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AZTEQUIZ no. 2 (hard, but fun!)

01: What competition did Moctezuma II win as a young man?

02: How many ‘heavens’ did the Aztecs believe in?

03: What two animals did the Aztecs domesticate?

04: Why did the Aztecs put firelighters under their largest drums?

05: What shaped Aztec stone monolith was found buried in front of a bookshop in Mexico City in 2005?

06: Which Aztec god is the most ‘googled’?

07: In Aztec armies of up to 400,000 men, around 1/4 of the soldiers were always what?

08: What job was given specially to children, to help professional feather workers?

09: Where was a baby boy’s umbilical cord buried?

10: In the special heaven of Tlalocan where Aztec children who died as infants went, what dripped from the branches of the sacred tree there?

11: How many city neighbourhoods were there in Tenochtitlan?

12: Which was the Aztecs’ favourite announcing instrument?

13: What was the first sound heard very early in the morning in every Aztec home?

14: What was the Aztec recipe for chewing gum?

15: How did Aztec experts detect the presence of precious stones buried in the ground?

16: How did Aztec parents encourage their children to grow more?

17: Which object was always placed at the centre of every ordinary Aztec family house?

18: Which creature did the water folk consider to be a mirror, to predict their fate by?

19: What’s the connection between bats and the writing of Aztec codices (made either of deerskin, fig tree bark paper or cactus fibre)?

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