Q 01/05

Until a tunnel opened in 2023, what did Gibraltar's main road to the Spanish border run straight across?

A) A railway line

B) An airport runway

C) A swing bridge

D) A naval firing range

Answer · why

B) An airport runway

An airport runway cut across Winston Churchill Avenue, so barriers stopped every car whenever a plane landed or took off. Pedestrians can still walk o...

Q 02/05

Jonathan, brought to Saint Helena in 1882 when he was already about fifty years old, is what kind of animal?

A) Giant tortoise

B) Grey parrot

C) Asian elephant

D) Shetland pony

Answer · why

A) Giant tortoise

A giant tortoise from the Seychelles, Jonathan hatched around 1832, five years before Queen Victoria took the throne. He became the oldest tortoise ev...

Q 03/05

Which internet domain, Anguilla's country code, became a windfall for the island in the 2020s tech boom?

A) .io

B) .tv

C) .ai

D) .ag

Answer · why

C) .ai

.ai is simply Anguilla's country code, but the rush of artificial-intelligence firms to register it was expected to supply nearly half of the island's...

Q 04/05

Which defeated ruler was exiled to Saint Helena in 1815 and died there six years later?

A) Kaiser Wilhelm II

B) Tsar Nicholas II

C) Emperor Haile Selassie

D) Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer · why

D) Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte had already escaped one island exile, on Elba, so after Waterloo Britain chose a speck in the South Atlantic. He spent his last yea...

Q 05/05

The Bermuda Triangle is usually drawn between Bermuda, San Juan in Puerto Rico and which American city?

A) Charleston

B) Miami

C) New Orleans

D) Norfolk

Answer · why

B) Miami

Miami was fixed as a corner by a 1964 magazine article titled The Deadly Bermuda Triangle. Lloyd's of London later found that no unusual number of shi...