Heads up – these flags are floating storybooks over the Pacific. Stars, stripes, palms and tusks give clues about adventures and culture, and it’s your job to match each story with an island.
Ever wondered about Australia’s Southern Cross and New Zealand’s star system or which country wields a boar’s tusk? Decoys will question if you have an eye for being able to distinguish ferns from fronds, so go with your gut — or don’t.
By the final flag, you'll be thinking coconut palms and coral reefs. You'll ace this nautical quiz, or an incorrect star pattern will have you go back and study a map instead of sipping a tiki drink.
[C] Australia | Navy blue field with the Union Jack in the canton and the white Commonwealth Star below it, plus the large white seven-pointed Southern Cross constellation on the fly.
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2. Which country's flag is this?
[A] Papua New Guinea | Divided diagonally: upper red triangle bears a yellow bird-of-paradise; lower black triangle holds the white Southern Cross.
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3. Which country's flag is this?
[B] New Zealand | Deep blue ensign with the Union Jack and four red stars edged in white forming the Southern Cross.
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4. Which country's flag is this?
[D] Fiji | Light blue ensign featuring the Union Jack and the Fijian shield with a yellow lion and sugar-cane, cocoa-palm and bananas.
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5. Which country's flag is this?
[A] Solomon Islands | Diagonal yellow stripe divides a sky-blue upper hoist and green lower fly; five white stars arc across the blue.
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6. Which country's flag is this?
[C] Micronesia | Light blue field with four white five-pointed stars arranged in a diamond pattern.
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7. Which country's flag is this?
[B] Vanuatu | Black horizontal “Y” edged in yellow on red and green, with a yellow fimbriated boar’s-tusk and crossed namele-leaf in the triangle.
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8. Which country's flag is this?
[C] Samoa | Red field with a blue rectangle bearing the white Southern Cross of four larger and one smaller star.
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9. Which country's flag is this?
[A] Kiribati | Upper red half with gold frigatebird over rising sun; lower half of white and blue ocean waves.
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10. Which country's flag is this?
[D] Tonga | Red field with a white canton charged with a red Greek cross.
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11. Which country's flag is this?
[A] Marshall Islands | Blue and white diagonal stripes; orange-white sun with 24 rays and two orange stripes symbolizing the Ratak and Ralik chains.
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12. Which country's flag is this?
[B] Palau | Simple light blue field with a large golden disk slightly off-center toward the hoist.
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13. Which country's flag is this?
[B] Nauru | Blue field cut by a narrow yellow horizontal stripe; a white 12-point star sits beneath it on the hoist side.
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14. Which country's flag is this?
[C] Tuvalu | Light blue ensign with nine yellow five-pointed stars arranged on the fly side in the pattern of the constellation of Tuvalu.