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94 free Grenada trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Grenada trivia quiz covers the southernmost Windward Island: Columbus's sighting, the Kalinago who held off the English, French Fort Royal, the Treaty of Paris, Fédon's rebellion, independence under Eric Gairy, Maurice Bishop's revolution and execution, and the 1983 American invasion. It also takes in what makes the Spice Isle famous: nutmeg on the flag, oil down, Spicemas, Grand Anse beach, the underwater sculpture park, Hurricane Ivan and Kirani James's full set of Olympic 400 m medals. The first questions suit anyone who has smelled the nutmeg on arrival; the last ones test people who know how many stars are on the flag and what the volcano off the north coast is called. Every question is multiple choice with a short explanation after you answer. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Grenada is nicknamed the 'Island of Spice' chiefly for producing which spice, shown on its flag?
Nutmeg
Nutmeg was Grenada's chief export crop when Hurricane Ivan struck in 2004; the storm wrecked most of the crop and crippled the island's biggest farm export.
Q 02What is the capital of Grenada?
St. George's
St. George's began as the French town of Fort Royal; it was given its present name when Britain took over the island in the 1760s.
Q 03In 1974 Grenada became Britain's first associated state to gain what?
Independence
Independence came on 7 February 1974, with Eric Gairy as the first prime minister; the other five associated states followed between 1978 and 1983.
Q 04The 1979 coup that overthrew Eric Gairy was carried out by which Marxist-Leninist group?
New JEWEL Movement
The New JEWEL Movement seized power on 13 March 1979 while Eric Gairy was abroad, installing the People's Revolutionary Government in a nearly bloodless coup.
Q 05Who led Grenada's revolutionary government from 1979 until his execution in October 1983?
Maurice Bishop
Maurice Bishop, a London-trained lawyer, was shot by his own army in October 1983; in 2009 Grenada renamed its main airport, begun under his government, in his memory.
Q 06The 1983 US-led invasion of Grenada was code-named what?
Operation Urgent Fury
Operation Urgent Fury began at dawn on 25 October 1983, with US Army Rangers parachuting onto the unfinished Point Salines airstrip in the south of the island.
Q 07Reagan cited workers from which country building a 10,000-foot airstrip on Grenada as a particular worry?
Cuba
Cuba had sent hundreds of construction workers to build the Point Salines runway; Reagan warned in March 1983 that it could serve Soviet and Cuban military aircraft.
Q 08The 25 October anniversary of the 1983 invasion is now a national holiday in Grenada called what?
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day in Grenada has nothing to do with harvests or pilgrims: the 25 October holiday gives thanks for the 1983 US-led intervention that ended military rule.
Q 09Sprinter Kirani James won Grenada's first Olympic gold at London 2012 in which event?
400 metres
Kirani James, 19, pulled clear off the final bend in London to win the 400 metres from another teenager, Luguelin Santos, giving Grenada a medal at its eighth Summer Games.
Q 10Hurricane Ivan in 2004 damaged or destroyed roughly what share of Grenada's homes?
90%
90% of Grenada's homes were damaged or destroyed when Ivan struck in September 2004; the prime minister declared a national disaster, and the bill came to more than the island's yearly output.
Q 11Which is the larger of Grenada's two smaller inhabited islands?
Carriacou
Carriacou, about 13 square miles, is the largest of the Grenadines; its villagers still build wooden boats by hand and turn each launch into a celebration.
Q 12Columbus sighted Grenada in 1498 on his third voyage and is credited with naming it what?
La Concepción
La Concepción is the name Columbus is credited with giving the island when he sighted it in 1498; it never caught on, and the island was later renamed, most likely after the Spanish city of Granada.
Q 13Which east-coast Grenadian town, also known as La Baye, was named after a British prime minister of the 1760s?
Grenville
Q 21Which of these Caribbean countries shares Grenada's currency, the East Caribbean dollar?
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is one of eight economies using the East Caribbean dollar; Barbados and Guyana both belonged to the currency union once, but each left to issue a dollar of its own.
Q 22As of 2025, who is Grenada's head of state?
King Charles III
King Charles III has been Grenada's head of state since September 2022; even the Marxist revolutionaries who seized power in 1979 never abolished the monarchy.
Q 23Grenada is the southernmost of which island chain?
Windward Islands
Grenada is the southernmost of the Windward Islands, so called because sailing ships arriving on the trade winds met them upwind of the Leeward Islands to the north.
Grenville honours a British prime minister of the same name, in office from 1763 to 1765, just as Britain was taking over Grenada; locals still use the older French name, La Baye.
Q 14The expedition that founded Grenada's first lasting European settlement around 1650 set out from which island?
Martinique
Martinique's governor, Jacques Dyel du Parquet, led the settlers himself; within a few years they were at war with the island's Kalinago, who were all but wiped out.
Q 15Grenada was ceded by France to Britain in 1763 under an agreement signed in which city?
Paris
The 1763 Treaty of Paris handed Grenada to Britain; France recaptured the island in 1779 during the American War of Independence but returned it in 1783.
Q 16The 1795-96 revolt against British rule on Grenada, by rebels favouring a return to France, was led by whom?
Julien Fédon
Julien Fédon, a mixed-race planter from the Belvidere estate, led the 1795–96 uprising with backing from Revolutionary France; the British crushed it in June 1796 and Fédon vanished.
Q 17Which starchy fruit, brought from the Pacific in the 1790s, is the main ingredient of Grenada's national dish?
Breadfruit
Breadfruit fills the pot; William Bligh's first attempt to fetch the trees from Tahiti ended in the mutiny on the Bounty, so he sailed again and landed them in the Caribbean in the 1790s.
Q 18Sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor opened the world's first what off Grenada's west coast in 2006?
Underwater sculpture park
The underwater sculpture park in Molinere Bay holds concrete figures, among them a ring of children holding hands, that corals and sponges are slowly turning into reef.
Q 19The active underwater volcano off Grenada's north coast is called what?
Kick 'em Jenny
Kick 'em Jenny lies about 8 km north of Grenada, right under an inter-island shipping route, so vessels are kept out of an exclusion zone around it.
Q 20Grenada's most famous beach, three kilometres long in the south-west, is called what?
Grand Anse
Grand Anse is a 3 km sweep of white sand just south of the capital; during the 1983 invasion, American students stranded at a campus there were flown out by helicopter.
Q 24In 1983 Reagan called Grenada's long new runway suspicious because the island lacked even what?
An air force
An air force was his point: 'Grenada doesn't even have an air force,' he said on television; Grenada's government answered that the runway was for tourist jets.
Q 25Which crop, grown in Grenada since the early 1700s, is still one of the island's leading exports?
Cocoa
Cocoa arrived in the early 18th century and, as the big sugar estates collapsed, suited small plots, helping to create a class of land-owning farmers who still grow it.
Q 26The island's only endemic bird species is what kind of bird?
A dove
The Grenada dove, a shy ground-dwelling dove found nowhere else, is the national bird; its last strongholds are dry forest at Mount Hartman and Perseverance.
Q 27Grenada's carnival, held in August, is known as what?
Spice Mas
Spice Mas, Grenada's carnival, peaks in August with J'ouvert morning, when oil-covered Jab Jab devils lead the parade through the streets.
Q 28After slavery ended in Grenada in 1834, what system bound the freed to estates until 1838?
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship relabelled the enslaved as 'apprentices' bound to their former owners; it was meant to last until 1840 but was scrapped two years early, on 1 August 1838.
Q 29Roughly how many people lived in Grenada in 2024?
115,000
115,000 or so people lived in Grenada in 2024, a third of them around the capital; the total grows only slowly because so many Grenadians emigrate.
Q 30Which Grenadian prime minister governed from 1995 to 2008 and returned to power in 2013?
Keith Mitchell
Keith Mitchell lost the 2008 election after 13 years in office, then stormed back in 2013 by winning every seat in parliament; he is Grenada's longest-serving prime minister.