If i said name...

[BresciaBike]

...two or three South American countries, which are the first ones to spring to mind?

Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina.

Brazil
Argentina
Venezuela

Peru, Brazil, Argentina

Brazil, chile, Argentina

Mexico, Chile, Peru

Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela

Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay

Brazil Argentina Chile

Brazil, Peru, Chile

Argentina, Brazil, Chile.

Bolivia
Argentina
Chile

But two of the countries I nearly mentioned (Guatemala and Costa Rica are actually in Central America and I didn't know until now, embarassingly)

Peru, Chile, Brazil

Brazil
Chile
Colombia

Exactly my list, in the opposite order!

But two of the countries I nearly mentioned (Guatemala and Costa Rica are actually in Central America and I didn't know until now, embarassingly)

Mexico got a mention and it's North America!

Argentina Brazil Chile

Peru, Argentina, Chile.

Peru, Bolivia, Argentina

Guyana and Surinam!

OP what did we win?

I can name others:
Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Suriname, tell me when I can stop...

Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina

Brazil, Peru, Chile

I scanned that quickly and thought it was asking what south american country would make a good name. I thought Venezuela would be pretty!

Wahey! All done in 20 posts! Unless I should include the French OD of French Guiana hmmm 😂

Actually, I had wondered, for no reason I can discern, whether Uruguay or Paraguay would be mentioned first.

You win my gratitude for assisting me in this most purposeless of experiments 😁

I love a good purposeless experiment. And that we won.