Statistics for Oceanian History

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This quiz has been taken 11 times
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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the other name for Ayers Rock, a sandstone monolith sacred to indigenous Australians?	Uluru	100%
The ancestors of which people settled in Australia around 40,000 BC?	Aborigines	90%
Where did the Polynesians start building stone plateaus for religious ceremonies after 700?	Easter Island	90%
Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and the first ruler of which kingdom in Oceania?	Hawaii	90%
Which explorer discovered New Zealand in 1642?	Abel Tasman	80%
Which Australian city did Japan attack in February 1942?	Darwin	80%
What do the islanders call the Easter Island statues?	Moai	80%
In 1975 Papua New Guinea got independence from which country?	Australia	70%
Where was famous explorer captain James Cook killed on his third voyage?	Hawaii	70%
With which country the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840?	New Zealand	70%
In which present country the Battle of Guadalcanal occurred?	Solomon Islands	70%
What empire expanded in Oceania and had its peak during the period 1200–1500?	Tu'i Tonga	70%
Which British admiral established the convict settlement in Sydney in 1788?	Arthur Phillip	60%
Which territory in Oceania voted in the 2021 referendum to remain part of France?	New Caledonia	60%
Which country was the first in the world to allow women to vote in 1893?	New Zealand	60%
From which country did Kon-Tiki embark on an expedition to the Polynesian islands led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947?	Peru	60%
What is the name of hypothetical continent that Europeans were searching in South Pacific?	Terra Australis	60%
Which country took responsibility for sinking the Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland in 1985 caused by protests against nuclear testing?	France	50%
What biblical legendary land from which the gold of Emperor Solomon originates was sought by the Portuguese in Oceania?	Ophir	50%
How many British colonies united and created the Australian Commonwealth?	Six	50%
Who was the captain of the rebellion ship HMS Bounty, which was sent to the South Pacific to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the West Indies?	William Bligh	50%
What do the Maori call their fortified settlements?	Pa	40%