Q 01/05

Easter Island is a special territory of which country?

A) Ecuador

B) Chile

C) France

D) Peru

Answer · why

B) Chile

It sits about 3,500 km west of the mainland and belongs to the Valparaíso Region.

Q 02/05

What are the giant stone statues of Easter Island called?

A) Moai

B) Tiki

C) Ahu

D) Pukao

Answer · why

A) Moai

Nearly 1,000 survive; they were carved by the Rapa Nui roughly between 1250 and 1500.

Q 03/05

What is the island's own name in the local language?

A) Motu Nui

B) Mangareva

C) Tahiti Iti

D) Rapa Nui

Answer · why

D) Rapa Nui

It means 'Big Rapa' and was only coined after the slave raids of the 1860s, after a smaller island in the Australs.

Q 04/05

Which Dutch explorer gave Easter Island its name after sighting it on Easter Sunday 1722?

A) Dirk Hartog

B) Jacob Roggeveen

C) Abel Tasman

D) Willem Janszoon

Answer · why

B) Jacob Roggeveen

He was searching for the phantom 'Davis Land' and called it Paasch-Eyland; his visit left about a dozen islanders dead.

Q 05/05

What is the island's official name in the language of Chile?

A) Isla de San Carlos

B) Isla de David

C) Isla de Pascua

D) Isla Grande

Answer · why

C) Isla de Pascua

It simply means 'Easter Island'; a 1770 expedition briefly named it Isla de San Carlos.