Oceania: Part 1
(Australia, Pacific & Eastern Indian Ocean)
This city is in a region named Canterbury...
Oc1. Which city is known to have a very 'English' feel about it? (ie. architechture, Anglican churches...)
a. Perth, Australia
b. Dunedin, New Zealand
c. Adelaide, Australia
d. Chritchurch, New-Zealand
e. Broadmeadows, Australia
d. Christchurch
Oc2. Which country's symbol is the two-tailed Bird of Paradise?
a. Papua-New Guinea: the Bird of Paradise figures on the national flag and is held sacred by many Papuans
a. Papua-New Guinea      b. Fiji     c. Micronesia     d. Palau      e. Western Samoa
Oc3. Which country's head of state is a King? (true in May 2002)
c. Tonga; and before any one starts to argue, Australia's Elisabeth II is a Queen, not a King!
a. Australia      b. Republic of Nauru     c. Tonga      d. Cook Islands    e. Tahiti
Oc4. Which territory's indigenous people were ALL 'expelled' from their native land in the 1970s? A view of the islands...
a. Wallis & Futuna, France
b. Guam, U.S.A.
c. Chagos Islands, UK
d. Aleutian Islands, Alaska
e. Galapagos, Ecuador
c. Chagos Islands; the Chagossians were exiled to Mauritius by the UK and the USA so their islands could be used as nuclear military bases
Oc5. Excluding Australia, New-Zealand, Papua-New Guinea & Hawaii, what is the population of Oceania (ie. all the small islands)?
c. Tonga; and before any one starts to argue, Australia's Elisabeth II is a Queen, not a King!
a. 600,000     b. 2,100,000     c. 4,100,000     d.7,100,000     e. 10,100,000
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