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