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#Geography #Africa
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1
What is the second longest river in Africa?
Zambezi River
Nile River
Niger River
Congo River
2
How many people were killed in Rwanda in the 1994 genocide?
1 million
580,000
50,000
800,000
3
What African Nation faced a genocide in 1994 that left 800,000 Tutsis dead?
Rwanda
South Africa
South Sudan
Congo
4
What is the 4,000 mile long crack in the Earth's crust in Africa known as?
Sahel
Grand Canyon
Great Rift Valley
Continental Divide
5
Which of the following is NOT one of the main three culture groups of Nigeria?
Yoruba
Igbo
Zulu
Hausa
6
Nation kept its national identity by making Swahili its official language. Home to Masai tribe
Libya
Somalia
Kenya
South Africa
7
Where does Africa rank, amongst continents, in size?
2nd
1st
3rd
4th
8
Africa’s most populated nation and 8
th
most populated in the world
Egypt
Morocco
Nigeria
South Africa
9
In South Africa what were the conflicts between the British and the Dutch known as?
South African War of Independence
Apartheid
Kenyan War
Boer Wars
10
What is the deepest river in the world?
Congo River
Nile River
Zambezi
Niger River
11
What country is known for blood diamonds, mined & sold to pay for child soldiers in civil war?
Kenya
Sierra Leone
D.R. Congo
Liberia
12
What is the largest city in Morocco?
Casablanca
Rabat
Fes
Marrakesh
13
What is the largest waterfall in the world?
Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
Angel Falls
Victory Falls
14
What is the name of the man-made structure that altered the flow of the Nile River
Aswan Dam
Suez Canal
Hoover Dam
Strait of Gibraltar
15
What percentage of the world’s population is in Africa?
17%
12%
7%
10%
16
What nation split in two in 2011 due to civil war. (Extreme genocide in Darfur)
South Africa
Kenya
Congo
Sudan
17
What is the name of the South African who became the country’s first black African president?
Koney
Mandela
Mobutu
Qaddafi
18
What is the largest river in Africa?
Amazon River
Nile River
Congo River
Niger River
19
The most common religion in North Africa is ________, similar to Middle East
Confucianism
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
20
What group was led by the Interahahmwe militia that during the 1994 genocide?
Muslims
Hutus
Tutsis
Christians
21
Which of these biomes is NOT found in Africa?
Tropical Grassland
Coniferous Forest
Desert
Tropical Rainforest
22
What country colonized Rwanda, setting up the groups of Hutus and Tutsis?
Germany
France
Belgium
Great Britain
23
What country is known as the “Horn of Africa?”
Kenya
Zimbabwe
Somalia
Nigeria
24
Whose death started the escalated violence between Hutus and Tutsis?
Paul Rusesabagina
Rwanda's President
U.N. Secretary General
Prime Minister of Rwanda
25
These mountains run along the northwest coast of Africa, the only mountain range in Africa
Andes Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Ural Mountains
Atlas Mountains
26
Most of Africa sits on a high _______, which causes many fast flowing rivers with waterfalls
Valley
Plateau
Mesa
Butte
27
South Africa has how many capitals?
3
4
1
2
28
What is the largest mountain in Africa?
Mt. Stanley
Atlas
Mt. Kenya
Mt. Kilimanjaro
29
Name the hotel that Paul Rusesabagina ran and used as a refugee camp?
Hotel Diplomat
Holiday Inn Express
Milles Collines
Hotel Rwanda
30
The largest African city, _____, with 12 million people, has the only subway in Africa
Lagos
Cairo
Kinshasa
Nairobi
31
Where is Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, located?
Morocco
Egypt
D.R. Congo
Kenya
32
Nation with a mix of Spanish & Arab culture. Casablanca is its largest city
Kenya
Libya
Morocco
Tunisia
33
What was the name of the practice of keeping races separate & whites in power in South Africa?
Apartheid
Nuremberg Laws
Segregation
Jim Crow
34
What is the modern capital of Egypt?
El Alamein
Cairo
Kigali
Alexandria
35
A dictator who ruled the Congo from 1965-97, becoming a billionaire & putting his face on money
Mandela
Mobutu
Amin
Koney
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Narrow strip of land lies between the Sahara & the savanna regions and can support agriculture
Sahel
Fertile Crescent
Great Rift Valley
Farmland