These trivia questions about Haiti come in four rounds: the name, the mountains and the map; wildlife, language and the arts; and two rounds of history, the Taíno to Saint-Domingue and revolution to republic.
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Haitian history trivia questions and answers
Haitian history: Taíno to Saint-Domingue runs from the five caciquedoms and La Navidad to the Treaty of Ryswick and the maroons. Haitian history: revolution and republic asks about Toussaint Louverture, Vertières, January 1, 1804, Henri Christophe and the help given to Simón Bolívar.
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Questions and answers
What are some easy questions about Haiti?
What does the name Haiti mean? With which country does Haiti share its island? Which ship ran aground near Cap-Haïtien on December 25, 1492? The answers are land of high mountains, the Dominican Republic and the Santa María.
Where do the answers come from?
From the Wikipedia article Haiti, read on October 3, 2026 and linked under each question. Slavery and the revolution are asked as dated facts. Tolls of wars, storms and earthquakes, the present crisis, living people and religion are left out.
When did Haiti become independent?
On January 1, 1804, when the leaders of the Haitian Revolution declared independence from France. Jean-Jacques Dessalines restored the native name Haiti for the new state.
What is the highest mountain in Haiti?
Pic la Selle. Haiti is the most mountainous country in the Caribbean.
Haiti has a very long coastline for its size because the country is roughly which shape?Answer: A horseshoe. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Haiti is the most mountainous country in the Caribbean. Which summit is the highest in the country?Answer: Pic la Selle. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Haiti occupies the western side of Hispaniola. With which country does it share the island?Answer: The Dominican Republic. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
How is the name of the country spelled in Haitian Creole?Answer: Ayiti. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
In French, Haiti has the nickname La Perle des Antilles. What does that mean?Answer: Pearl of the Antilles. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Into how many departments, its largest territorial units, is Haiti divided?Answer: Ten. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
The Taíno, the first people of the island, gave Haiti its name. What does the name mean?Answer: Land of high mountains. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
To what did the native name Haiti first apply?Answer: The entire island of Hispaniola. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
What fraction of the island of Hispaniola does Haiti form?Answer: Three-eighths. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which is the longest river of Haiti, rising in the Dominican Republic and emptying into the Golfe de la Gonâve?Answer: The Artibonite. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which island in the gulf west of the capital is the largest island of Haiti?Answer: Gonâve. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which saline lake in the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac is the largest lake in Haiti?Answer: Étang Saumâtre. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
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A parakeet and a gray-crowned tanager live nowhere but on this island. Which of these shares that distinction?Answer: The Hispaniolan trogon. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Besides the solenodon, which mammal is endemic to Hispaniola and found in Haiti?Answer: The Hispaniolan hutia. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Compas, or konpa, is a refined dance music of Haiti. Which rhythm is its base?Answer: Méringue. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Haiti is one of two independent nations in the Americas where French is an official language. Which is the other?Answer: Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
In which year was the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole published?Answer: 1975. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
The National Carnival of Haiti follows by a week the popular carnival of which coastal city?Answer: Jacmel. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
The national museum in the capital of Haiti holds the anchor of which ship?Answer: The Santa María. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Speakers have their own word for the everyday tongue of nearly all Haitians. What do they call it?Answer: Kreyòl. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which fortress in northern Haiti, built between 1805 and 1820, is the largest in the Americas?Answer: The Citadelle Laferrière. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which large lizard, named for an animal with a horn, is among the common reptiles of Haiti?Answer: The rhinoceros iguana. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which of these is on the list of notable trees that grow in Haiti?Answer: The royal palm. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
The words of Haitian Creole come overwhelmingly from one European language. Its grammar resembles that of languages from which region?Answer: West Africa. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
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As Spain turned to the mainland, French pirates settled on which island off the northern coast of Haiti?Answer: Île de la Tortue. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
The earliest evidence of the ancestors of the Taíno on Hispaniola dates to about 600 AD. What is that culture called?Answer: The Ostionoid culture. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Modern-day Léogâne stands beside the former capital of which Taíno caciquedom, in the southwest of the island?Answer: Xaraguá. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
On December 25, 1492, which ship ran aground near the present site of Cap-Haïtien?Answer: The Santa María. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
On December 6, 1492, Columbus landed in Haiti at a place he named what?Answer: Môle-Saint-Nicolas. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
People who escaped slavery to the mountains and set up their own communities there became known as what?Answer: Maroons. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
What did France name the western third of the island that it received in 1697?Answer: Saint-Domingue. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
What was the name of the settlement founded by the 39 men Columbus left behind, the first Spanish settlement in the Americas?Answer: La Navidad. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
When Europeans arrived, Hispaniola was divided among how many chiefdoms, or caciquedoms?Answer: Five. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which maroon leader led a rebellion in the French colony in the 1750s?Answer: François Mackandal. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which treaty of 1697 divided Hispaniola between France and Spain?Answer: The Treaty of Ryswick. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which two crops did the plantations of the French colony grow?Answer: Sugar and coffee. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
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After 1806 Haiti split in two. Who directed the kingdom in the north and later declared himself Henri I?Answer: Henri Christophe. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
After independence the United States refused for decades to recognize Haiti. In which year did it finally do so?Answer: 1862. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
After the defeat in Saint-Domingue, Napoleon gave up his idea of a North American empire and sold which territory to the United States?Answer: Louisiana. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
At which battle of November 18, 1803, did the rebels decisively defeat the French troops?Answer: The Battle of Vertières. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Between which years did U.S. forces occupy Haiti?Answer: 1915 to 1934. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Haiti was a founding member in 1945 of which world body, as it had been of the League of Nations before?Answer: The United Nations. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
In 1802 Napoleon sent an expedition to reassert French control. Which brother-in-law commanded it?Answer: Charles Leclerc. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
The leader of the southern republic of Haiti gave military and financial help to which South American revolutionary?Answer: Simón Bolívar. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
On which date did the leaders of the Haitian Revolution declare independence from France?Answer: January 1, 1804. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which leader of the Haitian Revolution was captured by the French, taken to France and imprisoned at Fort de Joux, where he died in 1803?Answer: Toussaint Louverture. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which revolutionary general restored the native name Haiti as the official name of the independent state?Answer: Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
Which U.S. president supported the revolution with diplomatic recognition, money and warships beginning in 1798?Answer: John Adams. Source: Wikipedia: Haiti
How this list was compiled
Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Every answer was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Haiti (text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license), which is linked beside each question; the questions, wrong choices and explanations are in our own words. Left out on purpose: population figures and ranks, the economy and poverty figures, current office-holders and living people, coups, elections and the present crisis, the tolls of wars, storms, earthquakes and epidemics, the killings of 1804 and 1937, the Duvalier years, religion, and the island that two governments claim. Slavery and the revolution are asked as dated school-book facts. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits people who know the country, hard will stump most tables. Licence: own work