Latin America Jeopardy

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Latin America Jeopardy!
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Category 1 for 1
What word means, written characters represented
by both objects and sounds?
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Category 1 for 1
Answer glyphs
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Category 1 for 2
Which word means, black, natural glass formed by
volcanic lava that is cooled quickly?
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Category 1 for 2
Answer obsidian
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Category 1 for 3
Which word refers to garden plots that floated on
Lake Texcoco?
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Category 1 for 3
Answer chinampas
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Category 1 for 4
What is the language of the Incas called?
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Category 1 for 4
Answer Quechua
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Category 1 for 5
What are the sets of colored string tied in knots
for record-keeping called?
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Category 1 for 5
Answer quipu
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Category 2 for 1
What does meso from the word, Mesoamerica
mean?
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Category 2 for 1
Answer middle
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Category 2 for 2
What ball game could losers become human
sacrifices?
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Category 2 for 2
Answer pok-a-tok
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Category 2 for 3
What does conquistadores mean?
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Category 2 for 3
Answer conquerors
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Category 2 for 4
What disease, brought over by the Spaniards,
killed thousands of Aztecs in the 1520 epidemic?
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Category 2 for 4
Answer smallpox
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Category 2 for 5
What is the name of the movements that are driven
by a desire for peace?
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Category 2 for 5
Answer Nationalist
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Category 3 for 1
What people carved pictures into the desert floor
that can only be fully viewed from the air?
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Category 3 for 1
Answer Nazca
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Category 3 for 2
Which civilization believed men descended from
the sun and women from the moon?
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Category 3 for 2
Answer Incas
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Category 3 for 3
On special occasions, what would the Aztec eat?
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Category 3 for 3
Answer dog meat
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Category 3 for 4
Which civilization developed the accurate 365 day
calendar?
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Category 3 for 4
Answer Mayans
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Category 3 for 5
The Pyramid of the Sun, used for performing
ceremonies, was created over a natural________
what?
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Category 3 for 5
Answer cave
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Category 4 for 1
What did the Olmec carve from huge stones that
weighed as much as 40 tons?
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Category 4 for 1
Answer heads
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Category 4 for 2
Who did the Inca worship as a god and call, the
Inca?
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Category 4 for 2
Answer Pachacutec
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Category 4 for 3
Besides the alpaca, what other animal was
domesticated by the early South American cultures?
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Category 4 for 3
Answer llama
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Category 4 for 4
Who is the one of the most famous South American
revolutionaries known as, the Liberator?
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Category 4 for 4
Answer Simon Bolivar
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Category 4 for 5
In the Cuasimodo Procession, the priest visits
the sick that could not come to celebrate what
holiday?
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Category 4 for 5
Answer Easter
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Category 5 for 1
Whose birthday do people celebrate by facing
dangerous challenges to prove their faith in him?
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Category 5 for 1
Answer St. John the Baptist
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Category 5 for 2
What do postman caterpillars eat that makes them
become poisonous?
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Category 5 for 2
Answer leaves
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Category 5 for 3
Does heat from the sun help iguanas digest their
food?
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Category 5 for 3
Answer Yes
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Category 5 for 4
How do toucans recognize each other?
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Category 5 for 4
Answer by their bills
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Category 5 for 5
Are sloths fast-moving animals?
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Category 5 for 5
Answer NO!
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