Q 01/05

What is the capital of Zambia?

A) Lusaka

B) Kitwe

C) Ndola

D) Livingstone

Answer · why

A) Lusaka

Lusaka became the colonial capital in 1935, replacing a town in the far south, and sits on a plateau about 1,280 metres above sea level.

Q 02/05

What was Zambia called before independence in 1964?

A) Nyasaland

B) Northern Rhodesia

C) Bechuanaland

D) Barotseland

Answer · why

B) Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia, administered by the British South Africa Company until 1924 and then as a British protectorate, became Zambia at independence in 19...

Q 03/05

Zambia takes its name from which river?

A) The Congo

B) The Kafue

C) The Zambezi

D) The Luangwa

Answer · why

C) The Zambezi

The Zambezi rises in north-western Zambia and, after looping through a neighbour, returns to form the country's southern border before plunging over V...

Q 04/05

Who was Zambia's first president, in office from 1964 to 1991?

A) Frederick Chiluba

B) Levy Mwanawasa

C) Harry Nkumbula

D) Kenneth Kaunda

Answer · why

D) Kenneth Kaunda

Kenneth Kaunda, 'KK', led Zambia from independence until losing the 1991 election; he promoted an ideology he called Zambian Humanism and died in 2021...

Q 05/05

What national motto did the country's first president coin for his young, multi-ethnic country?

A) Unity, Work, Progress

B) One Zambia, One Nation

C) Forward Together

D) Peace and Copper

Answer · why

B) One Zambia, One Nation

The motto 'One Zambia, One Nation' was coined to bind some 70 ethnic groups into a single state after independence, and appears on the national coat o...