Awesome Angola Trivia Quiz

Answer: Portugal

The Portuguese established themselves at this location due to the active slave trade. Between the years of 1641-1648, the Dutch, along with local tribes, took over the Portuguese held area.

Answer: True

Due to its booming oil industry, Angola was made a member of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) in 2007. It left the organization in January of 2024.

Answer: Red, Black, Gold

The red upper half of the flag represents the blood of the Angolans killed in conflicts, the black represents the African continent, the semicircular gold cogwheel in the center represents industry, the gold machete cutting across the cogwheel in the black half of the flag represents peasantry, and the gold star inside near the top of the cogwheel in the red half of the flag is modeled after the star on the flag of the former Soviet Union.

The machete and cogwheel were put onto the flag when Angola had a Marxist government, the machete and cogwheel mimicking the hammer and sickle on the Soviet flag.

Answer: November 11

Angola gained its independence through a complex civil war that continued on in one form or another for some time.

Answer: Four

Angola borders four, not three countries, as some may have thought. Angola's exclave to the north borders the Republic of the Congo, and the rest of Angola borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, and Zambia.

Answer: Texas

At 481,354 square miles, Angola is the world's 23rd largest country after Niger.

Answer: Cabinda

Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by a small, 37km coastal strip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Answer: Jonas Savimbi

Due to the death of their leader, the UNITA rebel faction disbanded its armed forces and instead, became a major opposition political party against the government.

Answer: 18%

Angola's economy is one of the fastest growing in Africa, however, much of the growth is based only on the rising oil industry, but even so, other sectors of the economy have also experienced growth, the non-oil industries grew 13.8% in 2006. Economic growth is projected to stay above 10% a year for the next decade. The International Monetary Fund expected the economy to grow 31% in 2007.

In 2015 the Angolan economy took a downturn.

Answer: Morro de Moco

Morro de Moco is 2,620 meters (8,596 feet) and is the highest point in Angola located in the Huambo province near the center of the country. Drakensberg is a mountain range in South Africa, Assal is the name of a lake in Djibouti which is the lowest point in Africa, and Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest point in Tanzania.