50 free Bermuda trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Bermuda trivia for cruise passengers, sailors, insurance executives and anyone who has ever wondered whether the Triangle is real. The quiz starts with the geography: 181 islands and 54 square kilometres in the Sargasso Sea, a thousand kilometres from the nearest land in North Carolina, with a 79-metre high point, no rivers, and a law obliging every house to catch its own rain. Then it runs through the history: Juan de Bermúdez and the Isle of Devils, the 1609 wreck of the Sea Venture that saved Jamestown, St George's as the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the New World, one of the world's oldest parliaments, the pearl-diving slaves of 1616, the 1775 gunpowder theft, the Second World War censors at the Hamilton Princess, the assassination of Governor Sharples and the 1995 vote against independence. Later rounds cover the cahow that came back from the dead, pink beaches, the world's smallest drawbridge, the Bermudian dollar, the offshore finance industry, calypso and Gombeys, Bermuda shorts at the Olympics, the Newport-Bermuda race and Flora Duffy's triathlon gold. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer was checked against a reference page and carries its source. See also our Caribbean, islands and British Overseas Territories quizzes.
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Q 01What is the capital of Bermuda?
Hamilton
It houses the bicameral parliament; St George's was the original capital.
Q 02Which US state holds the closest land to Bermuda?
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras lies about 1,070 km to the west-northwest; Nova Scotia is the next nearest.
Q 03How many islands make up the Bermuda archipelago?
181
The main ones are joined by bridges and look like a single landmass.
Q 04Bermuda is named after an explorer of which nationality?
Spanish
Juan de Bermúdez sighted it in the early 1500s; there were no indigenous people.
Q 05Early sailors called Bermuda the 'Isle of Devils' because of what?
Raucous bird calls and wild hogs at night
The eerie cries were probably cahows; the hogs had been left by passing ships.
Q 06Which ship's wreck on Bermuda's reef in 1609 led to English settlement?
Sea Venture
She was the flagship of a relief fleet bound for Jamestown; everyone aboard survived.
Q 07Which two ships did the stranded settlers build to continue to Jamestown?
Deliverance and Patience
Some castaways tried to rebel and stay rather than face conditions in Virginia.
Q 08Bermuda's first capital, St George's, is the oldest continuously inhabited English town where?
In the New World
Founded in 1612 as New London, it is now a World Heritage Site.
Q 09What may be the earliest conservation law in the New World, passed in Bermuda in 1620?
A ban on killing young sea turtles
The Assembly's 'Act Agaynst The Killing Of Ouer Young Tortoyses' followed 1616 bird protections.
Q 10Bermuda's House of Assembly dates from which year, making it one of the world's oldest legislatures?
1620
Universal adult suffrage only arrived in the 1967 constitution.
Q 11The colony was renamed in 1615 in honour of which admiral of the wrecked 1609 relief fleet?
Sir George Somers
The Somers Isles Company ran the colony and, needing farmers, suppressed shipbuilding.
Q 12The first two enslaved people brought to Bermuda in 1616 were sent to do what?
Dive for pearls
There turned out to be no pearls; one was Black and one Native American, from the West Indies.
Q 13What was stolen from Bermuda's magazine on 14 August 1775 while the governor slept?
100 barrels of gunpowder
American boats carried it off, and the Continental Congress exempted Bermuda from its trade ban.
Q 21What is Bermuda's highest point, Town Hill, in metres?
79
The territory has 103 km of coastline and sits in the west of the Sargasso Sea.
Q 22Bermuda's islands are made mostly of what rock, sitting on an extinct volcano?
Limestone
Wind-blown carbonate sand fused into eolianite over a volcanic base about 50 metres down.
Q 23Bermuda's mild winters are attributed to which ocean current?
The Gulf Stream
January to March average about 18 °C, and ground frost hasn't been recorded since the 19th century.
Where does Bermuda get its fresh water, having no rivers or lakes?
Q 14The island's first newspaper, founded in 1784 by Joseph Stockdale, was called what?
The Bermuda Gazette
Editor Joseph Stockdale also ran the island's first postal service.
Q 15Which flower's bulb exports to New York were vital to Bermuda's economy around 1900?
Easter lily
A virus nearly killed the trade until plant pathologist Lawrence Ogilvie diagnosed it in the 1920s.
Q 16Which US law of 1930 killed Bermuda's agricultural exports and pushed it toward tourism?
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
The island was also a hub for rum-running during Prohibition.
Q 17The Bermuda Railway, opened in 1931, was abandoned in which year?
1948
Its right of way is now the Bermuda Railway Trail.
Q 18Which hotel served as a British censorship centre during the Second World War?
The Hamilton Princess
About 1,200 censors read transatlantic mail there and helped catch Axis spies including the Joe K ring.
Q 19Which governor of Bermuda was assassinated in March 1973?
Richard Sharples
Black Power militants killed him during a period of civil unrest.
Q 20How did Bermudians vote in the 1995 independence referendum?
A large majority against
Bermuda remains the last territory of the former British North America.
Rain collected from roofs
By law every household must pipe rainwater from its roof into a tank in the foundations.
Q 25Which 2003 hurricane hit Bermuda directly with winds over 120 mph?
Fabian
It was the last major hurricane to strike the island directly for over two decades; Gonzalo and Nicole struck in 2014 and 2016, and Ernesto brushed Bermuda in 2024.
Q 26Bermuda's national bird, the cahow, was rediscovered in 1951 after being thought extinct since when?
The 1620s
The petrel is a textbook 'Lazarus species' and has its own recovery programme.
Q 27What are Bermuda's only indigenous mammals?
Five species of bat
All five bats are also found in the eastern United States.
Q 28Which bird, locally called the longtail, is Bermudians' first sign of spring?
White-tailed tropicbird
They come inland to breed in February and March.
Q 29Somerset Bridge holds what world record?
Smallest drawbridge
Its opening is just 32 inches wide, enough for a sailboat's mast.
Q 30What is Bermuda's most popular visitor attraction?
The Royal Naval Dockyard
It houses the National Museum of Bermuda.