Q 01/05

Lake Victoria's only outlet is the Nile, so where does the lake's water finally meet the sea?

A) The Indian Ocean

B) The Atlantic Ocean

C) The Mediterranean Sea

D) The Red Sea

Answer · why

C) The Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea: the Nile carries the lake's water north, though most of the river's flow by then comes from Ethiopia rather than the lake.

Q 02/05

Lake Victoria is usually ranked the world's second-largest freshwater lake by area, behind which lake?

A) Baikal

B) Tanganyika

C) Erie

D) Superior

Answer · why

D) Superior

Superior comes from the French for 'upper lake', a name about the lake's position rather than its size.

Q 03/05

Which country holds the largest share of Lake Victoria's surface, about half?

A) Uganda

B) Rwanda

C) Kenya

D) Tanzania

Answer · why

D) Tanzania

Tanzania holds about half the lake, while Rwanda, a tempting guess, has no shoreline at all, though its rivers drain into the lake.

Q 04/05

Some of whose ashes were scattered at Lake Victoria's Nile outlet?

A) Einstein

B) Gandhi

C) Mandela

D) Churchill

Answer · why

B) Gandhi

Gandhi: a portion of his ashes went into the Nile here after his assassination in 1948, and the memorial on the spot has made it a place of pilgrimage...

Q 05/05

Which wildlife park's western corridor stretches almost to the shore of Lake Victoria?

A) Masai Mara

B) Amboseli

C) Serengeti

D) Ngorongoro

Answer · why

C) Serengeti

Serengeti: the great wildebeest migration funnels west along this corridor each year, crossing the crocodile-filled Grumeti River, which drains into t...