Q 01/05

Sailing west through the Strait of Magellan at Patagonia's tip brings a ship into which ocean?

A) Atlantic

B) Pacific

C) Indian

D) Southern

Answer · why

B) Pacific

Pacific means peaceful: Magellan named the ocean in 1520 because its water seemed so calm after the rough seas he had fought through to reach it.

Q 02/05

Magellan's chronicler Pigafetta described the people his fleet met in Patagonia in 1520 as what?

A) Mermaids

B) Sorcerers

C) Cannibals

D) Giants

Answer · why

D) Giants

Giants was Pigafetta's word: he wrote that the tallest sailor came up only to one man's waist. The locals were in truth just taller than Europeans of ...

Q 03/05

Which weapon of weighted cords did Patagonia's Tehuelche hunters throw to entangle their prey's legs?

A) Bolas

B) Boomerang

C) Lasso

D) Atlatl

Answer · why

A) Bolas

Bolas are stone balls on cords, whirled overhead and thrown to wrap a running animal's legs; Argentina's gauchos later took them up to catch cattle.

Q 04/05

Which French author's novel Night Flight drew on his years running an airmail service over Patagonia?

A) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

B) Jean-Paul Sartre

C) Louis-Ferdinand Céline

D) André Malraux

Answer · why

A) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ran the mail airline Aeroposta Argentina from 1929 and flew its first service down the Patagonian coast himself; The Little P...

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.