NewsTracker Answers for week of Nov. 27, 2017

Q: The Argentine navy says an explosion occurred near the time and place where a submarine carrying 44 crew members went missing on Nov. 15. But, Argentina’s president the search for the sub would continue. Where is Argentina?

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Q: More than a dozen airplanes and ships have been participating in a multinational search across an area of some 185,000 square miles in what body of water east of Argentina?

A. Drake Passage

B. South Atlantic

C. South Pacific

D. Southern Ocean


B. The submarine disappeared as it was sailing from the extreme southern port of Ushuaia to the east coast city of Mar del Plata on the Atlantic.


Q: Families of the crew vowed to stay at the naval base in Mar del Plata until the submarine is found. Mar del Plata is about 250 miles south of the nation’s capital ...

A. Asuncion

B. Brasilia

C. Buenos Aires

D. Santiago


C. Buenos Aires also is Argentina’s largest city with a metropolitan area population of 17 million people. Asuncion is the capital of Paraguay which borders Argentina to the north along with Bolivia. Brasilia is the capital of Brazil to the northeast. Santiago is the capital of Argentina’s western neighbor Chile. The nation is bordered to the east by Uruguay and the Atlantic.


Q: Crew families say the government hasn’t spent enough to maintain naval equipment. Argentina’s military spending has steadily declined since it lost a war over control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Who controls the Falklands?

A. Britain

B. Chile

C. Netherlands

D. Portugal


A. The 10-week Falklands War began in 1982 when Argentina’s military rulers invaded and occupied the British Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island and South Sandwich Islands. Britain retook the islands in fighting that killed 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military personnel, and three Falkland Islanders. It also led to the end of military rule in Argentina.


Q: Argentina is bordered on the south by the Drake Passage which connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and extends into the Southern Ocean. It gets its name from a ...

A. Dutch sailor

B. English privateer

C. Portuguese explorer

D. Spanish navigator


B. The English-language name of the passage comes from privateer Sir Francis Drake who was blown into the area in 1578 after passing through the Strait of Magellan (named after a Portuguese explorer). But, that happened about a half century after a Spanish navigator also was blown toward the passage. It was a Dutch sailor who was the first recorded to actually sail through the passage in 1616.