Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Barbados?

A) Holetown

B) Speightstown

C) Oistins

D) Bridgetown

Answer · why

D) Bridgetown

A third of the country's population lives there, in the parish of Saint Michael.

Q 02/05

Within the Caribbean region, Barbados holds which geographic distinction?

A) It is the easternmost island

B) It is the largest island

C) It is the highest island

D) It is the westernmost island

Answer · why

A) It is the easternmost island

It sits out in the Atlantic, about 168 km east of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent.

Q 03/05

Barbados became a republic, replacing the Queen with a ceremonial president, on 30 November of which year?

A) 2021

B) 2023

C) 2025

D) 2016

Answer · why

A) 2021

The date was chosen as the 55th anniversary of independence; Prince Charles attended the ceremony.

Q 04/05

Which Barbadian singer was declared a National Hero on the night the island became a republic in 2021?

A) Alison Hinds

B) Rupee

C) Shontelle

D) Rihanna

Answer · why

D) Rihanna

She was born in Saint Michael in 1988 and had already been made an official ambassador of Barbados in 2018.

Q 05/05

Barbados gained independence from Britain on 30 November of which year?

A) 1974

B) 1978

C) 1966

D) 1970

Answer · why

C) 1966

It was the fourth English-speaking West Indian country to do so, after Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.