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

Kingstown is the country's only town of any size and its main port, and the ferries to the Grenadines run out of its harbour, so island traffic funnel...

Q 02/05

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines lies in which Caribbean island arc?

A) Greater Antilles

B) Lucayan Archipelago

C) Lesser Antilles

D) Cayman Islands

Answer · why

C) Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles. The arc is volcanic, which is why Saint Vincent is rugged and steep with little flat land, while many of the small Grenadines to ...

Q 03/05

The name 'Grenadines' is thought to be a diminutive of which Spanish city's name?

A) Seville

B) Granada

C) Cadiz

D) Cordoba

Answer · why

B) Granada

Granada. Spanish sailors probably named the big island to the south after the Andalusian city, whose own name is said to mean pomegranate, and the isl...

Q 04/05

Why is Columbus said to have named the island Saint Vincent?

A) It was the saint's feast day

B) A vow to a Spanish monastery

C) The saint guarded his home port

D) The saint guarded his flagship

Answer · why

A) It was the saint's feast day

It was the saint's feast day, 22 January; tradition gives the year as 1498. The Spanish name stuck, yet Kalinago resistance kept Europeans from settli...

Q 05/05

Saint Vincent's national bird, found wild nowhere else on Earth, is what kind of bird?

A) Hummingbird

B) Pelican

C) Flamingo

D) Parrot

Answer · why

D) Parrot

Parrot. The Saint Vincent parrot lives only in the island's mountain forests, and a breeding centre in the capital's botanic gardens works to raise it...