NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 03, 2015

Q: The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, a government official said. Where is Zimbabwe?

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Q: While the death of Cecil caused outrage on social media, many in Zimbabwe were unmoved. "Are you saying that all this noise is about a dead lion? Lions are killed all the time in this country," said a street vendor in the nation's capital . . .

A. Harare

B. Kampala

C. Nairobi

D. Pretoria

A. Harare is Zimbabwe's capital and largest city with an estimated population of 1.6 million people. When first asked for comment about Cecil, the nation's acting information minister asked, “What lion?”

Q: The dentist from Minnesota spent $50,000 to hunt the lion which was being monitored by researchers from the nation that once ruled Zimbabwe as a colony. Which nation?

A. Belgium

B. Britain

C. France

D. Germany

B. Britain once ruled Zambia and three of its neighbor states. Cecil was being monitored by Britain's Oxford University as part of a study into lion conservation.

Q: Since 1980, Zimbabwe has been ruled by governments headed by Robert Mugabe and suffered from staggering inflation and high unemployment. What was Zimbabwe called before 1980?

A. Angola

B. Botswana

C. Mozambique

D. Rhodesia

D. For most Zimbabweans the lion's name is more associated with the British imperialist diamond digger Cecil John Rhodes, serving as a reminder that the country once bore the name Rhodesia.

Q: Hunting, and to a large extent, conservation, remains a rich "white man's game" throughout southern Africa. Rhodesia and which of its neighbors were ruled by white minority governments after declaring independence from Britain in the 1960s?

A . Botswana

B. Mozambique

C. South Africa

D. Zambia

C. Zimbabwe – the former Rhodesia - borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east. Rhodesia's white minority government gave up power in 1979 after a 15-year  guerrilla war with black nationalist forces. South Africa's government ended its segregationist apartheid rule in the 1990s.