Q 01/05

What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?

A) Port of Spain

B) Arima

C) San Fernando

D) Chaguanas

Answer · why

A) Port of Spain

Port of Spain, on the Gulf of Paria in north-west Trinidad, has been the seat of government since 1757, when the Spanish moved it from San José de Oru...

Q 02/05

Trinidad lies about 11 km off the coast of which South American country?

A) Brazil

B) Colombia

C) Venezuela

D) Guyana

Answer · why

C) Venezuela

Venezuela. Trinidad sits on South America's continental shelf and was once joined to the mainland, so its wildlife, from howler monkeys to anacondas, ...

Q 03/05

Which island's 1961 vote to leave the West Indies Federation prompted Trinidad and Tobago's exit?

A) Barbados

B) Grenada

C) Antigua

D) Jamaica

Answer · why

D) Jamaica

Jamaica. Its voters chose to leave in September 1961, Trinidad's premier judged that 'one from ten leaves nought' and pulled out too, and both islands...

Q 04/05

Which instrument, invented in Trinidad in the 1930s and 40s, is its national instrument?

A) The banjo

B) The steelpan

C) The marimba

D) The tabla

Answer · why

B) The steelpan

The steelpan evolved from Carnival's tamboo-bamboo bands as players hammered discarded oil drums into tuned instruments; in 2023 the UN General Assemb...

Q 05/05

Which party dance began as a ritual performed at wakes in Trinidad and Tobago?

A) The conga

B) The limbo

C) The mambo

D) The merengue

Answer · why

B) The limbo

The limbo was danced at wakes long before it was a party game. Julia Edwards, the 'First Lady of Limbo', made it a stage act, and her troupe carried i...