Q 01/05

Solomon Islands lies in which region of Oceania?

A) Melanesia

B) Micronesia

C) Polynesia

D) Australasia

Answer · why

A) Melanesia

Melanesia takes in nearly all Solomon Islanders, yet a few outlying islands, among them Tikopia, Rennell and Anuta, are home to Polynesians.

Q 02/05

Which Spanish navigator, sailing from Peru, became the first European to reach the Solomon Islands in 1568?

A) Vasco Núñez de Balboa

B) Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

C) Álvaro de Mendaña

D) Juan Sebastián Elcano

Answer · why

C) Álvaro de Mendaña

Álvaro de Mendaña left Callao with two ships and spent six months exploring the islands. He came back in 1595 to plant a colony and died there weeks a...

Q 03/05

The Solomon Islands were named in the hope that they were which biblical land of gold?

A) Ophir

B) Goshen

C) Canaan

D) Galilee

Answer · why

A) Ophir

Ophir was the land said to have supplied King Solomon's gold, and the Spaniards who arrived in 1568 hoped they had found it. They left other names too...

Q 04/05

Solomon Islands became independent in 1978, two years before which neighbour that Britain and France had ruled jointly?

A) Vanuatu

B) Tuvalu

C) Nauru

D) New Caledonia

Answer · why

A) Vanuatu

Vanuatu was the New Hebrides until 1980. The Solomons' own independence was not unanimous: a breakaway movement in the western islands feared being ru...

Q 05/05

Since independence in 1978, who has been the head of state of Solomon Islands?

A) A hereditary monarch

B) An elected president

C) The prime minister

D) A council of chiefs

Answer · why

A) A hereditary monarch

A hereditary monarch it is: the British sovereign reigns separately as King or Queen of Solomon Islands. Parliament nominates the governor-general who...