HISTORY
What year did Jamaica gain independence?
What is 1962?
This Jamaican poet wrote many works in Jamaican Patois and promoted the language internationally.
Who is Miss Louise Bennett-Coverley?
Made from a dark red flower, this festive beverage is brewed with ginger and rum, traditionally served around Christmas time.
What is Sorrel?
Name the three counties of Jamaica.
What is Cornwall, Middlesex, Surrey?
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is nicknamed...
What is Pocket Rocket?
Before Kingston, this town was Jamaica's capital.
What is Spanish Town?
This legendary, dangerously fast public bus system dominated Kingston's roads in the 1980s and 90s, famous for its colorful graffiti and racing drivers before being replaced by the JUTC.
What are the "Chi Chi Bus" (or mini-buses)?
This traditional dark, rich cake is soaked in rum and wine for months and is a mandatory centerpiece at Jamaican weddings and Christmas dinners.
What is Jamaican Black Cake (or Fruit Cake)?
The longest river is...
What is Black River?
This Jamaican won Olympic gold in the 400m in 1948.
Who is Arthur Wint?
While every schoolchild knows the phrase "Land of Wood and Water," centuries before Columbus arrived, the indigenous Taíno people gave the island this original 7-letter name that uniquely begins with an "X
What is Xaymaca?
This traditional Christmas Eve market event sees town centers stay open all night long with music and shopping?
What is Grand Market?
Prepared by boiling the wild, leafy green herb gathered from fields, this nutrient-dense beverage is drank for its medicinal, blood-purifying properties.
What is Cerasee Tea?
This parish is known as "The Breadbasket of Jamaica
What is St. Elizabeth
Jamaica belongs to this group of islands
What is The "Greater Antilles"?
This was Jamaica's first National Hero.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This slimy, bitter plant leaf was scraped down to soothe burns, applied to the hair as a conditioner, or swallowed raw to clean out the stomach.
What is "Sinkle Bible/ Aloe Vera"?
Essential to Jamaican cooking, this cute-sounding nickname refers to a heavy, cast-aluminum or cast-iron pot used to slow-simmer oxtail and rice and peas.
What is a Dutch Pot?
While a small section of it dips into St. Mary, Jamaica's world-famous, coffee-growing Blue Mountain range primarily spans these three eastern parishes.
What are Portland, St. Thomas, and St. Andrew?
Name all fourteen parishes of Jamaica and their capitals.
What is Kingston – Kingston
St. Andrew – Half Way Tree
St. Thomas – Morant Bay
Portland – Port Antonio
St. Mary – Port Maria
St. Ann – St. Ann's Bay
Trelawny – Falmouth
St. James – Montego Bay
Hanover – Lucea
Westmoreland – Savanna-la-Mar
St. Elizabeth – Black River
Manchester – Mandeville
Clarendon – May Pen
St. Catherine – Spanish Town
On his second voyage in 1494, Christopher Columbus first anchored at this part of the island naming it..
What is Santa Gloria
Explain the proverb "If fish tell yuh seh alligator hab pain-a-belly, believe him"
Trust the word of people who are closest to the source/Listen to the voice of experience.
This rhythmic, 12-letter adjective has nothing to do with heavy rocks; it describes someone who is extremely greedy or insatiable when it comes to food.
What is Gravalicious ?
A Kingston 10 land surveyor will tell you that the compound cannot physically hold more than a few dozen vehicles. Yet, this specific location possesses a Sunday morning parking team with a supernatural anointing to pack hundreds of cars "like sardine" without a single scratch.
What is "The Ambassadors/ TLC"?
Complete the phrase cited from Miss Lou "Rain a fall, river dah flood.."
What is "but water scarce an dutty tuff!"