African Modern History - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which African leader was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo in 1981?	Anwar Sadat	100%
What was the name of a series of anti-government protests that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s?	Arab Spring	100%
Since 1960 Democratic Republic of the Congo was colony of which country?	Belgium	100%
At which conference held in 1884 was it agreed that the imperial powers could claim African colonies?	Berlin Conference	100%
Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?	Burkina Faso	100%
Which African country was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997?	D.R. Congo	100%
Beside Liberia what was the only country in Africa that remained free of European colonisation by 1914?	Ethiopia	100%
Haile Selassie I was the Emperor of which African country from 1930 to 1974?	Ethiopia	100%
Who was the leader of Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956?	Gamal Abdel Nasser	100%
Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?	George Weah	100%
Before its independence in 1990, what was the name of Namibia?	German South-West Africa	100%
Kofi Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 to 2006. Where was he from?	Ghana	100%
Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders until his assassination in 1973. Where was he from?	Guinea-Bissau	100%
What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?	Hosni Mubarak	100%
Muammar Gaddafi was a revolutionary and dictator of which country from 1969 until 2011?	Libya	100%
Which country accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed in 1988?	Libya	100%
Which African political was imprisoned on Robben island for 18 years?	Nelson Mandela	100%
Who played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony into an independent republic?	Patrice Lumumba	100%
Who was dictator of Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017 and who ruled until age 93?	Robert Mugabe	100%
In which African country did the genocide of the Tutsi people take place in 1994?	Rwanda	100%
Where did Black Hawk Down incident occur in 1993?	Somalia	100%
Apartheid is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white and the nonwhite people in which country?	South Africa	100%
Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?	Swaziland	100%
In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?	Tunisia	100%
Idi Amin was infamous dictator of which African country?	Uganda	100%
Which African country was known as unrecognized state of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?	Zimbabwe	100%
Which African country was known as Dahomey until 1975?	Benin	67%
In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?	Guinea	67%
The US embassies in which two African countries were bombed in 1998?	Kenya and Tanzania	67%
The Maji Maji Rebellion, was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against whose rule in East Africa?	German	33%