How well do you know Zambia?
10 rounds, 100 points
Zambia
COUNTRY QUIZ
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Zambia Quiz: How Well Do You Know Zambia?
What Is in the Zambia Quiz?
Ten rounds, alternating between four-option questions and puzzles. The five questions ask which metal has dominated the country's exports for a century, what it was called before independence, what a local name for Victoria Falls means, what a dish eaten at most meals actually is, and why one football match in 2012 mattered so much. The puzzles are different in kind: a run of five where you decide whether a city is Zambian, a run of five where you decide whether a well known person is Zambian, two ordering rounds where seven countries are already in the right order by population and then by area and you place Zambia among them, and one round where a color on the Zambian flag has been replaced and you drag a slider until it looks right.
There is no timer and no daily reset. Nothing is revealed between rounds, so the result screen is the first time you find out how any round went. It shows your score out of a hundred, a verdict, and what each of the ten rounds was worth.
What Does Your Score Mean?
The quiz ends with one of five verdicts. 90 to 100 points: You could give the tour. 75 to 89 points: You've earned the window seat. 60 to 74 points: Good enough for small talk. 45 to 59 points: You've only seen it on a map. 0 to 44 points: Zambia remains a mystery.
The bottom band ends where it does on purpose. A player tapping at random averages about 39 points of 100, nearly all of it partial credit from the two ordering rounds and the color slider, so guessing never earns a verdict that reads as praise. A score of 60 or more means you answered rather than guessed.
Facts About Zambia
Zambia has about 21 million people spread over roughly 753,000 square kilometers. It is landlocked, and it has eight neighbors, which is more than almost any other country in Africa. Its population is among the youngest anywhere, with a median age near 17, and English is the official language of government and schooling while Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga and Lozi are among the seventy or so languages spoken at home.
Water defines the country despite the absence of a coast. The Zambezi rises in the northwest, runs along the southern border and drops into a gorge at Victoria Falls, and the reservoir held back by the dam downstream is one of the largest ever built by volume. Close to a third of the land is set aside as national parks and reserves, and the walking safari, where visitors go on foot rather than by vehicle, was developed in the Luangwa valley.
Every November the sky over Kasanka National Park fills with straw-colored fruit bats, millions of them, arriving for a few weeks to feed on the fruiting trees and then leaving again. The country took its name from the Zambezi when it became independent in 1964, and its currency, the kwacha, is named for a word meaning dawn.
Where Do the Questions Come From?
Every question's correct answer was checked against a published source before it shipped, and the decoys were checked too, for the opposite reason: a decoy that turns out to be true would give the question two defensible answers.
The population and area figures behind the two ordering rounds come from the same dataset the rest of the geography games use, so a country's rank here matches its rank in Order the Country and Match the Country. Scoring and sources work the same way on every country quiz, and are set out in full on the country quizzes page.
Are There Quizzes for Other Countries?
Yes, four more, and each one is built the same way with its own questions, its own cities and people, and its own ordering rounds. There are the Germany quiz, the Bolivia quiz, the India quiz and the Philippines quiz.
The 10 Rounds
Every round in this quiz, with what it asks and what it offers. No correct answer is marked, and the ordering rounds list their other countries alphabetically rather than in the real order, so nothing here is given away.
- Which metal has been Zambia's biggest export for about a century?Copper · Cobalt · Iron · Gold
- Is this a Zambian city?Kitwe · Lubumbashi · Ndola · Harare · Lusaka
- What was Zambia called before it became independent in 1964?South Guinea · Nyasaland · Northern Rhodesia · Tanganyika Territory
- Order by population: insert Zambia at the correct positionChad · Chile · Kazakhstan · Malawi · Senegal · Somalia · Sri Lanka
- Mosi-oa-Tunya, the local name for Victoria Falls, means what?The river that never sleeps · The smoke that thunders · The cliff of ghosts · The water that burns
- Fix the color that has been changed on the flag
- What is nshima, eaten at most Zambian meals?A spiced peanut stew · A grilled river fish · A sweet fried dough · A thick maize porridge
- Is this person Zambian?Hastings Banda · Kalusha Bwalya · Kenneth Kaunda · Robert Mugabe · David Livingstone
- Zambia won the 2012 Africa Cup in Gabon. Why did that matter so much?Their 1993 team died there · Eight Zambians grew up in Gabon · They were Africa's two best teams · Their coach was born in Gabon
- Order by area: insert Zambia at the correct positionAfghanistan · Chile · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Pakistan · Turkey
What Else Is on Quizebra?
Quizebra has six daily geography games, including Name the Flag, Guess the Country and Find the Color, whose slider this quiz borrows. There are six football games built the same way.
Everything is free, nothing needs an account, and the daily games reset at midnight London time.