Oceania Quiz

Match each island territory with the country to which it belongs by putting the letter of the answer in the blank provided:

• Niue, Cook Islands

• Great Britain

• Pitcairn Island

• Chile

• Guam, Wake Island, Midway Islands

• United States

• New Caledonia, Wallis, Futuna

• France

• Easter Island

• New Zealand

What is the term for the Melanesian groups that worship the people or transportation methods responsible for bringing to them the material goods of the Western world?

• Animists

• Cargo Cults

• Evangelist

• Ethnic Cults

From which of the Mariana Islands did the B-29s that dropped the first atomic bombs take off?

• Tinian

• Guam

• Guadalcanal

• Vanuatu

What is the name of the island twenty-six hundred miles off the coast of Chile that has rows of mysterious stone heads?

• Easter Island

• Cook Island

• Sandwich Island

• Guam

Who was the first European to chart the Pacific Ocean?

• James Cook

• Ferdinand Magellan

• David Livingstone

• John Melanesia

Which great explorer discovered both New Caledonia and the islands later known as Hawaii?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Hudson

• James Cook

• John Marshall

Name the two countries that make up the island of New Guinea.

• Irian Jaya

• Futuna

• Papua New Guinea

• Palau

Which islands did Alvaro de Mendaña discover in 1568 and name after a biblical character?

• David Islands

• Moses Islands

• Solomon Islands

• Marshall Islands

Which island has been called “the crossroads of the South Pacific”?

• Guam

• Vanuatu

• Palau

• Fiji

All 25,000 islands that are scattered across the Pacific Ocean make up a combined total land area of less than that of the state of Alaska.

• True

• False