Who is sometimes referred to as Corazón de Sudamérica due to its central geographic location?
Paraguay
86.5%
Uruguay
13.3%
Who hosted and won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
86.5%
Paraguay
10.3%
Who is ranked first in Latin America in democracy, peace and press freedom, according to international organizations?
Uruguay
82.5%
Paraguay
16.5%
Who was the first country in the world to provide every schoolchild with a free laptop and wifi access?
Uruguay
80%
Paraguay
11.3%
Who is home to the Asunción-Encarnación line, the first railway line in South America, built from 1858-1861?
Paraguay
79%
Uruguay
18.9%
Whose official language alongside Spanish is Guarani, one of the last surviving and thriving of South American indigenous national languages?
Paraguay
72.5%
Uruguay
20%
Whose name is a cause for amusement when spotted on a globe and mispronounced by Homer in an episode of The Simpsons?
Uruguay
72.5%
Paraguay
17.3%
Whose traditional polka music is often regarded as a fusion genre - a result of more than 90% of the population being mestizo?
Paraguay
70.4%
Uruguay
20%
Who is considered the most secular country in the Americas with 40% of the population identifying as religiously unaffiliated in 2010?
Uruguay
67.2%
Paraguay
22.8%
Who lost almost 70% of its adult male population and was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil in the War of the Triple Alliance?
Paraguay
66.5%
Uruguay
26.7%
Who was home to renowned writer Augusto Roa Bastos, whose novel Yo, el supremo belongs to the genre of novelas de dictadores (dictator novels)?
Paraguay
63.7%
Uruguay
26.1%
Whose population of 3.4 million people is outnumbered by 12 million cattle - a result of being one of the world's top consumers of red meat per capita?
Uruguay
59.5%
Paraguay
36.2%
Who officially celebrates Semana de Turismo (Tourism Week) rather than Easter as a public holiday since 1919?
Uruguay
57.3%
Paraguay
33.5%
Whose official name is República Oriental del _____?
Uruguay
50.6%
Paraguay
43.8%
Who has a German minority dating back to immigration during the industrial age, one descendant of which was former president Alfredo Stroessner?
Paraguay
33.9%
Uruguay
57.9%
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