Q 01/05

What is Johannesburg's Zulu name, which refers to its founding mineral?

A) Tshwane

B) eThekwini

C) iGoli

D) Mangaung

Answer · why

C) iGoli

iGoli means 'place of gold' in Zulu: the city sprang from the 1886 gold rush and grew from a mining camp to 100,000 people within a decade.

Q 02/05

Johannesburg is the capital of which South African province?

A) Free State

B) Mpumalanga

C) Limpopo

D) Gauteng

Answer · why

D) Gauteng

Gauteng is the smallest of South Africa's nine provinces by area, yet it holds the largest share of the country's people.

Q 03/05

Which of South Africa's highest institutions sits in Johannesburg?

A) Parliament

B) The Constitutional Court

C) The Supreme Court of Appeal

D) The Presidency

Answer · why

B) The Constitutional Court

The Constitutional Court sits on Constitution Hill, on the site of the notorious Old Fort prison, and bricks from a demolished cell block were built i...

Q 04/05

Which restaurant chain began in 1987 at a small Portuguese eatery in Rosettenville, Johannesburg?

A) Chicken Licken

B) Nando's

C) Galito's

D) Steers

Answer · why

B) Nando's

Nando's began when two friends had lunch at a modest Portuguese eatery in Rosettenville in 1987 and decided its peri-peri chicken deserved a far wider...

Q 05/05

The name Soweto is an abbreviation of what?

A) Sotho Western Territory

B) Southern Workers' Town

C) South Western Townships

D) South West Transvaal Outskirts

Answer · why

C) South Western Townships

South Western Townships was a plain map label for the scattered Black townships set aside on that side of Johannesburg, which together grew into the c...