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50 free Saint Vincent and the Grenadines trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Forty-two questions on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Windward Island nation of 32 islands and cays strung towards Grenada. Geography covers Kingstown, La Soufriere and its 1812, 1902, 1979 and 2021 eruptions, Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island, the six parishes and the new airport at Argyle. History runs from the Kalinago's Youloumain and Columbus's saint's day, through French settlement at Barrouallie, the two Carib Wars, Joseph Chatoyer's death on Dorsetshire Hill and the deportation of the Garifuna to Roatan, Fort Charlotte, William Bligh's breadfruit, Madeiran and Indian labourers, 1979 independence under Milton Cato, the Union Island revolt and the 2009 republic referendum. Culture and modern life cover the flag's three diamonds, Vincentian Creole, Kevin Lyttle, big drum music, humpback whaling from Bequia, Princess Margaret's Mustique, Pirates of the Caribbean, the smallest country ever elected to the UN Security Council and 'Comrade Ralph' Gonsalves. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the country, its islands and its people, and the sentence that establishes it is quoted under each explanation. Suits a pub quiz, a Caribbean geography lesson or a Grenadines sailing trip.
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Q 01What is the capital and largest city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
Kingstown
Founded by French settlers shortly after 1722, it sits in the parish of Saint George and holds the main port.
Q 02How many islands and cays make up Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
32
Nine are inhabited, including Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island; the southern third of the Grenadines chain belongs to Grenada.
Q 03The name 'Grenadines' is a diminutive referring to which Spanish city?
Granada
The small form was used to tell the chain apart from the island of Grenada to the south.
Q 04Columbus named the island after Vincent of Saragossa because he first sighted it on what date?
22 January, the martyr's feast day
The Kalinago had called it Youloumain, after Youlouca, the spirit of the rainbows.
Q 05The Kalinago name for Saint Vincent, Youloumain, honoured a spirit of what?
Rainbows
Youlouca was believed to inhabit the island; the Kalinago fiercely resisted every European attempt to settle.
Q 06Which European power first managed to colonise Saint Vincent, settling at Barrouallie in 1719?
France
The British drove them out during the Seven Years' War, confirmed by the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Q 07What are the Afro-Indigenous people of Saint Vincent who fought Britain in the Carib Wars called?
The Garifuna
Their descendants still live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua, speaking an Arawakan language with African and European borrowings.
Q 08Who was the paramount chief who led the Second Carib War rebels and is now a national hero?
Joseph Chatoyer
He was killed on Dorsetshire Hill on 14 March 1795; Belize and Costa Rica also honour him.
Q 09After their 1797 defeat, nearly 5,000 rebels were deported to Roatan, off which country?
Honduras
Others were sent to Belize and to Baliceaux in the Grenadines; the Central American Garifuna diaspora grew from those exiles.
Q 10What is the name of the active volcano that is Saint Vincent's highest point at 1,234 metres?
La Soufriere
It erupted in 1812, 1902, 1979 and again in April 2021, when 16,000 people were evacuated.
Q 11The 1902 eruption of the island's volcano killed roughly how many people?
1,500 to 2,000
It came the same year as Mont Pelee's disaster on Martinique; the 1979 and 2021 eruptions killed no one thanks to evacuations.
Q 12How many residents were evacuated when the volcano erupted explosively in April 2021?
About 16,000
Ash rose several miles and neighbouring islands, Britain and the UN sent aid; the World Bank pledged US$20 million.
Q 13Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became independent on 27 October of which year?
1979
It had held associate statehood since 1969; the date is now Independence Day.
Q 21Which Bounty captain brought seedlings of a Pacific staple tree to the capital's botanical garden?
William Bligh
The garden, conceived in 1765, is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere; the mutiny had ruined his first attempt.
Q 22Which Grenadine island became a celebrity hideaway after Colin Tennant bought it in 1958?
Mustique
She built the villa Les Jolies Eaux; the private island company later passed to Venezuelan investors.
Q 23The people of which island may still hunt up to four humpback whales a year under a subsistence quota?
Bequia
Yankee whalers brought the tradition in the 19th century; the quota is rarely filled and some years see no catch.
Q 14Who was the first prime minister of independent Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
Milton Cato
He had been Premier since 1974 and lost to James Mitchell in 1984; Mitchell then ruled for 16 years.
Q 15Months after independence, a Grenada-inspired rebellion broke out where in the Grenadines?
Union Island
Lennox 'Bumba' Charles alleged neglect by the central government; the revolt was quickly crushed and he was arrested.
Q 16Prime minister Gonsalves, in office from 2001 to 2025, is known locally by what nickname?
Comrade Ralph
He argued Europe owes reparations for slavery and won five straight elections before Godwin Friday's NDP took 14 of 15 seats in 2025.
Q 17A 2009 referendum to make the country a republic failed because it needed what?
A two-thirds majority
Voters split 55.6 percent for and 43.1 percent against, so the monarchy stayed.
Q 18In 2019 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines became the smallest country ever elected to what?
The UN Security Council
It also opened an embassy in Taipei the same year, its sixth mission abroad.
Q 19What is the main feature of the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, adopted in 1985?
Three green diamonds in a V
The blue-gold-green pale triband is nicknamed 'the Gems'; the 1979 flag had carried the coat of arms and a leaf.
Q 20The 1985 flag design by Julien van der Wal replaced the coat of arms and which leaf?
Breadfruit
Elaine Liverpool's independence flag had carried them; the diamonds are grouped in a V for Vincent.
Q 24Which Hollywood film series shot on Saint Vincent gave the country's tourism a boost?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Sets built at Wallilabou Bay for the 2003 original became a visitor attraction.
Q 25Which crop dominates Vincentian agriculture and has repeatedly been flattened by hurricanes?
Bananas
Storms in 1980 and 1987 wrecked banana and coconut plantations; single-crop dependence is the economy's biggest weakness.
Q 26Argyle International, opened in February 2017, replaced which older airfield?
E. T. Joshua Airport
The new airport lies on the east coast about 8 km from the capital and finally allowed direct long-haul flights.
Q 27Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is divided into how many parishes?
Six
Five are on the main island and the sixth is Grenadines Parish; for the census there are 13 divisions.
Q 28The House of Assembly has how many elected members?
15
Six appointed senators sit alongside them; the NDP won 14 of the 15 seats in 2025.
Q 29From 1845, indentured Catholic settlers arrived to replace plantation labour from which Atlantic island?
Madeira
About 2,100 Portuguese came in five years, followed by shiploads of Indian labourers between 1861 and 1888.
Q 30Which stronghold overlooking the capital was begun by the British in 1763 and completed in 1806?
Fort Charlotte
Its guns pointed inland as much as out to sea, a sign of who the British feared most.