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Exploring Kenya: A Comprehensive Quiz

Test your knowledge about Kenya with this engaging quiz that covers national symbols, historical events, and cultural highlights.

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1 Which of the following titles did Kenya have?

2 What is the national anthem of Kenya?

3 Cushitic-speaking people, as termed by Schloezer, from ________, moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 BCE.

4 When was Kenya established?

5 What does the following picture show?  Current prime minister Raila Odinga   A Maasai man in traditional attire   Ethnicity and languages in Kenya   Seaport Mombasa, below Malindi, has railway to Nairobi (centre), south of Naivasha & Nyeri. (click map to enlarge)

6 What does the following picture show?  A route in Tsavo East National Park   Current president Mwai Kibaki   Provinces of Kenya   Seaport Mombasa, below Malindi, has railway to Nairobi (centre), south of Naivasha & Nyeri. (click map to enlarge)

7 What timezone is Kenya in during daylight savings?

8 What does the following picture show?  20 shilling note from 1994, depicting then-President Daniel arap Moi   Ethnicity and languages in Kenya   Current president Mwai Kibaki   Seaport Mombasa, below Malindi, has railway to Nairobi (centre), south of Naivasha & Nyeri. (click map to enlarge)

9 Who of the following is/was the leader of Kenya?

10 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Kenya?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi, Kenya.
  • the 900,000-year-old hand axes found at Olorgesailie in southern Kenya were probably used for butchering animals.
  • the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika.
  • in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy.
  • the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades.
  • the city of Nairobi, Kenya, averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day.
  • the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya is the unsanitary flying toilet.
  • the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo attacked workers who were building the Uganda Railway which connects Uganda and Kenya.
  • the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative.
  • historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya.
  • T. rex survives underground in Kenya.
  • Texas Tech track and field runner Sally Kipyego is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship.
  • Kenyan public health advocate Miriam Were and British biomedical researcher Brian Greenwood are the inaugural laureates of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize.
  • Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki.
  • Giraffe Manor, in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as being host to a group of endangered Rothschild giraffe (pictured), was also home to a warthog named in honour of Walter Cronkite.
  • Migingo, an island about half the size of a soccer field, is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya.
  • Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant.
  • Zeituni Onyango is the half-aunt of President-elect Barack Obama and a political asylum claimant from Kenya whose case was disclosed in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
  • Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet was a Briton born in Kenya, a banker engaged with charities, a hyperpolyglot who wrote about cybernetics, and a church warden who skydived.
  • Kenyan long distance runner Eliud Kiptanui went on to win the Prague Marathon after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption prevented him from traveling to the Vienna Marathon three weeks earlier.
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