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Exploring the Caribbean: A Quiz on Culture and History

Test your knowledge about the Caribbean's culture, history, and notable figures with this engaging quiz.

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1 Which of the following labels did Caribbean work with?

2 The university consists of three main campuses in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, a smaller campus in the ________ and Resident Tutors in other contributing territories.

3 Courlander West Indies – ________ (until 1691)

4 ________ has a multi-racial cosmopolitan society due to the arrival of the Africans, Indians, Chinese, Syrians, Lebanese and Europeans.

5 Who played Shively, MacAllister's Overseer in the movie Caribbean?

6 Which of the following titles did Caribbean have?

7 Who played Evans, MacAllister's Foreman in the movie Caribbean?

8 The nation of Suriname, on the mainland of South America, is a former Dutch colony and also a member of ________.

9 In 1973, the first political regionalism in the Caribbean Basin was created by advances of the English-speaking Caribbean nations through the institution known as the Caribbean Common Market and Community (________).

10 What role did Francis L. Sullivan play in the movie Caribbean?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the bark of the Caribbean tree Canella winterana can be used as a spice similar to cinnamon.
  • the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas.
  • the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean, preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years.
  • among the Taíno people of the Caribbean, a zemi (pictured) is a spirit or a sculpture representing the spirit.
  • the calls of the Red-throated Ant-Tanager, a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean, include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik, and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick.
  • the science fiction novel Typewriter in the Sky by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century.
  • the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship, I Walked With a Zombie, and Zombies on Broadway.
  • the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean.
  • the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer.
  • the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species.
  • all four remaining species of island raccoons (examples pictured), found only on small Central American and Caribbean islands, are considered endangered.
  • Captain Woodes Rogers rescued Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe, and later defeated the pirates of the Caribbean.
  • Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life.
  • aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and several Caribbean island communities.
  • Trinidad has more bat species than any other island in the Caribbean.
  • election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean.
  • Ignatz Urban's type collections of Caribbean plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the Berlin Herbarium.
  • Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean.
  • Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there.
  • Mary Anne Rawson (pictured) helped in the anti-slavery campaign that reduced the sale of sugar from the West Indies in Sheffield.
  • Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York.
  • West Indians Viv Richards and Hallam Moseley top the batting and bowling charts in List A cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club.
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