Statistics for Réunion Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Major island located 690 km east of Réunion	Madagascar	88%
Country that invaded the island in 1810	United Kingdom	86%
Another island located 175 km northeast of	Mauritius	84%
Language spoken by the majority of the island	Réunion {Creole}	82%
First country that "discovered" the island, visited in the early 16th century	Portugal	75%
Population of Réunion in 1500	0	74%
The importance of Réunion as a stopover reduced after the opening of this canal in 1869	Suez Canal	74%
Other French island located on the east coasts of Africa	Mayotte	60%
Capital of Réunion	Saint-Denis	54%
Name of the island when France first claimed it (hint: Dynasty that ruled France)	Île {Bourbon}	50%
Largest cities after the capital	Saint-{Pierre}	39%
Largest cities after the capital	Saint-{Paul}	37%
Name of the destroyer (ship) that liberated Réunion from Vichy France in the late 1942 (hint: type of wild cat)	Léopard	35%
M word for people who refuse to obey the orders of the authority, as dozens of them were deported to Réunion in 1642	{Mutineer}s	23%
Réunion was hit by an epidemic of this type of infection in 2005/2006 (starts with C)	{Chik}ungunya	22%
UNESCO World Heritage Site that covers about 40% of the island's area	Réunion {National} {Park}	20%
Group of islands Réunion is part of	{Mascarene} Islands	16%
1,630 children from Réunion were relocated to this French department for education, many of whom were abused by the families that took them	Creuse	14%