Question: What historical significance can the book The History of Mary Prince claim?
Answer: The first notable, and historically important, book credited to a Bermudian

Question: What contribution to history is it believed the History of Mary Prince made?
Answer: thought to have contributed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire

Question: The majority of books published by local authors were of what nature?
Answer: scholarly

Question: Which local author most recently enjoyed success for published works of fiction?
Answer: Angela Barry

Question: What type of painting are Bermuda artists known for?
Answer: watercolours

Question: What type of art work does Chesley Trott produce?
Answer: Hand-carved cedar sculptures

Question: What significant event does the sculpture The Arrival portray?
Answer: the freeing of slaves from the American brig Enterprise in 1835

Question: Who is one of Bermuda's most famous watercolourists?
Answer: Alfred Birdsey

Question: Who is credited with discovering Bermuda?
Answer: Juan de Bermúdez

Question: What did Spanish and Portugese ships use the islands for?
Answer: a replenishment spot to take on fresh meat and water

Question: What did early visitors attribute the noises of the islands to?
Answer: spirits and devils,

Question: Crazy noises from indigenous animals, frequent storms and hazardous reefs earned the islands what name?
Answer: Isle of Devils

Question: Sir George Somers embarked on a mission to do what?
Answer: relieve the colony of Jamestown

Question: The devastating wreck of the flotilla is said to have inspired what playwrite?
Answer: William Shakespeare

Question: How long did Sommer's settlers stay in Bermuda?
Answer: 10 months

Question: Who did Sommer's claim the island for?
Answer: the English Crown

Question: Who was one of the original survivor's to sail on to Jamestown.
Answer: John Rolfe

Question: What is one of the main things John Rolfe is known for?
Answer: married Pocahontas

Question: When did the English begin their intentional settlement of Bermuda?
Answer: 1612,

Question: What is St. George credited with?
Answer: oldest continually inhabited English town in the New World.

Question: What is a major reason that Bermuda has problems with overpopulation?
Answer: limited land area,

Question: What does Bermuda rely on to counteract overpopulation?
Answer: steady human emigration

Question: Where did a large number of Bermudians emigrate to before the American Revolution?
Answer: the Southern United States

Question: Why does a third of the population spend time at sea?
Answer: seafaring the only real industry

Question: Why did the Somers Isles Company decide to surpress shipbuilding?
Answer: needed Bermudians to farm to generate income from the land

Question: Why wasn't agriculture successful?
Answer: colony of Virginia far surpassed Bermuda in both quality and quantity of tobacco produced

Question: What did Bermudians do when agriculture failed?
Answer: turn to maritime trades

Question: Why was the Somers Isles Company's charter revoked?
Answer: islanders demanding

Question: What event caused major changes in Bermuda?
Answer: end of the war

Question: Why did defence infrastructure become the major source of Bermuda's economy?
Answer: buildup of Naval and military forces in Bermuda,

Question: How does the British crown view Bermuda?
Answer: a base more than a colony

Question: What happened to Bermuda's independance due to British importance on them for military reasons?
Answer: the colony's independence on the world stage was diminished

Question: Who was Bermuda's main trading partner before the war?
Answer: American colonies

Question: What is a factor that hurt Bermuda's merchant shipping?
Answer: deforestation

Question: Why didn't Bermuda produce metal ships?
Answer: it did not have raw materials

Question: Why did the need for Bermuda's salt diminish?
Answer: Americans developed their own sources

Question: Why is Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne famous?
Answer: most famous escapee

Question: After Duquesne made his way to St. George, what did he do?
Answer: stowed away on a boat heading to Baltimore, Maryland

Question: After settling in the US, what did Duquesne do?
Answer: became a spy for Germany in both World Wars

Question: When did the first aeroplane reach Bermuda?
Answer: 1930

Question: Why did the plane have to land twice before reaching Bermuda?
Answer: once because of darkness and again to refuel

Question: What improved thanks to the Royal Air Force in 1933?
Answer: Navigation and weather forecasting

Question: Who began experimenting with flights from Berlin to New York, stopping in the azores?
Answer: Luft Hansa

Question: What did Imperial Airways and Pan American begin scheduling in 1937?
Answer: flying-boat airline services from New York and Baltimore to Darrell's Island, Bermuda

Question: What helped tourism grow to new heights in the 1960-1970's?
Answer: regularly scheduled commercial airline service by land-based aeroplanes

Question: What became the main source of Bermuda's economy in the 1970's?
Answer: international business

Question: The Governor of Bermuda gets his authority from whom?
Answer: the monarch

Question: Who appoints the Governor of Bermuda?
Answer: the Queen on the advice of the British Government.

Question: Who is currently the governor of Bermuda?
Answer: George Fergusson

Question: Who is responsible for defence and foreign affairs?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: What is Bermuda officially classified as?
Answer: British Overseas Territory

Question: When was the Constitution of Bermuda enforced?
Answer: 1 June 1967

Question: Has Bermuda's constitution ever been amended?
Answer: it was amended in 1989 and 2003

Question: What is the head of Bermuda's government referred to as?
Answer: the premier

Question: What is the legislative branch of Bermuda modeled after?
Answer: Westminster system.

Question: What does the population get to vote for?
Answer: The House of Assembly, or lower house

Question: Who has the largest accredited diplomats in Bermuda?
Answer: The United States

Question: Who is the current US Consul General?
Answer: Robert Settje

Question: Why is the US so important to Bermuda?
Answer: The United States is Bermuda's largest trading partner

Question: What percentage of Bermuda's residents are US citizens?
Answer: 5%

Question: Where were the Uyghurs transferred from?
Answer: United States Guantánamo Bay detention camp

Question: What were the Uyghurs claiming to be?
Answer: refugees, who were captured in 2001 in Pakistan

Question: What were the Ugyhurs accused of?
Answer: training to assist the Taliban's military.

Question: Why weren't the Ugyhurs deported back to China?
Answer: the US government determined that China was likely to violate their human rights.

Question: When was homosexuality legalized in Bermuda?
Answer: May 1994.

Question: What occurred in February of 2016?
Answer: The OBA government simultaneously introduced a bill to permit Civil Unions

Question: What did the Chief Justice decide?
Answer: same sex spouses of Bermuda citizens could not be denied basic Human Rights.

Question: What did the Virgin Islands announce in 2007?
Answer: they would seek ties with CARICOM

Question: Why did Bermuda join CARICOM?
Answer: primarily to strengthen cultural links.

Question: Who has "observer status" to CARICOM?
Answer: US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Question: Why did the English originally colonize Bermuda?
Answer: an extension of Virginia

Question: What two areas have provided a constant stream of immigration to Bermuda since the 20th century?
Answer: West Indies, as well as continued immigration from Portuguese Atlantic islands

Question: Why have these recent immigrants had trouble becoming permanent residents?
Answer: they lacked British citizenship

Question: When did Bermuda ease up on its immigration laws?
Answer: 1950s