Geography
This island nation is home to the capital Kingston.
What is Jamaica?
Haiti was the first independent Black republic, gaining independence in this year.
What is 1804?
Bob Marley helped popularize this genre of music worldwide.
What is reggae?
A popular Caribbean street food, made with fried dough and curried chickpeas, originated in Trinidad and Tobago
What is doubles?
This fiery cooking style, developed by the Maroons of Jamaica, is now world-famous for chicken and pork.
What is jerk?
The Caribbean Sea is part of this larger ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution that led Haiti to become the first independent Black republic in 1804?
Toussaint Louverture
Which popular music genre, blending reggae, dancehall, and Latin rhythms, originated in Puerto Rico?
Reggaetón
The national dish of Saint Lucia, made with green bananas and salted codfish
What is Green Fig and Saltfish?
He was a Caribbean-born activist founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and was a key figure in the Pan-African movement.
What is Marcus Garvey?
This island is the birthplace of Carnival as we know it, steelpan music, and limbo dancing.
What is Trinidad?
Which Jamaican national hero led the Maroons in their resistance against British colonization?
Nanny of the Maroons
Which Caribbean island hosts an annual music festival that features reggae, soca, calypso, and jazz, attracting both local and international artists?
St. Kitts (St. Kitts Music Festival)
This fruit, also called “June plum” in Jamaica, is known as “golden apple” in other Caribbean countries.
What is ambarella?
This dance, often done at parties and carnivals under a stick, was popularized in Trinidad and Tobago and became a global craze in the 1950s.
What is the limbo?
This island’s name means “bearded ones” in Portuguese and is thought to reference its fig trees.
What is Barbados?
The only Caribbean country that was once a colony of Denmark, sold to the United States in 1917.
What are the U.S. Virgin Islands?
Before reggae, Jamaica was famous for this music style in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
What is ska?
Callaloo is made from leafy greens and is considered a staple in many Caribbean countries, including this one, where it’s the national dish.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
Which scientist from Saint Lucia won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979?
Sir Arthur Lewis received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly) in 1979 for pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries.
This island is home to the only drive-in volcano in the world.
What is Saint Lucia?
This enslaved woman in Barbados led one of the earliest recorded slave revolts in 1675.
Who is Bussa’s comrade Nanny Grigg (or simply Nanny Grigg)?
The steelpan, Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument, was originally crafted from these.
What are oil drums?
“Cou-cou and flying fish” is the national dish of this island nation
What is Barbados?
The Jamaican scientist Dr. Thomas Lecky is credited with pioneering this in agriculture, creating cattle breeds adapted to tropical conditions.
What is cross-breeding (development of the Jamaican Hope cattle breed)?