162 Costa Rica Trivia Questions (Ranked From Easiest to Hardest)

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Question: What "O" city in Cartago Province claims to have the oldest Catholic church still in use in Costa Rica? The church was built in 1743 during the colonial era.

Answer: Orosí

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162 Costa Rica Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)

1. A Costa Rican toucan named Grecia became famous in 2016 for having what damaged part of its body replaced by a 3D-printed prosthesis?
   
   Answer: Its beak
   
   
2. La Paz Waterfall Gardens in Costa Rica is a popular choice for tourists to admire the flora and fauna. This park attracts half of all of the 52 native species of what small hovering bird?
   
   Answer: Hummingbird
   
   
3. Taken straight from Wikipedia, "naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere or ground temporarily equalize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of as much as one billion joules of energy" is the definition of what natural phenomenon?
   
   Answer: Lightning
   
   
4. North Puntarenas, Costa Rica is home to what beach with a “J” name? It is often used as a Spanish translation of the English word “horse”, sometimes in an informal setting.
   
   Answer: Jaco Beach
   
   
5. Despite its remote location (only accessible by boat or plane), what Costa Rican national park in the Limón Province is the third-most visited park in Costa Rica?
   
   Answer: Tortuguero National Park
   
   
6. The country of Costa Rica is divided into 7 provinces, which in turn are divided into 82 administrative divisions known as what, which are also found in Switzerland and Ecuador?
   
   Answer: Cantons
   
   
7. San Jose, Costa Rica is home to a museum dedicated to Pre-Columbian artifacts made of what valuable element, atomic number 79 with symbol “Au?”
   
   Answer: Pre-Columbian Gold Museum
   
   
8. Although you won't find the word in most Spanish-English dictionaries, what does the Costa Rican slang word "jumas" mean when translated to English?
   
   Answer: Drunk
   
   
9. What four-letter term do Costa Ricans call small neighborhood restaurants that serve local dishes like chicken, rice, and beans in an open-air setting?
   
   Answer: Soda
   
   
10. What name is shared by the capital of Costa Rica and the most populous city in Northern California?
    
    Answer: San Jose
    
    
11. Costa Rica's international airport located in Liberia is named after what man?
    
    Answer: Daniel Oduber Quirós
    
    
12. What waterfall, located to the north of Alajuela, Costa Rica, can be located alongside Route 126? Its name is the Spanish translation of “The Peace.”
    
    Answer: La Paz Waterfall
    
    
13. What common breakfast food in Costa Rica gets its name from the coloring variations that make the rice look speckled like a rooster? The dish typically includes rice and beans paired with spices such as peppers or cilantro.
    
    Answer: Gallo Pinto
    
    
14. In June 2007, Costa Rica broke off their diplomatic ties with what East Asian island nation?
    
    Answer: Taiwan
    
    
15. Literally translating as "married," what Costa Rican lunch is a combination platter usually including rice and beans, a salad, plantains, and a meat?
    
    Answer: Casado
    
    
16. What national park in Costa Rica is among the country’s most visited, with beaches and hiking trails, near the city of Quepos? It is named after a Conquistador who was buried there, with initials “M.A.”
    
    Answer: Manuel Antonio National Park
    
    
17. What “R” active andesitic complex volcano is located in Guanacaste province? It comes from a Spanish word meaning corner, often the corner of a mountain.
    
    Answer: Rincon
    
    
18. After hoofing it through a couple of "Step Up" movies, Costa Rican-American actor Harry Shum Jr. got to exercise his pipes as Mike Chang on what choral Fox show set at William McKinley High?
    
    Answer: Glee
    
    
19. Costa Rica has multiple locations considered "Blue Zones" which frequently attract medical researchers to understand the elder population. What population characteristic leads to an area being deemed a Blue Zone?
    
    Answer: Longer than average lifespan
    
    
20. What Costa Rican volcano was dormant for hundreds of years before an unexpected 1968 eruption destroying the small town of Tabacón?
    
    Answer: Arenal Volcano
    
    
21. The Costa Rican Civil War is also known by the name of what hill west of Cartago?
    
    Answer: Ochomogo War
    
    
22. Costa Rican colones are moving to all polymer plastic in early 2022, removing bills from circulation printed on a blend of paper and what t-shirt fiber?
    
    Answer: Cotton
    
    
23. The Costa Rican beach Bahia Ballena's name reflects that it is shaped like the tail of what gigantic sea creature?
    
    Answer: Whale
    
    
24. Costa Rica's adorable trash pandas, coatis live in groups known by what B-word that also describes the Jonas Brothers?
    
    Answer: Band
    
    
25. Known throughout the world as an environmental leader, Costa Rica generates more than 99% of its electricity using renewable sources. The vast majority of this renewable energy comes from what source?
    
    Answer: Hydroelectric
    
    
26. A pair of sisters are the only Costa Ricans to win individual medals at a modern Olympics. What is the last name of these swimmers?
    
    Answer: Poll
    
    
27. Tico Wind is a company offering windsurf and kitesurf lessons and vacations at what Costa Rican body of water?
    
    Answer: Lake Arenal
    
    
28. The isthmus of which country connects Costa Rica and Colombia, and therefore, links North America to South America?
    
    Answer: Panama
    
    
29. What retired Costa Rican professional soccer player scores twice in the team's opening game of the 2006 World Cup? He was the first Costa Rican to score twice in a single World Cup match.
    
    Answer: Paulo César Wanchope Watson
    
    
30. The main campus of the University of Costa Rica is named after what man?
    
    Answer: Rodrigo Facio Brenes
    
    
31. Many foreign companies operate in the FTZs of Costa Rica. These are economic areas that are typically removed from exempt from customs duties and receive other tax benefits. What does the term FTZ stand for?
    
    Answer: Free Trade Zone
    
    
32. Poás, Barva, Irazú, and Turrialba are the four highest peaks of what volcanic mountain range that runs through Costa Rica?
    
    Answer: Cordillera Central
    
    
33. The football club Herediano unsurprisingly plays its home games in what city?
    
    Answer: Heredia
    
    
34. Costa Rican oxcarts first became a huge part of the nation's history and culture because they allowed for the expansion and increase of exports of many goods, especially coffee. These oxcarts are known by what word in Spanish?
    
    Answer: Las carretas
    
    
35. Costa Rica is a home of the common basilisk lizard, nicknamed the "Jesus Christ lizard" because of flaps that allow it to run on what surface?
    
    Answer: Water
    
    
36. The five-thousand colones note is often referred to by what nickname? This nickname derives from a type of colorful bird with a large bill whose image used to feature on the note.
    
    Answer: Toucan
    
    
37. An animal rescue center in Limon, Costa Rica is named after what “J” cat species? These spotted members of genus Panthera are the largest cats in the Americas.
    
    Answer: Jaguar Rescue Center
    
    
38. Which of Costa Rica's seven administrative provinces has a name that can be translated into English as "inheritance?"
    
    Answer: Heredia
    
    
39. If you trek through the cloud forests of Santa Elena, you’ll stumble upon the Ficus La Raiz. What structure made of tree roots will you find over a creek?
    
    Answer: Bridge
    
    
40. Tegucigalpa is the capital city of what Central American country, which borders Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua?
    
    Answer: Honduras
    
    
41. With over 6,000 people and with popular surfing and eco-tourism attractions, what is the largest and most-developed beach town in Guanacaste?
    
    Answer: Tamarindo
    
    
42. The 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties guaranteed the transfer of control of the Panama Canal from which country back to Panama after 1999?
    
    Answer: U.S.
    
    
43. First created in 1920 by a domestic company, what is the name of the popular Costa Rican condiment with a tangy flavor that contains the following ingredients? Water, sugar, salt, onions, carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, pepper, mustard, turmeric, and monosodium glutamate.
    
    Answer: Salsa Lizano
    
    
44. What Bay on the north side of the Osa Peninsula, in southwestern Costa Rica, was believed to be used its namesake British explorer as a port in the 16th century? It shares its name with the hip hop artist who sang the song “Hotline Bling.”
    
    Answer: Drake Bay
    
    
45. A mixture of sulfur and calcium carbonate from a nearby volcano contribute to the neon blue waters of what river in the forests of Tenorio Volcano National Park?
    
    Answer: Río Celeste
    
    
46. What National Park on the Osa Peninsula is the largest park in Costa Rica and has been deemed by National Geographic as "the most biologically intense place on Earth in terms of biodiversity"?
    
    Answer: Corcovado National Park
    
    
47. After seizing power with his brother in a 1917 coup d'état, what man was the Dictator of Costa Rica from 1917 to 1919?
    
    Answer: José Federico Alberto de Jesús Tinoco Granados
    
    
48. Of the seven Central American countries, Costa Rica is one of three to feature the color red in its flag. Name one of the two other countries.
    
    Answer: Panama or Belize
    
    
49. What volcano, the highest active one in Costa Rica, is located close to the city of Cartago and is the namesake of a national park that includes the Prusia Forest Reserve?
    
    Answer: Irazú Volcano
    
    
50. The Costa Rican unit of currency, the colón, is named for explorer Cristóbal Colón, who is generally known in English by what name?
    
    Answer: Christopher Columbus
    
    
51. Pacífica Fernández designed the flag of Costa Rica in 1848 after being inspired by which European country’s revolution?
    
    Answer: France
    
    
52. Territorio de Zaguates (“Land of the Strays”) is an animal shelter where hundreds of rescues roam happy and free long after being abandoned by their owners. Which type of pet calls this haven home?
    
    Answer: Dog
    
    
53. Upala, Los Chiles, and La Cruz are all Costa Rican cities within 10 miles of what country's borders?
    
    Answer: Nicaragua
    
    
54. For most of its colonial history Costa Rica was technically ruled by the Captaincy General of what other Spanish colony (that is now a country with the same name it had as a colony)
    
    Answer: Guatamala
    
    
55. What two-word phrase, which literally translates to "pure life," is a common Costa Rican expression used to reflect the speaker's positive outlook and stress-free demeanor?
    
    Answer: Pura Vida
    
    
56. Costa Rica was one of two filming locations (along with Texas) for the second film in what American action-comedy-adventure film series? The movie was subtitled "The Island of Lost Dreams" and starred two very young espionage experts.
    
    Answer: Spy Kids
    
    
57. The soft-spoken Toby Flenderson abruptly announces he will move to Costa Rica after a possible romantic crush is revealed in an episode of what comedy TV series?
    
    Answer: The Office
    
    
58. "Pelo de gato" colloquially refers to what type of Costa Rican weather event?
    
    Answer: Rain
    
    
59. As of the 2000 Census, the seventh-most populous city in Costa Rica has a name shared with a West African country. What is this city?
    
    Answer: Liberia
    
    
60. What beach, or playa, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica, gets its name from a “H” Spanish word for gorgeous?
    
    Answer: Playa Hermosa
    
    
61. Costa Rica is bordered by two countries: Nicaragua and what Central American country whose largest cities include San Miguelito and Las Cumbres?
    
    Answer: Panama
    
    
62. What “C” National Park, located in Puntarenas Province of Tarcoles, Costa Rica, started as a biological park in 1978 became a national park in 1990?
    
    Answer: Parque Nacional Carara
    
    
63. Isla Nublar (off the coast of Costa Rica) is the setting for what famous 1990 Harvard-alum Michael Crichton book?
    
    Answer: Jurassic Park
    
    
64. What American tech company had a microprocessor facility in Costa Rica that at one time was responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 5% of the country's GDP?
    
    Answer: Intel
    
    
65. Technically translating directly as "candy from milk," what is the name of the confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk to create a brown substance which is used as a dessert or topping?
    
    Answer: Dulce de Leche
    
    
66. When reading the Costa Rican national anthem in Spanish, what is the first word to appear that begins with the letter "B"?
    
    Answer: Bandera
    
    
67. What is the name of the strong-tasting hard liquor popular in Costa Rica made from sugarcane? In order to discourage bootlegging, the government created a brand of this liquor called Cacique.
    
    Answer: Guaro
    
    
68. Which of Costa Rica's 7 administrative divisions comes first when sorted alphabetically?
    
    Answer: Alajuela
    
    
69. What kind of flower is the Purple Country Girl, or Guaria Morado, the national flower of Costa Rica?
    
    Answer: Orchid
    
    
70. Since 2012 Costa Rica's paper money has featured not only significant historical figures but also images of what else?
    
    Answer: Biodiversity
    
    
71. Existing for less than 20 years, the United Provinces of Central America consisted of modern-day Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico and what other country?
    
    Answer: Honduras
    
    
72. Shortly after Costa Rica abolished its military in 1948, it drew Korean War conscientious objectors from what pacifist religious sect that "tremble in the way of the Lord?"
    
    Answer: Quakers
    
    
73. In Costa Rica, it is illegal to produce any kind of coffee bean other than what bean that makes up over 60% of global production?
    
    Answer: Arabica
    
    
74. What Costa Rican national park in the Caribbean La Amistad Conservation Area in Limon province is connected to its namesake “C” town?
    
    Answer: Cahuita National Park
    
    
75. What “W” Botanical Gardens, located at the Las Cruces Biological Station in Costa Rica, has a collection of more than 700 palm trees from around the world? Its name is the same as friendly volleyball from the 2000 Tom Hanks film “Cast Away.”
    
    Answer: Wilson Botanical Gardens
    
    
76. On 10 September 1961, Costa Rican President Mario Echandi ended diplomatic relations with what other Western Hemisphere country? The freeze in relations lasted for 47 years.
    
    Answer: Cuba
    
    
77. What left-leaning Costa Rican president from 1978-82 broke away from Washington, the World Bank and the IMF while stoking tensions in neighboring Nicaragua?
    
    Answer: Rodrigo Carazo
    
    
78. Costa Rican-Mexican singer Chavela Vargas sang "La Llorona" in a 2002 biopic starring Salma Hayek as what Mexican artist Vargas was close to in real life?
    
    Answer: Frida Kahlo
    
    
79. Costa Rica has a shocking amount of biodiversity because millions of years ago it acted as a "land bridge" between North and South America along with the land that is now considered what Central American Republic famous for another famous connection still functioning today?
    
    Answer: Panama
    
    
80. The hundreds of culturally-iconic spheres found in Costa Rica were made by what pre-Colombus culture?
    
    Answer: Diquis
    
    
81. Costa Rica's famously diverse fauna includes what large, herbivorous mammal similar in shape to a pig with a short, prehensile nose trunk? There are five species of this family alive today and they have many extinct species as well.
    
    Answer: Tapirs
    
    
82. "It’s Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love and Lies in the Jungle" is a memoir by what well-known Australian scientist about her time in Costa Rican jungles?
    
    Answer: Vanessa Woods
    
    
83. The day celebrated as Independence Day in Costa Rica in fact demarcates the final Spanish defeat in what war?
    
    Answer: Mexican War of Independence
    
    
84. The 1849 national coat of arms of Costa Rica was featured on what object, the first of which was officially issued in Costa Rica in 1862?
    
    Answer: Postal Stamp
    
    
85. The University of Costa Rica was the nation's sole university until what other school opened in 1972?
    
    Answer: Costa Rica Institute of Technology
    
    
86. Aviarios del Caribe is a sanctuary that rehabilitates, observes, and studies what type of adorable, slow mammal in Costa Rica?
    
    Answer: Sloths
    
    
87. Named in honor of a French naturalist, the primate also known as the black-handed spider monkey is one of the largest New World monkeys, weighing up to 20 lbs. Five different subspecies of the creature are found within Costa Rica. Who is the namesake naturalist of this monkey?
    
    Answer: Geoffroy
    
    
88. San Juan River is the largest river in Costa Rica. What's the second largest (by length)?
    
    Answer: Térraba River
    
    
89. There are four international airports in Costa Rica. In what city will you find the airport that is furthest north?
    
    Answer: Liberia
    
    
90. Costa Rica has a long-term disagreement with what other country over the San Juan River? The dispute largely revolves around Costa Rica's rights of navigation on the river.
    
    Answer: Nicaragua
    
    
91. What island in the Pacific Ocean has been designated a Costa Rican National Park since 1978, has no permanent inhabitants other than Costa Rican park rangers, and is approximately 9 sq miles in size and 340 miles southwest of the Costa Rican mainland?
    
    Answer: Cocos Island
    
    
92. Largely an outcome of the Battle of Ochomogo, what city lost its status as capital in 1823 with San Jose newly claiming the title?
    
    Answer: Cartago
    
    
93. Former Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís was a member of what political party prior to 2005?
    
    Answer: National Liberation Party
    
    
94. What is the name of the English-based creole language spoken on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica that is an officially recognized regional language?
    
    Answer: Limonese creole
    
    
95. Costa Rica is the only sovereign nation in the Americas with what branch of Christianity as the official religion?
    
    Answer: Catholicism
    
    
96. Which of Costa Rica's 4 international airports primarily serves the Pacific coast and more than tripled its number of passengers served between 2010 and 2018?
    
    Answer: Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport
    
    
97. The sole Japanese international school in Costa Rica is located in what city that is the head city of the Moravia canton?
    
    Answer: San Vincente
    
    
98. What type of animal is most prominently featured on the back of the piece of Costa Rican currency worth 50 mil colones?
    
    Answer: Butterfly
    
    
99. Founded by a group of 25 dairy farmers in 1947, what is the name of the Alajuela-based Costa Rican producer of dairy, beverages, and candy products with over $1 billion USD of revenue in 2019?
    
    Answer: Dos Pinos
    
    
100. The longitude and latitude of Costa Rica's largest city is 9°56' [BLANK] 84°5' [BLANK]. Which two of the four cardinal directions correctly fill in the two [BLANK]'s
     
     Answer: North and West, North & West, North West, West and North, West & North, West North, W N, W&N, N&W
     
     
101. What Costa Rican footballer was named man of the match in the 2014 World Cup round of 16 matchup against Greece after he made several saves in normal time and a save during the penalty shootout?
     
     Answer: Keylor Navas
     
     
102. Costa Rica's 81 cantones are further divided into how many distritos?
     
     Answer: 473
     
     
103. Although it was first planted in 1808, by the 1820s it had surpassed tobacco, sugar, and cacao as a primary export of Costa Rica and remained a key source of the country's wealth into the 20th century. What is it?
     
     Answer: Coffee
     
     
104. Following the country's famous 1940s coup d'état, Costa Rica wrote and passed a new Constitution, leading to the nation's first democratic elections under the new Constitution in what year?
     
     Answer: 1953
     
     
105. The Costa Rican government divides the nation into seven provinces, which are further divided into 82 cantons. These are then further divided into how many districts?
     
     Answer: 488
     
     
106. What rice and bean-based dish literally translates to spotted rooster and is often considered the national dish of Costa Rica?
     
     Answer: Gallo Pinto
     
     
107. Barra del Pacuare and Barra de Parismina are generally considered the two starting locations of what 280km hiking trail in Costa Rica?
     
     Answer: Camino de Costa Rica
     
     
108. The bulging middle femora of males in a certain Costa Rican beetle got its species named for what big-biceped "Red Heat" star?
     
     Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
     
     
109. Ad Astra Rocket, Avantica, and Nimiq are all companies that are part of the economic shift from cattle ranching to information technology in what Costa Rican province?
     
     Answer: Guanacaste
     
     
110. Costa Rica is the world’s third largest banana exporter, and what is the botanical name of the banana subgroup overwhelmingly present in grocery stores?
     
     Answer: Cavendish
     
     
111. Since the 1960s, the strange topiary designs and figures in Parque Francisco Alvardoa have delighted visitors to what Costa Rican city?
     
     Answer: Zarcero
     
     
112. What is the feline-sounding artistic pseudonym for the San Jose singer-songwriter Michelle Gonzalez? She's known both as a solo artist and from her work in the band Patterns.
     
     Answer: MishCatt
     
     
113. What is the name of the currency of Costa Rica? It shares its “C” name with the last name of a portly Dominican pitcher, who pitched in MLB from 1997-2018.
     
     Answer: Colon
     
     
114. Appropriate for a country known for its beaches, "Costa Rica" means "the rich WHAT" in English?
     
     Answer: Coast
     
     
115. What is the capital of Costa Rica, with a rich night life, that shares its name with the largest city in the northern region of California, USA?
     
     Answer: San Jose
     
     
116. What town in Costa Rica is very popular for ecotourism, and is home to a cloud forest? Its Spanish name translates to “Green Mount.”
     
     Answer: Monteverde
     
     
117. What sport is Costa Rican-born Keylor Navas famous for, which he plays professionally for the Paris Saint-Germain club?
     
     Answer: soccer
     
     
118. In Costa Rica, when a woman is pregnant, she is often said to be 'con luz.' What does this Spanish expression translate to in English?
     
     Answer: With light
     
     
119. In 1565, two years after being founded, the Costa Rican city of Cartago was granted a coat of arms by which "prudent" Spanish King?
     
     Answer: King Philip II
     
     
120. An archaeological museum, founded in 1977 in San Jose, Costa Rica, is the world’s largest collection of what “J” American mineral, highly prized for its variety of colors?
     
     Answer: Museo Del Jade
     
     
121. Nine strangers are sent to a Costa Rican wellness retreat for three weeks in what punnily-named TBS reality series that aired in 2020?
     
     Answer: Lost Resort
     
     
122. Of the two countries that border Costa Rica, which one has a larger area (50,336 square miles)?
     
     Answer: Nicaragua
     
     
123. The Selvatura Adventure Park, located in Monteverde, Costa Rica, has specialized gardens for butterflies and what "H" birds that are small, eat nectar, and fly incredibly fast?
     
     Answer: Hummingbirds
     
     
124. Which Costa Rican peninsula is one of the world’s “Blue Zones” where many people live to be 100 or older?
     
     Answer: Nicoya Peninsula
     
     
125. Costa Rica is about 19,730 square miles—about 800 miles of which is what type of geographic area?
     
     Answer: Coastline
     
     
126. “If Al Capone were alive today, this is how he would handle his money.” That’s what an IRS investigator said in 2013 when which digital currency exchange in Costa Rica was shut down by the U.S. government and its founder (Arthur Budovsky) was charged with money laundering?
     
     Answer: Liberty Reserve
     
     
127. With the English translation of its name being a big clue, what Central American country is considered to be the most developed in Latin America
     
     Answer: Costa Rica
     
     
128. Costa Rican president Carlos Alvarado Quesada holds multiple degrees from UCR and also holds a degree in development studies attained in what other country?
     
     Answer: United Kingdom
     
     
129. Of the seven Central American countries, Costa Rica holds the title for second longest coastline. Which country has the longest?
     
     Answer: Panama
     
     
130. Given the choices of agriculture, services, or industry, which of those three segments generated the SMALLEST percentage of Costa Rican GDP?
     
     Answer: Agriculture
     
     
131. Following Costa Rican independence in the early 1820s, the Imperialists were in favor of joining forces with what other nearby Empire? The competing viewpoint was put forward by the Republicans who defended full independence.
     
     Answer: The Mexican Empire
     
     
132. If you walk due east from the center of San Jose, you'll eventually hit the Caribbean Sea. Imagine you can walk on water and continue walking east. The first land you hit will be part of what country?
     
     Answer: Colombia
     
     
133. Before it was subsequently replaced by the Peso and the Colon, what was the official currency of Costa Rica from 1850 to 1864? (Hint: It is currently the official currency of Brazil.)
     
     Answer: Real
     
     
134. Because both were part of Gran Colombia at one point in time, Colombia's national flag today very closely matches the flag of what other South American nation which looks similar but for a coat of arms placed on top the three horizontal bands?
     
     Answer: Ecuador
     
     
135. What “S” beach, located in northern Costa Rica in Guanacaste Province, is known as a less developed beachfront area?
     
     Answer: Samara Beach
     
     
136. Costa Rican actor Giannina Facio played the wife of Maximus in "Gladiator" over a decade before marrying what dude that directed the movie?
     
     Answer: Ridley Scott
     
     
137. According to the title of a 2011 essay collection about Costa Rican wildlife by naturalist Jack Ewing, "Monkeys Are Made Of" what sweet substance?
     
     Answer: Chocolate
     
     
138. What "O" city in Cartago Province claims to have the oldest Catholic church still in use in Costa Rica? The church was built in 1743 during the colonial era.
     
     Answer: Orosí
     
     
139. What “A” beach, part of the Golden Coast in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, offers a lot of surfing including a break known as “Little Hawaii”?
     
     Answer: Playa Avellana
     
     
140. When listing Costa Rica's seven administrative provinces alphabetically, which one is in the middle?
     
     Answer: Heredia
     
     
141. Brazil is the world's largest coffee bean producer and has been for over 150 years. Many other top coffee-producing nations are in South America and Central America, but what Southeast Asia country is actually the second largest producer?
     
     Answer: Vietnam
     
     
142. As of September 8, 2019, how many living Costa Rican former presidents are there?
     
     Answer: 7
     
     
143. The third largest city in Costa Rica by population features Oriental, Occidental, and San Nicolás districts. What is this city?
     
     Answer: Cartago
     
     
144. Kevin Kwan released "Crazy Rich Asians" the same year Costa Rica ratified a free trade agreement with what Asian maritime city-state?
     
     Answer: Singapore
     
     
145. What waterfall in Alajuela Province is at the base of the dormant Chato volcano? Its name is Spanish for “chance” or “wealth.”
     
     Answer: La Fortuna
     
     
146. The Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica operates under what "Hollywood"-esque name in much of Latin America, including Argentina, Mexico, and Costa Rica?
     
     Answer: Movistar
     
     
147. How many national parks are there in Costa Rica?
     
     Answer: 28
     
     
148. What Costa Rican-Mexican singer was called "la voz áspera de la ternura" and was known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras? She lived to the age of 93 before passing away in Mexico in 2012.
     
     Answer: Chavela Vargas
     
     
149. Since May 2018, Marvin Rodríguez has held what governmental title in Costa Rica?
     
     Answer: Second Vice President
     
     
150. The opening scenes of what 2016 superhero film, whose characters include Harley Quinn and the Joker, were filmed in the jungles of Costa Rica?
     
     Answer: Suicide Squad
     
     
151. Due to the fact they add the word to the end of other longer words as they speak, which Latin American country refer to themselves as “ticos”?
     
     Answer: Costa Rica
     
     
152. As of the 2000 census, the 4th largest city in Costa Rica by population shares a name with the 13th most populous US city. What is the name of this city?
     
     Answer: San Francisco
     
     
153. In the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, what man was the sitting president at the start of the fighting?
     
     Answer: Teodoro Picado
     
     
154. Produced by Randall Salazar, what is the name of the Costa Rican morning television show that debuted in 1998 and currently airs on Teletica from 8am to 10am on weekdays?
     
     Answer: Buen Día
     
     
155. When the first Civil War of Costa Rica occurred in the 1820s, one side wanted full independence and the other side were in favor of joining what other nation?
     
     Answer: Mexico
     
     
156. No, not Berlin: in 2021, Costa Rica hosted the sixth ministerial meeting of a socioeconomic summit named for what B-word city that served as the capital of West Germany?
     
     Answer: Bonn
     
     
157. What primate found in Costa Rica, of the genus Ateles, likely gets its name because of its long limbs, dark coloration, and small, beady eyes?
     
     Answer: Spider Monkey
     
     
158. Costa Rica famously has no standing army. This is true of one other Central American nation. Which is it?
     
     Answer: Panama
     
     
159. The Costa Rican Civil War, which lasted 44 days, was instigated in part due to the allegedly fraudulent election of what man to the presidency?
     
     Answer: Otilio Ulate
     
     
160. What citrus-y expression is used in Costa Rica as a common term of endearment?
     
     Answer: Media naranja
     
     
161. In 1784 the Spanish government formally gave San José a factory and a monopoly over what type of products? This directly led to the rise of San José as the commercial center of Costa Rica.
     
     Answer: Tobacco
     
     
162. What is the "mythical" alternative name for the 900 Generation who was a group of Costa Rican intellectuals, teachers, historians, politicians and writers associated with positivism and liberalism?
     
     Answer: The Olympus Generation (Generación del Olimpo)
     
     

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