Geography / History
Coffee
Tuko Pumoja
Conflict
Mixed Bag
100
Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, is home to over 25% of world's remaining population of this animal.
What is the mountain gorilla?
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For more info, check out "Virunga" film on Netflix!
100
This species of coffee (on the right) is thought to have originated in DRC. (Hint: it's not Arabica!)
What is Robusta?
100
Tuko Pamoja means this in Swahili.
What is, "We are together"?
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Congo Initiative is part of a global community of advocates supporting Congolese-led UCBC, or Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo, which has over 800 graduates and counting since its founding in 2007.
CI's monthly giving program is called "Pamoja Partners" More here: https://congoinitiative.org/pamojapartners/
100
This country hosts the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping mission in the world, with over 18,000 soldiers from approximately 50 different countries.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
100
Congo's flag has these three colors.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
200
The name of the the deepest river in the world, and Africa's second-longest river, carrying 1.25 million cubic feet of water—more than 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools—into the Atlantic Ocean every second.
What is the Congo River?
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Check out Anthony Bourdain's Congo episode as part of his "Parts Unknown" series where he wrestles with how to cook a tough old chicken on a boat down the Congo river: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2849384/
200
The name of the coffee process when the whole coffee cherry is dried in tact before milling.
What is natural processing? (also called dry processing)
More about coffee processing: https://blog.bluebottlecoffee.com/posts/coffee-processing-basics
200
Name one of the ways or projects (in addition to offering university degrees) that UCBC is doing to fulfil its mission of "being transformed to transform".
What is:
-Justice Advocacy
-Land reform
-Literacy and Vocational Training
-Counseling services
-Solar
-Primary and Secondary Education
-Gender Equity Initiatives / Women's Voices
200
Since the 1960s, the Congolese have endured over two decades of armed conflict with over [X] million people dead due to war-related causes, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II.
What is 5.4? (5 million accepted)
200
This city in DRC is the world's largest French-speaking city, at over 12 million residents.
What is Kinshasa?
300
On February 5, 1885, this man established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, he privately owned the region until 1908. An estimated 5 to 10 million Congolese died under his reign.
Who was King Leopold II of Belgium?
For a detailed account of Congo's history under King Leopold, check out "King Leopold's Ghost" 
300
Coffee is grown between these two latitudes.
What are the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn?
Eastern DRC's location and elevation is ideal for growing coffee. Check out Café Kivu, formed by UCBC alum! https://cafekivu.com/
300
Nuru (Swahili for "light"), founded by UCBC alumni, and deployed DRC's first solar mini-grid in 2017, has a goal of connecting [X] million clients to solar power by Sep 24, 2024.
What is 5?
For more information, check out Nuru's website here: https://nuru.cd/
300
Southern DRC supplies approximately 75% annually of the global supply of this mineral, which is found in electric vehicle batteries.
What is cobalt?
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Check out the new book "Cobalt Red" to learn more: https://www.amazon.com/Cobalt-Red-Blood-Congo-Powers-ebook/dp/B09Y462D6Z
300
This former NBA All-Star who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1997, he founded a humanitarian foundation to improve the health, education and quality of life for the people in the DRC.
Who is Dikembe Mutombo?
400
From 1971 to 1997 General Mobutu Sese Seko, running a one-party totalitarian military dictatorship, renamed the country the Republic of [X] to give the country what he thought was a more authentic African name. When he fled into exile in 1997, Laurent-Désiré Kabila renamed the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is Zaire?
400
The name of one of these two layers, located between the skin and the parchment of a coffee cherry.
What is the pulp?
What is the mucilage?
400
More than 42% of kids have never been to [X] in the provinces of North and South Kivu (UCBC is located in North Kivu)
What is school?
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In 2022, 300+ children received a primary education through UCBC's education initiatives and community partnerships.
For more information check out Académie Bilingue du Congo, the primary school affiliated with UCBC.
https://congoinitiative.org/abc/
400
What event in 1994 was a major contributor to The First Congo War (1996–1997), also nicknamed Africa's First World War?
What is the Rwanda genocide (also known as the genocide against the Tutsi)?
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Check out this 15-minute video that dives into the history of Congo's second war (1998-2003), Africa's Great war, the deadliest conflict since WWI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XuRsZGmC9o
400
Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba (14 June 1949 – 24 April 2016), known professionally as Papa Wemba was a Congolese musician and was one of the most popular musicians of his time in Africa. He was dubbed the "King of [X] Rock"
500
After gaining its independence from Belgium in the year [X], the CIA conspired to kill Patrice Lamumba, the country's first democratically elected Prime Minister, due to fears of him being too closely associated with communism.
What is 1960?
(Note: Lumumba, for his part, denied being a communist, stating that he found colonialism and communism to be equally deplorable, and publicly professed his personal preference for neutrality between the East and West.)
500
The number of pounds (in thousands of pounds) of green coffee that can ship in a 20' container (within 5,000lbs).
What is 44,000lbs? (or around 20 metric tons. That's over 320 x 60kg bags!)
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Fun fact: As of March 2023, the MSC Irene is one of the world's biggest container ships, holding up to 24,346 TEU (20' equivalent units). If every unit was filled with 20 metric tons of coffee, it'd be carrying over 1 BILLION lbs of coffee!
500
This Congolese doctor (left), along with Naia Murad, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against sexual violence in DRC.
Who is Dr. Denis Mukwege?
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For more info, check out the excellent film 'City of Joy' https://cityofjoycongo.org/city-joy-film/
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At Bethseda Counseling center at UCBC, over 1,100 people benefited from grief and trauma counseling, psychosocial car, and other activities in 2022.
500
DRC supplies 67% annually of the global supply of this conflict mineral, which is found in most consumer electrics.
What is Tantalum?
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Watch this 9 min video to learn more: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLvHkRxqwWHvkQLpsbFQNHncbmcnzfg?compose=CllgCJfscjxWKBpHMvdBjsdJjqrZDgkzldsDHLSLksXwTkgmGzFGDRVrKSXlpSRMSzbZwsgrSQq&projector=1
500
The number of countries that border DRC.
(Daily double if you can name all of them!)
What are 9? Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
