Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

A) Brazzaville

B) Kinshasa

C) Lubumbashi

D) Kisangani

Answer · why

B) Kinshasa

Kinshasa stands where navigation on the Congo begins: cataracts downstream make the river impassable to boats from the sea, so traffic for the interio...

Q 02/05

Which dance music of the two Congos, named like its Cuban cousin, joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2021?

A) Mambo

B) Highlife

C) Rumba

D) Afrobeat

Answer · why

C) Rumba

Rumba came home: Central African rhythms crossed to Cuba with the slave trade, returned on records in the 1930s, and Congolese musicians recognised th...

Q 03/05

The Congo's Shinkolobwe mine supplied the Manhattan Project with which raw material?

A) Graphite

B) Thorium

C) Plutonium

D) Uranium

Answer · why

D) Uranium

Uranium ore from Shinkolobwe was far richer than any other known, and about 1,200 tonnes of it were already stockpiled in a Staten Island warehouse wh...

Q 04/05

By area, the DRC is the second-largest country in Africa after which?

A) Libya

B) Sudan

C) Algeria

D) Nigeria

Answer · why

C) Algeria

Algeria took the title only in 2011, when South Sudan broke away from Sudan, until then the largest country in Africa.

Q 05/05

The DRC is the most populous country in the world to have which official language?

A) French

B) Portuguese

C) Arabic

D) Dutch

Answer · why

A) French

French arrived with colonial rule, yet the DRC's roughly 110 million people now far outnumber the 68 million who live in France.