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How Well Do You Know Africa?

June 20, 2012 by theriskyshift in Quiz with 4 Comments

Let’s find out… good luck!

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Choose one answer per question and when you’re finished click submit. Proud of your score? Challenge your friends! For a list of the answers, click here.

1) What is the name of the largest desert in Africa?

Gobi
Kalahari
Sahara
Arabian
2) With which country does Egypt share a border?

Lesotho
Sierra Leone
Algeria
Libya
3) What is the capital of Nigeria?

Athens
Abuja
Kingston
Luanda
4) What is the second longest river in Africa?

Nile
Zambezi
Niger
Congo
5) ‘His Excellency President for Life, Field marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular’. Who gave Idi Amin this title?

Forest Whitaker
Idi Amin himself
Milton Obote
Thabo Mbeki
6) What is the most widely spoken language in Africa?

English
Arabic
French
Portuguese
7) Which Ethiopian Emporer is considered the messiah by Rastafaris?

Iyasu V
Amha Selassie
Haile Selassie
Asfaw Wossen
8) How many countries are there in Africa?

47
48
53
54
9) Which former terrorist assumed power of an African country on 10th May 1994?

Charles Taylor
Nelson Mandela
Robert Mugabe
Idi Amin
10) What does the ancient Greek word ‘Aphrike’ mean?

Sunny
Without cold
Boundless
The wide expanse
11) Who is the current President of Rwanda?

Paul Kagame
Ian Khama
Joyce Banda
Vladimir Putin
12) How many non-island African countries does the equator pass through?

4
5
6
7
13) Over the last 10 years which country has been the most popular tourist destination in Africa?

South Africa
Kenya
Morocco
Egypt
14) When did Mussolini’s Italy invade the Ethiopian Empire (Abyssinia)?

1920
1925
1930
1935
15) When did the Ethiopian Empire regain its indepence?

1937
1941
1945
1949
16) In which country does the ancient trading town of Timbuktu inhabit?

Mali
Mauritania
Burkina Faso
Liberia
17) Whose self-immolation catalysed the ‘Arab Spring’?

Mohamed Bouazizi
Thich Quang Duc
Mohsen Bouterfif
Maamir Lotfi
18) In which country is Lake Volta, the largest reservoir in the world by surface area, found?

Nigeria
Niger
Togo
Ghana
19) ‘I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots’. Whose words are these?

Anwar Sadat
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
20) What is the literal translation of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram’s name?

Western education is sinful
Secularism must be destroyed
Death to the Great Satan
Death to the West


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  1. avatar

    Chris PeysJune 20, 2012 at 3:05 pmReply

    apparently, not well enough ….

  2. avatar

    theriskyshift.comJune 20, 2012 at 3:06 pmReply

    It’s tough… what did you get?

  3. avatar

    sendawaythetigersJune 20, 2012 at 8:38 pmReply

    13 out of 20 do I win some Lynx Africa?

  4. avatar

    theriskyshift.comJune 20, 2012 at 8:52 pmReply

    You win a slap on the back… that’s a good score!

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