My Tetum is non-existent, but so were my notes on this tiny country, so here is what I came up with on my run through the Wikipedia summary and history.
Questions
Featuring triangles and a star, the flag of East Timor is made up of what four colours?
BLACK, YELLOW, WHITE, RED
East Timor’s only special administrative region, which exclave is separated from the country by West Timor, part of Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province?
OECUSSE
Visible from Dili and having a name that means ‘goat’, which island of East Timor can be reached using the ‘Berlin Nakroma’, a ferry gifted by the German government that also connects with Oecusse’s capital Pante Macassar?
ATAURO
Much smaller that East Timor’s largest offshore island Atauro, which uninhabited island lies off the country’s eastern tip? While tourists are allowed to visit, overnight stays are not permitted.
JACO
Mostly spoken in Indonesia and having around half a million speakers, Tetum is a member of which major language family? A national language of East Timor, it is part of this grouping’s Malayo-Polynesian branch.
AUSTRONESIAN
Introduced in 2003 for use alongside the US dollar, which coin is equal to one American cent, with its highest denomination of 200 being introduced in 2017?
CENTAVO
Thanks to Timur meaning ‘east’ in Malay, the country of East Timor literally means ‘east east’. What term is used to describe such place names where two different parts mean the same thing, with other examples including the Faroe Islands, which means ‘Sheep island islands’?
TAUTOLOGICAL
Archaeological findings at the limestone cave of Jerimalai near the suco of Tutuala at East Timor’s easternmost extreme are some of the oldest such discoveries in which biogeographical region named for a 19th-century figure? It roughly lies between Australia and the Sunda shelf.
WALLACEA
One location where the Timorese people may have migrated from is which highlands on the island of Sumatra, that make up part of the Barisan Mountains? The 19th-century Padri War which saw Muslim clerics try to impose sharia law is also known by the name of these people.
MINANGKABAU
Derived from trees found in the genus ‘Santalum’, what product has been exported from the area of East Timor for centuries, being a significant carrot for European colonialists to settle there?
SANDALWOOD
In the 16th-century the Portuguese established a trading post in the Solor archipelago. This lies to the west of the Alor archipelago, north of Timor, and east of which of the Lesser Sunda Islands?
FLORES
The Portuguese briefly had a capital at which city in West Timor during the 16th-century, it being taken over by the Dutch and now a city of over 400,000 people that acts at the capital of Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province?
KUPANG
Formed to defend the island of Timor against the Japanese invasion during World War II, which bird gives its name to a military force than withdrew from the island in 1943?
SPARROW (FORCE)
Beginning as a resistance movement that desired independence from Portugal, and then Indonesia, what is the short name of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor? Francisco Guterres became this party’s first president in 2017.
FRETILIN
Which cemetery in Dili gives its name to a massacre of pro-independence demonstrators that resulted in at least 250 deaths in 1991, with many being killed on the sacred ground?
SANTA CRUZ
Led by Australia, what was the short name of the peacekeeping force that was active in East Timor prior to the arrival of UN peacekeepers?
INTERFET
A team of soldiers led by which military deserter entered the residential complex of president José Ramos-Horta in 2006 with a view to assassinate him, failing to do so as he had gone out for a run? He was injured on his return home, spending time recuperating in Darwin.
ALFREDO REINADO
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