Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Guyana?

A) Georgetown

B) Linden

C) Paramaribo

D) New Amsterdam

Answer · why

A) Georgetown

Georgetown sits at the mouth of the Demerara River, much of it below high-tide level behind a long seawall, and is laid out on a Dutch-style grid of c...

Q 02/05

Guyana is the only country in mainland South America with which official language?

A) Dutch

B) English

C) French

D) Portuguese

Answer · why

B) English

English, inherited from British rule, is the sole official language, making Guyana unique on the South American mainland; most people speak Guyanese C...

Q 03/05

The name "Guyana" comes from an Indigenous Amerindian word meaning what?

A) Land of many waters

B) Place of the jaguar

C) Mouth of the great river

D) Green mountains

Answer · why

A) Land of many waters

'Guyana' derives from an Amerindian word usually rendered 'land of many waters'; the Guianas once named a larger region stretching from the Orinoco to...

Q 04/05

What is Guyana's currency?

A) Guyanese dollar

B) Guyanese guilder

C) Guyanese pound

D) Guyanese peso

Answer · why

A) Guyanese dollar

The Guyanese dollar has been the currency since 1965, when it replaced the British West Indies dollar at par; it is issued by the Bank of Guyana, foun...

Q 05/05

In which year did Britain merge its three former Dutch colonies into the single colony of British Guiana?

A) 1822

B) 1802

C) 1831

D) 1814

Answer · why

C) 1831

Britain united the three colonies it had formally acquired under the 1814 Anglo-Dutch Treaty into the single colony of British Guiana on 21 July 1831.