Question: How high does the Palacio Salvo stand?
Answer: 100 metres (330 ft) high

Question: What is also a major note in Ciudad Vieja?
Answer: Plaza de la Constitución

Question: What is the Cabildo?
Answer: the seat of colonial government

Question: What is the burial place of Fructuoso Rivera?
Answer: Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral

Question: Where is the equestrian statue of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala located? 
Answer: Plaza Zabala

Question: What major public central park is located south of Avenida Italia? 
Answer: Parque Batlle

Question: How many former districts does the current barrio of Parque Battle include? 
Answer: four

Question: What sub district of Parque Batlle took its name from the original villa of Don Alejo Rossell Y Rius?
Answer: Villa Dolores

Question: Parque Batlle is named in honor of who?
Answer: José Batlle y Ordóñez

Question: Jose Batile y Ordonez was president of where? 
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Between what years was Jose batlle y Ordonez president of Uruguay? 
Answer: 1911 to 1915

Question: Parque Batlle was originally proposed by what?
Answer: an Act of March 1907

Question: Parque Rodo belongs to who?
Answer: Punta Carretas

Question: What does the name "Rodo" commemorate? 
Answer: José Enrique Rodó

Question: Who was an important Uruguayan writer that is commemorated by Parque Rodo? 
Answer: José Enrique Rodó

Question: Parque Rodo was originally conceived as what?
Answer: a French-style city park

Question: What is on the east side of the park?
Answer: the National Museum of Visual Arts

Question: What takes part on the east side of the main park every Sunday?
Answer: a very popular street market

Question: What side has an artificial lake with a little castle?
Answer: north side

Question: What does the little castle on the north side of the park house?
Answer: a municipal library

Question: Who planned the first set of subsidiary forts?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: When were the first set of subsidiary forts planned?
Answer: 1701

Question: the subsidiary forts were established to stop what?
Answer: frequent insurrections by the Spaniards

Question: Where were the Spaniards emanating from?
Answer: Buenos Aires

Question: What overlooks the bay of Montevideo?
Answer: Fortaleza del Cerro

Question: What replaced the observation post in 1802?
Answer: a beacon

Question: When did construction of the fortress begin?
Answer: 1809

Question: When did construction of the fortress finish?
Answer: 1839

Question: What avenue goes along the entire coastline of Montevideo?
Answer: The Rambla

Question: Avenue or Watercourse is the literal meaning of what Spanish word?
Answer: rambla

Question: In the Americas rambla is mostly used to refer to what?
Answer: "coastal avenue"

Question: What is the largest cemetery?
Answer: Cementerio del Norte

Question: Where is the Central Cemetery located?
Answer: Barrio Sur

Question: What year was the Central Cemetery founded?
Answer: 1835

Question: Where is the British Cemetery Montevideo located?
Answer: Buceo neighborhood

Question: Who purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents?
Answer: Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood

Question: When did Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchase a plot of land at the British Cemetery Montevideo? 
Answer: 1828

Question: When did the government compensate the British by moving the cemetery to Buceo?
Answer: 1884

Question: What unique form of dance originated in the neighbourhods of Montevideo?
Answer: Uruguayan tango

Question: Tango, candombe and murga are three main styles of what?
Answer: music

Question: How many movie theater companies are there in Montevideo?
Answer: two

Question: What is the most prominent theater in Uruguay?
Answer: The Solís Theatre

Question: Who gave the initial donation of the private library?
Answer: Father José Manuel Pérez Castellano

Question: When did Father Jose Manuel Perez Castellano die?
Answer: 1815

Question: Who was the promoter, director and organizer of the first public library in Montevideo?
Answer: Father Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga

Question: Tango, milonga and vals criollo are the most popular forms of music in what region?
Answer: Rio de Plata region

Question: When was Fun Fun Bar established?
Answer: 1935

Question: Where is El Farolito located?
Answer: the old part of the city

Question: What suffered when the military junta took over power in Uruguay?
Answer: art

Question: Rimer Cardillo was one of the country's leading what?
Answer: artists

Question: Who made the National Institute of Fine Arts?
Answer: Rimer Cardillo

Question: What was the seat of government during the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata?
Answer: The Montevideo Cabildo

Question: Where is the Montevideo Cabildo located?
Answer: front of Constitution Square

Question: Between what years was the Montevideo Cabildo built?
Answer: between 1804 and 1869

Question: What style was the Montevideo Cabildo?
Answer: Neoclassical style

Question: When did the Montevideo Cabildo become a National Heritage Site?
Answer: 1975.

Question: Where is the Palacio Taranco located?
Answer: the heart of Ciudad Vieja

Question: When was the Palacio Taranco erected?
Answer: early 20th century

Question: The Palacio Taranco was erected to be the residence for whom?
Answer: Ortiz Taranco brothers

Question: Who designed the Palacio Taranco?
Answer: French architects Charles Louis Girault and Jules Chifflot León

Question: The National History Museum of Montevideo is located where?
Answer: the historical residence of General Fructuoso Rivera

Question: What houses the Museo Romantico?
Answer: Antonio Montero

Question: How many houses has the Historical Museum annexed?
Answer: eight

Question: The Museo Torres Garcia is located where?
Answer: the Old Town

Question: The Museo Torres Garcia exhibits whose unusual portraits? 
Answer: Joaquín Torres García

Question: Who established The Museo Torres Garcia?
Answer: Manolita Piña Torres

Question: Manolita Pina Torres was the widow of who?
Answer: Torres Garcia

Question: Where is the National Museum of Visual Arts located?
Answer: Parque Rodó

Question: What does the National Museum of Visual Arts have the largest collection of in Uruguay?
Answer: paintings

Question: When was the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum founded?
Answer: 1930

Question: Who painted Uruguayan patriotic themes?
Answer: Juan Manuel Blanes

Question: Where is the Museo de Historia del Arte located?
Answer: the Palacio Municipal

Question: Where is the Museo de Guacho y de la Moneda located?
Answer: the Centro

Question: What are bombillas?
Answer: (drinking straws

Question: Where is the Museo Naval located?
Answer: the eastern waterfront in Buceo

Question: Where is the Museo y Parque Fernando Garcia located?
Answer: Carrasco

Question: What is the center of traditional Uruguayan food and beverage in Montevideo?
Answer: the Mercado del Puerto

Question: What is a torta frita?
Answer: a pan-fried cake

Question: Where is Arcadia located?
Answer: atop the Plaza Victoria

Question: Where is Shannon Irish pub located?
Answer: the eastern part of the Old District

Question: What is the major annual festival in Montevideo?
Answer: the annual Montevideo Carnaval

Question: What is the annual Montevideo Carnaval part of?
Answer: the national festival of Carnival Week

Question: What does Tablados mean?
Answer: popular scenes

Question: What does Desfile de las Llamadas mean?
Answer: Parade of the Calls

Question: Church and state have been officially separated in Uruguay since what year?
Answer: 1916

Question: What religion has the most followers in Montevideo?
Answer: Roman Catholicism

Question: When was the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo created?
Answer: 1830

Question: What does Nuestra Senora del Sagrado Corazon mean?
Answer: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Question: What does Iglesia Punta Carretas mean?
Answer: Punta Carretas Church