Q 01/05

Cape Town is which kind of capital for South Africa?

A) The legislative capital

B) The executive capital

C) The judicial capital

D) The commercial capital

Answer · why

A) The legislative capital

The legislative capital. The constitution names Cape Town as the seat of Parliament, yet lets Parliament pass an Act moving that seat elsewhere.

Q 02/05

At the 2022 census, Cape Town was South Africa's second-largest metro by population, after which city?

A) Durban

B) Johannesburg

C) Pretoria

D) Port Elizabeth

Answer · why

B) Johannesburg

Johannesburg. Founded only in 1886, more than two centuries after the Dutch settled the Cape, it counted about 30,000 more residents than Cape Town in...

Q 03/05

Which Portuguese navigator, the first European to reach the Cape in 1488, is said to have named it the 'Cape of Storms'?

A) Diogo Cão

B) Ferdinand Magellan

C) Bartolomeu Dias

D) Pedro Álvares Cabral

Answer · why

C) Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias. On a later voyage in May 1500, a storm off that same cape wrecked his ship and he was lost at sea.

Q 04/05

Who founded the Dutch settlement at the Cape in 1652 as a way-station for East Indies ships?

A) Simon van der Stel

B) Piet Retief

C) Abel Tasman

D) Jan van Riebeeck

Answer · why

D) Jan van Riebeeck

Jan van Riebeeck. On arrival he built a fort of clay and timber, which the stone Castle of Good Hope later replaced.

Q 05/05

What unusual weapon did Khoikhoi warriors use to kill Francisco de Almeida at the 1510 Battle of Salt River?

A) Poisoned arrows and spears

B) Fire ships in the shallows

C) Cattle trained to answer whistles

D) Packs of trained war dogs

Answer · why

C) Cattle trained to answer whistles

Sixty-four of his men died with him; the Goringhaiqua clan later traded fresh meat to passing ships for tobacco, copper and iron.