Q 01/05

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of which country?

A) Argentina

B) Chile

C) Uruguay

D) Paraguay

Answer · why

A) Argentina

The city proper holds about 3.1 million people, but the urban area swells to 16.7 million, the 21st most populous metropolitan area on Earth.

Q 02/05

The city sits on the southwestern shore of which estuary, often described as the world's widest river?

A) The Amazon

B) The Río de la Plata

C) The Orinoco

D) The Magdalena

Answer · why

B) The Río de la Plata

Puerto Madero, the ecological reserve, the airport and the port were all built on land reclaimed from its muddy waters.

Q 03/05

Residents of Buenos Aires are commonly known by what nickname, which literally means 'port-city person'?

A) Bonaerenses

B) Capitalinos

C) Porteños

D) Rioplatenses

Answer · why

C) Porteños

The same word is used in Valparaíso, Montevideo, Acapulco and other port cities, but abroad it is almost always taken to mean someone from Buenos Aire...

Q 04/05

'Buenos Aires' honours a Madonna venerated as patroness of which Mediterranean island?

A) Sicily

B) Majorca

C) Malta

D) Sardinia

Answer · why

D) Sardinia

The Madonna of Bonaria's church stands on a hill above Cagliari that Catalan settlers prized because it was free of the swampy old town's foul smell.

Q 05/05

Who led the Spanish expedition that first founded the city on 2 February 1536?

A) Juan de Garay

B) Juan Díaz de Solís

C) Pedro de Mendoza

D) Hernando Arias de Saavedra

Answer · why

C) Pedro de Mendoza

His settlement stood in what is now San Telmo and lasted only a few years before attacks by indigenous people forced the settlers out.