Question: What year was Uruguay consolidated as an independent state?
Answer: 1828

Question: Manuel Oribe and Fructuoso Rivera fought against what empire?
Answer: Empire of Brazil

Question: Manuel Oribe and Fructuoso Rivera fought under whose command?
Answer: Lavalleja

Question: Who represented Oribe's Blancos?
Answer: National Party

Question: Who represented Rivera's Colorados?
Answer: Colorado Party

Question: What did Montevideo suffer between 1843 and 1851?
Answer: a siege

Question: How did the British and French supply the city of Montevideo??
Answer: by sea

Question: What year did the Colorados defeat Oribe?
Answer: 1851

Question: What year was a stagecoach bus line established in Montevideo?
Answer: 1853

Question: Between what years were the first natural gas street lights constructed?
Answer: 1854 to 1861

Question: What year was the Teatro Solis inaugurated? 
Answer: 1856

Question: What year was an underwater telegraph line made that connected Montevideo with Buenos Aires?
Answer: 1866

Question: What year did Compania de Tranvias al Paso del Molino y Cerro creat the first lines connecting Montevideo with Union?
Answer: 1868

Question: What year was Mercado del Puerto inaugurated? 
Answer: 1868

Question: What year was the first railway line of the company Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay inaugurated? 
Answer: 1869

Question: What year was Bulevar Circunvalcion constructed? 
Answer: 1878

Question: When were the first telephone lines installed?
Answer: 1882

Question: When did electric street lights replace the gas operated lights?
Answer: 1886

Question: When did the Hipodromo de Maronas start operating?
Answer: 1888

Question: When was the Central Railway Station of Montevideo inaugurated? 
Answer: 1897

Question: What century did many Europeans immigrate to the city of Montevideo?
Answer: early 20th century

Question: In 1908 what percent of the city's population was foreign-born?
Answer: 30%

Question: The Rodo Park and the Estadio Gran Parque Central serves as poles of what?
Answer: urban development

Question: Who was the Admiral of the German pocket ship?
Answer: Admiral Graf Spee

Question: Where did the famous incident involving the German pocket battleship take place in?
Answer: Punta del Este

Question: When year did the Battle of the River Plate take place?
Answer: 13 December 1939

Question: Montevideo is situated on the north shore of what?
Answer: the Río de la Plata

Question: What river forms a natural border between Montevideo and San Jose Department?
Answer: Santa Lucía River

Question: What does the Bay of Montevideo form?
Answer: a natural harbour

Question: The city of Montevideo has an average elevation of what?
Answer: 43 metres

Question: How far is to the neighboring capitol of San Jose de Mayo?
Answer: 90 kilometres

Question: How far is to the neighboring capitol of Canelones?
Answer: 46 kilometres

Question: The Municipality of Montevideo was first created by a legal act of what?
Answer: 18 December 1908

Question: Who was the municipality's first mayor?
Answer: Daniel Muñoz

Question: Municipalities were abolished by what?
Answer: Uruguayan Constitution of 1918

Question: How many political municipalities has the city of Montevideo been divided into as of 2010?
Answer: 8

Question: What is the head of each Municipio called?
Answer: an alcalde

Question: Who elects the mayor of the political municipalities? 
Answer: the citizens registered in the constituency

Question: What had many of the city's barrios previously been?
Answer: geographically separate settlements

Question: What is a neighborhood of great significance? 
Answer: Ciudad Vieja

Question: What surrounded the neighborhood of Ciudad Vieja?
Answer: a protective wall

Question: How many inhabitants did Montevideo have in 1860?
Answer: 57,913

Question: The population quadrupled by 1880 due mainly to what?
Answer: the great European immigration

Question: What happened to the population by the year 1880?
Answer: had quadrupled

Question: What had the population grown to in 1908?
Answer: 309,331 inhabitants

Question: According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Montevideo's population?
Answer: 1,325,968 persons

Question: According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Uruguay's population?
Answer: 3,241,003

Question: According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Montevideo's female population?
Answer: 707,697

Question: According to the census survey carried out between 15 June and 31 July 2004, what was Montevideo's male population?
Answer: 618,271

Question: What is the economic and political centre of the country?
Answer: Montevideo

Question: What year was the World Trade Center Montevideo constructed?
Answer: 1998

Question: What year was the Telecommunications Tower constructed?
Answer: (2000

Question: What kind of company does ANCAP run?
Answer: Energy

Question: What kind of company does ANTEL run?
Answer: telecommunications

Question: What has traditionally been the strongest service export sectors in Uruguay?
Answer: Banking

Question: Uruguay was once dubbed as what?
Answer: the Switzerland of America

Question: What is the largest bank in Uruguay? 
Answer: Banco Republica

Question: Where is Banco Republica based in?
Answer: Montevideo

Question: What accounts for much of Uruguay's economy?
Answer: Tourism

Question: Where is tourism in Montevideo centered in?
Answer: Ciudad Vieja area

Question: Plaza Independencia constitutes one end of what?
Answer: 18 de Julio Avenue

Question: How many guest rooms does the Sheraton have?
Answer: 207

Question: How many suites does the Sheraton have?
Answer: 10

Question: How many rooms does The Radisson Montevideo have?
Answer: 232

Question: What is the heartland of retailing in Uruguay?
Answer: Montevideo

Question: What city has become the centre of business and real estate? 
Answer: Montevideo

Question: What year was Montevideo Shopping  built?
Answer: 1985

Question: What style of building is the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral? 
Answer: Neoclassical

Question: What style of building is the World Trade Center Montevideo? 
Answer: Postmodern

Question: What is the tallest skyscraper in the country?
Answer: ANTEL Telecommunication Tower

Question: What district has many homes built by Bello and reboratti?
Answer: Pocitos

Question: Between what years did Bello and Reboratti built most of the homes in the Pocitos district? 
Answer: 1920 and 1940

Question: Who designed the Edificio Panamericano?
Answer: Raul Sichero

Question: What types of apartment buildings were constructed during the boom of the 1970's and 1980's?
Answer: modern apartment buildings

Question: When did World Trade Center Montevideo officially open?
Answer: 1998

Question: What was the first building to be inaugurated? 
Answer: World Trade Center 1

Question: When was World Trade Center 2 inaugurated?
Answer: 2002

Question: When was World Trade Center 3 inaugurated?
Answer: 2009

Question: What was intended to be a platform for the development of business activities?
Answer: The Towers Square

Question: The square contains a sculpture by what renowned Uruguayan sculptor? 
Answer: Pablo Atchugarry

Question: How much space is World Trade Center 4 projected to have?
Answer: 53,500 square metres

Question: What is Uruguay's oldest theater? 
Answer: The Solís Theatre

Question: When was The Solis Theater built?
Answer: 1856

Question: Who owns The Solis Theater?
Answer: the government of Montevideo

Question: What year did the government of Montevideo start a major reconstruction of the Solis  Theater?
Answer: 1998

Question: What year was the reconstruction of the solis theater completed?
Answer: 2004

Question: Who designed the Palacio Salvo?
Answer: Mario Palanti

Question: What year was the Palacio Salvo completed? 
Answer: 1925