Flags of Oceania Quiz

Test yourself on all 14 flags of Oceania. Every question shows a flag and four Oceania countries to choose from, so the answers are always close neighbors, just like a real test. This flags of Oceania quiz also has the flags in a printable form, and tables that sort the 14 flags by level, first letter and name length.

Flags 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 flags of Oceania quiz

Set the level, the number of questions and the timer above the quiz. This quiz has 14 questions in three levels: 2 easy, 2 medium and 10 hard. A wrong answer shows the right one, and the result ends with a list of answers to learn.

Flags that are easy to mix up

• Australia and New Zealand: both blue with the Union Jack and the Southern Cross; Australia’s stars are white (plus a big seven-pointed star), New Zealand’s are red with white edges.
• Tuvalu and Fiji: light blue flags with the Union Jack; Tuvalu has nine yellow stars, Fiji a shield.
• Palau: a yellow disc on light blue, like a full moon.
• Micronesia: four white stars on light blue.
• Papua New Guinea: split diagonally, with a bird of paradise and the Southern Cross.

Countries in this quiz

• Australia
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

Flags of Oceania quiz: 14 flags by level

The flags of Oceania quiz puts 14 flags of Oceania into three levels, so that every player can start at the right place. Easy has 2 flags, medium has 2 and hard has 10. The easy level has the flags that people see most often, and the hard level is mostly small countries:

Oceania flags quiz: countries by first letter

For the Oceania flags quiz, it helps to know the shape of the list. The letter M starts the most country names (2 of 14), then N (2). The counts for every letter are:

Names with fewer letters are quicker to write on the printed sheet. Counting only letters, the shortest and longest names in the quiz are:

Oceania flag quiz: design features to look for

Every question in an Oceania flag quiz comes down to a few design clues: the colors, the number of stripes and the symbols. These are the clues that matter most in Oceania:

• Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tuvalu have a Union Jack in the corner, because they were British colonies. The Southern Cross also appears on the flags of Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and Papua New Guinea.
• Palau has a yellow disc on blue, and it looks like Japan’s flag with different colors.
• Kiribati has a golden frigatebird flying over the sea at sunrise, and Nauru has a 12-pointed white star.
• Tonga has a red cross on a white canton, and the rest of the flag is red.
• Vanuatu has a Y-shape and a boar’s tusk with leaves, and the Solomon Islands has five stars on a diagonal flag.
• The Marshall Islands has orange and white rays on blue, and Micronesia has four stars in a diamond on light blue.

Guess the Oceania flags: a five-day study plan

To guess the Oceania flags with confidence, work through the levels in order. This plan uses the 2 easy, 2 medium and 10 hard flags in the quiz, plus a printed test to check what you remember:

Playing all 14 flags takes 3 minutes at 12 seconds each. Wikipedia’s list of national flags of sovereign states shows every flag with a short description, and the study of flags has its own name, vexillology.

Flags of Oceania quiz and the capitals quiz: study both

Link each flag with its capital: the capitals of Oceania quiz asks for the capital of the same countries.

Print this flags of Oceania quiz

Make a printable version with an answer key: 10 to 30 questions, as multiple choice or write-in answers.

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