Q 01/05

Which is the largest country in the Caribbean by area?

A) Dominican Republic

B) Cuba

C) Jamaica

D) Puerto Rico

Answer · why

B) Cuba

It is also third by population, behind Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its capital and largest city is Havana.

Q 02/05

What is the capital city of Jamaica?

A) Montego Bay

B) Spanish Town

C) Kingston

D) Ocho Rios

Answer · why

C) Kingston

The capital moved there from Spanish Town in 1872. The indigenous Ciboney name for the island, Xaymaca, meant 'Land of Wood and Water'.

Q 03/05

The island of Hispaniola is shared by Haiti and which other country?

A) Dominican Republic

B) Puerto Rico

C) Costa Rica

D) El Salvador

Answer · why

A) Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island. Hispaniola and Saint Martin are the only two Caribbean islands split between t...

Q 04/05

Which music genre originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s?

A) Calypso

B) Merengue

C) Soca

D) Reggae

Answer · why

D) Reggae

The word itself was popularised by a 1968 Toots and the Maytals single. Ska and rocksteady came first and fed into it.

Q 05/05

Rum is distilled from the juice or molasses of which plant?

A) Agave

B) Sugarcane

C) Maize

D) Cassava

Answer · why

B) Sugarcane

The plant originated in Island Southeast Asia, where fermented cane wines were made for thousands of years. French-Caribbean 'rhum agricole' uses fres...