Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Botswana?

A) Windhoek

B) Lusaka

C) Gaborone

D) Harare

Answer · why

C) Gaborone

Gaborone was laid out in the 1960s for about 20,000 people, a new capital for a territory that had always been governed from across the border; by the...

Q 02/05

Botho, the Setswana word for humanity, names the same philosophy as which better-known African term?

A) Harambee

B) Ubuntu

C) Ujamaa

D) Négritude

Answer · why

B) Ubuntu

Ubuntu and botho are the same Bantu word for humanity in different languages; the Nguni form is the one that travelled, even giving a Linux operating ...

Q 03/05

In Botswana, what does the everyday Setswana word 'dumela' mean?

A) Thank you

B) Goodbye

C) Please

D) Hello

Answer · why

D) Hello

Hello: dumela greets one person and dumelang a group, with rra added for a man or mma for a woman; Sesotho shares the word, so the same greeting also ...

Q 04/05

Botswana's currency, the pula, takes its name from the Setswana word for what?

A) Rain

B) Peace

C) Cattle

D) Diamond

Answer · why

A) Rain

Rain is so precious in the Kalahari that pula also means "blessing"; the sub-unit thebe means "shield".

Q 05/05

On Botswana's flag, the black stripe edged in white stands for what?

A) Mineral wealth

B) The night sky

C) Racial harmony

D) Fertile soil

Answer · why

C) Racial harmony

Racial harmony: the black band between two white ones stood for a society with equal chances for all, a pointed message in 1966, when white-minority r...