Q 01/05

Which mountain in Tanzania is Africa's highest peak and the world's tallest free-standing mountain?

A) Mount Kenya

B) Kilimanjaro

C) Ras Dashen

D) Mount Meru

Answer · why

B) Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro rises 5,895 m above sea level, but its famous ice cap lost over 80% of its area in the 20th century and is projected to vanish by the midd...

Q 02/05

Which lake touching Kenya and Tanzania is Africa's largest and the world's largest tropical lake?

A) Malawi

B) Naivasha

C) Albert

D) Victoria

Answer · why

D) Victoria

Lake Victoria is also the world's second-largest freshwater lake by area, behind only Lake Superior. Explorer John Hanning Speke renamed it for the Br...

Q 03/05

The word safari, meaning 'journey', entered English in the 1850s from which East African language?

A) Swahili

B) Oromo

C) Kikuyu

D) Luganda

Answer · why

A) Swahili

Swahili borrowed the word from the Arabic safar, and about 40% of its vocabulary is Arabic loanwords, a legacy of centuries of trade along the coast.

Q 04/05

Which drink comes from an Ethiopian plant that legend says a goatherd saw energize his flock?

A) Black tea

B) Cocoa

C) Coffee

D) Rooibos

Answer · why

C) Coffee

Coffee's arabica species, the first to be cultivated, is endemic to southwestern Ethiopia. The goatherd tale of Kaldi is probably a myth: it first app...

Q 05/05

Which Tanzanian archipelago, nicknamed the Spice Islands, was the birthplace of Freddie Mercury?

A) Zanzibar

B) Quirimbas

C) Mafia

D) Kilwa

Answer · why

A) Zanzibar

Zanzibar also lost the shortest war in recorded history: in 1896 British warships bombarded the sultan's palace, and the fighting was over within 45 m...