Q 01/05

How do the islanders themselves pronounce the name Kiribati?

A) Kirr-i-batch

B) Kee-ree-bah-tee

C) Kirr-i-bass

D) Kai-ree-bah-tay

Answer · why

C) Kirr-i-bass

Kirr-i-bass is how islanders say it, because in their language a t before an i shifts to an s sound.

Q 02/05

Which vanished aviator do some researchers believe landed on Nikumaroro, an atoll in Kiribati?

A) Amy Johnson

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Jean Batten

D) Beryl Markham

Answer · why

B) Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart may have died there as a castaway, but bones found on the island in 1940 were later lost, leaving only a doctor's measurements.

Q 03/05

Kiribati comprises 32 atolls plus one remote raised coral island called what?

A) Malden

B) Nauru

C) Banaba

D) Kanton

Answer · why

C) Banaba

Formerly Ocean Island, it was mined for phosphate until the deposits ran out before independence.

Q 04/05

In which country did Kiribati's Ioane Teitiota lose his bid to become the first recognised climate refugee?

A) United Kingdom

B) New Zealand

C) Canada

D) Fiji

Answer · why

B) New Zealand

New Zealand's High Court called his case 'unconvincing', and he was deported back to Kiribati in 2015.

Q 05/05

Which of these imaginary lines runs through Kiribati?

A) Tropic of Cancer

B) Equator

C) Tropic of Capricorn

D) Prime Meridian

Answer · why

B) Equator

The Equator crosses Kiribati, and its islands stretch so far from west to east that the country has land in all four hemispheres.