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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Johannesburg

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about Johannesburg and its environs?
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1. Which of South Africa's three capital cities lies within Johannesburg's metro area?
Bloemfontein
Cape Town
Durban
Pretoria
2. When did Johannesburg host the men's FIFA World Cup finals?
1948
1968
1988
2010
3. Johannesburg was established in 1886 following the discovery of ...
Diamonds
Gold
Silver
Uranium
4. What war led to the British capturing Johannesburg in 1900?
Anglo-Zanzibar War
Boxer Rebellion
Mau Mau Uprising
Second Boer War
5. What province is Johannesburg a part of?
Free State
Eastern Cape
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
6. What township near Johannesburg has a population over 1 million?
Atlantis
Gqeberha
Kimberley
Soweto
7. How does the murder rate of Johannesburg compare to London?
London is 3x higher
About the same
Johannesburg is 3x higher
Johannesburg is 35x higher
8. The two most-spoken languages in Johannesburg are English and ...
Afrikaans
Hindi
Swahili
Zulu
9. What is the term for the grassland or shrubland ecosystem typical around Johannesburg?
Savannah
Steppe
Taiga
Veld
10. Vilakazi Street in Johannesburg is the only street in the world which has been home to two _____.
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu
Communist dictators
Kings
Nobel Peace Prize winners
UN Secretaries-General
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15 Comments
MasterRocket
+1
Level 83
Mar 13, 2025
6/10

Nice one

hi111223
+1
Level 70
May 2, 2025
2nd Feature!!
Alexquiz17
+5
Level 95
May 2, 2025
Good quiz, although I honestly don’t think you can be 100% certain that question 10 is actually correct. You would need to know every single address that every single winner of the peace prize had ever lived at
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
May 2, 2025
This is one where the burden of proof is on the person who wants to disprove it.
talisflor
+9
Level 24
May 3, 2025
That's... not how that works. Anyway, it's easily remedied by phrasing it like "...is special because..." or some such.
overtired
+7
Level 88
May 5, 2025
Doesn't Pennsylvania Avenue qualify? I discounted that option because of US presidents.
Fianchetto
+4
Level 78
May 5, 2025
I wouldn't say so, as they lived there because they were president (not as private citizens), rather than they voluntarily choose to live in the same street coincidentally so the term "home" could be subjective.

The question also says two whereas four presidents have won a Nobel Peace Prize (but that doesn't necessarily disqualify it I suppose).

overtired
+3
Level 88
May 5, 2025
Yeah, fair point, I wondered about there being more than two (though kinda agree with the parenthetical). I didn't personally take from the question that it needed to be coincidental or as private citizens. The White House website calls it "the home of the President of the United States and his family".
MindWax
+4
Level 87
Jun 25, 2025
Yeah, this really needs correction. It's simply incorrect as-is. Pennsylvania Avenue has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners, full stop.
Fianchetto
+4
Level 78
Jul 9, 2025
Would changing the wording to “non-governmental home” or something like that fix the issue?
tshalla
+1
Level 78
Aug 8, 2025
Unlikely, I'd say. This was a cool one for me because I remember both of their houses, really close together, from a visit to Soweto in '94.
Snatjie
+2
Level 44
Aug 7, 2025
Please note that Pretoria does not lie within Johannesburg's metro area, although it is just 50km north of Johannesburg. It is part of Tshwane metro area and a city of almost 3 miljion.
JonOfKent
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Level 61
Aug 7, 2025
This is true, as Tshwane is a "metropolitan municipality". Presumably in a quiz about South Africa the terminology shouldn't go directly against South African usage.

Perhaps it could be "conurbation" instead? (Especially as that's the normal way to talk about these things anyway, speak to a non-Jetpunker about a "metro area" and they'd think you were talking Martian or something)

RoboquizM86
+1
Level 61
Aug 7, 2025
Learnt a lot of new things today!
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Sep 9, 2025
35x higher is an insane amount
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