Statistics for 50 Famous People from Africa

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt	Cleopatra	90%
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	86%
Ancient Egyptian pharaoh whose nearly intact tomb was discovered in 1922	Tutankhamun	86%
South African business magnate, engineer and the founder of SpaceX	Elon Musk	83%
Libyan revolutionary who was captured and killed in 2011	Muammar Gaddafi	83%
President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, one of the most brutal despots in world history	Idi Amin	72%
Egyptian footballer, considered one of the best players in the world	Mohamed Salah	72%
Zimbabwean Prime Minister and President from 1980 to 2017	Robert Mugabe	72%
Ghanaian diplomat who was the 7th Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 to 2006	Kofi Annan	66%
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974	Haile Selassie	62%
Mansa of the Mali Empire, sometimes called the wealthiest person in history	Mansa Musa	59%
Egyptian actor who appeared in films Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago	Omar Sharif	59%
Egyptian politician who stepped down during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011	Hosni Mubarak	55%
South African paralympic sprinter who was convicted of murder in 2015	Oscar Pistorius	55%
Cameroonian footballer who was four times the African Player of the Year	Samuel Eto'o	55%
Noble Prize winner and religious leader who has fought against apartheid	Desmond Tutu	52%
Captain of the Ivory Coast national team and one of Chelsea's greatest players	Didier Drogba	52%
President of Liberia since 2018 and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1995	George Weah	48%
Actress who won Oscar for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster	Charlize Theron	45%
Egyptian President from 1970 until his assassination in 1981	Anwar Sadat	41%
Egyptian who served as the 2nd President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970	Gamal Abdel Nasser	41%
Kenyan actress who won the Academy Award for movie 12 Years a Slave	Lupita Nyong'o	41%
Egyptian diplomat who was the 6th Secretary-General of the UN from 1992 to 1996	Boutros Boutros-Ghali	38%
Queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten	Nefertiti	38%
Sudanese basketball player, the tallest in the history of the NBA	Manute Bol	34%
King of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828	Shaka	34%
Nicknamed "the Dream", one of the greatest basketball players of all time	Hakeem Olajuwon	28%
Cameroonian professional basketball player and NBA All Star	Joel Embiid	28%
Politician who led Kenya in the transformation from a British colony into an independent republic	Jomo Kenyatta	28%
King of Morocco since 1999	Mohammed VI	28%
Politician who led the transformation of Congo from a colony into an independent republic	Patrice Lumumba	28%
Cameroonian footballer who at age of 38 scored 4 goals at the 1990 FIFA World Cup	Roger Milla	28%
South African comedian and the host of The Daily Show	Trevor Noah	28%
Congolese basketball player who has become well known for his humanitarian work	Dikembe Mutombo	24%
Muslim Berber-Moroccan explorer who widely travelled the Asia, Africa and Europe	Ibn Battuta	24%
Beninese actor who played in Amistad, Gladiator, In America and Blood Diamond	Djimon Hounsou	21%
Ghanaian revolutionary, the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana	Kwame Nkrumah	17%
Tunisian female tennis player, the highest-ranked African and Arab player in history	Ons Jabeur	17%
Algerian actress who played in Kingsman: The Secret Service and Star Trek Beyond	Sofia Boutella	17%
Nigerian recording artist most famous for his worldwide 1992 hit "It's My Life"	Dr Alban	14%
First female ruler of ancient Egypt to reign as a male with the full authority of pharaoh	Hatshepsut	14%
Cape Verdean singer-songwriter nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva"	Cesaria Evora	10%
Zimbabwean actress who starred in the series The Walking Dead	Danai Gurira	10%
South African sprinter who is the current world and Olympic record holder in the 400 m	Wayde Van Niekerk	10%
Algerian politician who served as President of Algeria for almost 20 years	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	7%
Ethiopian long-distance runner, Olympic and World champion over 10,000 metres	Haile Gebrselassie	7%
South African model who became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010	Candice Swanepoel	3%
Tunisian leader and statesman who led the nation to independence from France	Habib Bourguiba	3%
Female Zimbabwean politician and former Olympic swimmer	Kirsty Coventry	3%
Guinean vocalist best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yeke Yeke"	Mory Kante	3%