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148 free Brazil trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Brazil trivia questions with answers. Think you know Brazil? Challenge yourself with our comprehensive 148-question trivia quiz covering everything from the Amazon Rainforest to Brazilian culture, history, and geography. Whether you're a Brazil enthusiast or just looking to expand your knowledge, this quiz will test your understanding of South America's largest country. Start the quiz today and see how many questions you can answer correctly!
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Q 01Which motto is written across the starry blue globe on Brazil's flag?
Order and Progress
Order and Progress is cut down from a maxim of the French philosopher Auguste Comte; the positivists who designed the republic's flag in 1889 were his followers.
Q 02Which granite peak at the mouth of Guanabara Bay is reached by a famous cable car?
Sugarloaf
Sugarloaf is named for its likeness to the cone-shaped loaves in which refined sugar was once sold; the cable car climbs it in two stages, by way of the lower Urca Hill.
Q 03Which Brazilian flip-flop brand, launched in 1962, grew from a cheap workers' sandal into a global fashion label?
Havaianas
Havaianas were once so tied to the poor that Brazil's government listed them among basic household goods; the design was modelled on the Japanese zori sandal.
Q 04Which statue has stood atop Corcovado mountain since 1931?
Christ the Redeemer
Christ the Redeemer wears a mosaic of small soapstone tiles over its concrete frame; the stone was chosen because it weathers well and is easy to work.
Q 05Which is Brazil's largest state by area?
Amazonas
Amazonas covers about 1.56 million square kilometres, the largest of Brazil's states, ahead of Pará at roughly 1.25 million; its capital is Manaus.
Q 06Which country ranks just below fifth-placed Brazil as the world's sixth-largest by area?
Australia
Australia fills a whole continent at about 7.7 million square kilometres, yet Brazil is bigger still: its 8.5 million cover roughly half of its own continent.
Q 07Brazil's 1822 break with Portugal is known as the Cry of what?
Ipiranga
Ipiranga is the stream where Prince Pedro, who had already defied orders to return to Europe, proclaimed 'Independence or death!' on 7 September; he was crowned emperor that December.
Q 08What is the official currency of Brazil?
Brazilian Real
Brazilian Real: launched on 1 July 1994 to end years of hyperinflation, it replaced the cruzeiro real, the last in a run of short-lived currencies since the 1980s.
Q 09What traditional Brazilian stew is made with black beans and various cuts of pork and beef?
Feijoada
Feijoada comes with rice, collard greens and orange slices; a popular legend says enslaved cooks invented it from scraps, but food historians trace it to Portuguese bean stews.
Q 10Which Brazilian author's novel The Alchemist follows a shepherd boy from Spain to the pyramids of Egypt?
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho wrote The Alchemist in just two weeks; before turning novelist he was a rock lyricist, briefly jailed in 1974 for supposedly subversive activities.
Q 11Which architect designed many of the civic buildings of Brazil's planned capital, inaugurated in 1960?
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer, a lifelong communist, later spent years working in France, where he designed the French Communist Party's headquarters, before returning to Brazil in 1985.
Q 12Brazil's most famous Carnival, the biggest in the world, is held every year just before which Christian season?
Lent
Lent is the fasting season, so the party comes first. Rio's Carnival puts about two million people a day on the streets, more than any other Carnival anywhere.
Q 13What Afro-Brazilian martial art combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music?
Capoeira
Q 21Which 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between the two Iberian crowns?
Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas drew a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, which left the eastern bulge of a continent Europeans had not yet sighted on Lisbon's side.
Q 22Before the capital moved inland in 1960, which city had served as Brazil's capital since 1763?
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro took over as colonial capital in 1763 because it was the handier port for the gold and gems then pouring out of the interior, and it kept the job for almost two centuries.
Q 23Which renowned waterfall system is located on the border between Brazil and Argentina?
Iguazu Falls
Capoeira was listed as a crime in Brazil's 1890 penal code, so it survived half in secret until teachers such as Mestre Bimba won it official acceptance in the 1930s.
Q 14What is the highest mountain peak in Brazil?
Pico da Neblina
Pico da Neblina, meaning 'Mist Peak', is the highest mountain in Brazil, located in the state of Amazonas near the Venezuelan border.
Q 15What is the most populous city in Brazil?
São Paulo
São Paulo, home to about 11.5 million people in the 2022 census, was a late bloomer: it had barely 31,000 residents in 1872 and stood in Rio's shadow until an export boom late that century.
Q 16Which animal, common along rivers and wetlands across Brazil, is the world's largest living rodent?
Capybara
Capybara can weigh over 60 kilograms; semiaquatic, with slightly webbed feet, it takes to the water to escape predators, which earned it the nickname 'water hog'.
Q 17Which river, nicknamed 'Old Chico', is the longest entirely within Brazilian territory?
São Francisco
The São Francisco is called the 'river of national unity' because it long served as the line of communication between the coast and the interior, and between the northeast and the south.
Q 18Brazil grows about a third of the world's supply of which crop, far ahead of second-placed Vietnam?
Coffee
Coffee made Brazil the world's dominant grower by the 1840s, and the boom it set off late in the 19th century turned a provincial backwater into the country's biggest city.
Q 19Which spirit, distilled from fermented sugarcane juice, is the base of Brazil's national cocktail, the caipirinha?
Cachaça
Cachaça is distilled from fresh cane juice rather than the molasses behind most rum, and Brazilians drink nearly all of it themselves: only a small fraction is exported.
Q 20The words piranha, tapioca and cashew all come from which Indigenous language once spoken along Brazil's coast?
Tupi
Tupi was colonial Brazil's lingua franca, used by settlers and missionaries as well as Indigenous peoples; it faded quickly after the Jesuits who wrote and taught it were expelled in 1759.
Iguazu Falls split into some 275 separate cascades along a horseshoe nearly three times as wide as Niagara; on seeing them, Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly sighed, 'Poor Niagara!'
Q 24The Pantanal, a vast tropical wetland, lies mostly in which Brazilian state?
Mato Grosso do Sul
Mato Grosso do Sul holds most of the Pantanal, where the rainy season puts roughly 80 percent of the floodplain under water each year.
Q 25Who was inaugurated as President of Brazil in January 2023?
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had been jailed on corruption charges in 2018, but his convictions were annulled in 2021, freeing him to run again and narrowly beat Jair Bolsonaro.
Q 26What do 26 of the 27 stars on Brazil's flag stand for?
States
States: the 27th star stands for the Federal District. Because the number of states has changed, the flag adopted in 1889 has been redrawn several times, most recently in 1992.
Q 27Which animal is pictured on the back of Brazil's 50 banknote?
Jaguar
The jaguar on the 50 note is the largest cat in the Americas, with jaws powerful enough to kill by piercing the skull of its prey.
Q 28Which Brazilian author wrote 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon' and 'Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'?
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado was jailed in 1935 for his leftist politics and had books banned in Brazil, yet after the war voters sent him to Congress as a Communist deputy.
Q 29Brazil borders every South American country except Ecuador and which other?
Chile
Chile is one of only two South American countries Brazil does not touch; its ten land neighbours even include France, by way of French Guiana.
Q 30Which Brazilian state is home to the colonial gold-mining city of Ouro Preto?
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais means 'General Mines': within a decade of Ouro Preto's founding in 1698, the town was the centre of the greatest gold rush the Americas had yet seen.