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

The wider Serengeti region also extends across 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

Oddly, the supposed source word does not actually appear in dictionaries of the Maa language.

Q 03/05

Roughly how many zebra travel with the great migration each year, ahead of the main herds?

A) About 250,000

B) About 25,000

C) About 2.5 million

D) About 5,000

Answer · why

A) About 250,000

Up to half a million Thomson's gazelle and smaller herds of eland travel too.

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

'Mara' means 'spotted' in Maa, after the short bushy trees dotting the landscape.

Q 05/05

Roughly how long is the complete great migration route?

A) About 5,000 km

B) About 200 km

C) About 2,000 km

D) About 800 km

Answer · why

D) About 800 km

It is the world's second-longest overland migration, after that of the caribou.