Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Chad?

A) N'Djamena

B) Moundou

C) Faya-Largeau

D) Abéché

Answer · why

A) N'Djamena

N'Djamena. It was still a small riverside settlement at independence in 1960, and it has been fought over in the civil wars since: Libyan troops occup...

Q 02/05

Under what colonial name did the French found Chad's capital?

A) Fort-Archambault

B) Fort-Lamy

C) Fort-Crampel

D) Fort-Foureau

Answer · why

B) Fort-Lamy

Fort-Lamy. It was named for a French major killed in the battle across the river that won the region for France, and the name outlasted colonial rule ...

Q 03/05

Which explorer hired boatbuilders from Lake Chad to build Ra, the papyrus boat he sailed into the Atlantic?

A) Jacques Cousteau

B) Tim Severin

C) Thor Heyerdahl

D) Francis Chichester

Answer · why

C) Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl. Reed boats like those of the pharaohs' Egypt were still being made on Lake Chad, so he hired its builders; Ra broke up short of the Am...

Q 04/05

Which two languages are official in Chad?

A) French and Hausa

B) Arabic and English

C) French and Arabic

D) English and Hausa

Answer · why

C) French and Arabic

French and Arabic. French is the language of government and schooling, while a local form of Arabic, carried in by migrants from the east, became the ...

Q 05/05

Chad's vertical tricolour flag is often noted for its similarity to the flag of which European country?

A) Belgium

B) Romania

C) Moldova

D) Andorra

Answer · why

B) Romania

Romania. The flags differ only in the shade of one stripe, and in 2004, amid reports that Chad had asked the United Nations to step in, Romania's pres...