Q 01/05

What is the capital of Zambia?

A) Lusaka

B) Kitwe

C) Ndola

D) Livingstone

Answer · why

A) Lusaka

It also hosts the headquarters of COMESA, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.

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

The old name honoured the mining magnate whose company ran the territory; the new one comes from the country's great river.

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 river rises in Zambia's north-west, loops through Angola and returns to form the southern border with Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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

'KK' promoted an ideology he called Zambian Humanism and ran a one-party state from 1972; he died in 2021 aged 97.

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

Zambia has some 70 ethnic groups, the Bemba being the largest.