Q 01/05

Ethiopia lies in which region of the continent?

A) The Maghreb

B) The Horn of Africa

C) The Sahel

D) The Great Lakes

Answer · why

B) The Horn of Africa

Its capital Addis Ababa, at 2,355 metres, is the highest capital on the continent.

Q 02/05

Along with Liberia, Ethiopia is described as the only African country never to have been what?

A) Fully colonised

B) Ruled by a king

C) Hit by famine

D) A member of the UN

Answer · why

A) Fully colonised

Italy occupied it from 1936 to 1941 but never secured the whole country against the Arbegnoch resistance.

Q 03/05

At which 1896 battle did Ethiopian forces under Menelik II defeat an Italian invasion?

A) Magdala

B) Adwa

C) Omdurman

D) Isandlwana

Answer · why

B) Adwa

Victory Day on 2 March is the first public holiday of the year, and the flag's tricolour was adopted a year later.

Q 04/05

The 3.2-million-year-old hominin skeleton found in Ethiopia's Afar region in 1974 is known as what?

A) Lucy

B) Ardi

C) Selam

D) Turkana Boy

Answer · why

A) Lucy

Locally called Dinkinesh, she was named after a Beatles song played in Donald Johanson's camp that night.

Q 05/05

The name of which drink may derive from Ethiopia's Kaffa region?

A) Cocoa

B) Cola

C) Coffee

D) Kefir

Answer · why

C) Coffee

Legend credits a 9th-century goatherd, Kaldi, with noticing his energised flock; the bean is Ethiopia's biggest export earner.