Livingstone, I Presume Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

Perhaps the most well-known of the Livingstone locales, Livingstone, Zambia was named after the famed explorer because he was the first European explorer to visit this part of the world due to his missionary work in Africa in the nineteenth century. The city became the capital of the territory in 1907 as part of what would become an entire Livingstone District on Zambia's southern border. Nonetheless Zambia, then part of Northern Rhodesia, inevitably shifted its capital to Lusaka in the mid-1930s. Livingstone would inevitably regain popularity as a natural tourist destination.

Answer: Zimbabwe

While the Zambian monument was erected in 2005 at the point where Livingstone first took a look at the falls, a statue was actually placed on the Zimbabwe side in 1934. Livingstone, the first European to set eyes on the wonder, claimed that "[s]cenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight." Despite the memorials to Livingstone at these spots, the Livingstone Museum is in the city of Livingstone while Livingstone Memorial is on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamp where Livingstone died in the village of Ilala in 1873.

Answer: Malawi

Sure enough, Livingstonia, while a bit of a distance from the Zambian Livingstone, was founded by the Free Church of Scotland's missionary representatives, though a fair bit of time after Livingstone's death (about two decades later). Located only a short distance from Lake Malawi in the country's northern stretch, Livingstonia was founded by Dr. Robert Laws until the region became the Nyasaland Protectorate.

The town is adjacent to the verdant grasslands of Nyika National Park which stretches into Zambia to the West.

Answer: Kipengere Range

As the Kipengere Range stretches northward from Lake Malawi into Tanzania, it runs along the East African Rift, creating a range of plateau-like mountains that have, since their exploration by visiting European Missionaries, been lush and verdant. Close to the small city of Mbeya, the range is, for the most part, protected by the Tanzanian government as part of its national park system (placed in the borders of Kitulo National Park).

It's home to a number of endemic species, some of which are severely endangered primates like the Kipunji.

Answer: River rapids

Although the name Livingstone Falls was given to this set of large rapids on the Congo River in the late 19th century, Dr. Livingstone himself never visited this part of Africa and never actually saw what was named for him. These rapids, downriver from what was once known as Stanley Pool (though it's now Pool Malebo), stretch for over two hundred miles downstream, descending frequently to drop the river nearly a third of a kilometer lower towards the sea. Because of how this stretch of the river flows, it's technically a waterfall.

The start of this stretch of river is close to Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, and its existence is part of the reason early railroads were placed where they are in the country.

Answer: Stone Town, Zanzibar

Built in the 1850s and 1860s, Livingstone House became a resting spot for a number of European explorers making their way across the continent from west to east, and at its spot in Stone Town on the island of Zanzibar, it marks the Indian Ocean coast-- basically the end of the line.

It was the last embarkment point for Livingstone before he headed back towards Zambia, but it was also a temporary home for fellow explorers Henry Morton Stanley, James Cameron, John Hanning Speke, and Captain Sir Richard Burton.

After being purchased by the government in the 1940s it became a research lab and, eventually, a tourism headquarters.

Answer: Glasgow

Although Livingstone spent most of his later life in Africa he was born in Blantyre, Scotland, only a short distance from Glasgow, so it's unsurprising that he's memorialized in a number of ways in the city. The University of Strathclyde, of which Livingstone was a graduate when it was the Andersonian Institute, created the David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability to house a number of its engineering courses. Livingstone Tower was, likewise, erected on the university grounds as a high-rise administrative structure.

It was built in the 1960s, going on one hundred years since his death. It's also one of the closest structures named after Livingstone to the location of his final resting place in Westminster Abbey.

Answer: The Rockies

The Livingstone Mountains of Alberta are southwest of Calgary and west of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta and they stretch to the edge of the Canada-U.S. border. The most famous mountain in the region is likely Thunder Mountain which, when ascended by Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century, became the first Canadian Rocky mountain to be ascended by someone from the Old World.

There has since been a trail put in place for hikers. There's also a small river to the west called Livingstone River.

Answer: California

While the San Joaquin Valley contains cities like Fresno, Bakersfield, and Modesto, Livingston is closest to Merced, its county seat, and only a short distance from Yosemite National Park. Although the town's history dates back to the 1870s (and, thus, around the time of Livingstone), it was never incorporated as a town until the 1920s.

It was named back in the nineteenth century though, and the only reason it wasn't called 'Livingstone' is because of an early clerical error...you know-- just the type of error you never fix because it's a happy accident. Dr. Livingstone never visited it, nor did he set foot on the western hemisphere.

Answer: The western tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Livingston Island is among the South Shetland Islands on Antarctica's far west edge, making it closer to Argentina and the south tip of South America than anywhere else. Weirdly, it was not named after Dr. Livingstone as it was first discovered in the 1820s; our Livingstone would've been a young boy. Most tourists visiting Antarctica visit this location or somewhere further along the archipelago. An isolated place like this, however, goes to show that explorers, at one time or another, were held to great esteem around the globe. Livingstone may not have explored beyond the African continent, but we may presume (actually) that his travels encouraged others to step foot into the great unknown.