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Can you name the South American countries from their capitals? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Click any empty Capital or Country to answer for that location You have 3 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 2331 Broadway Opening Lines 1878 TV Shows (U.S.) 1772 You Do Know Jack 837 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 676 Same Last Name 673 And more...
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Capital	Country
Santiago
Montevideo
Georgetown
Asunción
Bogotá
Lima

Capital	Country
Paramaribo
Caracas
Buenos Aires
Quito
Brasília
La Paz

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	Deeisenberg:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:17 GMT	18 points
	This is one that needed to be made. However it would probably be better if you made it in order and or random order.

	JScrip:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT	23 points
	This should definitely be on a "guess in order" basis. Otherwise, it's just a matter of naming the countries of South America in 4 minutes.

	nini2287:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	3 points
	Might as well call this "name every country in South America"

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	gingersnap:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:21 GMT	0 points
	I wish this one was like the other "continent by capital" quizzes where you need to know the capital for the specific one highlighted. I know all the SA countries already, just had to plug them in.

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	ultimateguy:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:23 GMT	2 points
	French Guyana is a part of France... and yes, you can just name all the countries in South America and get 100%.

	SporcleAdmin:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	33 points
	Yep sorry, forgot to hit the little button that did this. Everything should be (forgive the pun) in order now.

	jpm:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT	21 points
	A one-minute time limit would make things more interesting...

	zalagreensbury:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:41 GMT	1 point
	It's a lot easier to name the country instead of the capital. thanks sporcle.

	bean:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	5 points
	Since when do I ever finish any of these with over 3 minutes left? Hurray, I get to make my first time complaint!

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	The_Goat:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 09:36 GMT	8 points
	Wow, 56.8% have gotten 100%. We have all gotten way too good at Sporcle.

	xeju:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 09:54 GMT	14 points
	I have never been one to suggest shortening the time, because I type slowly. But when even I have 2 1/2 minutes left, I think the limit is quite generous.

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	thesean:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 12:48 GMT	6 points
	By administrative capital they mean that it is where the seat of the government is. As I understand it this is mostly for economic reasons. Think of La Paz as the -de facto- capital in a country that has an official capital. At least it's not as complicated as South Africa.

	Boomhauer:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 13:24 GMT	1 point
	It's a very easy quiz for the time given.

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	Bojan:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 13:47 GMT	11 points
	When people complain about too much time, they usually get negative points, but I'll take that risk: There us too much time :)

	JoeGrzzly:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 14:06 GMT	5 points
	Meat loaf was the easiest sporcle game (excluding Antarctica).

	robbie_keane:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 16:03 GMT	5 points
	How about two minutes at most?

	DoubtingApostle:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 16:11 GMT	2 points
	If I can do it, it's too long. I think 1:30 would be appropriate.

	Tommy_C:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 16:50 GMT	3 points
	OK. Time for the worldwide game now.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 16:59 GMT	6 points
	Schools should make their pupils play Sporcle games in Geography. The amount of time i wasted learning rock formations and tectonics plates, when i could have been learning capitals of the world.

	elnok:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 18:15 GMT	4 points
	Seriously, 4:00 is way too long... how 'bout a minute?

	dtownstomp:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 18:48 GMT	2 points
	Haha Something About Mary - Have you ever been to Santiago, Chile? Yes, why twice last year!

	FozzieBear:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 02:20 GMT	-2 points
	How about a reverse of this quiz (name the capitals) - might be slightly more difficult?? Or does it already exist??

	matt:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 02:45 GMT	0 points
	Damn you Suriname!

	lavagirl:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 03:00 GMT	2 points
	3 minutes is too much time, may be cut down to 2 instead. It's easy because you are given the city & all you need to do is name the country. The other way around would be more difficult. I like the random order.

	Ildib:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 16:06 GMT	-2 points
	Ow, how nice that the comment about la paz got below the treshold. All people that are happy that according to them La paz is the capital of Bolivia. ITS SUCRE!

	zigra:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 22:11 GMT	1 point
	@FozzieBear: that quiz already exists. For me it's nice to have it both ways - I finally learned Paramaribo by seeing the answer for the length of the quiz rather than just having it pop up as my only wrong answer on the "name the capitals of south america quiz".

	Qazza2k9:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 00:13 GMT	1 point
	Had a total brain fart on this one, only got 6!!

	fmtiger124:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 05:44 GMT	0 points
	darn you colombia!

	thesean:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 13:21 GMT	2 points
	@Ildib: Yeah, voting that comment down probably wasn't in the best interest of expanding knowledge. Sucre -is- the official capital. Since La Paz functions as the capital of Bolivia, in enough of a way for it to be given the term "administrative capital", I don't think it should be barred. Maybe accept both answers?

	Yojimbo28:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	-1 points
	I don't understand these commenters voting down the Sucre comments. What do you people not understand about the fact that Sucre is the capital of Bolivia. I guess thesean's suggestion of showing both cities would be better than nothing, but it really should be Sucre. I don't understand you people. Most of you are complaining that the time on the quiz is too long, and then Escaho comments that he created this weeks before Sporcle did, and with a more appropriate time limit (like you guys are asking for) and his comment gets a negative score. Calm down people.

	Brendever:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 23:11 GMT	-1 points
	If Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, La Paz is the capital of Bolivia. By the way, I know lots of capitals so did this quiz with 2:25 mins left.

	Ildib:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 18:56 GMT	1 point
	thesean is right that the minimum is that sucre is accepted as well. But still the main arguement is that the capital of Bolivia simply is Sucre. So how difficult is it? But if you all want to remember wrong answers, be my guest. @brandever: funny you say that amsterdam is capital of netherlands, because in the netherlands its exactly the same as in bolivia, only in your theorie The Hague would be the administrative capital of the netherlands (because thats the residence of the queen and total government). So in you example La Paz equals The Hague and Sucre equals Amsterdam. Even more facts to make evident that SUCRE should be the right answer for Bolivia.

	Llyr:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 20:07 GMT	1 point
	I had enough time to try every South American country in the ones I didn't know off the top of my head. Needs less time. @Brendever: If Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, then Sucre is the capital of Bolivia, as they are both the constitutional capitals. The Dutch equivalent of La Paz is The Hague.