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Pacific Ocean General Knowledge

Can you answer these challenging general knowledge questions about the Pacific Ocean?
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First submittedOctober 12, 2014
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What is the largest city located on the Yangtze river delta?
Shanghai
What region surrounding the Pacific is responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes?
Ring of Fire
What is the largest island in the Pacific?
New Guinea
What is the deepest part of the world's oceans?
Mariana Trench
Of the countries that border the Pacific, which one comes last alphabetically?
Vietnam
What is the least populous country that touches the Pacific?
Nauru
What Alaskan island chain spans a distance of over 1,900 kilometers?
Aleutian Islands
What sea, named for a Dutch explorer, separates New Zealand and Australia?
Tasman Sea
What major Mexican peninsula juts into the Pacific?
Baja California
What is the most populous Russian city on the Pacific?
Vladivostok
What island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for its statues of giant heads?
Easter Island
What country is that island a part of?
Chile
Which three major regions of Oceania end in "nesia"?
Melanesia
Micronesia
Polynesia
What line, at roughly 180° of longitude, could be considered
the opposite of the Greenwich Meridian?
International Date Line
What Hawaii volcano is the tallest mountain in the world when measured from
its base on the ocean floor?
Mauna Kea
What country controls the Society Islands, which include Tahiti and Bora Bora?
France
What Japanese island was the site of the deadliest battle in the Pacific theater of WWII?
Okinawa
What sea of the Pacific Ocean borders 10 different countries - with China trying
to claim nearly all of it?
South China Sea
AdamC0912
+25
Level 81
Nov 30, 2017
Please accept amnesia ;)
PaterN
+66
Level 78
Nov 30, 2017
What the heck is amnesia? I´m sure I used to know it, but somehow I forgot ...
ubsaral
+2
Level 85
Dec 1, 2017
loss of memory
StephCurry2017
+2
Level 19
Jan 4, 2018
Lol
ninjastar9
+7
Level 57
Mar 19, 2018
Make sure you don’t have tally marks on your arm... oh, wait, I have some on mine, but I can’t seem to remember how they got there or why I’m writing this. ;)
mikeb
+7
Level 66
Mar 19, 2018
Is that what happens when you have amnesia and deja vu at the same time?
eppek
+1
Level 59
Nov 28, 2020
Apparently so.
Wardo
+7
Level 86
Dec 4, 2017
way too much time! It is not an easy quiz, moderately tough, but 8 minutes is way too generous. good variety of questions.
buck1017
+1
Level 77
Dec 6, 2017
agreed. I got bored trying to think of the last two and I still had like 4 minutes to go.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Mar 19, 2018
It was the right amount for me. I finally remembered the third "nesia" with 45 seconds left. Great quiz for me.
Yaramy
+1
Level 42
Mar 19, 2018
Please accept just California
PacoGee
+14
Level 44
Mar 19, 2018
that is a state in the US, not a part of Mexico.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Mar 19, 2018
Baja was accepted for me. Americans often shorten it, but not to California - too confusing, as Paco said, with the US state. (Perhaps it is different in Mexico.)
caesaria
+1
Level 78
Mar 19, 2018
For some reason I thought the name of the largest island was "Papua" instead of "New Guinea"...
whittily
+2
Level 53
Mar 19, 2018
Can you please accept 'Papua' for New Guinea as well :)
Antofagasta
+6
Level 67
Mar 19, 2018
Papua itself is a province of Indonesia on the west of the island and the cultural group. New Guinea is the name of the island but could well have been called Papua in the past.
sihollett
+1
Level 86
Mar 19, 2018
And, of course, Papua is used in the name of the other half of the island that isn't the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

I'd suggest it's like Munchen or Den Haag - it's not the English name, but it is something the island is called.

fitheach
+10
Level 59
Mar 19, 2018
The name of the island is New Guinea. Papua is simply incorrect and is not used in English to refer to the whole island, officially or otherwise. Why do you want an incorrect answer to be acceptable?
GrantH
+1
Level 63
Mar 19, 2018
The largest island is Borneo. New Guinea is half of that island.
Jarl5
+12
Level 68
Mar 20, 2018
Nope. Borneo is divided between Malaysia, Indonesia, and the small country of Brunei. New Guinea is the name of one of the largest islands in the world, which itself is split between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Kahikatea
+3
Level 76
Jul 29, 2018
New Guinea is bigger than Borneo
eibi
+1
Level 80
Mar 19, 2018
So you're saying, 786,000 km² = 0.5 * 752,000 km² ?

Interesting...

GrantH
+1
Level 63
Mar 19, 2018
My bad. You're right. Thanks
PauloMX
+2
Level 66
Mar 19, 2018
Please accept Rapa Nui for Easter island, soon will be the only official name of this island!

Thanks :)

chailattee
+4
Level 62
May 6, 2021
Well, it says that the inhabitants are the Rapa Nui, so that would be a little weird to give it away in the clue, and plus it is commonly known as Easter Island.
mahble
+2
Level 77
Mar 19, 2018
8 minutes? That is way too much, I was able to do it in two while eating (doing it one handed)!
Bamsesvenner
+3
Level 72
Apr 24, 2021
I did it 13 seconds while ironing (doing it with my left foot)!
SenileS
+1
Level 49
Mar 19, 2018
The island of Australia is much larger than New Guinea. I guess it is not completely in the Pacific?
sulfuratus
+1
Level 66
Mar 19, 2018
It's not considered an island
Tomtrific
+1
Level 82
Mar 20, 2018
I did so good on this test. I'm so very proud of myself. And I'm cute, too.
Charliezard
+3
Level 66
Jan 31, 2022
ok...?
fitheach
+3
Level 59
Jun 8, 2022
Not so good at English grammar though... :-)
LeoSpec
+1
Level 42
Mar 20, 2018
accept guinea?
BigFloppa
+5
Level 63
Jan 28, 2022
Thats a country in Africa
Jarl5
+4
Level 68
Mar 20, 2018
Spelled Vanuatu every way I could think for #5...
Nyackjohn
+2
Level 78
Mar 21, 2018
Isn't having amnesia and deja vu at the same time "the feeling you've forgotten this before"?
Kesa1979
+1
Level 91
Jun 6, 2018
15/20
WaldoU
+8
Level 72
Feb 19, 2021
Can't you accept antimeridian? That's what it is called everywhere. Even wikipedia doesn't even call it "day changing" or whatever.
JJ
+8
Level 43
Jul 30, 2021
Yes, I agree. International Date Line should not be accepted here because the opposite of a straight line should be a straight line, not a line that meanders around Russia, the US, and several Pacific island countries.
JackBeNimble
+5
Level 80
Jun 8, 2022
Agreed. I kept trying it, convinced that I must be mistyping or misspelling it.
1ProximaCentauri
+3
Level 55
May 10, 2021
A bit generous with the time. Right now, someone with a WPM of 5 would be able to finish this quiz if they knew all the answers. Maybe cut the time in half?
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
May 11, 2022
Not everything has to be a race.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Jun 8, 2022
Sure but 8 minutes is still pretty generous. I managed to do this in a little over 2 minutes and I wasn't trying to go fast.
TheGreatArturo
+1
Level 76
Dec 31, 2023
You're allowed to quit early if you want, and you don't win anything by being the fastest on this site. Oh, and whoop de doo to you for being so wonderful.
Dimby
+1
Level 77
Jun 8, 2022
I hesitate to say you’re being racist, QM
nokay
+1
Level 64
Dec 25, 2021
Rapa Nui is also the name for the island
FlickerP
+3
Level 72
Jun 8, 2022
As mentioned in the question
RealDad12
+1
Level 67
Jun 8, 2022
Vietnam's in the Pacific?
Inferno46
+2
Level 55
Jun 9, 2022
It borders it, yes
GlobalCitizen
+3
Level 65
Jun 8, 2022
I wrote Aleut and Aleuts instead of Aleutian Islands
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Jun 10, 2022
Can you accept 'Kea'?
1fortuvalu
+1
Level 40
Jun 11, 2022
Please accept anti meridian. Antimeridian is the name for 180° of longitude, and in fact the international date line doesn't even follow 180° because it squiggles around Kiribati, Samoa and Tonga.
uoiu
+1
Level 64
Apr 15, 2024
If China and Southeast Asia are included in the Pacific Theater, there will be countless tragic battles. For example, in the Battle of Songhu, during the same three-month battle, some data stated that the Japanese army suffered more than 90,000 casualties and the Chinese army suffered more than 250,000 casualties. In the battle to defend Wuhan, the Chinese army suffered as many as 650,000 casualties.
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