Somehow I’d not even started the grind on this country, but to see our friend from “72 Dangerous Places to Live” come up has made my day.
Questions
Giving its name to a national park and the second highest mountain in the Lesser Antilles after Guadeloupe’s Grande Soufrière, which devilish mountain is the highest point on the island of Dominica?
MORNE DIABLOTINS
Morne Diablotins is located 10km south-east of what second largest town on Dominica? Having a measly population of aroound 3,000, it once served as the capital before losing this status to Roseau.
PORTSMOUTH
The flag of Dominica is one of only three national flags to use what colour, the others being Nicaragua and El Salvador?
PURPLE
While the flag of Dominica has its purple as part of the Sisserou Parrot, of what feature does the purple in the flags of both El Salvador an Nicaragua appear?
RAINBOW
Standing for the number of parishes, how many green five-pointed stars can be found circling the Sisserou Parrot on the flag of Dominica?
TEN
Taken over after the brief one year reign of Eliud Williams, who has been President of Dominica since 2013? Born in Portsmouth, he came to prominence during a spell of nearly two decades as a trade unionist.
CHARLES SAVARIN
Dominica gained its independence from which country in 1978, having been the colonial power on the island since 1763?
UNITED KINGDOM
Easily confused with a natural site in St Lucia, the flooded fumarole that is Boiling Lake can be found in which National Park that is World Heritage listed?
MORNE TROIS PITONS
Being suspended by ropes over the most violent section, which Canadian was filmed crossing Dominica’s Boiling Lake for his TV series “Angry Planet”?
GEORGE KOURANIS
One of the last Caribbean islands to be formed by volcanic activity, Dominica first emerged from the sea during which geologic epoch that runs from about 34 million to 23 million years ago? With two other epochs, it is part of the Paleogene period.
OLIGOCENE
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