Brazil Trivia

Hola and welcome to episode two hundred, twenty one of the dorky geeky nerdy trivia podcast. I'm your host Brian Rollins and this week, we've got Brazil trivia, 30 questions about the country, its history and its geography. If you're new to dgn, welcome, glad to have you on board for our weekly trivia podcast, if you need rules or scorecards visit door, Aiki geeky nerdy.com, but enough of all that you just want trivia, right? So let's get started. The dorky round number one. What is the primary language of Brazil? Portuguese. Number two. What is the internet? TLD for Brazil. Br. Number three, what? Brazilian city hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics? Rio de Janeiro. These were the first Olympic Games held in South America. Number four. What river running through Brazil is the largest in the world by volume of water. The Amazon River, it's the second longest river by length. Number 5. What world famous Brazilian footballer passed away on December 29th, 2022. Pele. Number six, sixty percent of which rainforest is found in Brazil. D Amazon. Number 7 called the Trump of the tropics who lost his re-election bid as president of Brazil in 2022. Jai are Bolsa narrow much like his us counterpart. His followers tried to take the capital by force following his election loss. Number 8, what country borders Brazil on its southernmost Edge? Uruguay. Number 9, what Brazilian celebration begins 51 days before Easter and ends at noon on Ash Wednesday? Carnival. Number 10 before it was made illegal Brazil, imported nearly 5 million. What from Africa Slaves. They were the first in the Americans to have the practice and the last to abolish it which they did in 1888. The geeky round number one, nearly two-thirds of the Brazilian population belong to what Christian religion. Catholicism. Number two, what is the largest city in Brazil? SAU Paulo, it's the largest city in South America and the fourth largest in the world. Number three. What three colors are found on the Brazilian flag Blue, green and yellow. Number four as of 2022. How many times has Brazil won the men's World Cup. Five times they've won more than any other country. Number 5, what is the name of the giant statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro? Christ, the Redeemer including the pedestal. It's 38 meters tall. Number 6 in 1807, what European Empire moved its Royal Court to Brazil. Portugal. Brazil is the only non-european country to be the seat of power for a European Empire. Number seven. What 2002 movie is the highest grossing Brazilian film of all time. City of God, it was nominated for four Academy Awards here in the US, Number 8, where does Brazil rank in number of deaths? From the covid-19 pandemic? Second, they fall just behind the US in total number of deaths. Much like the u.s. blame falls on the ineffectual response from their president at the time. Number nine. What beach played host to the largest concert ever? Copacabana beach in 1994, three and a half million people, attended the concert. Number 10. What brazilian-born actor, voiced, Prince Naveen in the Disney's Princess and the Frog. Bruno Campos. The nerdy round number one. What is the capital of Brazil? Brasilia. Number two by population where does Brazil rank in the world. Seventh, the country is home to over two hundred Seventeen million people. Number three by land area, where it is, Brazil rank in the world. Fifth. Just behind the US and slightly larger than Australia. Number four, who was the first emperor of Brazil? Pedro, the first Number 5. What is the highest mountain in Brazil? P, Cody nabina. It's two thousand. Nine hundred ninety, four meters high. Number 6, Brazil borders. Every South American country except which two Ecuador, and Chile. Number 7. What is Brazil's largest export? Soybeans follow closely by crude petroleum. Number eight. How many states will you find in Brazil? 27, the largest is amazonas and the smallest is distrito federal Number 9, what country shares the longest border with Brazil? Bolivia. Number 10, how many time zones? Does Brazil have? For and that's it for Brazil, trivia. How'd you do? Let me know on Facebook or Twitter. See, while you have fared against other listeners will be back next week with another three rounds of questions. Here's a clue to mole over in the meantime. What game published in 1974 was originally a modification of the game chain mail. I probably should have done this episode a few weeks ago but it'll still be fun. See you back here next Wednesday. This has been episode, 221 of the dorky geeky nerdy trivia podcast. The theme music is by Jason Shaw at audio knoteks.com. This podcast is written produced and hosted by me. Brian Rollins. See what else I'm getting up to at the voices in my head.com. Thanks for listening. Tyler has a problem. 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