WIN tickets to Ireland vs Argentina and entry to an exclusive Smirnoff Party

Darragh

On 27th November 2010 at the Wright Venue, Dublin, Ireland will receive the best of Argentina’s nightlife culture as part of The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project – a one-of-a-kind global experience in which 14 countries pair up to exchange crates containing the best of their local nightlife.

In turn, Argentina will receive the best of Ireland’s homegrown nightlife, as voted by the Irish public. 

Argentina’s nightlife will be taking over The Wright Venue, Swords on 27th November.



Guests can expect to sip on delicious drinks including an Argentinean take on the signature Smirnoff Mule, enjoy the best food of Argentina, and be exposed to art and animation reflective of the colour and character found in Argentina.

Ireland can also look forward to musical entertainment from Argentina’s top DJ Elio Riso.

Tickets for the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project can be purchased through ticketmaster for €15.

Continuing on a mission to inspire and enable unique experiences, the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project has uncovered the best of global nightlife, and will now celebrate the outcome when two very different cultures collide to create something extraordinary.

For more information, log on to http://www.facebook.com/SmirnoffIreland



To celebrate this one of a kind nightlife experience, thanks to Smirnoff, we're offering you the chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project at the Wright Venue on 27th November as well as two tickets to the Ireland versus Argentina rugby match in the Aviva stadium the following day. 


That's two sets of tickets up for grabs, so we'll have two winners.



To be in with a chance to win, just post your favourite fact about Argentina. You can know it or copy research it online, but it can't be the same fact as any of the facts before.

Your post may not appear immediately, but don't worry, it's not lost!

We'll pick the winner next Wednesday, November 24. Applicants and guests must be over 18. Judge's decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into and no cash alternative will be offered. Enjoy Smirnoff sensibly.
Visit www.drinkaware.ie.

[EDIT]
Some of the facts are being duplicated because of our pre-moderated comments for this forum, so I'm not approving any duplicate and would invite anyone who's posted something that's been said by someone else first to enter again with a different fact

Also, any post with more than one fact will not be approved and entered - don't be greedy guys!

[SECOND EDIT]
The competition is now closed for entries, we'll be picking a winner later this afternoon. A big thank you to everyone who entered.

Dav
Wednesday 12:05pm

joe316

Although Argentina's name means "Land of Silver," there is actually very little silver there. It was misnamed by explorers who thought they saw silver there.

Goodne

There is a duck in Argentina that was named "The Argentinian Vampire Duck"!This duck has the habit of picking off lice from other ducks and christian missionaries apparently thought that was some form of vampirism! It is also called "The Ghoul Bird"!

jimi_t2

Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falabella

kerash

Argentina is the home of the fifth largest Irish community in the world.
Among the most prominent of these early Irish settlers were the family of Patrick Lynch, from Galway, who settled in Buenos Aires in the 1740s, and whose descendants include Ernesto "Che" Guevara

adamski8

always funny to think there is a large population who speak welsh as their first language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Argentine

Inquitus

Argentina has the world's second highest consumption rate of beef, at 55 kg a year per capita.

padair

My favourite fact about Argentina is about William Brown. He was the Creator of the Argentine Navy and the Leader of Navy forces in the old wars against the Spannish and Brazil. He is considered one of their local heros and he was born in Ireland.

JJ

Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s was the backdrop for Lawrence Thornton's novel Imagining Argentina, which was also adapted into a movie in 2003.

nicklauski

The fact that they have produced two of the best soccer players the world has ever seen. Maradonna & Messi.

Stevokenevo

The first criminal fingerprint identification was made in Argentina in 1892

kc66

Majority of the population in Argentina is of European origin.

helimachoptor

Argentina has the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere.

dulpit

Argentina was once part of the United Provinces of South America

28064212

There are 4 (four) vowels in the word Argentina. They are 'a', 'e', 'i' and another 'a'.

s_carnage

Argentina's weather is in reality pretty chilly, with about twenty percent arctic not what one would anticipate from South America!!

baztard

Argentine women undergo the most amount of plastic surgery in the world per person.

Jennw

In Buenos Aires the parilament building is pink-it was dyed this colour by mixing blood with the cement when making the bricks!

Funkfield

Argentina is the only country in the world where you can find both monkeys (in the North East jungles) and penguins (in Patagonia.)

sideofbacon

Argentina boasts of being one of the countries wherein the print media industry is highly developed and independent of the government. There are more than two hundred newspapers operating from the country, without the influence of the government. :eek:

Megane

The Iguazu Falls of Argentina is one of the largest waterfalls of the world.

ChainWhip

Madonna sang 'Don't cry for my Argentina'

That is all.

Raytown Rocks

Did you know

Argentina begins with an A and ends with an a, and has r gent in the middle.

No google needed there you may notice..haha

skinner2x

Las Islas Malvinas is the proper name for the Falkland Islands

St._Andalou

The gauchos were Argentine cowboys who wore ponchos that were colour-coded according to the region where they lived. Argentina had a little trouble overcoming regionalism until General San Martín led an army of them over the Andes during his campaign for Argentine independance. The men were freezing in the mountains, he provided wool ponchos that were sky blue and white (which are now the national colours) as opposed to the colours of their region, which helped not only unify the army, but the country as well.

Hence the blue and white of the Argentine flag.

Dj Stiggie

The Biro brothers left Europe to set up a company in Argentina, encouraged by President Augustine Justo, to manufacture their ball-point pen

lucianot

Argentine Spanish uses an archaic form of the pronoun 'you' ('tú' in most of the Spanish variations).
Instead they say 'vos'.

Hondo75

Ushaia in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, is generally regarded as the most southerly town or city in the world and I was there in 2004.

JohnButler

Argentina were one of the first countries to have radio broadcasting. The first broadcast was made on the 27th of August, 1920. Only twenty people had a receiver at the time.

I-Shot-Jr

An interesting fact about Argentina is that their rugby team is referred to as "Los Pumas" despite the fact that the large feline on their emblem is not a puma but a jaguar. This nickname is attributed to a journalist who commented on the emblem after their first test match and thought it was a puma. The Argentina rugby team has been referred to as "Los Pumas" ever since!

Coolbreeze2809

Argentina is home to the worlds largest species of warm weather penguins; The Megallanic Penguin http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/magell.html

Papa_Lazarou

Over 30% of its women suffer from some form of an eating disorder.

andrewire

I like how Argetinean people pronounce the double L in Spanish.

For example,

The word 'calle' [street] in regular Spanish would be pronounced as 'ka-yeh'. But in Argentina they say 'ka-jeh' with emphasis on the last bit. Whoever speaks Spanish knows what I'm talking about!

bullpost

Lots of Irish emigated to Argentina in the 19th Century.

Their legacy can still be found today in activities such as hurling (yep you read that correctly):

http://hurlingargentina.blogspot.com/

kerrz

Big Brother in Argentina is called Gran Hermano

Jennw

In Argentine Spanish 'Que quilombo!' is there way of saying 'What a shambles' (or something similar!)

YeAh!

Argentina is one of the leading producers of wines ever since the 16th century and has 1800 wineries!

ferfer15

The biggest dinosaur in the world was found in Argentina and it is called "argentinosaurus huinculensis".

NedNew2

The offical national sport in Argentina is called "Pato" which is a mixture of polo and basketball, the name is spanish for "Duck" which originates from the fact that originally they used a live duck in a basket instead of a ball.

Cavehill Red

No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for Argentinian leprechauns.

Not even a pot of silver (no silver there, as we already know.)

Nope, Argentina's wealth is its beef, and in 2002 leprechauns were spotted mutilating cows and hiding in trees when detected.

http://www.rense.com/general25/cooat.htm

allandanyways

The Mapuche people are the most populous indigenous tribe in Argentina (about 4% of the total population) and their religion is centered around the machi, who are usually women who can ward off everything from evil spirits to rain. Girl power, oh yeah!

Celtic3x

Shirt is manufactured by Adidas

Random

there are 9 letters in the word argentina.

weldoninhio

Current President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was the first woman President to be elected in Argentina.

ALS

President Juan Domingo Peron became Argentina’s President in 1946. ‘Evita’, his wife of legendary fame, was given the charge of labor relations, who succumbed to cancer, dying of it in 1952, when she was 33 years of age.

dak

The first game of rugby in Argentina can be traced back to 1873.

(just saw the 1 fact rule)

copper04

Argentina and Great Britan went to war in 1982 over a group of islands 500 Kms off the coast of Argentina called Las Malvinas, ( Faklands to the British)
Most Argentines still passionately argues "Las Malvinas son Argentinas"

Fr Pat Noise

Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aires is the widest street in the world.

Cazlou

My host when I go to Oslo for New Years is from Argentina. I'm very happy about that!

Wolfe Tone

The world's first animated films were created and released in Argentina, by a person named Quirino Cristiani in 1917. Apparently.

testtech05

For the prize thats on offer The Argentinian rugby union or Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR) is one of the oldest in the world and was founded in 1899. It was then named the River Plate Rugby Football Union.