BHM Quiz - Geography Edition

Nelson Mandela and Trevor Noah are from this country!

This country is credited with countless inventions : Mathematics, the pyramids, paper, pens, makeup and toothpaste!

This country has a 99.8% literacy rate, which is one of the highest in the world!

This country is where the dreadlocks hairstyle originated.

In this country, the town San Basilio de Palenque was the first free black town in the Americas.

This country’s football team (American soccer) has been to the World Cup more than any other African country.

This country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa at over 19,000 feet tall!

This country is home to actress Lupita N'yongo!

This country has the largest reserve of platinum and diamond in the world!

In 1821, this land was claimed as a place for free African Americans to migrate to.

When this country won its independence in 1993 after a 30-year war, about 40% of the freedom fighters were women!

Over 2 million enslaved Africans arrived in this city - five times more than the entire American South.

This country is the birthplace of coffee! Where is this?

This country is home to the Great Mosque of Djenne, the largest mudbrick building in the world!

As the country with the the highest sand dunes in the world, sandboarding is a common activity here!

The official drink in this country is called sodabi, a liquor created from the distillation of the sap from palm trees!

This country invented Reggae music, and is home to the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt!

This country is the only place in the world where you can get vibranium!

90% of the wildlife that lives in this country is found nowhere else in the world!

This country has 500 ethnic groups that speak 521 languages. The three largest ethnic groups in this country are Hausa,

This country was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from colonialism! Where is this?

This country is home one of the greatest of all time: Rihanna. Where is this?

This country is 20% water, taken up by Calendar Lake - a lake that is 365 miles long and 52 miles wide!

This country has the largest church in the world, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro!

This country invented soca music and it is where Ms. James is from on her dad's side!

This country produces over 8 mil tons of bananas a year! The average person here eats 660 lbs of bananas annually!

This country is where Kunta Kinte (a main character in the book, Roots) is originally from!

Currently, U.S. professional baseball leagues boast more than 100 players who originated from this country.