Bahamas – Pre-19th century history

Blackbeard was here and you can re-live those days by playing “Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag”.

Questions

According to calculations made by Joseph Judge in 1986, Guanahani, the site of Columbus’ landing, may have been the uninhabited island of Samana Cay in the south-east. For which magazine that has existed since 1888 was Judge a writer and editor?

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Christopher Columbus claimed the territory of the Bahamas for which kingdom, before going on to explore other islands in the Caribbean?

CASTILE

Later the first colonial governor of South Carolina and an adherent of Oliver Cromwell, who led the Eleutheran Adventurers after becoming dissatisfied with his life as Governor of Bermuda? New Providence was formerly named after this figure.

WILLIAM SAYLE

Before being renamed in 1695 Nassau was known by what name, chosen in honour of the monarch of the time by the builders of a fort there? It was raided by Spanish corsair Juan de Alcon in 1684.

CHARLES TOWN

In what year was the Raid of Nassau, part of a larger war, with a fleet under the command of Esek Hopkins emerging victorious? Despite this success they failed to capture HMS Glasgow, with Hopkins ultimately being dismissed from the Navy a couple of years later.

1776

Named for an alliterative editor of “The Miami News” who was an early opponent of the Vietnam War, which Cape Florida State Park with one of the best beaches in the United States was a place where fugitive slaves escaped to the Bahamas during the 1820s?

BILL BAGGS (CAPE FLORIDA STATE PARK)

What is the common name given to a loose confederacy of ex-privateers that existed from about 1706 to 1718 that was based in Nassau? In “Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag” fictional Welshman Edward Fenway helps to establish it.

PIRATES’ REPUBLIC

The first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, who put an end to the Pirates’ Republic, also being known as the captain of the vessel that rescued Alexander Selkirk?

WOODES ROGERS

Ended by the Treaty of The Hague, during which 1718 to 1720 war was Nassau attacked by the Spanish that saw the British and French fighting on the same side?

WAR OF THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE

Followimg the American War of Independence the British settled some Native American Creeks from East Florida in the Bahamas. By what name are the Creek better known, one of the ‘five civilised tribes’?

MUSCOGEE

Bahamas

Who let the cruise ships out? A bit of boxing in here, clearly not appropriate to the category, but I was following a thread.

Questions

Having a four-word title and its port of registry at Nassau, what was the largest cruise ship in the world by gross tonnage prior to the new 2022 champion?

SYMPHONY OF THE SEAS

What replaced Symphony of the Seas as the largest cruise ship in the world by gross tonnage?

WONDER OF THE SEAS

Which Oasis-class cruise ship did Symphony of the Seas take the record from in 2018, with that and the Wonder of the Seas also being in the same class?

HARMONY OF THE SEAS

What is the name of the shipyard at Saint Nazaire, where Symphony of the Seas was built? Expected to be slightly bugger than Wonder of the Seas, Utopia of the Seas is on its order book.

CHANTIERS DE L’ATLANTIQUE

Along with Wonder, Symphony, Harmony and Oasis of the Seas, what is the fifth oasis class cruise ship by Royal Caribbean International?

ALLURE OF THE SEAS

Which district of the Bahamas is home to over 365 islands called cays and was home to the failed 2017 Fyre Festival, which resulted in some astonishing damages being paid out?

EXUMA

Committing suicide in a Spanish prison in 2021, who conducted his brief 2020 Presidential campaign from a boat moored in Exuma harbour?

JOHN MCAFEE

His stage name being an acronym where the first two letters stand for his real name, which rapper was associated with the failed 2017 Exuma Fyre Festival?

JA RULE

Described as the ‘poster boy for millennial scamming’, which American con-artist was jailed for defrauding investors during the failed 2017 Exuma Fire Festival?

BILLY MCFARLAND

Who did Mohammed Ali fight in the ‘Drama in Bahama’, where he ‘floated like an anchor and stung like a moth’?

TREVOR BERBICK

How old was Muhammad Ali in the ‘Drama in Bahama’, his last fight?

39

Who did Ali fight prior to Trevor Berbick in ‘The Last Hurrah’? No state would give Ali a licence to fight after his unimpressive performance on the grounds of health, which saw him fall to the fourth defeat of his career.

LARRY HOLMES

Partly taken from the Pennsylvania city where he lived, what is the nickname of Larry Holmes? He is the only man to have knocked out Muhammed Ali.

THE EASTON ASSASSIN

Lying to the south-east of Bahamas, which other British Overseas Territory makes up the Lucayan archipelago with that country?

TURKS & CAICOS

Winning the 2021 election in a landslide, which ‘Brave’ 5th Prime Minister of the Bahamas has signalled that a referendum could be on the way to decide whether the people want to depose the British monarch as head of state so the country can become a republic?

PHILIP DAVIS

Who were the first indigenous Americans to be encountered by Christopher Columbus, being a branch of the Arawak-speaking Taíno people and now numbering about 40,000?

LUCAYANS

Called Guanhaní by the native Lucayans, what is thought to be the first Bahaman island that Christopher Colunbus made landfall on in 1492, its principal community these days being Cockburn Town?

SAN SALVADOR

After a period of the Bahamas being nearly deserted through their enslavement or dying of disease, which group of English colonists from Bermuda settled on a namesake Bahamian island in 1649?

ELEUTHERAN ADVENTURERS

A major hub for Bahamasair, Western Air and Pineapple Air, Nassau airport is also named for which first Prime Minister of Bahamas, who has in charge from 1973 to 1992?

LYNDEN PINDLING

Regarded as the worst natural disaster in the history of the Bahamas, which hurricane of 2019 damaged or destroyed around half the homes on Grand Bahama?

DORIAN

A book written between 1357 and 1371 purports to be the travels of which Englishman, an invented author who traveled as far as India and China? Despite its fantastical tales, it was used as a reference work by Christopher Columbus.

JOHN MANDEVILLE