Q 01/05

David Livingstone wrote that the river scenery above the falls 'must have been gazed upon by' whom 'in their flight'?

A) Angels

B) Eagles

C) Spirits

D) Swallows

Answer · why

A) Angels

Angels: the line is often quoted about the falls themselves, though he wrote it of the wooded river upstream, and sightseeing flights over the falls a...

Q 02/05

Victoria Falls joined which international list in 1989, entered under both its Lozi and English names?

A) UNESCO Global Geoparks

B) New Seven Wonders of the World

C) UNESCO Biosphere Reserves

D) UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Answer · why

D) UNESCO World Heritage Sites

UNESCO World Heritage Sites: one listing spans both banks under the double name Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls, taking in national parks in Zambia and...

Q 03/05

What does Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Lozi name for Victoria Falls, mean?

A) The end of the world

B) The place of the rainbow

C) The great white river

D) The smoke that thunders

Answer · why

D) The smoke that thunders

The smoke that thunders: Livingstone first saw the spray from miles upriver and wrote that its columns rose exactly like the smoke of a great African ...

Q 04/05

Which journalist found David Livingstone in 1871 and is famed for the greeting "Dr Livingstone, I presume"?

A) Henry Morton Stanley

B) John Hanning Speke

C) Mungo Park

D) Richard Francis Burton

Answer · why

A) Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley was sent by the New York Herald and found the missing explorer, ill and short of supplies, at Ujiji in 1871, sixteen years after ...

Q 05/05

Which title does Victoria Falls usually claim?

A) Tallest waterfall

B) Largest waterfall

C) Widest waterfall

D) Oldest waterfall

Answer · why

B) Largest waterfall

Largest waterfall: it is neither the tallest nor the widest, but at about 1,700 metres across with a drop of up to 108 metres it forms the world's lar...