Central America & Caribbean Quiz

Question 1

What is the capital of Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Mexico City

Answer

Guadalajara

Answer

Monterrey

Answer

Puebla

Question 2

Which country is the largest in Central America by area?

Accepted Answer

Nicaragua

Answer

Honduras

Answer

Guatemala

Answer

Belize

Question 3

What is the capital of Cuba?

Accepted Answer

Havana

Answer

Santiago de Cuba

Answer

Cienfuegos

Answer

Trinidad

Question 4

The Panama Canal connects which two oceans?

Accepted Answer

Atlantic and Pacific

Answer

Atlantic and Indian

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Pacific and Indian

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Pacific and Arctic

Question 5

Which Caribbean island is divided between two countries — Haiti and the Dominican Republic?

Accepted Answer

Hispaniola

Answer

Cuba

Answer

Puerto Rico

Answer

Jamaica

Question 6

Which Central American country is the only one with no army?

Accepted Answer

Costa Rica

Answer

Panama

Answer

Belize

Answer

El Salvador

Question 7

What is the capital of Jamaica?

Accepted Answer

Kingston

Answer

Montego Bay

Answer

Ocho Rios

Answer

Negril

Question 8

Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica all share which historical connection?

Accepted Answer

Former British colonies

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Former French colonies

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Former Spanish colonies

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Former Dutch colonies

Question 9

What is the smallest country in mainland Central America?

Accepted Answer

El Salvador

Answer

Belize

Answer

Panama

Answer

Costa Rica

Question 10

The Yucatán Peninsula is the heartland of which ancient civilisation?

Accepted Answer

Maya

Answer

Aztec

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Inca

Answer

Olmec

Question 11

Which Caribbean island is a US territory (unincorporated territory)?

Accepted Answer

Puerto Rico

Answer

Haiti

Answer

Cuba

Answer

Jamaica

Question 12

What is the capital of Guatemala?

Accepted Answer

Guatemala City

Answer

Antigua

Answer

Xela (Quetzaltenango)

Answer

Cobán

Question 13

Which island is shared by France and the Netherlands?

Accepted Answer

Saint Martin (Sint Maarten)

Answer

Curaçao

Answer

Aruba

Answer

Bonaire

Question 14

Belize City was replaced as capital of Belize in 1970 by which city?

Accepted Answer

Belmopan

Answer

Dangriga

Answer

Orange Walk

Answer

Corozal

Question 15

Which country is the largest Caribbean island nation by area?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Answer

Jamaica

Answer

Haiti

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Dominican Republic

Question 16

What is the official language of Brazil's neighbour, Suriname?

Accepted Answer

Dutch

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Spanish

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English

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Portuguese

Question 17

Which Caribbean nation was the first to gain independence in the Western Hemisphere (1804)?

Accepted Answer

Haiti

Answer

Jamaica

Answer

Barbados

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Trinidad and Tobago

Question 18

The Caribbean island of Martinique is an overseas territory of which European country?

Accepted Answer

France

Answer

Spain

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Netherlands

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United Kingdom

Question 19

Lake Atitlán in Guatemala is believed to have been formed by what?

Accepted Answer

A volcanic caldera collapse

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A meteor impact

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Ancient glacial activity

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A massive earthquake

Question 20

Which Caribbean island group is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands?

Accepted Answer

Curaçao, Aruba, and Sint Maarten

Answer

British Virgin Islands

Answer

Cayman Islands

Answer

Turks and Caicos