Question: In December 2001, how many elephants were seen in the vicinity of the Gash River?
Answer: about 30

Question: What species did the elephants at the Gash River seem to form a symbiotic relationship with?
Answer: olive baboons

Question: Which animal herds were thought to have fallen victim to the war of independence?
Answer: elephant

Question: How many ecoregions make up Eritrea?
Answer: three

Question: What is the highest point in Eritrea?
Answer: Emba Soira

Question: Where is Emba Soira located?
Answer: in the center of Eritrea

Question: How high is Emba Soira?
Answer: 3,018 meters (9,902 ft) above sea level

Question: What is the probably location in Eritrea where three tectonic plates are pulling away from each other?
Answer: The Afar Triangle or Danakil Depression

Question: How many elephants are believed to be left in Eritrea?
Answer: around 100

Question: What type of snakes are common in Gash Barka?
Answer: deadly

Question: Where in Eritrea can puff adder and red spitting cobra be found?
Answer: widespread

Question: Where in Eritrea are marine species such as dolphin, turtles and manta ray found?
Answer: coastal areas

Question: Which dog, previously found in Eritrea, is now considered extirpated from the entire country?
Answer: African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)

Question: According to Human Rights Watch, how do the human rights in Eritrea compare to the rest of the world?
Answer: among the worst

Question: According to a 500-page UN Human Rights Council report, what was widespread behavior by state officials in Eritrea?
Answer: sexual harassment, rape and sexual servitude

Question: What type of state government exists in Eritrea?
Answer: a one-party state

Question: According to many western countries, why have Eritrean authorities detained an unknown number of people?
Answer: for their political activism

Question: In what year was the United Nations Human Rights Council report written?
Answer: 2015

Question: Why have Eritrean government officials participated in numerous meetings with NGO representatives?
Answer: In an attempt at reform

Question: What did the Eritrean government ban in 2007?
Answer: female genital mutilation

Question: What new movement is aimed at opening dialogue between the government and opposition?
Answer: Citizens for Democratic Rights in Eritrea

Question: Who, along with ordinary citizens, makes up the Citizens for Democratic Rights in Eritrea?
Answer: some people close to the government

Question: What are the main concerns Eritreans speak about in terms of female circumcision?
Answer: health concerns and individual freedom

Question: In the 2014 Press Freedom Index, what organization ranked the media environment in Eritrea as the worse of 178 countries?
Answer: Reporters Without Borders

Question: How did Reporters Without Borders rank the media environment of Eritrea compared to totalitarian North Korea?
Answer: just below

Question: What type of media has been banned from Eritrea since 2001?
Answer: Independent

Question: According to the BBC, which African country is the only one that has no privately owned news media?
Answer: Eritrea

Question: According to Reporters Without Borders, where doesn't a single foreign news correspondent live?
Answer: Asmara

Question: Under which program did Eritrea develp and repair its transportation infrastructure during the war?
Answer: Warsay Yika'alo

Question: How long was the coastal highway between Massawa and Asseb?
Answer: more than 500 km

Question: What type of locomotives are sometimes used on the Eritrean Railway to cater to groups of enthusiasts?
Answer: Steam

Question: What is the capital of Eritrea?
Answer: Asmara

Question: Which railway was rehabilitated under the Warsay Yika'alo Program?
Answer: Eritrean

Question: What is the official language of Eritrea?
Answer: The nation has no official language

Question: What was the most widely spoken language in Eritrea in 2006?
Answer: Tigrinya

Question: What does the Constitution establish of all Eritrean languages?
Answer: equality

Question: What languages serve as de facto working languages in Eritrea?
Answer: Modern Standard Arabic and English

Question: What language is used in Eritrean university education and many technical fields?
Answer: English

Question: Which part of Eritrea's health care goals have they been most successful in?
Answer: child health

Question: What was the Eritrean life expectancy at birth in 1960?
Answer: 39.1

Question: What was the Eritrean life expectancy st birth in 2008?
Answer: 59.5

Question: Which practice was banned by the Eritrean government with claimes it is painful and has life-threatening health problems for women?
Answer: female genital mutilation

Question: How much did the National Malaria Protection Unit reduce malarial mortality by from 1998 - 2006?
Answer: 85%

Question: Where does the Italian influences on Eritrean cuisine come from?
Answer: its colonial history

Question: What is Eritrea's popular alcoholic beverage Mies made out of?
Answer: honey

Question: What food item did Italians bring to Eritrea during colonial times?
Answer: pasta

Question: How does 'Pasta al Sugo e Berbere' translate in English?
Answer: "Pasta with tomato sauce and berbere" (spice)

Question: What is the main food, influenced by Italy, eaten in Eritrea's capital today?
Answer: pasta

Question: What geographical location in Eritrea has largely shaped the culture of Eritrea?
Answer: Red Sea coast

Question: How many rounds is coffee served in during a coffee ceremony?
Answer: three

Question: What is one of the most recognizable parts of Eritran culture that can be offered when visiting friends as well as being a daily staple of life?
Answer: the coffee ceremony

Question: What do Eritrean's offer a person who declines coffee?
Answer: most likely tea

Question: What is the first round of the coffee ceremony called?
Answer: awel

Question: What country borders Eritrea in the west?
Answer: Sudan

Question: What country borders Eritrea in the south?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: What country borders Eritrea in the southeast?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: What extensive coastline makes up a portion of Eritrea's East border?
Answer: Red Sea

Question: What is the total area of the nation of Eritrea?
Answer: 117,600 km2 (45,406 sq mi)

Question: What is the best know musical genre amongst the Tigrinya?
Answer: guaila

Question: What is the Eritrean traditional instrument, the wata?
Answer: a distant/rudimentary cousin of the violin

Question: Who is the most popular Eritrean singing artist?
Answer: Helen Meles

Question: What is Helen Meles noted for?
Answer: her powerful voice and wide singing range

Question: Who, in Eritrea, have their own styles of music and  accompanying dance?
Answer: ethnic groups

Question: What was the Eritrean region known as during the Middle Ages?
Answer: Medri Bahri

Question: What is the English translation of Medri Bahri?
Answer: sea-land

Question: When was Eritrea annexed by Ethiopia?
Answer: 1953

Question: When did the Eritrean Liberation Front form?
Answer: 1960

Question: When did Eritrea gain independence?
Answer: following the 1993 referendum

Question: In 2010, what was conducted on mummified remains of baboons?
Answer: genetic

Question: Who was determined to be the closest match for the baboon mummies?
Answer: modern baboon specimens in Eritrea and Ethiopia

Question: What type of analysis did the scientists use to examine hairs from the 2 baboon mummies formerly preserved in the British Museum?
Answer: oxygen isotope analysis

Question: Where did the 2 baboons' mummified remains originate?
Answer: Punt

Question: Where did researchers suggest that Punt was located?
Answer: region that included eastern Ethiopia and all of Eritrea

Question: What  domain were the Eritrean highlands under after the decline of Aksum?
Answer: Bahr Negash ruled by the Bahr Negus