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