Question: What type of number system was standard in Sumer and Babylonia?
Answer: sexagesimal

Question: What type of formations is it possible Sumerians invented?
Answer: military

Question: What systems did the Sumerians develop which remain the first known these types to this day?
Answer: legal and administrative

Question: In Sumerian society, who oversaw the operation of the first formal schools?
Answer: a city-state's primary temple

Question: What is the previous name of Tuvalu?
Answer: Ellice Islands

Question: In which ocean is Tuvalu found?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: Between what land areas is Tuvalu located?
Answer: Hawaii and Australia

Question: According the the 2012 census, how many people live on the Tuvalu islands?
Answer: 10,640

Question: What originally formed the Tuvalu islands?
Answer: reef

Question: In what year was Tuvalu discovered by a European?
Answer: 1568

Question: Who was the discoverer of Tuvalu?
Answer: Álvaro de Mendaña

Question: What land mass was de Mendana actually seeking?
Answer: Terra Australis

Question: What was Tuvalu named in 1819?
Answer: Ellice Islands

Question: By what means did the British govern Tuvalu?
Answer: British protectorate

Question: How many years ago did migrations of people happen in the Pacific area?
Answer: 3000 years

Question: By what means did locale people travel between Pacific islands?
Answer: canoe

Question: How many islands are in the Tuvalu group?
Answer: nine islands

Question: On how many of Tuvalu's islands did people live?
Answer: Eight

Question: What is the native language meaning of Tuvalu?
Answer: eight standing together

Question: What is the creation myth of Tuvalu?
Answer: te Pusi mo te Ali

Question: What does the flounder of the Tuvalu myth represent?
Answer: flat atolls

Question: What does the eel of the Tuvalu creation myth represent?
Answer: coconut palms

Question: From what land did the people of Niutao believe they came?
Answer: Samoa

Question: From where did the people of the island of Nanumea think they came?
Answer: Tonga

Question: What explorer traveled through the Tuvalu islands in 1764?
Answer: Captain John Byron

Question: What was Captain Byron doing when he visited Tuvalu?
Answer: circumnavigation of the globe

Question: Which island of Tuvalu was identified as the one that Mourelle sailed past in 1781?
Answer: Niutao

Question: How did Byron name the Tuvalu islands?
Answer: Lagoon Islands

Question: When were chronometers available for accurate location charting? 
Answer: late 18th

Question: When did Arent Schuyler de Peyster visit Tuvalu?
Answer: May 1819

Question: Which of the Tuvalu isalnds did de Peyster see?
Answer: Nukufetau and Funafuti

Question: What name did de Peyster give the Tuvalu islands?
Answer: Ellice's Island

Question: For whom did de Peyster name Ellice's Island?
Answer: Edward Ellice

Question: After Findlay's charting how many islands of the group were named Ellice?
Answer: all nine islands

Question: In what years did Peruvian ships seek laborers in the Polynesian islands?
Answer: 1862–63

Question: What was the name applied to the trade of dealing with labor hunters?
Answer: blackbirding

Question: Who was the earliest missionary to Tuvalu?
Answer: Rev. A. W. Murray

Question: By what means did Blackbirders often get islanders aboard their ships?
Answer: tricks

Question: When did Murray report people missing because of Blackbirders?
Answer: 1863

Question: When did Christianity arrive in Tuvalu?
Answer: 1861

Question: What church deacon was washed ashore on Nukulaelae?
Answer: Elekana

Question: What missionary was the first European missionary to come to Tuvalu?
Answer: Rev. A. W. Murray

Question: Of what nationality were most of the ministers of the Church of Tuvalu?
Answer: Samoans

Question: In what century did trading companies arrive in Tuvalu?
Answer: mid-19th

Question: What type of traders did the trading companies employ on Tuvalu?
Answer: palagi traders

Question: Who was the first European to permanently settle on Tuvalu?
Answer: John (also known as Jack) O'Brien

Question: Which native did O'Brien marry?
Answer: Salai

Question: What trader turned author established a post on Tuvalu?
Answer: Louis Becke

Question: What sea captain reported on the Tuvalu trading in 1892?
Answer: Captain Davis

Question: What was the name of Davis's ship?
Answer: HMS Royalist

Question: What did palagi traders act as for the trading companies?
Answer: agents

Question: How many traders did some islands have?
Answer: competing

Question: What type of islands in the Tuvalu group have few traders? 
Answer: dryer

Question: What operational changes caused a decline in the numbers of palagi traders in Tuvalu?
Answer: structural changes

Question: What type of traders did the Pacific trading companies cease to use?
Answer: resident

Question: How did the trading companies begin to trade with islanders?
Answer: deal directly

Question: By what year were there no more palagi traders on Tuvalu?
Answer: 1909

Question: What is the term for a ship's cargo manager?
Answer: supercargo

Question: When did Robert Louis Stevenson sail on the ship Janet Nicoll?
Answer: 1890

Question: Who recorded the trip aboard the Janet Nicoll?
Answer: Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson

Question: What type of ship was the Janet Nicoll?
Answer: trading steamer

Question: What writer visited the Tuvalu Islands in 1890?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: What was the title of the travel book written by Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson?
Answer: The Cruise of the Janet Nichol

Question: What are the boreholes on Funafuti called?
Answer: Darwin's Drill

Question: What group conducted a study of coral on Funafuti?
Answer: Royal Society of London

Question: What formations was the Royal Society studying?
Answer: coral reefs

Question: Who's basic work in the area of coral reefs did the Royal Society's investigations follow?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: What was Darwin's work on coral reefs titled?
Answer: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

Question: What naturalist was on the 1896 expedition to Funafuti?
Answer: Charles Hedley

Question: What type of objects did Hedley collect on Funafuti
Answer: invertebrate and ethnological

Question: For what purpose was Funafuti used during the Pacific War? 
Answer: a base

Question: What group occupied the Gilbert Islands?
Answer: Japanese forces

Question: What action delayed the Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands?
Answer: Battle of the Coral Sea

Question: From what time span were USN Torpedo Boats stationed at Funafuti?
Answer: 2 November 1942 to 11 May 1944

Question: On what islet did US forces build a seaplane ramp?
Answer: Fongafale

Question: In what year was ministerial government started in the Gilbert and Ellice islands?
Answer: 1974

Question: When was a referendum held to determine the government of Ellice?
Answer: December 1974

Question: What document was changed to cause a change in government?
Answer: Constitution

Question: What was the determination of the referendum?
Answer: separation

Question: What did the Tuvaluan Order 1976 recognize Tuvalu to be?
Answer: British dependency

Question: When did Tuvalu acquire independence?
Answer: October 1978

Question: What was formed in 1974?
Answer: British colony of Tuvalu

Question: After independence, what was the Assembly on Tuvalu  named? 
Answer: Parliament of Tuvalu

Question: What type of parliament does Tuvalu have?
Answer: unicameral

Question: In Tuvalu government, what group elect the Prime Minster?
Answer: members of parliament

Question: How many courts are there on Tuvalu?
Answer: eight

Question: What is the name of the superior court of Tuvalu?
Answer: High Court of Tuvalu

Question: What is the High Court's right to determine?
Answer: Law of Tuvalu

Question: What judge is the Chief Justice of the Tuvalu High Court?
Answer: Sir Gordon Ward