Question: What kind of turnout did the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights experience in the 2009 elections?
Answer: very low

Question: What kind of political system has existed in Congo-Brazzaville since the '90s?
Answer: multi-party

Question: Which party does Sassou belong to?
Answer: Congolese Labour Party

Question: What is the French term for Sassou's political party?
Answer: Parti Congolais du Travail

Question: What has Sassou's regime attempted to censor?
Answer: corruption revelations

Question: What country found bank accounts and real estate owned by the Sassou regime?
Answer: France

Question: When did Sassou reveal that there would be a vote to alter the 2002 constitution?
Answer: March 27, 2015

Question: Which term did the new constitution allow Sassou to pursue?
Answer: third

Question: Who controlled the media in the Congo in 2008
Answer: the government

Question: How many government TV stations exist?
Answer: one

Question: How many smaller stations exist that are not government-run?
Answer: 10

Question: Who is considered to own members of the Pygmies?
Answer: Bantus

Question: The treatment of Pygmies has been compared to the treatment of what?
Answer: pets

Question: When did the government of the Congo pass a law to assist indigenous people?
Answer: December 30, 2010

Question: Between which two lines of latitude is the Congo located?
Answer: 4°N and 5°S

Question: Between which two lines of longitude is the Congo located?
Answer: 11° and 19°E

Question: What ocean connects to the Congo?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: Which country lies southwest of the Congo?
Answer: Cabinda

Question: What is another name for Cabinda?
Answer: Angola

Question: What is the capital of the Congo?
Answer: Brazzaville

Question: On what river can Brazzaville be found?
Answer: Congo River

Question: What lies directly across the Congo River from Brazzaville?
Answer: Kinshasa

Question: What country does Kinshasa serve as capital of?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question: What kind of terrain is found in the southwest part of the Congo?
Answer: coastal plain

Question: Which river serves as drainage for the southwest plain of the Congo?
Answer: Kouilou-Niari River

Question: The middle of the country features what kind of geography?
Answer: plateau

Question: What areas are facing pressure to be used for commercial gain?
Answer: Forests

Question: On what major line of latitude is the Congo located?
Answer: Equator

Question: What is the average temperature in the Congo when the sun is up?
Answer: 24 °C (75 °F)

Question: What is the average temperature range in the Congo during the night time?
Answer: 16 °C (61 °F) and 21 °C (70 °F)

Question: When does the Congo experience dry season?
Answer: June to August

Question: Which group studied gorillas in 2006-07?
Answer: Wildlife Conservation Society

Question: What region is home to the gorillas studied by the Wildlife Conservation Society?
Answer: Sangha Region

Question: What was responsible for maintaining the separation between the gorillas and humans?
Answer: inhospitable swamps

Question: What is the focus of the Congo's industrial production?
Answer: Petroleum

Question: What are two issues in the Congolese government?
Answer: budget problems and overstaffing

Question: What did petroleum production replace as the focus of the economy?
Answer: forestry

Question: What percentage of the Congo's gross domestic product did petroleum account for in 2008?
Answer: 65%

Question: What percentage of exported goods did oil account for in 2008?
Answer: 92%

Question: What did income from petroleum allow the government to fund in the early '80s?
Answer: large-scale development projects

Question: What was the Congo's annual increase in gross domestic product in the early '80s?
Answer: 5%

Question: By how much were Franc Zone currencies devalued in January of 1994?
Answer: 50%

Question: How much inflation did the Congo experience as a result of the devaluation of the Franc?
Answer: 46%

Question: What caused reform efforts to cease in 1997?
Answer: civil war

Question: What are two reasons why the economy was not able to progress following the civil war?
Answer: slumping oil prices and the resumption of armed conflict

Question: When did military conflict resume in the Congo?
Answer: December 1998

Question: What are two economic issues faced by the Congolese government?
Answer: stimulating recovery and reducing poverty

Question: What two exports has the Congo begun producing recently?
Answer: Natural gas and diamonds

Question: When was the Congo allowed back into the Kimberley Process?
Answer: 2007

Question: What precious metals and minerals have yet to be utilized in the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: base metal, gold, iron and phosphate

Question: What business organization is the Congo a member of?
Answer: Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa

Question: How much land did the Congolese government agree to lease to South Africans in 2009?
Answer: 200,000 hectares

Question: What forms of transport are available in the Congo?
Answer: land, air and water

Question: When was the Congo's train system built?
Answer: 1930s

Question: What is a common destination outside of Africa for Congolese airlines?
Answer: Paris

Question: On what ocean is a major port located?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: In what part of the country can most of the Congo's citizens be found?
Answer: southwest

Question: How long is the track connecting Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire?
Answer: 534-kilometre (332 mi)

Question: How many languages are used in the Congo?
Answer: 62

Question: What is the most populous ethnicity in the Congo?
Answer: Kongo

Question: How much of the population is constituted by Pygmies?
Answer: 2%

Question: What percentage of the population of the Congo is Boulangui?
Answer: 12%

Question: Prior to the civil war in '97, how many non-Africans lived in the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: about 9,000

Question: What was the dominant nationality among Europeans living in the Congo prior to the civil war?
Answer: French

Question: How many Americans live in the Congo?
Answer: Around 300

Question: What is the most commonly practiced religion in the Congo?
Answer: Catholics

Question: What percentage of Congolese citizens identify as Awakening Lutherans?
Answer: 22.3%

Question: What portion of the Congolese population is Protestant?
Answer: 19.9%

Question: What is the percentage of Muslims living in the Congo?
Answer: 1.6%

Question: Who form the majority of Islamic residents of the Congo?
Answer: foreign workers

Question: How much of the gross domestic product was spent on public health in 2004?
Answer: 8.9%

Question: What was the overall incidence of HIV or AIDS throughout the 15 to 49 year old population?
Answer: 2.8%

Question: How much was spent per capita on health in 2004 as measured in US dollars?
Answer: $30

Question: For every 100,000 people, how many phyisicians were there in the Congo in the early '00s?
Answer: 20

Question: As measured in 2010, how many deaths occurred for every 100,000 live births in the Congo?
Answer: 560

Question: What does FGM stand for?
Answer: Female genital mutilation

Question: How many infants die for every 1,000 live births?
Answer: 59.34

Question: Public schooling is required for people under what age?
Answer: 16

Question: What was the school enrollment rate in 2005?
Answer: 44%

Question: What do students who finish 13 years of schooling receive?
Answer: baccalaureate

Question: What language is used in Congolese schools?
Answer: French

Question: What branch of government does the prime minister lead?
Answer: executive

Question: What group is the prime minister usually in charge of?
Answer: cabinet

Question: In some political models like semi-presidential systems, what does the prime minister manage?
Answer: civil service