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
d. Cabinda
A2. Which of the following belong to Angola?
b. Ethiopia
A3. Which is the most populated city in Africa?
a. Cairo   b. Johannesburg   c. Lagos   d. Nairobi   e. Khartoum
a. Cairo
A5. Which country was formerly known as Upper Volta?
a. Benin   b. Togo   c. Burkina Faso   d. Sierra Leone   e. Liberia
c. Burkina Faso
A6. Which of the following is a Kingdom? (True in May 2002)
a. Tunisia   b. Libya   c. Morrocco   d. Libya   e. Egypt
c. Morocco
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
d. The shores of Lake Tanganyka
Stanley meets Livingstone after searching him for a year through the Middle East, India and Africa on 10th November 1871
The Red Sea is one of the most famous diving spots in the World
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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
a. Tanzania
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
e. Nigeria; It arrives on the Atlantic Coast at the city of Port Harcourt
A9. Which of these countries borders more than 2 other African countries?
a. Sierra Leone   b. Tunisia   c. Egypt   d. Djibouti   e. Swaziland
d. Djibouti; it borders Somalia, Ethiopia and Erythrea
The Great Mosque of Djénné and the Great Friday Mosque of Timbuktu were large universities as well as religious centres
b. Mali Empire
Ngorongoro Crater views
Click here for full-size image of background: Elephant pack gazing in the Okavango Swamp, Namibia