Q 01/05

How many islands make up the Cape Verde archipelago?

A) Ten

B) Seven

C) Fourteen

D) Five

Answer · why

A) Ten

Nine are inhabited; the tenth, Santa Luzia, is empty, and there are eight islets 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

Its name means "beach" in Portuguese; it replaced Cidade Velha as capital in 1770.

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

Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of mainland Africa at Dakar, was named the "green cape" by the Portuguese in 1444.

Q 04/05

Which colonial power settled the uninhabited islands in the 1460s and ruled until 1975?

A) France

B) Spain

C) The Netherlands

D) Portugal

Answer · why

D) Portugal

Ribeira Grande, founded in 1462, was the first permanent European settlement in the tropics.

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

It followed the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon; the PAIGC party led both Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau to freedom.