Africa: Part 1 |
A1. Which of the following does not have any access to the Red Sea? |
a. Sudan b. Ethiopia c. Djibouti d. Eritrea e. Saudi arabia |
A2. Which of the following belong to Angola? |
A3. Which is the most populated city in Africa? |
a. Cairo b. Johannesburg c. Lagos d. Nairobi e. Khartoum |
A5. Which country was formerly known as Upper Volta? |
a. Benin b. Togo c. Burkina Faso d. Sierra Leone e. Liberia |
A6. Which of the following is a Kingdom? (True in May 2002) |
a. Tunisia b. Libya c. Morrocco d. Libya e. Egypt |
a. Sao Tome y Principe b. Cape Verde c. Gabon d. Cabinda e. Equatorial Guinea |
A4. Where did Henry M. Stanley famously say "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" in 1871? |
a. The Giza Pyramids b. The Colonial Post of Timbuctoo c. In a Caravan to Khartoum d. The Shores of Lake Tanganyka e. On Zanzibar Island |
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A7. In which country are the Ruwenzori Range mountains, the Kilimandjaro and the Ngorongoro Crater located? |
a. Tanzania b. Uganda c. Kenya d. South Africa e. Zimbabwe |
A10. Which Western African Empire, was one of the three largest, richest and best established civilisations in the World during the Fourteenth Century? |
a. Egyptian Empire b. Mali Empire c. Nigerian Empire d. Empire of Sudan e. Congo Empire |
POINT OF INTEREST: Timbuktu, the Empire's Capital was once among the World's foremost Scientific and Scholar centres with break-through advances in the fields of law, rhetoric, mathmatics and astronomy. Today, it is a third-world town on the outskirts of the Sahara Desert. However, it still dominates Trans-Saharian trade as it has since the Eighth Century. |
A8. Where does the Niger River reach the Atlantic Ocean? |
a. Ivory Coast b. Guinea c. Niger d. Ghana e.Nigeria |
A9. Which of these countries borders more than 2 other African countries? |
a. Sierra Leone b. Tunisia c. Egypt d. Djibouti e. Swaziland |