Q 01/05

Patagonia is shared between which two countries?

A) Argentina and Bolivia

B) Chile and Peru

C) Argentina and Chile

D) Argentina and Uruguay

Answer · why

C) Argentina and Chile

Roughly 90 percent of the region lies in Argentina and about 10 percent in Chile.

Q 02/05

Patagonia comes from 'patagón', Magellan's 1520 term for natives believed to be what?

A) Mermaids

B) Sorcerers

C) Cannibals

D) Giants

Answer · why

D) Giants

The locals were simply taller than Europeans of the day; Pigafetta claimed they stood 9 to 12 feet.

Q 03/05

Which indigenous people are now thought to be the 'Patagons' Magellan met?

A) Selk'nam

B) Mapuche

C) Tehuelche

D) Yaghan

Answer · why

C) Tehuelche

They hunted game with bolas on the steppe; their numbers collapsed soon after European contact.

Q 04/05

One theory traces the name to a monstrous character in which 1512 chivalric romance?

A) Primaleón

B) Amadís de Gaula

C) Tirant lo Blanch

D) Orlando Furioso

Answer · why

A) Primaleón

Bruce Chatwin preferred a Greek root meaning 'a roaring', since Pigafetta said the natives roared like bulls.

Q 05/05

Which two rivers are usually taken as the northern limit of Argentine Patagonia?

A) The Negro and Chubut

B) The Colorado and Barrancas

C) The Salado and Limay

D) The Paraná and Uruguay

Answer · why

B) The Colorado and Barrancas

South of them lie five Argentine provinces plus the southern tip of Buenos Aires Province.