Q 01/05

The Serengeti National Park lies in the north of which country?

A) Uganda

B) Kenya

C) Tanzania

D) Zambia

Answer · why

C) Tanzania

Tanzania holds the national park, but the wider Serengeti region spills over the border into south-western Kenya.

Q 02/05

The name Serengeti is popularly said to come from a Maasai word meaning what?

A) Land of lions

B) Endless plains

C) Great river

D) Place of thirst

Answer · why

B) Endless plains

'Endless plains' is the popular gloss of a Maa word, siringet, but that word doesn't actually appear in Maa dictionaries.

Q 03/05

Which grazers often travel ahead of the wildebeest herds on the Serengeti's great migration?

A) Cape buffalo

B) Zebras

C) Topi

D) Impala

Answer · why

B) Zebras

Zebras, in their hundreds of thousands, move ahead of well over a million wildebeest as the rains ripen the grass.

Q 04/05

The migrating herds cross into which Kenyan reserve for the dry season?

A) Tsavo East

B) Amboseli

C) The Maasai Mara

D) Lake Nakuru

Answer · why

C) The Maasai Mara

The 'Mara' in the Maasai Mara's name is Maa for 'spotted', after the short bushy trees that dot its plains.

Q 05/05

Roughly how long is the Serengeti's complete great migration loop?

A) About 25 km

B) About 100 km

C) About 800 km

D) About 8,000 km

Answer · why

C) About 800 km

About 800 km: the herds circle from the southern plains north into Kenya and back again each year.