Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Rwanda?

A) Butare

B) Kigali

C) Gisenyi

D) Ruhengeri

Answer · why

B) Kigali

Kigali, founded as a colonial post in 1907 by the explorer Richard Kandt, sits near the centre of the country at about 1,567 metres and is regularly r...

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

The Democratic Republic of the Congo shares a 217-kilometre border with Rwanda, much of it running down a lake; the Congolese city of Goma faces Rwand...

Q 03/05

What is Rwanda's famous French-derived nickname?

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

Land of a thousand hills describes Rwanda's relentlessly rolling terrain: the whole country lies above 950 metres, and the Congo-Nile divide runs nort...

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

Mount Karisimbi, a dormant volcano on the DRC border, rises to 4,507 metres; the Karisoke research camp, founded in 1967, took its name from Karisimbi...

Q 05/05

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

A) Lake Kivu

B) Lake Muhazi

C) Lake Ihema

D) Lake Burera

Answer · why

A) Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu, like Cameroon's Nyos and Monoun, holds vast dissolved carbon dioxide and methane at depth; Rwanda's KivuWatt plant has extracted the methan...