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Question	Answer	% Correct
What country was created after referendum in Sudan in 2011?	South Sudan	100%
What is the largest country in Africa by size?	Algeria	92%
Which Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view the Victoria Falls in 1855?	David Livingstone	92%
From which country Eritrea became independent in 1993?	Ethiopia	92%
In what body of water is Mauritius located?	Indian ocean	92%
Half of Botswana's territory lies in what desert?	Kalahari	92%
What was the former name of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1971 to 1997?	Zaire	92%
What is the official language of Egypt?	Arabic	83%
What is the name of mountain range spanning the north of Algeria?	Atlas	83%
What is the name of the strait between Red sea and Gulf of Aden?	Bab-el Mandeb	83%
Which European country colonized the Democratic Republic of Congo?	Belgium	83%
Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?	Burkina Faso	83%
What Spanish islands are located just off the coast of Morocco?	Canary	83%
What ethnic group is made up of Egyptian Christians?	Copts	83%
What is the former name of Benin?	Dahomey	83%
Afrikaans language of South Africa evolved from what European language?	Dutch	83%
From which country Gabon gained its independence in 1960?	France	83%
From which European country Algeria gained its independence in 1962?	France	83%
What country colonized Cameroon from 1884 to 1916, calling it Kamerun?	Germany	83%
Which European country colonized Namibia between 1884 and 1915?	Germany	83%
What is the name of the strait between Morocco and Spain?	Gibraltar	83%
What was the only color that appeared on the former flag of Libya from 1977 to 2011?	Green	83%
What is the name of the gulf of the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Gabon to Liberia?	Gulf of Guinea	83%
In which body of water is the island of Comoros located?	Indian ocean	83%
Which country controlled Eritrea between 1882–1936?	Italy	83%
There are three capital cities of South Africa. Which city is not the capital?	Johannesburg	83%
What is the second largest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro?	Kenya	83%
What is the name of the region of North Africa that includes Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia?	Maghreb	83%
There are only three sovereign monarchies in Africa. Which country is not monarchy?	Mali	83%
What country in Africa has the highest population?	Nigeria	83%
Which is the longest river in Africa?	Nile	83%
What country which completely surrounds Lesotho?	South Africa	83%
Which ecosystem does not exist in Africa?	Taiga	83%
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of which country?	Tanzania	83%
In which country is Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa located?	Tanzania	83%
From which country Botswana gained its independence in 1966?	United Kingdom	83%
Which is the largest lake in Africa?	Victoria	83%
What disputed territory is divided between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic?	Western Sahara	83%
Which two rivers merge in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, and form the Nile River?	White and Blue Nile	83%
Victoria Falls are located on the border between what two countries?	Zambia and Zimbabwe	83%
What is the most-spoken first language in Africa?	Arabic	75%
What is the name of Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa?	Ceuta	75%
Which African country has flag that is nearly identical to flag of Romania?	Chad	75%
What African river is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths in excess of 220 m?	Congo	75%
What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?	Ethiopia	75%
What ethnic group of Tanzania and Kenya live a semi-nomadic life based on cattle herding?	Maasai	75%
Nubia is a region along what river in Africa?	Nile	75%
What is official language in Angola?	Portuguese	75%
Djibouti have a coastline along what body of water?	Red sea	75%
What area south of Sahara with semi-arid climate stretches between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea?	Sahel	75%
The Victoria lake's area is divided among three countries. Which country is not one of them?	Zambia	75%
What European country colonized Tunisia?	France	67%
Which European country colonized Burkina Faso from 1896 to 1960?	France	67%
What is official language in Benin?	French	67%
What is official language in Senegal?	French	67%
What was the colonial name of Ghana?	Gold Coast	67%
Which European country briefly colonized Libya?	Italy	67%
What ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short live primarily in Congo basin?	Pygmy	67%
The Serengeti hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Where is it located?	Tanzania	67%
What are official languages in Morocco?	Arabic and Berber	58%
The name of what African country derived from the ancient Greek name for the Red Sea?	Eritrea	58%
Sibebe is the second-largest monolith in the world located near the capital city Mbabane. Which country is this?	Eswatini	58%
Which ocean gulf is located between Somalia and Arabian peninsula?	Gulf of Aden	58%
What African river does not have an outlet to the sea and instead it discharges into the basin in the Kalahari Desert?	Okavango	58%
What lake in Africa is the world's second oldest and second deepest freshwater lake?	Tanganyika	58%
What river flows along Botswana's southern border before emptying into the Indian Ocean?	Limpopo	50%
In which African region are the Ahaggar mountains located?	Northern Africa	50%
In what part of Africa mainly Bushmen, also known as San people live?	Southern Africa	50%
Rhodesia was an unrecognized state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to which modern country?	Zimbabwe	50%
Which explorer first reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1488?	Bartolomeu Dias	25%

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