Q 01/05

Which road rule, kept since before the 1917 handover, sets St. Thomas apart from every US state?

A) Speed limits in kilometres

B) Fuel sold by the litre

C) Driving on the left

D) Mandatory daytime headlights

Answer · why

C) Driving on the left

Driving on the left is the rule on St. Thomas, part of the only US jurisdiction that does it. Most cars are imported from the mainland, so the steerin...

Q 02/05

Which sitcom star, a multiple Emmy winner for playing a psychiatrist, was born on St. Thomas?

A) Kelsey Grammer

B) Ted Danson

C) David Hyde Pierce

D) John Lithgow

Answer · why

A) Kelsey Grammer

Kelsey Grammer was born on St. Thomas in 1955, where his father owned a coffee shop and edited a local magazine. He later voiced Sideshow Bob on The S...

Q 03/05

What covers the floor of the historic St. Thomas Synagogue, a feature shared by only a handful of synagogues worldwide?

A) Shells

B) Gravel

C) Straw

D) Sand

Answer · why

D) Sand

Sand covers the floor of the synagogue, one of only five in the world to keep the custom. One account links it to Jews who prayed in cellars during th...

Q 04/05

Which pirate's name now clings to Skytsborg, a 1679 Danish watchtower on Government Hill in Charlotte Amalie?

A) Captain Kidd

B) Blackbeard

C) Henry Morgan

D) Calico Jack

Answer · why

B) Blackbeard

Blackbeard, the pirate Edward Teach, is said in island lore to have used the tower as his own lookout. Nobody knows when the nickname replaced the tow...

Q 05/05

When Denmark sold St. Thomas and its sister islands to the United States in 1917, the $25 million was paid in what?

A) Gold

B) Silver

C) Bonds

D) Warships

Answer · why

A) Gold

Gold worth $25 million bought all three islands, about $295 an acre. An earlier American offer of $7.5 million in the 1860s had failed to win ratifica...