Q 01/05

Which city is the capital of Malawi?

A) Blantyre

B) Lilongwe

C) Mzuzu

D) Karonga

Answer · why

B) Lilongwe

Lilongwe was picked in 1965 as a growth point for the centre and north of the country, and ten years later it took over as capital from a city in the ...

Q 02/05

Which city was the colonial capital and then independent Malawi's first capital until the mid-1970s?

A) Zomba

B) Lilongwe

C) Mangochi

D) Blantyre

Answer · why

A) Zomba

Zomba kept Malawi's parliament until 1994, almost two decades after the rest of the government had moved away.

Q 03/05

Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, was named after the Scottish birthplace of which explorer?

A) Mungo Park

B) Richard Burton

C) Henry Morton Stanley

D) David Livingstone

Answer · why

D) David Livingstone

David Livingstone was born in the Scottish mill town of Blantyre, and Church of Scotland missionaries gave its name to the mission they founded here i...

Q 04/05

What is the name Malawi usually said to mean?

A) Great water

B) Flames

C) Land of the lake

D) Green hills

Answer · why

B) Flames

Flames is the usual translation, and one tradition says the great lake shimmered like fire when the first settlers looked down on it from the highland...

Q 05/05

By what affectionate nickname is Malawi widely known?

A) The Pearl of Africa

B) The Rainbow Nation

C) The Land of a Thousand Hills

D) The Warm Heart of Africa

Answer · why

D) The Warm Heart of Africa

The Warm Heart of Africa is about the people rather than the weather: the nickname credits Malawians' reputation for friendliness to strangers.