Q 01/05

What is the capital city of the Dominican Republic?

A) Santo Domingo

B) Santiago

C) Punta Cana

D) La Romana

Answer · why

A) Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, founded in 1496, is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and for decades a whole New World empire was...

Q 02/05

The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with which other country?

A) Cuba

B) Haiti

C) Puerto Rico

D) Jamaica

Answer · why

B) Haiti

Haiti grew out of the western third of Hispaniola, which France controlled from 1697 until the colony won its independence in 1804.

Q 03/05

Which mountain range is home to the highest peaks in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean?

A) Sierra de Neiba

B) Sierra de Bahoruco

C) Cordillera Septentrional

D) Cordillera Central

Answer · why

D) Cordillera Central

Cordillera Central is the island's most rugged range, with several peaks above 3,000 metres, and across the western border the same mountains are call...

Q 04/05

Which language do the vast majority of people in the Dominican Republic speak?

A) Spanish

B) English

C) French

D) Portuguese

Answer · why

A) Spanish

Spanish took root here before anywhere else in the Americas: the colony founded on this island in the 1490s was Spain's first permanent settlement in ...

Q 05/05

What is the national currency of the Dominican Republic?

A) The peso

B) The gourde

C) The colón

D) The bolívar

Answer · why

A) The peso

The peso began as a silver coin worth eight reales that became standard across colonial Latin America, which is why so many countries there still give...