Jamaica
This capital city of Jamaica is also the largest city on the island.
What is Kingston?
Barbados is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and not the Caribbean Sea. This is the capital city located on the southwestern coast.
What is Bridgetown?
This is the capital and largest city of Guyana.
What is Georgetown?
This island nation is known as the "Helen of the West Indies" due to its beauty and history of contested colonization.
What is St. Lucia?
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory with this person as its ceremonial head of state.
Who is the British monarch (King Charles III)?
The colors of the Jamaican flag are black, green, and this third color, which symbolizes the natural wealth and sunshine of the island.
What is gold?
Celebrated annually, this festival is Barbados' most significant cultural event, rooted in the island’s sugar cane harvest and African heritage.
What is Crop Over?
Guyana is often considered part of the Caribbean due to cultural and historical ties, despite being located on this continent.
What is South America?
Dominica is nicknamed this, reflecting its lush mountainous rainforests and natural hot springs.
What is the "Nature Isle of the Caribbean"?
This colorful, knee-length attire is a famous and traditional part of Bermuda’s business dress code.
What are Bermuda shorts?
The Jamaican national motto reflects the country’s cultural diversity. Quote the motto exactly.
What is "Out of Many, One People"?
In 1816, this major slave rebellion in Barbados was led by an enslaved man known as “Bussa,” who later became a national hero.
What is the Bussa Rebellion?
Guyana gained independence in 1966 from this European colonial power.
What is the United Kingdom?
Both St. Lucia and Dominica changed hands several times between these two European colonial powers during the 18th century.
What are Britain and France?
The 1670 “Somers Isles Company” was granted a royal charter to govern Bermuda, named after this English privateer who is credited with “discovering” the island.
Who is Sir George Somers?
Before full independence in 1962, Jamaica was briefly part of this short-lived political union formed in 1958.
What is the West Indies Federation?
The broken trident on the Barbadian flag represents this concept.
What is Barbados' break from colonial rule (or independence)?
Located in the heart of the rainforest, this spectacular waterfall is nearly twice the height of Niagara Falls.
What is Kaieteur Falls?
Dominica experienced one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in 2017, which caused widespread damage and highlighted the island’s vulnerability to climate change. Name this hurricane.
What is Hurricane Maria?
This is the year St. George's, Bermuda—originally called New London—was founded as the first permanent English settlement on the island.
What is 1612?
Jamaica’s Maroon communities are known for preserving African traditions. This UNESCO-recognized oral art form is central to their storytelling.
What is the Kromanti language or Kromanti storytelling?
Barbados is a founding member of this regional political and economic union established in 1973.
What is CARICOM (Caribbean Community)?
This vast, sparsely populated region of Guyana covers about 83% of the country’s land area and is known for its rainforests, mountains, and gold mining.
What is the Guiana Shield (or the Hinterland)?
St. Lucia’s folk festival “La Rose” celebrates this type of traditional social organization, often characterized by flower-themed societies and annual competitions.
What is the “Flower Societies” or “La Rose Society”?
This 20th-century industry transformed Bermuda’s economy, especially after World War II, making it a global hub for this financial sector.
What is offshore insurance and reinsurance?