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Argentina

1 The name is derived from the Latin argentum (silver), which comes from the ________ ἀργήντος (argēntos), gen.

2 What time offset in UTC is Argentina in during daylight savings?

3 It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, ________ and Spain are more populous.

4 The Argentine beach football team was one of four competitors in the first international championship for the sport, in ________, in 1993.

5 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Argentina?

6 Following an attempt to purge the Peronist influence and the banning of Peronists from political life, elections in 1958 brought ________ to office.

7 When I think of what I've lost, I ask "who know themselves better than the blind?" – for every thought becomes a tool.[110] ________

8 What is the national anthem of Argentina?

9 The population density of Argentina: How many people are there per square kilometre?

10 Which is the largest city in Argentina?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?
  • the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil?
  • the Río Pilcomayo National Park in Argentina is included in the Ramsar Convention's list of wetlands of international importance?
  • the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
  • the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International?
  • the Argentinian Labour Party, which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party?
  • in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
  • more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina?
  • more than a million tourists visit the wine-producing regions in Argentina annually?
  • the Southern Right Whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
  • the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
  • the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a book with an infinite number of pages?
  • when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
  • when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?
  • the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
  • the first two books by Argentine author Ricardo Güiraldes were such a commercial and critical failure that he gathered up the unsold copies and threw them in a well?
  • the Viceroyalty of La Plata—covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay—was the last viceroyalty created by Spain?
  • the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina?
  • the first British merchant navy ship lost to enemy fire since World War II was the Atlantic Conveyor, sunk by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War?
  • in 1896, Christian IX of Denmark awarded Ramon Santamarina the Order of the Dannebrog, for supporting the settlement of Danish emigrants in Argentina?
  • during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
  • Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
  • Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay?
  • Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
  • Enrique Angelelli was an Argentine Catholic bishop killed during that country's military junta?
  • Eduardo Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera?
  • painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
  • Russian-born Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at farming, both in the Catskills and in Argentina?
  • Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
  • Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War?
  • Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
  • after discovering a suitcase with US$800,000 in Maletinazo, policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy?
  • all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
  • although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil?
  • a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943?
  • a large titanosaur nesting ground was recently discovered in Auca Mahuevot, in Patagonia in Argentina, and another colony has reportedly been discovered in Spain?
  • Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
  • Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?
  • Las fuerzas extrañas, Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina?
  • Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?
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