Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of the Comoros?

A) Moroni

B) Mutsamudu

C) Fomboni

D) Domoni

Answer · why

A) Moroni

Moroni. The French long governed the islands from Dzaoudzi, a rocky islet off another island, and Moroni grew into the country's largest town only aft...

Q 02/05

France's 1975 law said the Comorian constitution must pass how?

A) By two-thirds

B) Unanimously

C) By decree

D) Island by island

Answer · why

D) Island by island

Island by island. Comorian leaders saw the rule as a way to split the archipelago, and within days their deputies declared the whole of it independent...

Q 03/05

A 2013 Thomson Reuters Foundation poll of experts in 22 countries ranked the Comoros best for what?

A) Press freedom

B) Religious tolerance

C) Women's rights

D) Political stability

Answer · why

C) Women's rights

Women's rights. Experts pointed to island custom, under which the family home usually belongs to the wife and stays hers if the marriage ends.

Q 04/05

The Comoros is the only member of which organisation to lie entirely in the Southern Hemisphere?

A) Commonwealth of Nations

B) La Francophonie

C) OPEC

D) Arab League

Answer · why

D) Arab League

Arab League. It was admitted only in 1993, after years of lobbying, though Comorians speak Comorian at home and learn Arabic mainly in Quran school.

Q 05/05

By the area it governs, the Comoros is Africa's third-smallest country, behind São Tomé and Príncipe and which other?

A) Cape Verde

B) Djibouti

C) Seychelles

D) The Gambia

Answer · why

C) Seychelles

Seychelles, Africa's smallest country, was once French too, but France lost it in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, decades before it took its f...