Q 01/05

Nassau, the capital and largest city of the Bahamas, sits on which island?

A) Grand Bahama

B) Andros

C) Great Exuma

D) New Providence

Answer · why

D) New Providence

Nassau sits on New Providence, one of the smaller main islands at about 80 square miles, yet home to well over half of all Bahamians.

Q 02/05

Roughly how many islands make up the Bahamas?

A) 7

B) 70

C) 700

D) 7,000

Answer · why

C) 700

Roughly 700 islands make up the Bahamas, plus a couple of thousand rocky cays, yet people live on only about 30 of them.

Q 03/05

Which imaginary line crosses the middle of the Bahamas?

A) Equator

B) Tropic of Cancer

C) Tropic of Capricorn

D) Prime Meridian

Answer · why

B) Tropic of Cancer

The Tropic of Cancer cuts across the middle of the chain, so Nassau and the northern islands, palm trees and all, lie just outside the tropics.

Q 04/05

Who represented the Queen at the Bahamas' 1973 independence ceremony?

A) Prince Philip

B) Princess Margaret

C) Prince Charles

D) Princess Anne

Answer · why

C) Prince Charles

Prince Charles, then a 24-year-old naval officer, arrived aboard the frigate he was serving on and watched the Union Jack lowered for the last time ju...

Q 05/05

Which British territory shares the Bahamas' island chain?

A) Cayman Islands

B) Turks and Caicos

C) British Virgin Islands

D) Montserrat

Answer · why

B) Turks and Caicos

Turks and Caicos completes the Lucayan Archipelago and was run from the Bahamas more than once, getting its own governor only when its bigger neighbou...