Liberia Trivia!

In exactly 2 months from today I will be boarding a plane for Liberia! When I talk to people about my trip I find out that most of them know very little about Liberia, if anything. In the spirit of my favorite hobby (hosting trivia shows) I will try to make learning about Liberia a little fun.

First, we must establish where exactly it is. Liberia is on the West Coast of Africa. In the bottom picture it is a small yellow country on the left.

TRIVIA TIME!!

Liberia means "Land of the Free" and was founded by freed slaves from what U.S. states?

South Carolina and Georgia. The Gullah community in this area of the U.S. has a lot of African influences but in turn, when resettlement happened in Liberia, a lot of American influences went along as well. The U.S. and Liberia have a lot of connections.

Monrovia is the capitol of Liberia. What U.S. president is it named after?

James Monroe, our 5th president.

The Liberian flag (also red, white, and blue) is similar to the American flag except it only has how many stripes and how many stars?

11 strips and 1 star (I told you there are a lot of correlations.)

Even though English is the national language, how many people actually speak it?

One-fifth! There are 16 indiegnous languages and most people speak one of those.

I leave you with my favorite factoid...

Liberia is 43,000 sq. mi. in size which is a little larger than what U.S. State?

My home state of O-HI-O!!! (That, of course, is said in a singing manner.)

If you'd like to read more, here is where I got most of the information as well as here.