Q 01/05

Which language is the mother tongue of Roatan's native Islanders, unlike most mainland Hondurans?

A) French

B) English

C) Dutch

D) Portuguese

Answer · why

B) English

English took root on Roatan with settlers from British colonies in the 1830s. Islanders still speak their own Caribbean variety of it, though Spanish ...

Q 02/05

Karl Stanley has taken paying passengers 2,000 feet below Roatan's West End in which kind of custom-built craft?

A) Diving bell

B) Bathysphere

C) Submarine

D) Underwater glider

Answer · why

C) Submarine

Submarine Idabel is named after the Oklahoma town where Stanley built it. Passengers sit behind a large plexiglass viewing bubble as it sinks into the...

Q 03/05

Roatan's barrier reef system is the world's second largest, behind only the one off which country?

A) Australia

B) Indonesia

C) Malaysia

D) Philippines

Answer · why

A) Australia

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the only one bigger. Roatan's system runs about 700 miles north from Honduras, making it the largest barrier reef in...

Q 04/05

Roatan is the largest member of which Honduran archipelago, briefly a British crown colony in the 1850s?

A) Corn Islands

B) Pearl Islands

C) Turneffe Islands

D) Bay Islands

Answer · why

D) Bay Islands

Bay Islands is the name of both the chain and the Honduran department it forms. Britain handed the group back to Honduras within a decade of declaring...

Q 05/05

Which explorer landed on Guanaja, Roatan's neighbour, in 1502 during a fourth and final voyage to the Americas?

A) Christopher Columbus

B) Amerigo Vespucci

C) Vasco Núñez de Balboa

D) Ferdinand Magellan

Answer · why

A) Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus reached Guanaja on July 30. Two weeks later he landed on the Honduran mainland.