Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

A) Georgetown

B) Kingstown

C) Barrouallie

D) Port Elizabeth

Answer · why

B) Kingstown

Founded by French settlers shortly after 1722, it sits in the parish of Saint George and holds the main port.

Q 02/05

How many islands and cays make up Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?

A) 7

B) 32

C) 12

D) 3

Answer · why

B) 32

Nine are inhabited, including Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island; the southern third of the Grenadines chain belongs to Grenada.

Q 03/05

The name 'Grenadines' is a diminutive referring to which Spanish city?

A) Seville

B) Granada

C) Cadiz

D) Cordoba

Answer · why

B) Granada

The small form was used to tell the chain apart from the island of Grenada to the south.

Q 04/05

Columbus named the island after Vincent of Saragossa because he first sighted it on what date?

A) 25 December, Christmas Day

B) 22 January, the martyr's feast day

C) 1 November, All Saints' Day

D) Easter Sunday morning

Answer · why

B) 22 January, the martyr's feast day

The Kalinago had called it Youloumain, after Youlouca, the spirit of the rainbows.

Q 05/05

The Kalinago name for Saint Vincent, Youloumain, honoured a spirit of what?

A) Volcanoes

B) Rainbows

C) The sea

D) Hurricanes

Answer · why

B) Rainbows

Youlouca was believed to inhabit the island; the Kalinago fiercely resisted every European attempt to settle.