Q 01/05

How many islands make up the Cape Verde archipelago?

A) Ten

B) Seven

C) Fourteen

D) Five

Answer · why

A) Ten

Ten islands make up the group: nine are inhabited, while Santa Luzia is empty, and eight islets lie besides.

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde?

A) Mindelo

B) Bissau

C) Espargos

D) Praia

Answer · why

D) Praia

Praia, whose name means 'beach' in Portuguese, replaced Ribeira Grande, now Cidade Velha, as capital in 1770; its plateau district, the Platô, holds t...

Q 03/05

Cape Verde is named after a peninsula on the coast of which African country?

A) Morocco

B) Senegal

C) Guinea-Bissau

D) Mauritania

Answer · why

B) Senegal

The name comes from Cap-Vert, the peninsula at Dakar in Senegal that is mainland Africa's westernmost point, which Portuguese sailors named the 'green...

Q 04/05

Which colonial power settled the then-uninhabited islands in the 1460s and ruled until independence?

A) France

B) Spain

C) The Netherlands

D) Portugal

Answer · why

D) Portugal

Portugal's navigators reached the islands around 1460 and settled Ribeira Grande from 1462; Portuguese rule lasted more than five centuries until inde...

Q 05/05

Cape Verde became independent on 5 July of which year?

A) 1975

B) 1968

C) 1980

D) 1960

Answer · why

A) 1975

Independence came on 5 July 1975, fourteen months after the Carnation Revolution of April 1974 toppled Lisbon's dictatorship; the PAIGC then governed ...