D, A, C, E
9. True. Sweden and Norway broke up in 1905.
10. C. The Kuril Islands, which are made up of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, were occupied by the former Soviet Union in 1945 and are still a matter of international dispute.

1. Nowadays you might say, "rich as Croesus," "rich as Midas," or "rich as Bill Gates," but in the mid-1500s you probably would've said, "rich as Potosí." Back then, the silver mines of Potosí were the largest and wealthiest in the New World.After yielding some 20,000 tons of silver, its precious-metal deposits were exhausted. What country is Potosí in, and what is Potosí's primary product today?
   

   A. Mexico	1. Tin
   B. Peru	2. Llamas
   C. Bolivia	3. Lead
   D. Canada	4. Canadian bacon

2. True or false: The name of the Japanese unit of currency was derived from the term for an addictive drug.
3. Diamonds may be forever, but money is not. Many countries have withdrawn old units of currency and replaced them with new ones (usually after suffering a bout of hyperinflation). Match the old and new currencies with their respective countries.
   

   A. The Argentine austral	1. Peso
   B. The Brazilian cruzado	2. Boliviano
   C. The Bolivian peso	3. Real

4. True or false: While the dollar may not be in peak condition, it's far more secure than earlier US currencies. During the Revolutionary War, the United States issued a bill called a continental -- a paper currency with nothing to back it up.
5. Guatemala named its currency after an indigenous bird. It is called the:
   • A. Perico
     B. Quetzal
     C. Gallo
     D. Buzzard
6. True or false: The Canadians replaced their one-dollar bill with a one-dollar coin. It is colloquially known as a "Moosehead."
7. The Swiss are justifiably proud of their multicultural society. They have four official languages, German, French, Italian, and Romansch. The Swiss unit of currency is named after:
   • A. The German mark
     B. The French franc
     C. The Italian lira
     D. The Romansch roma
8. True or false: Pesos are the accepted form of currency in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
9. What Latin American country named its currency after its largest Amerindian population?
   • A. Venezuela (the Bol’var)
     B. Paraguay (the Guaran’)
     C. Ecuador (the Sucre)
     D. Panama (the Balboa)
10. True or false: The United States, Australia, Canada, Guyana, Liberia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Western Samoa, Hong Kong, and Singapore all use a basic unit of currency called the dollar.

Answers

1. C. Bolivia, although back in the 1500s it was called the Vice Royalty of Peru.
   1. Tin. Once the silver was gone, there was still so much tin that it became Bolivia's most valuable export.
2. True. The Japanese word "yen" is derived from the Chineseword "en," which means "opium."
3. A,1; B,3; C,2
4. True. "Not worth a continental" was a common expression.
5. B. The quetzal is named after the beautiful Guatemalan bird with green and red plumage.
6. False. Canadians coined the term "Looney" for their one-dollar coin in honor of the loon engraved on one side."Moosehead" is a Canadian beer.
7. B. The French franc. Internationally it is called the Swiss franc(SwF). Swiss Germans refer to it as the Swiss franken, and Swiss Italians call it the Swiss franco.
8. False. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States and uses US currency.
9. B. Paraguay not only named its currency after the Guaraní, but it made both Spainsh and Guaraní official national languages.
10. True. The word "dollar" comes from the German word"Taler" (Low German "Daler"). "Taler" is short for "Joachimstaler," a coin made with metal from Joachimsthal, a town in the Erzgebirge Mountains, Czech Republic.