Statistics for West African Geography Quiz

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the most populous city in Nigeria?	Lagos	96%
Liberia was founded as a place for freed slaves from what country?	United States	93%
What island nation was uninhabited until it was colonized by Portugal in the 1400's?	Cape Verde	86%
What is the French name of Ivory Coast?	Côte d'Ivoire	86%
What is the longest river in West Africa?	Niger River	84%
What city in Mali was once a prosperous center of trans-Saharan trade?	Timbuktu	83%
What gulf does the above empty into?	Gulf of Guinea	78%
What is the capital of Burkina Faso?	Ouagadougou	71%
What city was the terminus of a famous rally that took place from 1972-2007?	Dakar	70%
What was Ghana formerly known as?	Gold Coast	70%
What religion, starting with V, does 17% of the Benin residents follow?	Vodun	68%
What type of animal killed 25 fisherman over a ten-year period on the Senegal River?	Hippopotamus	64%
What type of yellow element represents about 91% of Niger's exports? hint: it was falsely claimed that Saddam Hussein tried to buy it	Uranium	64%
Gambia is built on the edges of what river?	Gambia River	55%
What are the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria? (name any)	Yoruba \| Igbo \| Hausa	53%
What is the staple crop of West Africa?	Yam	48%
What "shocking" lake in Ghana is world's largest artificial reservoir by surface area?	Lake Volta	46%
By what other name is Mauritania's Richat Structure also known? hint: an organ	{Eye} of Africa	36%
What former independent country existed in southeastern Nigeria between 1967–1970?	Biafra	32%
What type of forest covers most of West Africa's coastal areas?	Mangrove	32%