Capitals of Oceania Quiz

Name the capital city of every country in Oceania: 13 questions, each with four capitals from the same continent. Below the game is the full list of Oceania countries and their capitals to study first. This capitals of Oceania quiz also has the quiz in a printable form, and tables that sort the 13 capitals by level, first letter and name length.

Capitals of Oceania quiz to print (PDF)

The four printable pages below are a multiple-choice sheet, a write-in sheet, the answer key and a black-and-white version. Click a picture for the PDF.

How to play the capitals of Oceania quiz

Set the level, the number of questions and the timer above the quiz. This quiz has 13 questions in three levels: 2 easy, 2 medium and 9 hard. A wrong answer shows the right one, and the result ends with a list of answers to learn.

Capitals people often get wrong

• Australia: Canberra, not Sydney
• New Zealand: Wellington, not Auckland

Oceania countries and capitals

Capitals of Oceania quiz: 13 capitals by level

The capitals of Oceania quiz sorts the 13 capitals of Oceania into three levels, so players of every age can find a level that suits them. Easy has 2 capitals that most people know, medium has 2 and hard has 9:

Oceania capitals quiz: capitals by first letter

A quick way to see the shape of a list is to count the first letters. In this Oceania capitals quiz, the letter P starts the most capitals (3 of 13), followed by N (2). Here is the full count:

Capitals of Oceania: the longest and shortest names

When you study the capitals of Oceania, the names with the fewest letters are the easiest to spell, and the longest are the ones that are most often written wrong. Counting only letters, the names are:

For the write-in sheet, accents and apostrophes do not matter for learning, but players should know that the spelling of some capitals has changed over the years.

Oceania capital cities quiz: no capital shares the name of its country

In this Oceania capital cities quiz, none of the 13 capitals has the same name as its country, so every answer must be learned separately. A good trick is to link each capital to a picture, such as a famous building, a harbor or a square.

Oceania countries and capitals: a five-day study plan

To learn the Oceania countries and capitals in a week, work through the levels one by one. This plan uses the 2 easy, 2 medium and 9 hard capitals in the quiz, and a short write-in test to check what you remember:

Most players need two or three rounds to get to 100% on the easy level, and about 3 minutes to play all 13 questions at 12 seconds each.

Capital city changes in Oceania

Some of the capitals in this quiz are new, and others are not the largest city. These facts help players remember the answers, and they come from the history of each country. Wikipedia’s list of national capitals has the full details:

• Australia has Canberra as its capital, a planned city chosen as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne. Parliament moved there in 1927.
• New Zealand has had Wellington as its capital since 1865, when it replaced Auckland.
• Palau moved its capital from Koror, the largest city, to Ngerulmud in 2006.
• Majuro, Funafuti and Tarawa are the capitals of three atoll nations: the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati.
• Nauru has no official capital, so it is not in the capitals quiz, but it is in the flags quiz.

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