When We Were In Rhodesia Trivia Quiz

Answer: Zimbabwe-Zambia

The territory was crossed by a natural border, the Zambezi river. The territory to the north of it was officially designated as "Northern Rhodesia" (the present Zambia, since its independence in 1964) and to the south, "Southern Rhodesia", which only became Zimbabwe in 1980. Northern and Southern Rhodesia were sometimes informally called "the Rhodesias".
The term "Rhodesia" was popularized in the region by white settlers in the 1890s who informally named their new home after Cecil Rhodes, the British South Africa Company's founder and managing director.

Answer: United Kingdom

In order to try to stop an independence movement and a transition to black majority rule, as in the rest of the continent, Colonial Rhodesia's predominantly white government issued its own Unilateral Declaration of Independence on that day, keeping the government in the hands of Whites.

When Zambia gained independence in 1964, Southern Rhodesia simplified its name to "Rhodesia" since there was just one left, and it kept the same name after UDI.

Answer: Ian Smith

Smith was the first Rhodesian born Prime Minister. Also, Smith who has been described as the "soul" of white Rhodesia, remains, even today, a highly controversial figure. His supporters would say he was a man of integrity and vision "who understood the uncomfortable truths of Africa", while his critics will see in him an unrepentant racist whose policies and actions caused many of Zimbabwe's later problems.

Answer: Salisbury

The capital city retained the name of "Salisbury" until 1982 when it was changed to the present name - Harare - by President Robert Mugabe's government.

Answer: Three vertical stripes green white and green and the coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe

The actual flag of Nigeria is identical to the Rhodesian flag with the exception that it doesn't have the coat of arms of the country in the central white strip.

Answer: West Germany - Switzerland

Since neither West Germany nor Switzerland were members of the UN at the time of Rhodesia's existence, they were not covered by the banning on commerce issued by the UN. The two countries contributed to sustain Rhodesia's economy buying its products and selling theirs.

Another way for Rhodesia to get round the UN ban, was to send its products to neighbouring Mozambique (a Portuguese colony at the time) and before embark them, "rebrand" them with "Made in Portugal". That is how Rhodesian cigarettes, for example, used to be sold without difficulty in the USA and many other countries.

Answer: Beira

After the collapse of Portuguese rule in Mozambique in 1974-75, it was no longer viable for the regime to sustain white minority rule indefinitely. Beira, the closest port to Rhodesia, was its main "window" to the world. After Mozambique became an independent country under Communist rule, Rhodesia was completely surrounded by enemies, except for the (then) apartheid South Africa in the south.

Answer: Robert Mugabe

Mugabe "reigned" over Zimbabwe until well into the second decade of the 21st century and remains in power. He also ruined the country, giving Zimbabwe the rare privilege of having one of the highest inflation rates recorded in world history, among other "achievements", just to name one of the things he did. (At the height of the inflation prices doubled every 25 hours). Ian Smith remained the Leader of the Opposition during Mugabe's first seven years in power. Smith was a strident and vocal critic of the Mugabe government both before and after his retirement from front-line politics in 1987; he dedicated much of his 1997 memoirs, "The Great Betrayal", to condemning Mugabe and UK politicians.

As Mugabe's reputation thereafter plummeted amid Zimbabwe's economic ruin, domestic and foreign reckoning of Smith and his legacy improved. Zimbabwean opposition supporters lauded the elderly Smith as an immovable symbol of resistance.

He remained in Zimbabwe until 2005.

Answer: True

1- Cara has won five Grand Slam women's doubles titles in her career: Wimbledon 2004, 2005, and 2007; Australian Open 2007; and US Open 2008 and many other tennis tournaments. 2- Charlene was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia. She moved later to South Africa and won several gold medals in swimming for her adopted country.

She became Her Serene Highness when she married Prince Albert of Monaco. 3- Nick has been a remarkable white Zimbabwean golfer, winning dozens of international prices all over the world.

He settled in Florida USA.

Answer: Whenwes

Today, a white Zimbabwean outside his country and who is nostalgic for that era is known as a "Rhodie". These nostalgic "Rhodesians" are also sometimes referred to as "Whenwes", because of the nostalgia of "When We Were In Rhodesia" and the implication of the "good life we had there".

This phrase is often heard in conversations and is sometimes an opening phrase for a wide variety of topics where a "Rhodie" is taking part of.