Q 01/05

Antigua and Barbuda's low-lying shape comes mainly from which kind of rock rather than volcanic activity?

A) Granite

B) Limestone

C) Basalt

D) Sandstone

Answer · why

B) Limestone

Both have irregular coastlines dotted with beaches, lagoons and natural harbours.

Q 02/05

What is the capital and most populous city of Antigua and Barbuda?

A) Codrington

B) All Saints

C) English Harbour

D) St. John's

Answer · why

D) St. John's

Around a quarter of the country lives in the city and most of the rest along the All Saints Road.

Q 03/05

Barbuda's sole settlement is named after which family, who leased the whole island from 1685?

A) The Warners

B) The Birds

C) The Codringtons

D) The Nelsons

Answer · why

C) The Codringtons

The single land grant is why Barbudans have held land communally ever since.

Q 04/05

The names Antigua and Barbuda are Spanish for what?

A) Old and beautiful

B) Ancient and bearded

C) Holy and barren

D) Northern and southern

Answer · why

B) Ancient and bearded

'Bearded' may refer to the islanders or to the island's bearded fig trees.

Q 05/05

Which explorer sighted the islands in 1493 and may have named Antigua after an icon in Seville Cathedral?

A) Amerigo Vespucci

B) Ferdinand Magellan

C) Juan Ponce de León

D) Christopher Columbus

Answer · why

D) Christopher Columbus

The Arawaks had called Antigua Waladli; 'Wadadli' comes from a 1970s song's misspelling.