Question 2: The pageant has had its share of controversies, ranging from
involvement of the country's powerful drug lords (who opulently
sponsored many delegates in the early nineties) to allegations of
________.
Question 5: The fact that each regional government donates a very high sum of money to something
apparently useless for a country that has more relevant ________ problems.
Question 8: In 2001, Vanessa Mendoza of Choco won the
pageant, becoming the first ________ woman to do so and setting off an immense
debate over the country's treatment of its black minorities.
Question 9: Miss Colombia openly threatened to sue Letterman but later withdrawn the statement
after Letterman formally apologised to her in ________ about the quip made.
Question 10: Stung by their removal from the pageant, a number of media in Bogotá attempted to create a
scandal over pictures of then-Miss Atlantico Valerie Dominguez who
was alleged to have posed in her ________ for a supplement of her
hometown newspaper.