Question: What is the minority religion?
Answer: Christian (mostly Roman Catholic)

Question: What Islamic organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

Question: What Portuguese organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: Community of Portuguese Language Countries

Question: What West African organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: Economic Community of West African States

Question: What South Atlantic organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone

Question: What Latin organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?
Answer: the Latin Union

Question: What area was known as the Slave Coast?
Answer: Portuguese Guinea

Question: Who exported African slaves to the western hemisphere?
Answer: Europeans

Question: What kingdom was Guinea-Bissau once a part of?
Answer: Gabu

Question: How long did the Mali Empire persist?
Answer: until the 18th century

Question: Who traded slaves into the Middle East?
Answer: Arabs

Question: When was Alvise Cadamosto's voyage?
Answer: 1455

Question: When was Eustache de la Fosse's voyage?
Answer: 1479–1480

Question: What was the name of the Portuguese explorer?
Answer: Diogo Cão

Question: What river did Diogo Cao reach in the 1480's?
Answer: Congo River

Question: What country is about 4200 km from Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Angola

Question: What areas were the first places colonized by the Portuguese?
Answer: the rivers and coast

Question: When did the Portuguese first set up trading posts in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 16th century

Question: When did the Portuguese explore the interior of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Who controlled the inland trade in Guinea-Bissau during this time?
Answer: local African rulers

Question: What ports were the Portuguese restricted to?
Answer: Bissau and Cacheu

Question: Who tried to establish a rival foothold at Bolama?
Answer: the British

Question: When was a rival foothold  attempted at Bolama?
Answer: the 1790s

Question: Who regarded Bolama as their own in the 19th century?
Answer: the Portuguese

Question: What other area did the Portuguese regard as their special territory?
Answer: part of present South Senegal

Question: What rival did the Portuguese fend off in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: the British

Question: What group started an armed rebellion in Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)

Question: When did the armed rebellion begin?
Answer: 1956

Question: Who was the leader of the armed rebellion?
Answer: Amílcar Cabral

Question: Who supplied doctors and technicians to the rebels?
Answer: Cuba

Question: When was Cabral assassinated?
Answer: January 1973

Question: When was independence declared?
Answer: 24 September 1973

Question: What date was independence considered universal? 
Answer: 25 April 1974

Question: What event caused the recognition to be universal?
Answer: socialist-inspired military coup

Question: Where did a coup take place?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Who was overthrown in the coup?
Answer: Lisbon's Estado Novo regime

Question: Who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Luís Cabral

Question: How many Guinean soldiers did the PAIGC kill?
Answer: thousands

Question: Where did one of the massacres occur?
Answer: Bissorã

Question: When did the PAIGC acknowledge the executions?
Answer: 29 November 1980

Question: Where were the soldiers buried?
Answer: Cumerá, Portogole, and Mansabá

Question: Who controlled the country prior to 1984?
Answer: a revolutionary council

Question: When were the first multi-party elections held?
Answer: 1994

Question: What led to the Guinea-Bissau Civil War?
Answer: An army uprising

Question: When was the president ousted?
Answer: June 1999

Question: Who was elected president in the 2000 election?
Answer: Kumba Ialá

Question: When was a military coup conducted?
Answer: September 2003

Question: Who did the military arrest?
Answer: Ialá

Question: When were legislative elections held?
Answer: March 2004

Question: When did the mutiny of military factions occur?
Answer: October 2004

Question: Who died in the mutiny?
Answer: the head of the armed forces

Question: After the coup, when were presidential elections held?
Answer: June 2005

Question: At that time, who ran claiming to be the legitimate president of the country?
Answer: Ialá

Question: Who won the election?
Answer: João Bernardo Vieira

Question: Who did Vieira beat in a runoff election?
Answer: Malam Bacai Sanhá

Question: When was Vieira, a former president, deposed?
Answer: 1999

Question: What was reported to be entering the country prior to the election?
Answer: arms

Question: What type of "disturbances" were reported during the campaign?
Answer: attacks on government offices

Question: How did foreign election monitors describe the election?
Answer: "calm and organized"

Question: What year was the election held?
Answer: 2005

Question: Where the election monitors local, or foreign?
Answer: foreign

Question: When was the parliamentary election held?
Answer: November 2008

Question: Who won a strong majority in the election?
Answer: PAIGC

Question: How many seats did PAIGC win in the election?
Answer: 67

Question: Whose residence was attacked by members of the armed forces?
Answer: President Vieira's

Question: When did the attack on the residence occur?
Answer: November 2008

Question: Who was assassinated on 2 March 2009?
Answer: Vieira

Question: Who was assassinated on 1 March 2009?
Answer: General Batista Tagme Na Wai

Question: Who pledged to respect the constitutional order of succession?
Answer: Military leaders

Question: Who was appointed interim president?
Answer: Raimundo Pereira

Question: Who won the election in June 2009?
Answer: Malam Bacai Sanhá

Question: When was a coup d'etat staged?
Answer: 12 April 2012

Question: Who staged the coup d'etat?
Answer: members of the country's military

Question: Who assumed control of the country after the coup d'etat?
Answer: Mamadu Ture Kuruma

Question: Who did Kuruma negotiate with?
Answer: opposition parties

Question: What was Kuruma's former position?
Answer: vice chief of staff

Question: What country is listed as a republic?
Answer: Guinea-Bissau

Question: When had the government been highly centralized?
Answer: In the past

Question: When was multi-party governance established?
Answer: mid-1991

Question: Who is the head of state?
Answer: president

Question: Who is the head of government?
Answer: prime minister

Question: How many members compose the legislature?
Answer: 100

Question: Is the legislature bicameral or unicameral?
Answer: unicameral

Question: How long do members serve in the legislature?
Answer: four-year term

Question: What is the head of the judicial system?
Answer: Tribunal Supremo da Justiça (Supreme Court)

Question: How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
Answer: nine

Question: Who was elected as President in 2005?
Answer: João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira

Question: What body made the declaration of who won the presidency?
Answer: CNE (Comité Nacional de Eleições)

Question: How long was it since Vieira had held the office of president?
Answer: six years

Question: What year did Vieira first assume power?
Answer: 1980

Question: Whose government did Vieira topple in 1980?
Answer: Luís Cabral

Question: What was NOT triggered by Vieira's death?
Answer: widespread violence

Question: When was Vieira killed?
Answer: 2 March 2009

Question: In the 2009 election, who was the candidate of the PAIGC?
Answer: Sanhá

Question: In the 2009 election, who was the candidate of the PRS?
Answer: Kumba Ialá

Question: Who won the 2009 election?
Answer: Sanhá

Question: When did President Sanha die?
Answer: 2012

Question: What party did Sanha belong to?
Answer: PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)