Question: What athlete won Tuvalu's first gold metal in competition? 
Answer: Tuau Lapua Lapua

Question: In which competition did Lapua win a metal for Tuvalu?
Answer: Pacific Mini Games

Question: In what contests did Lapua win  metals for Tuvalu?
Answer: weightlifting

Question: Who won a gold metal at the Pacific Games?
Answer: Telupe Iosefa

Question: In what type of competition did Telupe losefa win in 2015?
Answer: powerlifting

Question: What is a major annual sports event in Tuvalu?
Answer: Independence Day Sports Festival

Question: What is the most important sports event held on Tuvalu?
Answer: Tuvalu Games

Question: In what year did Tuvalu first appear in the Commonwealth Games?
Answer: 1998

Question: What type of competitor entered the commonwealth Games in 1998?
Answer: weightlifter

Question: What competitions have Tuvalu athletes entered in the World Championships in Athletics?
Answer: 100 metre sprints

Question: What was Tuvalu's GDP rate from 1996 to 2002?
Answer: 5.6%

Question:  What has been the GDP of Tuvalu in 2008?
Answer: 1.5%

Question: What rises in cost have effected Tuvalu's domestic growth?
Answer: fuel and food

Question: What has been the level of domestic growth in 2010 on Tuvalu?
Answer: zero growth

Question: What does Tuvalu expect as a return in fishing licenses and foreign aid?
Answer: large revenues

Question: What business provides banking services on Tuvalu?
Answer: National Bank of Tuvalu

Question: Where are many of those who provide income to residents earning?
Answer: overseas

Question: How do 15% of male Tuvaluans earn their income?
Answer: seamen

Question: What percentage of the Tuvalu workforce is in the public sector?
Answer: 65%

Question: What are the traditional forms of living employed by Tuvaluans?
Answer: agriculture and fishing.

Question: What school provides maritime education on Tuvalu?
Answer: Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute

Question: What is the yearly number of cadets at the Maritime Training Institute?
Answer: 120

Question: What is the only trade union on Tuvalu?
Answer: Tuvalu Overseas Seamen's Union

Question: On what does the Seaman'd Union represent workers?
Answer: on foreign ships

Question: How many Tuvaluan men are active seafarers?
Answer: 800

Question: How much money does Tuvalu's tv domain name earn each year?
Answer: $2.2 million

Question: What si Tuvalu's tv domain?
Answer: Top Level Domain

Question: What company is managing Tuvalu's tv domain?
Answer: Verisign

Question: How much of the total government revenue comes from the domain name?
Answer: ten per cent

Question: What  income source does Tuvalu earn from shipping?
Answer: Tuvalu Ship Registry

Question: What is the UN developmental designation for Tuvalu?
Answer: least developed

Question: What did Tuvalu do in 2013 in regards to it least developed country status?
Answer: deferred its graduation

Question: What organization sponsors an assistance program for least developed countries?
Answer: World Trade Organisation

Question: What would Tuvalu have lost as a developed country?
Answer: funding assistance

Question: What type of problem does the current developed country rating not take into enough consideration?
Answer: environmental

Question: What is the radio station on Tuvalu?
Answer: Radio Tuvalu

Question: From where does Radio Tuvalu broadcast?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: Who gave financial support to Tuvalu to upgrade transmission equipment?
Answer: Japanese government

Question: What did the new radio equipment replace with AM service? 
Answer: FM radio

Question: What service got more bandwidth from the transmission upgrade?
Answer: mobile

Question: Where is Tuvalu's only port?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: Where is there a deep water berth available on Tuvalu?
Answer: Nukufetau

Question: Of how many ships does the merchant marine fleet consist?
Answer: two

Question: What ship did Japan donate to Tuvalu in 2015?
Answer: Nivaga III

Question: What do Tuvalu's merchant fleet carry?
Answer: cargo and passengers

Question: How many reef islands does the Tuvalu group have?
Answer: three

Question: What are the number of true atolls are in the Tuvalu islands?
Answer: six

Question: What is the total land area of Tuvalu?
Answer: 26 square kilometres

Question: How does Tuvalu rank in country size as compared to other nations?
Answer: fourth smallest

Question: What is the coverage of Tuvalu's economic zone?
Answer: 900,000 km2

Question: Which of Tuvalu's atolls is largest?
Answer: Funafuti

Question: What type of island grouping is Tuvalu?
Answer: volcanic island chain

Question: What are the map coordinates fro Tuvalu?
Answer: 179°7'E and 8°30'S

Question: How species of creatures inhabit the Tuvalu lagoon?
Answer: 607

Question: How many new species were were found in the Tuvalu area that had not been previously recorded?
Answer: 66

Question: What specific ocean temperature conditions effect Tuvalu?
Answer: El Niño and La Niña

Question: Which effect causes increases in sea storms like cyclones?
Answer: El Niño

Question: What temperature effect causes drought?
Answer: La Niña

Question: What did a drought in 2011 cause on Funafuti?
Answer: rationing of fresh-water

Question: What is the usual amount of rainfall per month on Tuvalu?
Answer: 200 to 400 mm

Question: What type of device did Australia and New Zealand offer to Tuvalu during the 2011 drought?
Answer: desalination plants

Question: As aprt of what program did Japan fund a new desalination plant at Tuvalu?
Answer: Pacific Environment Community

Question: What did aid from the European Union provide during the drought on Tuvalu?
Answer: water tanks

Question: What did Tuvalu's new water tanks make possible to store?
Answer: fresh water

Question: In what year had Japan previously donated a desalination plant to Tuvalu?
Answer: 2006

Question: What is the modern name for the air field built during WWII?
Answer: Funafuti International Airport

Question: What was damaged by building of the war time air field?
Answer: Funafuti Lagoon

Question: What has the pits from the Tuvalu air runways construction  impacted?
Answer: fresh-water aquifer

Question: What government funded the restoration of the borrow pits on Tuvalu?
Answer: New Zealand Government

Question: How much increase in land space did the filling of the borrow pits cause?
Answer: eight per cent

Question: What percentage of the Tuvalu coral has become bleached?
Answer: 80 per cent

Question: What increase caused by the El Ninos is responsible for the coral bleaching?
Answer: water temperature

Question: What has been investigated as a means of rebuilding the reefs at Tuvalu?
Answer: foraminifera

Question: What is hoped will strengthen the Tuvalu coast against sea level rise?
Answer: ecosystem rehabilitation

Question: What type of project has been started to rebuild the reefs at Tuvalu?
Answer: reef restoration

Question: What has been formed to protect the fish stocks in Tuvalu Lagoon?
Answer: Funafuti Conservation Area

Question: What factor has caused an increased demand for fish?
Answer: rising population

Question: What has growth in population and poor sanitation caused?
Answer: pollution

Question: What organization has funded a waste management control plan on Tuvalu?
Answer: European Union

Question: What do imports produce on Tuvalu?
Answer: plastic waste

Question: What type of desalination is used on Funafuti?
Answer: Reverse osmosis

Question: How much water does the Funafuti plant produce?
Answer: 40 m3 per day

Question: At what storage  point is R/O water production meant to be used?
Answer: below 30%

Question: What organization subsidizes the cost of water desalination?
Answer: government

Question: What is the cost of R/O produced water?
Answer: A$3.50 per m3

Question: When did the UN ask Tuvalu to come up with a plan to improve drinking water?
Answer: July 2012