Q 01/05

Which ocean does Suriname's coast face?

A) Atlantic Ocean

B) Pacific Ocean

C) Indian Ocean

D) Southern Ocean

Answer · why

A) Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is still building this coast: its currents carry mud westward from the mouth of the Amazon and lay it down as shifting banks along ...

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Suriname?

A) Paramaribo

B) Georgetown

C) Cayenne

D) Nieuw Nickerie

Answer · why

A) Paramaribo

Paramaribo lost hundreds of buildings to a great fire in January 1821, yet its original street plan survived the rebuilding and remains intact in toda...

Q 03/05

Suriname is the smallest country by area and population on which continent?

A) South America

B) Africa

C) North America

D) Oceania

Answer · why

A) South America

South America's smallest independent country is about the size of Tunisia, yet Tunisia holds some twelve million people and Suriname well under one mi...

Q 04/05

Which two neighbours lie to Suriname's east and west?

A) French Guiana and Brazil

B) Brazil and Venezuela

C) French Guiana and Guyana

D) Guyana and Colombia

Answer · why

C) French Guiana and Guyana

French Guiana and Guyana both have unsettled borders with Suriname, disputes over the upper reaches of the boundary rivers that date from colonial rul...

Q 05/05

Under the 1667 Treaty of Breda, the Dutch kept Suriname and let their rivals keep which settlement?

A) New Amsterdam

B) Cape Town

C) Batavia

D) Willemstad

Answer · why

A) New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam had fallen in 1664 and already been renamed New York, and the peace let both sides keep their wartime captures rather than hand them bac...