Q 01/05

Sierra Leone borders Guinea and which other country?

A) Ivory Coast

B) Liberia

C) Senegal

D) Guinea-Bissau

Answer · why

B) Liberia

Liberia's civil war spilled over to ignite Sierra Leone's own conflict in 1991.

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone?

A) Bo Town

B) Freetown

C) Kenema

D) Makeni

Answer · why

B) Freetown

It sits on a mountainous coastal peninsula beside a vast sheltered estuary.

Q 03/05

The country's name comes from a 1462 Portuguese name meaning what?

A) Golden coast

B) Lioness mountains

C) Rainy shore

D) Green river

Answer · why

B) Lioness mountains

Pedro de Sintra called the hills near Freetown Serra Leoa; the modern spelling is Venetian, from Alvise Cadamosto.

Q 04/05

The 1787 settlement founded by the British Crown for London's 'Black Poor' was called what?

A) Liberty Town Colony

B) The Province of Freedom

C) New Albion Settlement

D) Granville Bay Plantation

Answer · why

B) The Province of Freedom

Of the 411 who sailed in April 1787, 96 died on the voyage; the settlement collapsed and Freetown was refounded in 1792.

Q 05/05

The capital was founded in 1792 by Black Loyalists relocated from which Canadian province?

A) New Brunswick

B) Nova Scotia

C) Quebec

D) Ontario

Answer · why

B) Nova Scotia

Nearly 1,200 crossed the Atlantic under Thomas Peters and John Clarkson's Sierra Leone Company; they had endured harsh winters and racism.