Q 01/05

Papua New Guinea shares its only land border with which country?

A) Australia

B) Indonesia

C) Solomon Islands

D) East Timor

Answer · why

B) Indonesia

The western half is Indonesian; Australia and the Solomon Islands are neighbours only across the water.

Q 02/05

What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?

A) Mount Hagen

B) Port Moresby

C) Madang

D) Goroka

Answer · why

B) Port Moresby

It sits in a rain shadow on the south coast and gets under 1,000 mm of rain a year, while some highland areas get eight times that.

Q 03/05

Papua New Guinea has roughly how many known spoken languages, more than any other country?

A) 120

B) 840

C) 300

D) 500

Answer · why

B) 840

Most are spoken by fewer than a thousand people; only Vanuatu packs its languages more densely.

Q 04/05

Which English-based creole is the most widely used language in Papua New Guinea?

A) Hiri Motu

B) Tok Pisin

C) Bislama

D) Kuanua

Answer · why

B) Tok Pisin

Its name comes from 'talk' and 'pidgin'; five to six million people use it, and many children now grow up with it as a first language.

Q 05/05

Which trade pidgin is a national language of Papua New Guinea alongside English and Tok Pisin?

A) Kuanua

B) Hiri Motu

C) Unserdeutsch

D) Bislama

Answer · why

B) Hiri Motu

It took hold in the British- and Australian-run south; sign language was added as a fourth recognised language in 2015.