Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Libya?

A) Tripoli

B) Benghazi

C) Misrata

D) Sirte

Answer · why

A) Tripoli

It sits in the northwest and holds over a million of the country's seven million people.

Q 02/05

The capital's name comes from the Greek for "three cities", referring to Oea, Sabratha and which other?

A) Apollonia

B) Leptis Magna

C) Cyrene

D) Ptolemais

Answer · why

B) Leptis Magna

The Phoenicians founded Oea, the core of today's capital, in the 7th century BC.

Q 03/05

Libya ranks where among African countries by area?

A) Largest

B) Second-largest

C) Eighth-largest

D) Fourth-largest

Answer · why

D) Fourth-largest

At almost 1.8 million km2 it is also fourth in the Arab world and 16th in the world.

Q 04/05

Libya's 1,770-km coastline is the longest of any African country on which sea?

A) The Red Sea

B) The Mediterranean

C) The Atlantic

D) The Indian Ocean

Answer · why

B) The Mediterranean

About 90% of the population lives along that coast in less than a tenth of the country's area.

Q 05/05

Which Roman emperor, born in Libya's greatest Roman city, expanded it into one of North Africa's finest?

A) Septimius Severus

B) Diocletian

C) Antoninus Pius

D) Marcus Aurelius

Answer · why

A) Septimius Severus

He was of mixed Roman and Punic descent and reigned from 193 to 211.