Saturday 5th July 2025
Difficulty: Medium
Uncontacted people (Quiz #960)
North Sentinel Island. Photo by Vivek Doshi (Unsplash)
1. How many uncontacted tribes are there around the world (according to Survival International, the global movement for Indigenous and tribal peoples’ rights)?
2. What happened to the Nahua people of Peru, after they entered into sustained contact with “outsiders” in the mid-1980s?
3. What happened to American Christian missionary John Chau, when he landed on North Sentinel Island to convert the isolated Sentinelese tribe to Christianity?
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