Q 01/05

In which Scottish mill town was David Livingstone born in 1813?

A) Blantyre

B) Paisley

C) Dumbarton

D) Falkirk

Answer · why

A) Blantyre

He was born in a tenement for cotton-factory workers on the Clyde; the city of Blantyre in Malawi is named after it.

Q 02/05

At what age did Livingstone start work in a cotton mill?

A) 6

B) 10

C) 14

D) 18

Answer · why

B) 10

He and his brother John worked 14-hour days as piecers, tying broken threads on the spinning machines.

Q 03/05

What was Livingstone's profession, alongside being a missionary?

A) Botanist

B) Doctor

C) Lawyer

D) Engineer

Answer · why

B) Doctor

He studied medicine at Anderson's University in Glasgow while still working at the mill outside term time.

Q 04/05

Which organisation sent Livingstone out to Africa in 1840?

A) The Church Missionary Society

B) The London Missionary Society

C) The Baptist Missionary Society

D) The Society of Jesus

Answer · why

B) The London Missionary Society

He had originally answered a call for medical missionaries to China, but the looming First Opium War changed the plan.

Q 05/05

Livingstone first wanted to be a missionary in which country before Africa?

A) Jamaica

B) Brazil

C) China

D) India

Answer · why

C) China

The London Missionary Society instead suggested the West Indies, and he replied that it was already well served by doctors.