Q 01/05

What is the capital city of Cameroon?

A) Yaoundé

B) Bamenda

C) Douala

D) Garoua

Answer · why

A) Yaoundé

It sits about 750 m up in the Centre Region and became the colonial capital under France in 1922.

Q 02/05

Which port city is Cameroon's largest city and economic capital?

A) Yaoundé

B) Douala

C) Limbe

D) Kribi

Answer · why

B) Douala

It sits on the Wouri estuary and handles most of the country's exports of oil, cocoa, coffee and timber.

Q 03/05

Cameroon's name comes from the Portuguese Rio dos Camarões, meaning river of what?

A) Gold

B) Crocodiles

C) Mangroves

D) Shrimp

Answer · why

D) Shrimp

The abundant ghost shrimp Lepidophthalmus turneranus impressed the sailors who arrived in 1472.

Q 04/05

Because it has coast, desert, mountains, rainforest and savanna, Cameroon is often nicknamed what?

A) Africa in miniature

B) Africa's Crossroads

C) The Switzerland of the Sahel

D) The Green Heart of the Continent

Answer · why

A) Africa in miniature

It has been classed as part of both West Africa and Central Africa, and speaks around 250 native languages.

Q 05/05

Who became president of Cameroon in 1982?

A) Paul Biya

B) John Fru Ndi

C) Ahmadou Ahidjo

D) Teodoro Obiang

Answer · why

A) Paul Biya

Born in 1933, he succeeded Ahmadou Ahidjo and by the 2020s was the world's longest consecutively serving non-royal national leader.