South America Capitals Quiz

This South America capitals quiz highlights each of the continent's 12 countries on an interactive map and asks you to pick its capital from four options — a quick game that hides two of the most famous trick answers in geography. First trap: Brazil. The capital is not Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo but Brasilia, a city purpose-built in the 1950s to move government inland. Second trap: Bolivia, whose constitutional capital is Sucre even though La Paz hosts the government — this quiz uses Sucre, the standard test answer. The rest of the round rewards clean recall: Bogota for Colombia, Caracas for Venezuela, Quito for Ecuador, Lima for Peru, Santiago for Chile, Buenos Aires for Argentina, Montevideo for Uruguay, and Asuncion for Paraguay. The northern trio finishes things off — Georgetown (Guyana) and Paramaribo (Suriname) are the capitals almost nobody gets on the first run. With only 12 questions the quiz takes about two minutes, wrong answers reveal the correct capital immediately, and seeing each country highlighted on the map locks the pair into memory far better than a flat list.