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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
Aborigines
Maori
Tlingit
2. What is the other name for Ayers Rock, a sandstone monolith sacred to indigenous Australians?
Stawamus
Savandurga
Ben Amera
Uluru
3. Where did the Polynesians start building stone plateaus for religious ceremonies after 700?
Christmas Islands
Society Islands
Easter Island
Galapagos
4. What empire expanded in Oceania and had its peak during the period 1200–1500?
Tu'i Vanuatu
Tu'i Kiribati
Tu'i Fiji
Tu'i Tonga
5. Which explorer discovered New Zealand in 1642?
James Cook
Ferdinand Magellan
Sir Francis Drake
Abel Tasman
6. What is the name of hypothetical continent that Europeans were searching in South Pacific?
Atlantis
New Holland
Terra Australis
Zealandia
7. What do the islanders call the Easter Island statues?
Maui
Moai
Rapa Nui
Holokai
8. What biblical legendary land from which the gold of Emperor Solomon originates was sought by the Portuguese in Oceania?
Canaan
Punt
Ophir
El Dorado
9. What do the Maori call their fortified settlements?
Tiki
Aoteoaro
Pa
Waikiki
10. Where was famous explorer captain James Cook killed on his third voyage?
Hawaii
New Zealand
Philippines
Indonesia
11. Kamehameha the Great, was the founder and the first ruler of which kingdom in Oceania?
New Zealand
Fiji
Hawaii
Tonga
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?
Samuel Wallace
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
John McDouall Stuart
William Bligh
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
Three
Five
Four
16. Which country was the first in the world to allow women to vote in 1893?
Fiji
New Zealand
Australia
Papua New Guinea
17. In which present country the Battle of Guadalcanal occurred?
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
18. From which country did Kon-Tiki embark on an expedition to the Polynesian islands led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947?
Australia
Mexico
Peru
Japan
19. Which Australian city did Japan attack in February 1942?
Darwin
Brisbane
Sydney
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?
France
United States
Germany
Spain
22. Which territory in Oceania voted in the 2021 referendum to remain part of France?
Mayotte
French Polynesia
New Caledonia
Reunion
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