West African Geography Quiz - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the most populous city in Nigeria?	Lagos	97%
Liberia was founded as a place for freed slaves from what country?	United States	94%
What island nation was uninhabited until it was colonized by Portugal in the 1400's?	Cape Verde	89%
What is the French name of Ivory Coast?	Côte d'Ivoire	88%
What is the longest river in West Africa?	Niger River	87%
What city in Mali was once a prosperous center of trans-Saharan trade?	Timbuktu	85%
What gulf does the above empty into?	Gulf of Guinea	81%
What is the capital of Burkina Faso?	Ouagadougou	72%
What religion, starting with V, does 17% of the Benin residents follow?	Vodun	70%
What city was the terminus of a famous rally that took place from 1972-2007?	Dakar	68%
What was Ghana formerly known as?	Gold Coast	68%
Gambia is built on the edges of what river?	Gambia River	61%
What type of animal killed 25 fisherman over a ten-year period on the Senegal River?	Hippopotamus	61%
What are the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria? (name any)	Yoruba \| Igbo \| Hausa	60%
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	58%
What "shocking" lake in Ghana is world's largest artificial reservoir by surface area?	Lake Volta	46%
What is the staple crop of West Africa?	Yam	44%
By what other name is Mauritania's Richat Structure also known? hint: an organ	{Eye} of Africa	38%
What former independent country existed in southeastern Nigeria between 1967–1970?	Biafra	35%
What type of forest covers most of West Africa's coastal areas?	Mangrove	32%