| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Capital of Namibia | Windhoek | 98%
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| Territory disputed between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | Western Sahara | 92%
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| International sports tournament held in South Africa in 2010 | World Cup | 73%
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| One of the two main tributaries on the Nile, which flows from Lake Victoria in Uganda to Khartoum, Sudan | White Nile | 62%
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| Wild pig native to sub-Saharan Africa | warthog | 61%
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| Large antelope that stampeded in the Lion King | wildebeest | 61%
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| Arabic term for a river bed that contains water only after rain | wadi | 46%
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| Province of South Africa that Cape Town is located in | Western Cape | 45%
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| Most widely spoken language in Senegal | Wolof | 37%
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| Coastal city in Namibia that was part of South Africa until 1993 | Walvis Bay | 32%
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| Former spelling of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | Wagadugu | 30%
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| City with a metro area of 1 million in southern Nigeria | Warri | 15%
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| Currency of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo | West African CFA franc | 9%
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| Name for administrative divisions in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Tanzania, and Tunisia | wilaya | 7%
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| Region in eastern Ghana with a separatist movement | Western Togoland | 5%
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| Subnational kingdom in western Kenya that was formerly a pre-colonial empire | Wanga Kingdom | 3%
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| Historic town in the Hirshabelle region of Somalia | Warsheikh | 2%
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| Mountain in northern South Africa | Waterberg | 2%
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| Former sultanate in what is now coastal Kenya from 1810-1923 | Wituland | 2%
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| Islamic nation that existed from 1878-1898 in what is now Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Sierra Leone | Wassoulou Empire | 1%
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