Where did Chamorros come from?
What major language family does the Chamorro language belong to?
What is the Austronesian Language family?
What was the general name for Chamorro shell money?
What is ålas?
This nearby island became a U.S. territory during the Spanish–American War and is now one of America’s closest neighbors to the CNMI.
What is Guam?
This man from Katau built a large canoe to find land where the sky meets the sea, guided by an octopus.
Who is Sapkini?
What is the name of the treaty that allowed Germany to buy The Northern Mariana Islands?
What is "The Spanish-German Treaty?"
The first Chamorros migrated to the Marianas from this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
What ocean activity did ancient Chamorros use to get most of their food?
What is fishing?
During the Spanish–American War, both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands were controlled by which European country?
What is Spain?
Micronesian languages are part of this massive family, the second largest in the world, which has roots in Taiwan from 6,000 years ago.
What is Austronesian?
What is the name of the "upper class" Chamorros?
What is Matao?
This type of evidence was used to determine the origin of the first indigenous people of the Mariana Islands.
What is linguistic, archaeological, anthropology, and/or DNA evidence?
What type of raised house was unique to the Mariana Islands?
What is a Latte house?
This is the year that the Spanish-American war ended.
What is 1898?
Island men often joined whaling crews for adventure, frequently being signed on under names like John Bull or Joe Kanaka.
Who are Micronesian sailors/crewmen?
What is the name of the Carolinian leader in the early 1800s?
Who is Chief Aghurubw?
The first people who arrived in the Mariana Islands are believed to have come from these two places.
What are the Philippines and Indonesia?
What type of trade involved the exchange of goods within the same island?
What is intra-island trade?
In 1521, this person named the Mariana Islands "Islas de los Ladrones" (Island of Thieves). In your answer, name the person who gave the NMI this name and the incident that caused this.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan, the explorer whose ship had a small trailing boat taken by islanders?
This Pohnpeian pastor was the first to be invited to preach on the island of Uman in the Chuuk Lagoon.
Who is Moses?
What symbolism does the flame tree represent?
What is passionate love, sacrifice, and remembrance?
Over how many years ago was it estimated that the first people arrived in the Mariana Islands?
Over 3,000 years ago.
What type of society traced family lines through mothers rather than fathers?
What is a matrilineal society?
How did the Spanish–American War help lead to today’s relationship between the CNMI and the United States? In your answer, name the nearby island the U.S. gained in 1898 and the island group that later became a U.S. Commonwealth.
What is the U.S. gained Guam in 1898, and the Northern Mariana Islands later entered a political relationship with the United States as a Commonwealth?
These two traders, one a Portuguese deserter, partnered to build a trading empire in the Marshalls and eventually owned the island of Likiep.
Who are Adolf Capelle and Jose DeBrum?
What is the name of the the scientist who studied Chamorro DNA in the early 2010s?
Who is Dr. Miguel Villar?