The explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (“kay-ROYSH”) named Espiritu Santo, this country’s largest island, and intended to create a settlement there called New Jerusalem before his crew mutinied. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Melanesian country whose Pentecost Island was given its name by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. A 3,000-year-old cemetery at the site of Teouma in this country was created by the Lapita culture.
ANSWER: Vanuatu [or Republic of Vanuatu]
[10m] After the mutiny, Queirós’s crew took his ship to Acapulco, leaving this second-in-command to sail the rest of the fleet to Manila. This man may have sighted Australia during that voyage through a strait now named for him.
ANSWER: Luis Váez de Torres
[10e] Seeking Espiritu Santo as a tax haven, the US-based Phoenix Foundation supported a short-lived 1980 rebellion that was put down in a “war” named for this fruit. This fruit’s flesh, copra, is crushed to make oil.
ANSWER: coconuts [or Cocos nucifera]
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