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Cape Verde Country Quiz

Can you guess these facts about the country of Cape Verde?
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Last updated: July 17, 2022
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Capital of Cape Verde
Praia
Largest and most populous island
(shares its name with a South American capital)
Santiago
Most commonly-spoken language
Cape Verdean Creole
Official language
Portuguese
Name for Cape Verde in the above
Cabo Verde
Meaning of "Cape Verde" in English
Green Cape
Population of Cape Verde in the year 1400
0
Currency of Cape Verde
Escudo
Nearest country on the African mainland
Senegal
Cape Verde is one of four "Macaronesian" archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean.
Name one of the others.
Canary Islands |
Azores | Madeira
English privateer who attacked the islands in 1585
Francis Drake
Until the 1800s, Cape Verde was a supply point in this cruel trade
Atlantic slave trade
Only mammal that is native to the island (hint: think about how it could have got there)
Grey long-eared bat
24 Comments
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Level 88
Jun 30, 2020
This is a good one, though a bit short. I like the hint for the mammal.
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Level 84
Jul 23, 2020
Me too, but Cape Verdean not allowed.
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Level 50
Jan 6, 2024
Its not called Cape Verdean, we call it Creole
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Level 91
Dec 15, 2020
Took me a while to think of the mammal answer.
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Level 71
Dec 15, 2020
I first tried seal and sealion.
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Level 73
Dec 15, 2020
Is the phrasing "think about how it could have got there" grammatically correct? I thought it should be "have gotten". I'm not a native speaker, hence a question and not a definite statement.
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Level 77
Dec 15, 2020
Apparently both are correct, it just depends on the dialect: wiktionary: gotten.
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Level 83
Mar 6, 2021
'Gotten' doesn't tend to be used/'correct' in varieties of English such as British English.
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Level 31
Sep 27, 2023
"think about how it would've got there" makes the most sense for me but idk
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Level 38
Dec 15, 2020
for the slave trade one, can you make "Columbian exchange" or "atlantic triangle" one of the answers?
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Level 67
Dec 15, 2020
I still don’t know how the mammal could have got there
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Level 91
Dec 15, 2020
Simple. They walked to it.
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Level 80
Dec 17, 2020
They flew there?? 🦇🦇🦇
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Level 73
Dec 18, 2020
Nil not accepted for 0?
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Level 93
Jun 25, 2021
Neither are zilch, zippo, nada, or goose-egg.
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Level 75
Sep 26, 2021
Very sad.
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Level 60
Nov 10, 2021
Accept Kabuverdianu, Cabverdean, Cabo-Verdiano for most commonly spoken language?
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Level 50
Jan 6, 2024
No we call it Creole, Cape Verdean is the neame of our people
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Level 61
Nov 15, 2021
"human" is also the correct answer for a mammal... humans arrived on ships
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Level 93
Feb 23, 2022
Bats were there first
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Level 78
Mar 25, 2025
Humans aren't native there. They were brought there by humans.
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Level 50
Apr 2, 2022
I'm Cape Verdean and I got 10 out of 13, nice quiz, but it should have more questions.
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Level 82
Feb 6, 2024
12/13, I guessed “bats”, but I didn’t know the currency.
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Level 70
Aug 25, 2024
I would add a question about a famous singer who always performed barefooted and also single-handedly supported whole educational system of Cabo Verde until she died in 2011.