Question
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Answer
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What event did South Africa host in 2010?
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FIFA World Cup
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What political party has ruled South Africa since 1994?
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African National Congress
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What disease significantly lowered life expectancy in South Africa between 1991 and 2005?
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HIV / AIDS
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Who became the first black President of South Africa in 1994?
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Nelson Mandela
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On what island was that person once imprisoned?
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Robben Island
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What Anglican archbishop won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
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Desmond Tutu
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What type of weapons did South Africa successfully develop in the 1970s?
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Nuclear Weapons
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What surgery was first performed by South African doctor Christiaan Barnard in 1967?
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Heart Transplant
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What was the name of South Africa's formalized system of racial segregation?
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Apartheid
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What South African company once controlled over 90% of the global diamond trade?
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De Beers
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What future world leader began his career as an activist while living in South Africa between 1893 and 1914?
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Mahatma Gandhi
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What notorious type of "camp" was invented by the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War ?
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Concentration Camp
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What was discovered near Johannesburg in 1886?
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Gold
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What country in the interior was founded by Boer settlers in 1854?
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Orange Free State
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What warrior-king led the Zulu kingdom to a period of expansion in the early 1800s?
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Shaka
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What country established the Cape Colony in 1652?
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Netherlands
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What European country became the first to reach South Africa in 1488?
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Portugal
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What ethnic group, which includes Zulus and Xhosas, migrated into South Africa around 300 AD?
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Bantu
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What group of South African people form a branch of human genetics that split from all others over 100,000 years ago?
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San (Bushmen)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_L0_(mtDNA)