Statistics for D.R. Congo Country Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
River on which these two capital cities lie (put on your thinking cap)	Congo River	94%
Only African country that is bigger than the DRC	Algeria	93%
Largest country that borders the DRC (hint: starts with A)	Angola	93%
European country which colonized the DRC	Belgium	93%
Capital of the D. R. Congo	Kinshasa	91%
Official language of the DRC	French	90%
Only country that lies on the equator and is bigger than the DRC	Brazil	87%
Former name of the DRC from 1971–1997	Zaire	86%
National capital located just 8 km north of the above	Brazzaville	78%
Metals, starting with C, which are the two most important exports of the DRC	Copper	76%
European king who owned the DRC as a personal possession, badly mistreating it	Leopold II	69%
African "lingua franca" which is spoken by many people in the eastern part of the country	Swahili	63%
Metals, starting with C, which are the two most important exports of the DRC	Cobalt	58%
Scary haemorrhagic fever named for a river in the DRC	Ebola	57%
Lake that lies between the DRC and Tanzania which is the second-largest in the world by volume	Lake Tanganyika	48%
Giraffe relative with stripes like a zebra which is the the national animal of the DRC (hint: starts with O)	Okapi	46%
Chimpanzee relative found only in the DRC	Bonobo	44%
Generic term which refers to the extremely short and heavily persecuted tribal groups in and around the DRC	Pygmy	43%
Dictator of the country during that period	Mobutu Sese Seko	31%
Tallest mountain in the country – named for a British explorer	Mount Stanley	31%