Question: What name did the expedition give to the island it saw on January 12th?
Answer: Corrales

Question: What was the location of Corrales?
Answer: 10°N

Question: Who led the expedition involving the ship San Pedro?
Answer: Miguel López de Legazpi

Question: What did Miguel López de Legazpi call the island discovered on January 9, 1530?
Answer: Los Barbudos

Question: What did the Spanish call the island that might have been Ailuk?
Answer: Placeres

Question: On what day did the Spanish see the island they named Corrales?
Answer: January 12

Question: What island may have been spotted by the Spanish on January 15?
Answer: Ujelang

Question: Who arrived at the Marshall Islands in 1788?
Answer: Captain John Charles Marshall and Thomas Gilbert

Question: What do natives of the Marshall Islands call their country?
Answer: jolet jen Anij

Question: Which Russian was involved in naming the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Adam Johann von Krusenstern

Question: Which French citizen was involved in naming the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Louis Isidore Duperrey

Question: At what island did the Globe arrive in 1824?
Answer: Mulgrave

Question: Who notably accompanied John Charles Marshall to the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Thomas Gilbert

Question: In what year did Marshall and Gilbert go to the islands?
Answer: 1788

Question: What is the traditional name of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: jolet jen Anij

Question: What is the English translation of the traditional name of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Gifts from God

Question: On what island did mutinous American whalers land in 1824?
Answer: Mulgrave Island

Question: Who was the leader of the group attacked by the people of the Marshall Islands in 1834?
Answer: Captain DonSette

Question: What vessel was attacked in 1845?
Answer: Naiad

Question: What ships were attacked in 1852?
Answer: Glencoe and Sea Nymph

Question: In what year did missionaries arrive to live in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: 1857

Question: On what island did the Missionaries live with citizens of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Ebon

Question: Who was the captain of the crew killed in 1834?
Answer: Captain DonSette

Question: In what year was the ship Naiad attacked by natives?
Answer: 1845

Question: What type of ship was the Naiad?
Answer: schooner

Question: Out of what city was the Sea Nymph sailing?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: Where did missionaries live as of 1857?
Answer: Ebon

Question: What nation had a claim on the Marshall Islands as of 1874?
Answer: the Spanish Empire

Question: What nation formed a protectorate over the Marshall Islands?
Answer: the German Empire

Question: What nation asserted their rights over the Gilbert and Ellice islands?
Answer: Britain

Question: On what ship did German ambassadors arrive in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: SMS Nautilus

Question: What title did the Germans give to Kabua?
Answer: King of the Ralik Islands

Question: On what day was a final treaty signed between the Marshall Islands chiefs and the Germans?
Answer: November 1

Question: What status did the Marshall Islands have in Germany?
Answer: Imperial German Protectorate

Question: What nation had control of the Carolines?
Answer: Spain

Question: What notable resource was available in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: copra

Question: In what year did Germany buy the Marshalls from Spain?
Answer: 1884

Question: What company ran the Marshall Islands in the late 19th century?
Answer: the Jaluit Gesellschaft

Question: When did the Jaluit Gesellschaft's administration of the islands end?
Answer: 1905

Question: What document was signed in 1899?
Answer: the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899

Question: Along with the Marianas and Palau, what islands were acquired from Spain in 1899?
Answer: the Carolines

Question: What official administered Germany's Micronesian possessions?
Answer: the governor of German New Guinea

Question: What Catholic group was Father Erdland a part of?
Answer: the Sacred Heart Jesu Society

Question: In what year did Father Erdland leave the Marshall Islands?
Answer: 1914

Question: In what year was Father Linckens' last visit to the Marshalls?
Answer: 1911

Question: When was Father Linckens' book published?
Answer: 1912

Question: In what year did Father Linckens first travel to the Marshalls?
Answer: 1904

Question: What notable historical event occurred in Japan in 1868?
Answer: the Meiji Restoration

Question: In what region did the Japanese attempt to build up their power after 1868?
Answer: East Asia

Question: Along with fishermen, what sort of Japanese people visited the Marshalls?
Answer: traders

Question: On what date did the Japanese land on Enewetak?
Answer: September 29, 1914

Question: What military alliance did the Japanese join in the First World War?
Answer: the Entente

Question: What did the Japanese occupy on September 30, 1914?
Answer: the Jaluit Atoll

Question: On what date was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
Answer: June 28, 1919

Question: When was the South Pacific Mandate for Japan approved?
Answer: December 17, 1920

Question: About how many Japanese emigrated to the Marshalls when it was a Japanese colony?
Answer: 1,000

Question: What was the primary nature of Germany's interest in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: economic

Question: What was the primary nature of Japan's interest in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: land

Question: Along with the Mariana Islands, on what island were there more Japanese settlers than indigenous inhabitants?
Answer: Palau

Question: What was the traditional social organization of the Marshall Islanders?
Answer: Matrilineality

Question: What system of social organization was used in Japan?
Answer: the Japanese Patriarchal system

Question: On what date did the Japanese leave the League of Nations?
Answer: March 27, 1933

Question: What language were Marshall Islanders taught in schools while under Japanese colonial administration?
Answer: Japanese

Question: Along with Protestants, missionaries from what denomination were allowed to operate in the Marshalls?
Answer: Catholic

Question: What Japanese fleet was based in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: 6th Fleet

Question: On what atoll was the 6th Fleet Forces Service based?
Answer: Kwajalein

Question: What was the mission of the 6th Fleet Forces Service?
Answer: defense of the Marshall Islands

Question: During what conflict did the US occupy the Marshall Islands?
Answer: World War II

Question: What was the name of the campaign in which the US occupied the Marshalls?
Answer: the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign

Question: In what year did the United States occupy the Marshalls?
Answer: 1944

Question: How many months did it take for the US to occupy Kwajalein Atoll, Majuro and Enewetak?
Answer: one

Question: Along with Mili, Maloelap and Jaluit, what parts of the Marshall Islands were not occupied in the first three months of the American campaign?
Answer: Wotje

Question: In what year did American air attacks on the Marshalls begin?
Answer: 1943

Question: How large was the Japanese garrison on Mili?
Answer: 5,100

Question: What fraction of the Japanese garrison on Mili died due to hunger?
Answer: half

Question: Along with injuries, what suffering did the American bombing cause to the Marshall Islanders?
Answer: lack of food

Question: During what conflict did the US occupy the Marshalls?
Answer: World War II

Question: What resolution of the UN Security Council gave the United States control over the Marshalls?
Answer: Security Council Resolution 21

Question: In what year was the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands created?
Answer: 1947

Question: What is the name of the broader region that the Marshall Islands are a part of?
Answer: Micronesia

Question: In what year did the Cold War begin?
Answer: 1946

Question: How many nuclear weapons were tested in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958?
Answer: 67