Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Mozambique?

A) Maputo

B) Beira

C) Nampula

D) Nacala

Answer · why

A) Maputo

It was renamed in 1976, a year after independence.

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 Mozambique Channel separates it from Madagascar and the Comoros.

Q 03/05

Which European power colonised Mozambique for over four centuries?

A) Britain

B) Germany

C) Portugal

D) France

Answer · why

C) Portugal

Independence came in 1975.

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

Gradual colonisation and settlement began in 1505.

Q 05/05

Mozambique is named after what?

A) A Bantu word for 'great river'

B) A coral island off the northern coast

C) A Portuguese navigator

D) A mountain in the interior

Answer · why

B) A coral island off the northern coast

The name is thought to come from Mussa Bin Bique, an Arab trader who lived on the island.