NewsTracker Answers for week of Apr 06, 2026

Q: A scammer reported the death of the world’s oldest tortoise in an attempt to solicit cryptocurrency donations. However, 193-year-old Jonathon was still very much alive last week on the remote island of Saint Helena, about 1,200 miles west of Africa in the South Atlantic Ocean. Where is the South Atlantic Ocean?

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Q: Jonathon was only about 50 years old in 1882 when he was moved to Saint Helena from his native home in the Seychelles islands, which are about 800 miles east of Africa, in which ocean?

A. Arctic

B. Indian

C. North Pacific

D. South Pacific

B. The 27.2 million square miles of the Indian Ocean stretch from Africa to Australia and Southeast Asia. The world’s connected oceans surround all the continents and cover about 70.8% of the Earth’s surface.

Q: Jonathon may be the best-known occupant today of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory, but who was the most famous resident in the island’s history?

A. Admiral Horatio Nelson

B. Czar Alexander I

C. Duke of Wellington

D. Napoleon Bonaparte

D. After his loss at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Saint Helena under guard by British troops and ships. The former French emperor died on the island in 1821 at the age of 51. His remains were returned to France in 1840.

Q: It is believed that European explorers sailing to India to buy spices discovered the uninhabited island and named it after Saint Helena. Sailors from which nation discovered the route to India?

A, England

B. Netherlands

C. Portugal

D. Spain

C. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sailed around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope and arrived in India in 1498. That was nearly six years after Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the Western Hemisphere while searching for a route to those same valuable Asian spices.

Q: Saint Helena was the mother of Constantine I, the first Christian emperor of Rome. He founded the city of Constantinople, which is now called ...

A. Istanbul

B. Paris

C. Ravenna

D. Vienna

A. Constantine founded the city in 324 on the Bosporus, a strait between Europe and Asia. From 330 to 1922, Constantinople served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires. After the Republic of Turkey moved its capital to Ankara, it officially renamed the city Istanbul in 1930.