98 The Amazon Rainforest Trivia Questions with Answers
98 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Amazon Rainforest tree is widely regarded as the tallest tree in the region?
Answer
Dinizia excelsa
Which Amazon Rainforest snake is the world’s heaviest snake species?
Answer
Green anaconda
Which Amazonian plant family includes the Brazil nut tree?
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Lecythidaceae
Which Amazonian festival is held annually in Parintins, Brazil?
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The Parintins Folk Festival
Which Amazonian river is known as the Solimões before meeting the Negro River at Manaus?
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The upper Amazon River
Which major line of latitude crosses the Amazon Rainforest?
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The Equator
Which Amazonian tree is also known as the Brazil rubber tree and produces latex?
Answer
Hevea brasiliensis
What is the scientific name of the Amazonian poison dart frog commonly called the blue poison dart frog?
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Dendrobates tinctorius
Which famous opera house opened in Manaus during the Amazon rubber boom in 1896?
Answer
Teatro Amazonas
Which flowering tree is the main natural source of rubber in the Amazon Rainforest?
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Hevea brasiliensis
What is the approximate area of the Amazon Rainforest, the world’s largest tropical rainforest?
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5.5 million square kilometres
What is the main rainy season river type that floods Amazonian várzea forests called?
Answer
Whitewater river
Which Amazonian tree produces Brazil nuts?
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Brazil nut tree
At the Meeting of Waters near Manaus, which two rivers flow side by side?
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Rio Negro and Solimões River
Which Amazonian palm is commonly called the walking palm?
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Socratea exorrhiza
Which Amazon River tributary is its largest by water discharge?
Answer
Madeira River
Which Amazonian primate is the world’s smallest monkey?
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Pygmy marmoset
Which Amazonian city is the capital of Peru’s Loreto Region?
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Iquitos
Which Amazonian parrot is the world’s largest flying parrot?
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Hyacinth macaw
Which Amazonian forest tree is commonly called the kapok tree?
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Ceiba pentandra
Which mountain is the highest point in Brazil and lies in the Amazon region?
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Pico da Neblina
Which international agreement was signed in 1978 to promote cooperation among Amazon countries?
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Amazon Cooperation Treaty
What is the scientific name of the Amazonian manatee?
Answer
Trichechus inunguis
Which Amazonian reptile is the largest species in the alligator family?
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Black caiman
Which Amazonian animal is the world’s largest living rodent?
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Capybara
Which river carries the greatest volume of water of any river on Earth?
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Amazon River
What is the largest national park in the Amazon Rainforest?
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Tumucumaque Mountains National Park
What are the large geometric earthworks found in Brazil’s Amazon region called?
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Amazonian geoglyphs
Which Amazonian tree is the source of the wood called purpleheart?
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Peltogyne
Which Amazon Rainforest bird is the national bird of Guyana?
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Hoatzin
Which Amazon Rainforest plant has the scientific name Victoria amazonica?
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Giant water lily
Which Amazon Rainforest reserve became Brazil’s first sustainable development reserve in 1996?
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Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve
Which Amazonian fish is commonly called the tambaqui and has powerful teeth adapted for crushing seeds?
Answer
Colossoma macropomum
What is the scientific name of the giant otter found in the Amazon Rainforest?
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Pteronura brasiliensis