Q 01/05

Legend says a grateful monarch rewarded Cayman Islands rescuers of ten wrecked ships in 1794 with what?

A) Free land grants

B) Freedom from taxes

C) Royal Navy pensions

D) Seats in Parliament

Answer · why

B) Freedom from taxes

Freedom from taxes is the reward of legend, though no record of any royal decree has ever been found. The Cayman Islands still charge no income tax.

Q 02/05

Which animals do visitors hand-feed with squid while standing on a shallow North Sound sandbar off Grand Cayman?

A) Nurse sharks

B) Bottlenose dolphins

C) Southern stingrays

D) Green sea turtles

Answer · why

C) Southern stingrays

Southern stingrays learned to link the sound of boat engines with food, so dozens now crowd the sandbar known as Stingray City.

Q 03/05

Which Grand Cayman attraction, a patch of black limestone formations, has its own post office for mailing postcards?

A) Breakers

B) Savannah

C) Prospect

D) Hell

Answer · why

D) Hell

Hell covers roughly half a football field of black limestone, and visitors may only look at the formations from viewing platforms.

Q 04/05

Which lizard found only on Grand Cayman was down to fewer than 15 wild animals in 2003 before breeding revived it?

A) Marine iguana

B) Blue iguana

C) Rhinoceros iguana

D) Desert iguana

Answer · why

B) Blue iguana

The blue iguana has been rebuilt by releasing hundreds of captive-bred animals since 2004, and it may live for up to 69 years.

Q 05/05

The currency of the Cayman Islands has been pegged since 1974 to which foreign currency, at a rate above one-to-one?

A) US dollar

B) Pound sterling

C) Canadian dollar

D) Swiss franc

Answer · why

A) US dollar

The US dollar buys only about 80 Cayman cents, because one Cayman Islands dollar has been fixed at US$1.20 since 1974.