Q 01/05

Djibouti lies in which region of the continent?

A) The Maghreb

B) The Horn of Africa

C) The Sahel

D) The African Great Lakes

Answer · why

B) The Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa. Djibouti sits where the Red Sea opens into the Gulf of Aden, beside some of the world's busiest shipping lanes, which is why sever...

Q 02/05

Which heavy-metal singer piloted a Boeing 737 from Wales to Djibouti in 2016 for the relaunch of Air Djibouti?

A) Ozzy Osbourne

B) Rob Halford

C) James Hetfield

D) Bruce Dickinson

Answer · why

D) Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson. The Iron Maiden frontman is a qualified airline pilot, and his own firm, Cardiff Aviation, was supplying the airline's technical and ...

Q 03/05

What is the country of Djibouti named after?

A) A local sultan

B) Its capital city

C) A Somali clan

D) A French explorer

Answer · why

B) Its capital city

Its capital city. The port came first, founded by the French in the 1880s, and the new republic took its name at independence in 1977.

Q 04/05

Until 1967, what was the French colony that became Djibouti called?

A) Tadjoura Colony

B) French Abyssinia

C) French Somaliland

D) Côte d'Afar

Answer · why

C) French Somaliland

French Somaliland. After a 1967 vote to stay French, Paris renamed it the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas, partly to play down its Somali ...

Q 05/05

Which strait beside Djibouti links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden?

A) Bosphorus

B) Strait of Hormuz

C) Strait of Tiran

D) Bab-el-Mandeb

Answer · why

D) Bab-el-Mandeb

Bab-el-Mandeb. When attacks on shipping made the strait dangerous in late 2023, many ships took the long way around Africa's Cape of Good Hope instead...