| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| …is the largest country in Africa and over 80% desert? | Algeria | 100%
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| …is home to over 118 million people and has the highest population in the Arab world? | Egypt | 100%
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| …worshipped cats thousands of years ago? | Egypt | 100%
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| …had its dictator executed with his own golden handgun in 2011? | Libya | 100%
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| …is Timbuktu located? | Mali | 100%
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| …is where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile? | Sudan | 100%
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| …is where the city of Carthage once stood? | Tunisia | 100%
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| …is not recognized by the UN? | Western Sahara | 100%
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| …gained independence from France in 1962 following a brutal war? | Algeria | 83%
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| …has the largest city in Africa as of 2026? | Egypt | 83%
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| …was a former Italian colony? | Libya | 83%
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| …is the setting for the 1942 film Casablanca? | Morocco | 83%
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| …has the most pyramids of any country in the world? | Sudan | 83%
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| …was the primary filming location of Tatooine in Star Wars? | Tunisia | 83%
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| …is named after its major lake, the second-largest lake in all of Africa? | Chad | 67%
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| …has the world’s largest mud-brick structure, the Mosque of Djenne? | Mali | 67%
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| …was the last country in the world to formally abolish slavery in 1981, and did not start enforcing the ban until 2007? | Mauritania | 67%
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| …replaced French with Hausa as its official language in 2025? | Niger | 50%
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| …was once a Spanish colony known as the Spanish Sahara? | Western Sahara | 33%
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| …were clementines first discovered in during the late 19th century? | Algeria | 17%
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| …is known as Misr in its own official language? | Egypt | 17%
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| …was the site of the discovery of a 7 million year old hominid skull, the oldest ever found? | Chad | 0%
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| …is the world’s largest producer of phosphate? | Morocco | 0%
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| …is the world’s largest producer of gum arabic? | Sudan | 0%
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