Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Rwanda?

A) Butare

B) Kigali

C) Gisenyi

D) Ruhengeri

Answer · why

B) Kigali

It sits in the centre of the country at 1,567 metres and is regularly ranked among Africa's cleanest cities.

Q 02/05

Rwanda borders Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and which large country to the west?

A) Republic of Kenya

B) Democratic Republic of the Congo

C) Republic of Zambia

D) Republic of South Sudan

Answer · why

B) Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lake Kivu forms much of that western frontier; relations have been repeatedly strained by the Congo wars and the M23 rebellion.

Q 03/05

Rwanda's French nickname, borrowed by a famous hotel and a notorious radio station, means what?

A) Land of a thousand lakes

B) Land of a thousand hills

C) Land of eternal spring

D) Heart of Africa

Answer · why

B) Land of a thousand hills

Mountains dominate the centre and west; the whole country sits above 950 metres.

Q 04/05

Rwanda's highest point, at 4,507 metres, is which volcano in the Virunga chain?

A) Mount Bisoke

B) Mount Karisimbi

C) Mount Muhabura

D) Mount Sabyinyo

Answer · why

B) Mount Karisimbi

The Karisoke research camp took its name from it and neighbouring Visoke; the volcanoes straddle the borders with Uganda and the DRC.

Q 05/05

Which lake on Rwanda's western border is one of three known to undergo limnic eruptions?

A) Lake Muhazi

B) Lake Kivu

C) Lake Ihema

D) Lake Burera

Answer · why

B) Lake Kivu

Like Cameroon's Nyos and Monoun it holds dissolved gas at depth; Rwanda extracts the lake-bed methane for electricity.