Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Namibia?

A) Windhoek

B) Gaborone

C) Lusaka

D) Luanda

Answer · why

A) Windhoek

Windhoek is Namibia's capital and by far its largest city; short of water in arid country, it pioneered recycling treated sewage directly back into th...

Q 02/05

Which river forms Namibia's southern border?

A) The Orange

B) The Kunene

C) The Okavango

D) The Zambezi

Answer · why

A) The Orange

The Orange forms Namibia's southern border, and its name has nothing to do with colour: the Dutch officer Robert Gordon, exploring the river, named it...

Q 03/05

The Namib is often described as what?

A) The largest desert in Africa

B) The hottest place on Earth

C) The oldest desert in the world

D) The only desert on a coast

Answer · why

C) The oldest desert in the world

The oldest desert in the world is the Namib's usual billing, arid for at least 55 million years; its beetles have adapted by doing headstands on dune ...

Q 04/05

Which Namibian people are known for coating skin and hair with red ochre paste?

A) The Himba

B) The Herero

C) The Nama

D) The San

Answer · why

A) The Himba

The Himba mix red ochre with butterfat into a paste called otjize and wear it daily on skin and braided hair; laboratory tests have found that the och...

Q 05/05

Which ocean lies to the west of Namibia?

A) The Indian

B) The Atlantic

C) The Southern

D) The Pacific

Answer · why

B) The Atlantic

The Atlantic brought the Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão to this coast in 1486, and he marked his landfall with a stone cross; a German naval commander...