Q 01/05

What is the capital city of Argentina?

A) Montevideo

B) Santiago

C) Buenos Aires

D) Caracas

Answer · why

C) Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires was founded twice: the first Spanish settlement of 1536 was abandoned after attacks by local peoples, and Juan de Garay refounded the cit...

Q 02/05

Which birds come ashore by the hundred thousand each September to nest at Punta Tombo on Argentina's Atlantic coast?

A) Penguins

B) Flamingos

C) Pelicans

D) Albatrosses

Answer · why

A) Penguins

Penguins return to Punta Tombo every spring: the males land first and reclaim the very burrow they used the year before, then wait there for last year...

Q 03/05

Tango was born in the working-class port districts of Argentina's capital and which other capital across the estuary?

A) Montevideo

B) Asunción

C) Santiago

D) La Paz

Answer · why

A) Montevideo

Montevideo shares the credit: UNESCO listed tango in 2009 on a joint bid by Argentina and Uruguay, as a tradition born among the urban lower classes o...

Q 04/05

Which Argentine footballer, a 1980s hero at Napoli, was nicknamed 'El Pibe de Oro', the Golden Boy?

A) Lionel Messi

B) Diego Maradona

C) Alfredo Di Stéfano

D) Gabriel Batistuta

Answer · why

B) Diego Maradona

Diego Maradona, 'El Pibe de Oro', led Napoli to the first two league titles in its history; days after his death in 2020 the city renamed its stadium ...

Q 05/05

What is the official currency of Argentina?

A) Peso

B) Real

C) Sol

D) Bolívar

Answer · why

A) Peso

The peso replaced the inflation-wrecked austral in the early 1990s and was pegged one-to-one to the US dollar until the peg broke in January 2002.