Places Quiz 7: multiple choice
7 of the 20 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is the last remnant of which former French colonial empire in North America?
New France
2. Which private island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was a favourite holiday retreat of Princess Margaret?
3. The Turks and Caicos Islands are said to be named after a cactus whose top resembles what?
A Turkish fez (a turban or fez; the "Turk's head" cactus)
4. Which country sold the islands now known as the US Virgin Islands to the United States in 1917?
5. What is the capital of American Samoa?
6. What is the main and most populous of the Cook Islands?
Rarotonga
7. Which French painter spent his last years in French Polynesia and died on the Marquesas Islands in 1903?
Paul Gauguin
8. Which Japanese soldier hid in the jungles of Guam until 1972, unaware or unwilling to believe that the war had ended?
Shoichi Yokoi
9. Kiribati is one of the first places in the world to see the New Year. What was its former colonial name?
The Gilbert Islands
10. Which atoll in the Marshall Islands, used for US nuclear tests after the Second World War, gave its name to a swimsuit?
Bikini Atoll
11. The island of Yap in Micronesia is famous for a traditional currency. What is it made from?
Stone (huge carved stone discs called rai)
12. Nauru became extremely rich in the 20th century by mining which substance, formed largely from seabird droppings?
Phosphate
13. New Caledonia holds a large share of the world's reserves of which metal?
14. Niue, a self-governing island in free association with New Zealand, is nicknamed "the Rock of..." what?
"...Polynesia"
15. Which tree, named after the island, is now grown as a houseplant around the world?
The Norfolk Island pine
16. From which island in the Northern Mariana Islands did the Enola Gay take off to bomb Hiroshima?
17. Which lake in Palau is famous for millions of jellyfish that tourists can snorkel among?
18. Wallis and Futuna, a French overseas collectivity, still recognises how many traditional kings?
19. The Kerguelen Islands, part of the French Southern Territories, were given what bleak nickname by Captain Cook?
The Islands of Desolation
20. Which Antarctic explorer is buried at Grytviken on South Georgia?
Sir Ernest Shackleton
ANSWERS
1. New France
2. C Mustique
3. A Turkish fez (a turban or fez; the "Turk's head" cactus)
4. D Denmark
5. A Pago Pago
6. Rarotonga
7. Paul Gauguin
8. Shoichi Yokoi
9. The Gilbert Islands
10. Bikini Atoll
11. Stone (huge carved stone discs called rai)
12. Phosphate
13. D Nickel
14. "...Polynesia"
15. The Norfolk Island pine
16. C Tinian
17. C Jellyfish Lake
18. A Three
19. The Islands of Desolation
20. Sir Ernest Shackleton