Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Mozambique?

A) Maputo

B) Beira

C) Nampula

D) Nacala

Answer · why

A) Maputo

Maputo took its present name after independence, replacing the colonial name the city had carried since Portuguese rule.

Q 02/05

Mozambique's coastline lies on which ocean?

A) The Atlantic

B) The Southern

C) The Pacific

D) The Indian

Answer · why

D) The Indian

The Indian Ocean coast drew Arab merchants, who ran trading posts here for centuries before European ships arrived.

Q 03/05

Which European power colonised Mozambique for over four centuries?

A) Britain

B) Germany

C) Portugal

D) France

Answer · why

C) Portugal

Portugal even handed large parts of the colony to private chartered companies to run in the late 19th century.

Q 04/05

Whose 1498 voyage marked the arrival of Europeans in Mozambique?

A) Bartolomeu Dias

B) Vasco da Gama

C) Ferdinand Magellan

D) Pedro Álvares Cabral

Answer · why

B) Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama landed at an island harbour long used by Arab traders, and within a decade a fortress had been built there.

Q 05/05

The Mozambique Channel separates Mozambique from which island country?

A) Mauritius

B) Madagascar

C) Seychelles

D) Sri Lanka

Answer · why

B) Madagascar

Madagascar: coelacanths, fish thought extinct until one was caught in 1938, live in nearby waters off the Comoros.