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Answer
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What is the capital of the D. R. Congo?
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Kinshasa
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What other national capital is located just 8 km north of the above?
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Brazzaville
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Put on your thinking cap ... On what river would you find these two cities?
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Congo River
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What is the official language of the DRC?
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French
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What was the former name of the DRC, from 1971 to 1997?
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Zaire
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Who was dictator of the country during that period?
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Mobutu Sese Seko
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Which European country colonized the DRC?
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Belgium
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What European king owned the DRC as a personal possession, badly mistreating it?
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Leopold II
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What is the tallest mountain in the country - named for a British explorer?
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Mount Stanley
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What is the largest country that borders the DRC? (hint: starts with A)
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Angola
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What generic term refers to the extremely short and heavily persecuted tribal groups in and around the DRC?
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Pygmy
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What is the only country that lies on the equator and is bigger than the DRC?
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Brazil
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What is the only African country that is bigger than the DRC?
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Algeria
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What African "lingua franca" is spoken by many people in the eastern part of the country?
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Swahili
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What scary haemorrhagic fever is named for a river in the DRC?
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Ebola
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What lake, the second largest by volume in the world, lies between the DRC and Tanzania?
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Lake Tanganyika
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What giraffe relative with stripes like a zebra is the national animal of the DRC? (hint: starts with O)
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Okapi
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What chimpanzee relative can only be found in the DRC?
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Bonobo
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Which two metals, starting with C, are the two most important exports of the DRC?
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Cobalt
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Copper
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3 of the Great Lakes in north america are larger.