Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trivia
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47 free Saint Vincent and the Grenadines trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Forty-two questions on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Windward Island nation of 32 islands and cays strung towards Grenada. Geography covers Kingstown, La Soufriere and its 1812, 1902, 1979 and 2021 eruptions, Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island, the six parishes and the new airport at Argyle. History runs from the Kalinago's Youloumain and Columbus's saint's day, through French settlement at Barrouallie, the two Carib Wars, Joseph Chatoyer's death on Dorsetshire Hill and the deportation of the Garifuna to Roatan, Fort Charlotte, William Bligh's breadfruit, Madeiran and Indian labourers, 1979 independence under Milton Cato, the Union Island revolt and the 2009 republic referendum. Culture and modern life cover the flag's three diamonds, Vincentian Creole, Kevin Lyttle, big drum music, humpback whaling from Bequia, Princess Margaret's Mustique, Pirates of the Caribbean, the smallest country ever elected to the UN Security Council and 'Comrade Ralph' Gonsalves. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the country, its islands and its people, and the sentence that establishes it is quoted under each explanation. Suits a pub quiz, a Caribbean geography lesson or a Grenadines sailing trip.
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Q 01What is the capital and largest city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
Kingstown
Kingstown is the country's only town of any size and its main port, and the ferries to the Grenadines run out of its harbour, so island traffic funnels through the capital.
Q 02Saint Vincent and the Grenadines lies in which Caribbean island arc?
Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles. The arc is volcanic, which is why Saint Vincent is rugged and steep with little flat land, while many of the small Grenadines to its south are uninhabited.
Q 03The name 'Grenadines' is thought to be a diminutive of which Spanish city's name?
Granada
Granada. Spanish sailors probably named the big island to the south after the Andalusian city, whose own name is said to mean pomegranate, and the islets beside it took the diminutive.
Q 04Why is Columbus said to have named the island Saint Vincent?
It was the saint's feast day
It was the saint's feast day, 22 January; tradition gives the year as 1498. The Spanish name stuck, yet Kalinago resistance kept Europeans from settling the island for two more centuries.
Q 05Saint Vincent's national bird, found wild nowhere else on Earth, is what kind of bird?
Parrot
Parrot. The Saint Vincent parrot lives only in the island's mountain forests, and a breeding centre in the capital's botanic gardens works to raise its numbers.
Q 06Which European power first managed to colonise Saint Vincent, in 1719?
France
France. Its settlers grew coffee, tobacco, indigo and sugar with enslaved African labour until Britain took the island in the Seven Years' War.
Q 07What are the Afro-Indigenous people of Saint Vincent who fought Britain in the Carib Wars called?
The Garifuna
The Garifuna, once called Black Caribs, descend from island Caribs and Africans who escaped slavery or survived shipwrecks. Planters pushing onto their land for sugar set off the wars.
Q 08Who was the paramount chief who led the Second Carib War rebels and is now a national hero?
Joseph Chatoyer
Joseph Chatoyer died in battle in 1795 while leading the rising against British rule. In 2002 the country declared him its first National Hero.
Q 09After the Second Carib War, Britain deported thousands of Saint Vincent's rebels to Roatan, off which country?
Honduras
Honduras. From Roatan the exiles spread along the mainland coast, and their descendants now live from Belize to Nicaragua, with a language, dance and music listed by UNESCO.
Q 10What is the name of the active volcano that forms Saint Vincent's highest point?
La Soufriere
La Soufriere fills the northern third of Saint Vincent, which is why most Vincentians live in the southern part of the island.
Q 11Saint Vincent's volcano killed about 1,600 people in May 1902, shortly before which Martinique volcano destroyed Saint-Pierre?
Mont Pelee
Mont Pelee wiped out the town of Saint-Pierre and killed some 30,000 people within days of the Saint Vincent blast. Timely evacuations meant the island's 1979 eruption killed no one.
Q 12Ash from Saint Vincent's April 2021 eruption blanketed which island nation to the east and closed its airport?
Barbados
Winds carried the ash east to Barbados and shut its airport, and its prime minister warned of weeks of ash fall. On Saint Vincent thousands had already been moved out of the north before the first blast.
Q 13Who was the first prime minister of independent Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
Milton Cato
Q 21Which Grenadine island became a celebrity hideaway after Colin Tennant bought it in 1958?
Mustique
Mustique. Tennant paid 45,000 pounds for a parched island, gave his friend Princess Margaret a villa there after she married, and rock stars such as Mick Jagger and David Bowie followed.
Q 22The people of which island may still hunt up to four humpback whales a year under a subsistence quota?
Bequia
Bequia. Islanders took up whaling in the late 19th century, and the International Whaling Commission still lets the small hunt go on as subsistence whaling, a status some member nations dispute.
Q 23Which Hollywood film series shot on Saint Vincent gave the country's tourism a boost?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Milton Cato, a founder of the Labour Party, led the country into independence and within weeks had to put down a secessionist revolt in the Grenadines. Voters turned him out in 1984.
Q 14Weeks after independence, a secessionist revolt broke out on which of the Grenadines?
Union Island
Union Island. Islanders who felt neglected by the central government tried to break away in December 1979, within weeks of independence, and the revolt was quickly put down with a neighbour's military help.
Q 15Prime minister Gonsalves, in office from 2001 to 2025, is known locally by what nickname?
Comrade Ralph
Comrade Ralph. The left-leaning lawyer swept to power in 2001 with 12 of 15 seats and campaigned hard, and in vain, for the country to drop the Queen in 2009.
Q 16Saint Vincent's 2009 referendum on becoming a republic needed what to pass, and fell well short?
A two-thirds majority
A two-thirds majority. Only about 43 percent voted yes and some 56 percent no, so the Queen stayed head of state instead of giving way to a ceremonial president.
Q 17In 2019 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became the smallest country ever elected to what?
The UN Security Council
The UN Security Council. A nation of about 110,000 people beat El Salvador for the Latin American and Caribbean seat and sat at the table through 2020 and 2021.
Q 18What is the main feature of the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, adopted in 1985?
Three green diamonds in a V
Three green diamonds in a V, for Vincent, sit on the wide gold band. They cast the islands as the gems of the Antilles, which is why the flag itself is nicknamed the Gems.
Q 19The 1985 flag design by Julien van der Wal replaced the coat of arms and which leaf?
Breadfruit
Breadfruit. The 1979 independence flag set the coat of arms on a breadfruit leaf, recalling the tree Britain brought from the South Seas, until a new government had the flag redrawn.
Q 20Which British captain brought seedlings of a Pacific staple tree to the capital's botanical garden?
William Bligh
William Bligh. The Bounty mutineers threw his first cargo overboard, so he sailed again and in 1793 landed the young trees at a garden founded in 1765, the oldest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
Sets built at Wallilabou Bay for the 2003 original became a visitor attraction.
Q 24Which crop dominates Vincentian agriculture and has repeatedly been flattened by hurricanes?
Bananas
Bananas. Hurricanes in 1980 and 1987 wrecked the plantations, and because so much rides on one export crop each storm shakes the whole economy, which is why governments keep trying to diversify.
Q 25Argyle International, opened in 2017, replaced which older airfield on the capital's edge?
E. T. Joshua Airport
E. T. Joshua Airport. Argyle's long runway brought the country its first direct flights from cities such as New York, Toronto and London, and the old terminal has been given over to shops.
Q 26Saint Vincent was long the world's leading producer of which starchy crop?
Arrowroot
Arrowroot. As sugar declined in the 1800s it took over as the island's leading cash crop by 1900, and its fine starch later found a second use in paper-making.
Q 27Six appointed members of Saint Vincent's single-chamber parliament carry which title?
Senators
Senators, though there is no senate. Four are named on the prime minister's advice and two on the opposition leader's, and they sit in the same House of Assembly as the 15 elected members.
Q 28In the 1840s, indentured Catholic settlers arrived to replace plantation labour from which Atlantic island?
Madeira
Madeira. Emancipation left the planters short of workers, so they brought in Portuguese labourers from the island in the 1840s and Indian labourers from the 1860s.
Q 29Which hilltop stronghold, completed by the British in 1806, looks down on Saint Vincent's capital from some 600 feet up?
Fort Charlotte
Fort Charlotte. The garrison is long gone, and the fort now holds a museum telling the story of the islanders who fought the British for Saint Vincent.
Q 30Which Vincentian soca singer, later named his country's Cultural Ambassador, had a worldwide hit with 'Turn Me On'?
Kevin Lyttle
Kevin Lyttle. He was working as a customs officer when he put his own savings into recording the song, and its remix reached number two in Britain in 2003.