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Oceanian History

What do you know about facts and important events of Oceania?
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1. The ancestors of which people settled in Australia around 40,000 BC?
Nazca
Aborigines
Tlingit
Maori
2. What is the other name for Ayers Rock, a sandstone monolith sacred to indigenous Australians?
Savandurga
Stawamus
Uluru
Ben Amera
3. Where did the Polynesians start building stone plateaus for religious ceremonies after 700?
Society Islands
Christmas Islands
Easter Island
Galapagos
4. What empire expanded in Oceania and had its peak during the period 1200–1500?
Tu'i Tonga
Tu'i Kiribati
Tu'i Vanuatu
Tu'i Fiji
5. Which explorer discovered New Zealand in 1642?
James Cook
Ferdinand Magellan
Abel Tasman
Sir Francis Drake
6. What is the name of hypothetical continent that Europeans were searching in South Pacific?
Zealandia
New Holland
Terra Australis
Atlantis
7. What do the islanders call the Easter Island statues?
Holokai
Rapa Nui
Moai
Maui
8. What biblical legendary land from which the gold of Emperor Solomon originates was sought by the Portuguese in Oceania?
Ophir
El Dorado
Punt
Canaan
9. What do the Maori call their fortified settlements?
Waikiki
Pa
Tiki
Aoteoaro
10. Where was famous explorer captain James Cook killed on his third voyage?
Hawaii
Philippines
New Zealand
Indonesia
11. Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and the first ruler of which kingdom in Oceania?
Tonga
New Zealand
Hawaii
Fiji
12. With which country the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840?
Australia
Solomon Islands
Fiji
New Zealand
13. 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?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Samuel Wallace
William Bligh
John McDouall Stuart
14. Which British admiral established the convict settlement in Sydney in 1788?
Robert Menzis
Ned Kelly
Arthur Phillip
Harry Morant
15. How many British colonies united and created the Australian Commonwealth?
Three
Five
Four
Six
16. Which country was the first in the world to allow women to vote in 1893?
New Zealand
Australia
Fiji
Papua New Guinea
17. In which present country the Battle of Guadalcanal occurred?
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
18. From which country did Kon-Tiki embark on an expedition to the Polynesian islands led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947?
Peru
Japan
Australia
Mexico
19. Which Australian city did Japan attack in February 1942?
Darwin
Perth
Sydney
Brisbane
20. In 1975 Papua New Guinea got independence from which country?
Australia
France
Spain
Great Britain
21. Which country took responsibility for sinking the Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland in 1985 caused by protests against nuclear testing?
Germany
United States
Spain
France
22. Which territory in Oceania voted in the 2021 referendum to remain part of France?
New Caledonia
French Polynesia
Reunion
Mayotte
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