NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 22, 2022

Q: Tanzania is installing high-speed internet on Mount Kilimanjaro, allowing adventurers climbing Africa’s highest peak to share their ascents with family, friends and Instagram followers in real time. Where is the east African nation of Tanzania?

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Q: Some in Tanzania welcome the move as a boost to the tourism industry, but others criticize the government for not doing more to extend service to the 78% of its impoverished people who have no internet. Which of Tanzania’s neighbors ranks as the poorest nation in the world?

A. Burundi

B. Kenya

C. Rwanda

D. Uganda

A. When you add up the value of all the goods and services produced in one year in Burundi, it works out to only $700 for each person in the country. That gross domestic product (GDP) per person is the lowest in the world, lower than the $2,600 a year in Tanzania or $60,200 in the United States.

Q: Tourists pay anywhere from $1,000 to $7,000 to climb Kilimanjaro, a fortune in a country where 68% of the people get by on less than $1.25 a day. Kilimanjaro was still a growing volcano when the first members of the human family appeared in the region, about how long ago?

A. 4 million years

B. 2 million years

C. 400,000 years

D. 200,000 years

B. Homo erectus, an extinct species of archaic human, showed up in Tanzania about 2 million years ago. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, arrived there by about 200,000 years ago.

Q: Three of Africa’s Great Lakes are partly within Tanzania, including Lake Victoria, the second-largest fresh water lake in the world. What is the largest fresh water lake by area?

A. Huron

B. Michigan

C. Superior

D. Tanganyika

C. Superior is the largest fresh water lake by area, followed by Victoria, Huron, Michigan and Tanganyika, which also is partly in Tanzania. Tanganyika is much deeper than the other lakes and actually contains more fresh water than Victoria or any of the North American Great Lakes. But, the world’s biggest lake by both area and volume is the Caspian Sea, a salt water lake in Central Asia.

Q: Most of Tanzania was known as Tanganyika before it merged with what other country?

A. Malawi

B. Mozambique

C. Zambia

D. Zanzibar

D. Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged in 1964 to become the Republic of Tanzania – a combination of the two names. Zanzibar was a group of Indian Ocean islands near the coast of what was Tanganyika. Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia are southern neighbors of Tanzania.