How well do you know your Pacific news and current affairs?

Think you’ve been keeping up with Pacific news?

Put your knowledge to the test with the latest PMN Pacific News Quiz.

From the Pacific to Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond, see how much you remember from the stories we’ve been following over the past week.

Weekly Pacific News Quiz

1. Sāmoa has stepped up its preparedness for which infectious disease following a national emergency in Fiji?

2. Which Pacific region was raised at the United Nations by Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands over alleged human rights abuses?

3. Pasifika comedians Jonjon Tolovae and Richie Fa’avesi have been named finalists for which major New Zealand comedy award?

4. Which New Zealand political party says it is open to trialling visa-free travel for Sāmoan citizens for one year, if elected?

Which Pacific regional organisation took concerns about climate finance and rising sea levels directly to UN Secretary-General António Guterres? Photo/Supplied

5. Māori and Pacific people make up 96 per cent of those receiving preventive treatment for which disease in New Zealand?

6. Which Pacific regional organisation took concerns about climate finance and rising sea levels directly to UN Secretary-General António Guterres?

7. Which Pacific women’s rugby team completed an unbeaten WXV campaign in Hong Kong with a 20–17 win over the Netherlands?

Which New Zealand political party says it is open to trialling visa-free travel for Sāmoan citizens for one year, if elected? Photo/RNZ/Yiting Lin/file

8. What ancestral name has the Kiribati government rejected calls to restore as the country’s official name?

9. What claims about a proposed wharf on Penrhyn Atoll, also known as Tongareva, has the US Ambassador to the Cook Islands Jared Novelly rejected?

10. Which veteran Tongan journalist stepped down as President of the Pacific Islands News Association at last week’s Pacific Media Summit in Fiji?

The US Ambassador to the Cook Islands Jared Novelly has rejected what claims about a proposed wharf on Penrhyn Atoll, also known as Tongareva? Photo/Facebook/Radio Cook Islands

Answers

1. HIV 2. West Papua 3. The Billy T Award named in honour of comedian Billy T James. 4. ACT 5. Rheumatic fever 6. The Pacific Islands Forum 7. Fijiana 8. Tungaru 9. Claims that the United States is planning or discussing a military base there. 10. Kalafi Moala, founder of Times of Tonga.

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