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Oceanian History
What do you know about facts and important events of Oceania?
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Last updated: February 17, 2022
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1. The ancestors of which people settled in Australia around 40,000 BC?
Tlingit
Aborigines
Nazca
Maori
2. What is the other name for Ayers Rock, a sandstone monolith sacred to indigenous Australians?
Savandurga
Uluru
Stawamus
Ben Amera
3. Where did the Polynesians start building stone plateaus for religious ceremonies after 700?
Society Islands
Galapagos
Christmas Islands
Easter Island
4. What empire expanded in Oceania and had its peak during the period 1200–1500?
Tu'i Tonga
Tu'i Fiji
Tu'i Vanuatu
Tu'i Kiribati
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?
New Holland
Atlantis
Terra Australis
Zealandia
7. What do the islanders call the Easter Island statues?
Moai
Rapa Nui
Holokai
Maui
8. What biblical legendary land from which the gold of Emperor Solomon originates was sought by the Portuguese in Oceania?
Punt
El Dorado
Ophir
Canaan
9. What do the Maori call their fortified settlements?
Pa
Tiki
Waikiki
Aoteoaro
10. Where was famous explorer captain James Cook killed on his third voyage?
Philippines
Hawaii
New Zealand
Indonesia
11. Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and the first ruler of which kingdom in Oceania?
Tonga
New Zealand
Fiji
Hawaii
12. With which country the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840?
Solomon Islands
Fiji
Australia
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?
John McDouall Stuart
Samuel Wallace
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
William Bligh
14. Which British admiral established the convict settlement in Sydney in 1788?
Harry Morant
Arthur Phillip
Robert Menzis
Ned Kelly
15. How many British colonies united and created the Australian Commonwealth?
Four
Five
Three
Six
16. Which country was the first in the world to allow women to vote in 1893?
Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
17. In which present country the Battle of Guadalcanal occurred?
New Zealand
Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
18. From which country did Kon-Tiki embark on an expedition to the Polynesian islands led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947?
Mexico
Australia
Peru
Japan
19. Which Australian city did Japan attack in February 1942?
Sydney
Brisbane
Perth
Darwin
20. In 1975 Papua New Guinea got independence from which country?
France
Spain
Australia
Great Britain
21. Which country took responsibility for sinking the Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland in 1985 caused by protests against nuclear testing?
Germany
France
United States
Spain
22. Which territory in Oceania voted in the 2021 referendum to remain part of France?
Mayotte
Reunion
New Caledonia
French Polynesia
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