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Which Place in the Pacific? - Multiple Choice

Can you answer the following multiple choice questions, which all relate to a location of some of a location in, or on the edge of, the Pacific Ocean?
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Last updated: March 27, 2019
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1. What is the biggest city on the island of Hawaii?
Hilo
Honolulu
Kona
Oahu
2. What is Russia's largest Pacific island, on which Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is its largest city?
Sakhalin
Kamchatka
Kuril
Okhotsk
3. Switzerland's flag has a white cross on a red background. Which Pacific nation's flag includes a red cross on a white background?
Tonga
Vanuatu
Micronesia
Papua New Guinea
4. Which country moved its calendar forward one day by going straight from 29 to 31 December 2011, effectively bending the International Date Line from just to its west to just to its east?
Samoa
Fiji
Marshall Islands
Kiribati
5. In which locality that James Cook's crew became the first Europeans to set foot on New Zealand in 1769?
Poverty Bay
Bay of Plenty
Cook's Cove
Firth of Thames
6. This Australian territory has 1700 inhabitants, a pine tree on its flag, and a capital with almost zero population called Kingston
Norfolk Island
Christmas island
Lord Howe Island
Flinders Island
7. Port Vila, Vanuatu's capital, is on the island of Efate. What is the biggest island in Vanuatu?
Espiritu Santo
Efate
Tanna
Pentecost
8. Midway Atoll, site of the Battle of Midway in World War II, is now a part of which country?
United States
Kiribati
Micronesia
Marshall Islands
9. Avarua is the capital of where?
Cook Islands
Palau
New Caledonia
Tahiti
10. Pitcairn Island uses which currency?
New Zealand dollar
French Pacific franc
Samoan tala
British pounds
11. The Great Barrier Reef lies in which body of water?
Coral Sea
Tasman Sea
Gulf of Carpentaria
Solomon Sea
12. The eastern and western ends of Kiribati are so far apart that to fly from one to the other you must fly via...
Fiji
Hawaii
Tonga
Tuvalu
13. Samoa's two main islands are called
Upolu and Savai'i
Viti Levu and Vanua Levu
North Island and South Island
Guadalcanal and Choiseul
14. Papua New Guinea's largest city is Port Moresby. Which is second-largest?
Lae
Mount Hagen
Port Vila
Nadi
15. What is the southernmost prefecture of Japan?
Okinawa
Kyushu South
West Shikoku
Yonaguni
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