D.R. Congo Country Quiz

It's named that in English because he was the first European to reach it (but it might be known by another name in native languages). I don't know much about Henry Morton Stanley at all, but he was a newspaper correspondent when he was sent to Africa to locate the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who by the way still has several African cities named after him, as he is still revered and respected by modern Africans.

I think it is also called Mount Ngaliema.

For any African country you probably want to guess at least English and French.

and Arabic

and Swahili

I was surprised not to see any questions about the "Rumble in the Jungle fight" between Ali and Foreman

Boxing can be totally forgotten...

Yes, that surprised me too. On the other hand, people won't complain that the thumbnail gives away a question...

They probably would have in 1960. In 2020, not so much.

Would love a clue about him to educate the trivia masses

3% of people didn't put their thinking caps on

Aren't pygmies an informal name used to refer to any tribe of population of relatively diminutive people?

the pygamies are an actual indengenious group deep in the forests in the DRC and the central african republic. Genetically shorter than the average human being super intresting to learn about them actually

okay thanks. will take your word for it. Though I've heard of many other things referred to as "pygmy" not from the Congo. Maybe the word originates there?

I have a treasured book from my childhood, Thirty One Brothers and Sisters by Reba Paeff Mirsky, copyright 1952, about a South African Zulu girl named Nomusa who goes on an elephant hunt, and they encounter a group of small people. Her father tells her they are Pygmies, "who live in the forest here...Only once before have I ever met any, and that was when we had gone on a hunt ten sleeps away. These Pygmies have wandered a long distance from their home, far to the north."

^ right. And seems unlikely that this is the same tribe of people as you would find in Congo. I've also heard the term applied before to people in Indonesia, New Guinea, and other countries in Africa. Not to mention other species like hippos, goats, and even date palms.

It's probably city-centre to city-centre distance.

Just a typo: "What was the former name of the DRC, from 1971 and 1997?" Should be "to"?

That isn't the second largest lake in the world is it? 2nd Largest in Africa...

3 of the Great Lakes in north america are larger.

lake superior is far superior tho

I typed bobono three times thinking I must have misspelled it. Turns out I did.

Interesting quiz. Thanks. Question about largest border does NOT need hint. Its known by 95% of takers.

Quiz takers who used the hint.

6% of people forgot their thinking caps at their vacation resort in Hawaii

Quite disrespectful that there isn't at least one clue related to Patrice Lumumba and his work in the country. Foreign powers worked to take him out because they knew he would prioritize his people first, ending the foreign exploitation of their resources. Ignoring his legacy is ignoring the history that's actually important to the Congolese people and Africans everywhere. And if you're going to include Leopold, don't water down his atrocities to "badly mistreating." He committed genocide and enslaved the population.