Q 01/05

What is the capital of Niger?

A) Niamey

B) Bamako

C) N'Djamena

D) Ouagadougou

Answer · why

A) Niamey

Niamey. It was a farming village on the Niger River when France made it the colony's capital in 1926; well over a million people live there now.

Q 02/05

With most of Niger covered by the Sahara, where do most of its people live?

A) In the far north

B) In the far east

C) In the far south

D) In the central mountains

Answer · why

C) In the far south

In the far south. Most Nigeriens live on a narrow band of farmable land along the border with Nigeria and Benin, because the desert north is too dry f...

Q 03/05

Which North African country borders Niger to the north-west?

A) Morocco

B) Algeria

C) Tunisia

D) Egypt

Answer · why

B) Algeria

Algeria. Their 951 km border is just three straight lines across the Sahara, first drawn by French officers in 1905, when France ruled both sides.

Q 04/05

Niger, Africa's sixth-largest country, is nearly twice the size of which US state?

A) Montana

B) California

C) Texas

D) Alaska

Answer · why

C) Texas

Texas. Niger covers about 1.27 million km² but has no coast, so its imports have long come by road and rail from Benin's port of Cotonou.

Q 05/05

Sarcosuchus, a giant predator whose fossils were dug from Niger's Sahara, was a prehistoric relative of which animal?

A) Shark

B) Leopard

C) Dolphin

D) Crocodile

Answer · why

D) Crocodile

Crocodile. Nicknamed 'SuperCroc', it lived about 110 million years ago, when rivers ran through what is now desert, and was big enough to prey on dino...