Oceania Geography Quiz - Questions and Answers

1. Which of these countries is home to a native group of Polynesians known as the Maori?

A) Switzerland

B) North Korea

C) Philippines

D) New Zealand

2. Samoa, the Marshall Islands, Fiji, and Tonga are all island nations located in which ocean?

A) Arctic

B) Pacific

C) Indian

D) Atlantic

3. Uluru is a sandstone rock formation that is sacred to the Aboriginal people of what nation?

A) Canada

B) Bolivia

C) Ethiopia

D) Australia

4. Which of these countries consists entirely of islands in the Pacific Ocean?

A) Seychelles

B) Tuvalu

C) Maldives

D) Comoros

5. Which of these countries is found in the South Pacific Ocean?

A) Samoa

B) Philippines

C) St. Kitts and Nevis

D) Cyprus

6. Aotearoa is the Maori name for which country?

A) Tonga

B) Vanuatu

C) Australia

D) New Zealand

7. Which country’s coastline is home to the Great Barrier Reef off its state of Queensland?

a) Monaco

b) Peru

c) Finland

d) Australia

8. North Island and South Island form the majority of which country’s landmass?

A) Thailand

B) New Zealand

C) Chile

D) Angola

9. Which archipelago is not considered part of Polynesia?

A) Tonga

B) Marquesas

C) Philippines

D) Samoa

10. Wellington lies on the Cook Strait at the southern end of North Island in what country?

A) Australia

B) New Zealand

C) Cuba

D) Ireland

11. Renegade Japanese soldiers left behind after World War II held out in forests in which Pacific

archipelagic nation into the 1960’s?
A) Sri Lanka 

B) Mongolia 

C) Tonga 

D) Philippines

Anwers:

1 - D

2 - B

3 - D

4 - B

5 - A

6 - D

7 - D

8 - B

9 - C

10 - B

11 - C