Question: What protects the island from storms?
Answer: coral reef that surrounds the island

Question: What are Bermuda's largest economic sectors?
Answer: insurance and reinsurance, and tourism

Question: What occurance is the greatest factor affecting Bermuda's economy?
Answer: global recession

Question: Why is the Bermuda Triangle an area of interest?
Answer: a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared under supposedly unexplained or mysterious circumstances.

Question: Why is the island safe from full hurricane devastation?
Answer: protected from the full force of a hurricane by the coral reef that surrounds the island.

Question: What is the climate of Bermuda?
Answer: subtropical

Question: Bermuda is located in what ocean?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: Bermuda is on the western fringe of what Sea?
Answer: Sargasso Sea

Question: Travel from Puerto Rico to Bermuda would be in which direction?
Answer: north

Question: Travel from Portugal to Bermuda would be in which direction?
Answer: west

Question: Travel from South Carolina to Bermuda would be in which direction?
Answer: due east

Question: What natural features compose Bermuda?
Answer: low-forming volcanoes

Question: In what major ocean is Bermuda located?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: Bermuda is located 898 nautical miles from what US city?
Answer: Miami

Question: Bermuda is closest (in nautical miles) to which US state?
Answer: North Carolina

Question: What is the limestone cap of the seamount made from?
Answer: marine organisms

Question: During the ice age, what area of land was above water?
Answer: approximately two hundred square miles

Question: Has the seamount always been above sealevel?
Answer: The top of the seamount has gone through periods of complete submergence

Question: What type of volcano forms the archipelago?
Answer: a submarine volcano

Question: Why is the top of the seamount formed by marine organisms?
Answer: periods of complete submergence,

Question: What was the result of the whole cladera being above sea level during the Ice Ages?
Answer: an island

Question: The submarine volcano was formed as part of the same proces as what two things?
Answer: the floor of the Atlantic, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Question: In the Bermuda land mass, how many islands are named "Long Island"?
Answer: two

Question: In the Bermuda land mass, how many bays are named "Horseshoe Bay"?
Answer: two

Question: In the Bermuda land mass, how many bays are named "Long Bay"?
Answer: three

Question: Where can St. George's Town be found?
Answer: St George's Island within St George's Parish

Question: What are three of the bays named?
Answer: Long Bay

Question: What name do the bays in Southampton and Morgan's Point share?
Answer: Horseshoe

Question: St. George's Town, St. George's Island and St. George's Parish are all referred to as what?
Answer: St George's

Question: What is the name of the Parish located in the City of Hamilton?
Answer: Hamilton Parish

Question: What directional shore of Bermuda is home to the majority of its hotels?
Answer: the south shore of the island

Question: Bermuda's coral reefs, shipwrecks, and shallow waters are great for what activity in particular?
Answer: Scuba

Question: Historic St. George's has been given what distinction?
Answer: World Heritage Site

Question: What odd color of sand draws tourists to Bermuda's beaches?
Answer: pink

Question: Where are the majority of Bermuda's hotels?
Answer: south shore of the island

Question: What makes Bermuda a popular tourist destination?
Answer: pink sand beaches and clear, cerulean blue ocean waters

Question: What has St. George been designated as?
Answer: World Heritage Site

Question: Why are divers attracted to Bermuda?
Answer: numerous wrecks and coral reefs in relatively shallow water

Question: Why is Bermuda a great place for snorkellers?
Answer: Many nearby reefs are readily accessible from shore

Question: The only indigenous mammals of Bermuda are five species of what animal?
Answer: bats

Question: What is the national bird of Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda petrel or cahow

Question: What animal was believe to be the only land vertebrate of Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda rock skink

Question: What animal was found, through DNA testing, to pre-date the arrival of humans to the archipelago?
Answer: diamondback terrapin

Question: What are the only native mammals found in Bermuda?
Answer: bats

Question: Why is the National bird of importance?
Answer: example of a Lazarus species

Question: What animal has held the title of Bermuda's only native land vertabrate?
Answer: Bermuda rock skink

Question: Why is there a debate as to dubbing the diamondback terrapin the oldest indigenous land vertebrate?
Answer: this species spends most of its time in brackish ponds

Question: When did Bermuda have a large amount of people immigrating to it?
Answer: 20th century, especially after the Second World War.

Question: Where are the largest group of non-native people in Bermuda from?
Answer: Britain

Question: According to census result, there was the greatest decline in people claiming what ancestry?
Answer: Bermudian

Question: Which cultural group can claim 79% residency?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: There is no distinction between what two ethnicities of Bermudians?
Answer: black and white

Question: Which ethnicity claimed the majority in Bermuda during the 17th century?
Answer: white Protestants of English heritage

Question: Anyone in Bermuda that is not considered 100% of European heritage is referred to as what?
Answer: coloured

Question: Why is it problematic that the "coloured" population of Bermuda is now referred to as "black" or "African heritage"?
Answer: obscures their non-African heritage

Question: There has been a double in the population of people born in which country?
Answer: Asian

Question: What term is used to refer to the majority of black people in Bermuda?
Answer: Bermudian blacks

Question: Why were so many blacks repeatedly being imported from Africa?
Answer: conditions so harsh as to drop their birth rate below the death rate

Question: Why can Bermudian blacks trace their ancestry back over centuries in Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda's black population was self-sustaining, with its growth resulting largely from natural expansion

Question: What is one way that the ancestry of Bermudian black population differs from that of British West Indian black population?
Answer: the source of the African ancestry

Question: Why is the black population in Bermuda different from that in the British West Indies and the United States?
Answer: The first blacks to arrive in Bermuda in any numbers were free blacks from Spanish-speaking areas of the West Indies

Question: Where did the Spanish and Portugese enslave most of their black people from?
Answer: South-West Africa

Question: What is one way we can show that black Bermudians are of different heritage than African Americans?
Answer: Genetic studies

Question: What is one group that Bermuda's black population can link some of their ancestry to?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: Residents of what particular area have awareness of this link to Native American heritage?
Answer: St David's Islanders

Question: During what period were there hundreds of Native Americans shipped to Bermuda?
Answer: colonial period

Question: Why was there a large population of Algonquian people in Bermuda?
Answer: exiled from the southern New England colonies and sold into slavery

Question: What is considered the primary language of Bermuda?
Answer: English

Question: What is a lesser spoken, secondary language in Bermuda?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: What are the greatest influences to Bermudian culture?
Answer: British influences, together with Afro-Caribbean

Question: Which cultures claim to be a dominant source of Bermuda's cultural heritage?
Answer: Native American, Spanish-Caribbean, English, Irish, and Scots