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Eight easy-going questions about the things Tanzania is best known for. Perfect to play together, whatever your age.
Safari first-timer 0–3 · Savanna explorer 4–6 · At home in Tanzania 7–8
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Kilimanjaro is a sleeping volcano about 5,895 metres high, and although it lies only about 300 km south of the equator, its summit still carries the largest glaciers in Africa. Mount Meru, about 70 km to the west, is the second-highest mountain in Tanzania.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The name Tanzania was made from the first parts of the names Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which joined together as one country in 1964. Zanzibar's old town, Stone Town, is famous for its richly carved wooden doors, while Madagascar, far to the south-east, is a country of its own.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Mbz1 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The name Serengeti is often said to come from the Maasai word siringet, meaning 'endless plains' or 'the place where the land runs on forever'. The park was created in 1940, while Kruger National Park, another famous place for a safari, lies far to the south in South Africa.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Lake Victoria is the biggest lake in Africa by area and the largest tropical lake in the world. The British explorer John Hanning Speke named it after Queen Victoria in 1858, although people around it already had their own names for it, such as Nyanza.
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Tanzanite was discovered in the Mererani Hills in northern Tanzania in 1967, and it is still found only in a mining area about 7 km long and 2 km wide. Its lovely colour comes from tiny amounts of a metal called vanadium.
Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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The baobab's bare branches look like roots sticking up into the air, and an old legend says the gods pulled it up and threw it back into the ground upside down. Tanzania's Tarangire National Park is famous for its many baobabs and elephants, and some baobabs live for more than a thousand years.
Photo: Ferdinand Reus from Arnhem, Holland, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Jane Goodall began her work at Gombe in 1960 and gave the chimpanzees names instead of numbers, such as David Greybeard. She saw him poke grass stalks into termite mounds to 'fish' for termites, which challenged the old belief that only humans make and use tools.
Photo: U.S. Department of State from United States, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The Masai giraffe is Tanzania's national animal and the largest kind of giraffe, which makes it the tallest land animal on Earth. Its grabbing tongue can be up to 50 cm long, perfect for reaching leaves that other animals cannot get to.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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