| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| River on which these two capital cities lie (put on your thinking cap) | Congo River | 94%
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| Only African country that is bigger than the DRC | Algeria | 93%
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| Largest country that borders the DRC (hint: starts with A) | Angola | 93%
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| European country which colonized the DRC | Belgium | 93%
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| Capital of the D. R. Congo | Kinshasa | 91%
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| Official language of the DRC | French | 90%
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| Only country that lies on the equator and is bigger than the DRC | Brazil | 87%
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| Former name of the DRC from 1971–1997 | Zaire | 86%
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| National capital located just 8 km north of the above | Brazzaville | 79%
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| Metals, starting with C, which are the two most important exports of the DRC | Copper | 76%
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| European king who owned the DRC as a personal possession, badly mistreating it | Leopold II | 69%
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| African "lingua franca" which is spoken by many people in the eastern part of the country | Swahili | 63%
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| Metals, starting with C, which are the two most important exports of the DRC | Cobalt | 58%
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| Scary haemorrhagic fever named for a river in the DRC | Ebola | 56%
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| Lake that lies between the DRC and Tanzania which is the second-largest in the world by volume | Lake Tanganyika | 48%
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| Giraffe relative with stripes like a zebra which is the the national animal of the DRC (hint: starts with O) | Okapi | 46%
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| Chimpanzee relative found only in the DRC | Bonobo | 44%
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| Generic term which refers to the extremely short and heavily persecuted tribal groups in and around the DRC | Pygmy | 42%
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| Dictator of the country during that period | Mobutu Sese Seko | 30%
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| Tallest mountain in the country – named for a British explorer | Mount Stanley | 30%
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