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?

Tlingit ✓

Aborigines ✓

Maori ✓

Nazca ✓

2. What is the other name for Ayers Rock, a sandstone monolith sacred to indigenous Australians?

Savandurga ✓

Uluru ✓

Ben Amera ✓

Stawamus ✓

3. Where did the Polynesians start building stone plateaus for religious ceremonies after 700?

Easter Island ✓

Society Islands ✓

Christmas Islands ✓

Galapagos ✓

4. What empire expanded in Oceania and had its peak during the period 1200–1500?

Tu'i Fiji ✓

Tu'i Vanuatu ✓

Tu'i Tonga ✓

Tu'i Kiribati ✓

5. Which explorer discovered New Zealand in 1642?

James Cook ✓

Sir Francis Drake ✓

Abel Tasman ✓

Ferdinand Magellan ✓

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?

Rapa Nui ✓

Moai ✓

Maui ✓

Holokai ✓

8. What biblical legendary land from which the gold of Emperor Solomon originates was sought by the Portuguese in Oceania?

Punt ✓

Canaan ✓

Ophir ✓

El Dorado ✓

9. What do the Maori call their fortified settlements?

Waikiki ✓

Tiki ✓

Aoteoaro ✓

Pa ✓

10. Where was famous explorer captain James Cook killed on his third voyage?

Philippines ✓

New Zealand ✓

Hawaii ✓

Indonesia ✓

11. Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and the first ruler of which kingdom in Oceania?

Fiji ✓

New Zealand ✓

Tonga ✓

Hawaii ✓

12. With which country the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840?

New Zealand ✓

Fiji ✓

Solomon Islands ✓

Australia ✓

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 ✓

William Bligh ✓

Samuel Wallace ✓

Vasco Nunez de Balboa ✓

14. Which British admiral established the convict settlement in Sydney in 1788?

Ned Kelly ✓

Arthur Phillip ✓

Harry Morant ✓

Robert Menzis ✓

15. How many British colonies united and created the Australian Commonwealth?

Six ✓

Three ✓

Four ✓

Five ✓

16. Which country was the first in the world to allow women to vote in 1893?

Papua New Guinea ✓

Fiji ✓

New Zealand ✓

Australia ✓

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?

Japan ✓

Mexico ✓

Australia ✓

Peru ✓

19. Which Australian city did Japan attack in February 1942?

Sydney ✓

Darwin ✓

Brisbane ✓

Perth ✓

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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