Statistics for Easter Island Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
British explorer who visited Easter Island in 1744.	James Cook	89%
Large Pacific group of islands Easter Island is said to belong to.	Polynesia	66%
Massive statues scattered around the island.	Moai	57%
Indigenous name of Easter Island and/or its inhabitants.	Rapa Nui	56%
Dominant religion on the island.	Catholicism	36%
Nearest inhabited island.	Pitcairn	35%
Pirate slave raids from this country decimated a large part of the island's population.	Peru	33%
Discovered in 2005, this type of celestial body was named after the aforementioned god.	Dwarf planet	22%
Chilean region to which Easter Island administratively belongs.	Valparaíso	20%
Main town on the island.	Hanga Roa	19%
Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer who visited the island in the 1950s whose Polynesian origin theory garnered little acceptance from mainstream anthropologists.	Thor Heyerdahl	19%
Name of the creator god according to Easter Island indigenous mythology.	Makemake	13%
European explorer who discovered Easter Island on Easter Sunday 1722.	Jacob Roggeveen	8%
Island group from which the first Easter Islanders likely arrived.	Marquesas Islands	8%
Undeciphered glyphs found on Easter Island.	Rongorongo	8%