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Four rounds of trivia questions about Barbados: where the name and the nickname Bim come from, the parishes and the turtles, the first English ship, and the road from Bussa to the republic.
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Barbados trivia questions and answers, round by round
The name and the island and Coasts, towns and wildlife suit visitors: Mount Hillaby, the Scotland District, green monkeys and Bajan Creole. Settlement and sugar runs from the Olive Blossom to the Treaty of Oistins. Freedom, independence and Crop Over has the Moyne Commission, Errol Barrow and the King and Queen of the crop.
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The questions come one to a card. A tap on any of the four choices shows which is right, with a sentence of explanation and its source underneath. November 30 is the answer to one of them.
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What are some easy Barbados trivia questions?
What does the name Barbados mean? What do Barbadians call their island for short? Which festival was brought back in 1974? The answers are the bearded ones, Bim and Crop Over.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the Wikipedia article Barbados, linked under the question. Rum, beer, cricket, living people, population counts and storm and epidemic tolls are left out, with the flying fish dish and the trident, which other packs ask.
Why is Barbados called Bim?
Nobody is certain. The island's National Cultural Foundation derives Bim from an Igbo phrase meaning my home or my kindred. Another story makes Bimshire a planter's joke, listed as if it were a county of England.
When did Barbados become independent?
On November 30, 1966, with Errol Barrow as its first prime minister. It became a republic within the Commonwealth on the same date in 2021.