Statistics for African History Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Big tomb structures build in ancient Egypt	Pyramids	96%
First black president of South Africa	Nelson Mandela	88%
Rival city of Rome located in Tunisia	Carthage	79%
Name for Dutch settlers in South Africa	Boers	76%
Name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997	Zaire	76%
First European nation to explore and colonize Africa	Portugal	71%
Belgian king responsible for the slaugthering of millions in the Congo	Leopold II	69%
Country, where the Mau Mau Uprising took place	Kenya	65%
Ancient Sudanese kingdom	Kush	65%
King of Mali and one of the richest persons of all times	Mansa Musa	63%
Famous General from that city in the 2. Punic War	Hannibal Barca	60%
Country which was ruled by the Solomonid Dynasty from 1270 to 1974	Ethiopia	57%
People group, which migrated from Cameroon to large parts of southern Africa	Bantu	56%
Import center of scholarship in this empire	Timbuktu	50%
Last Emperor of this Dynasty	Haile Selassie	49%
Year of Africa, where large parts were decolonized	1960	46%
International conference discussing the partition of Africa between colonial powers	Berlin Conference	41%
Niger River empire, which conquered large parts of the Mali Empire	Songhai	38%
Scholar from Morocco, who visited many countries in the 14.Century	Ibn Battuta	22%
Powerful medieval kingdom centered in the Chad Basin	Kanem	15%