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Africa Quiz Questions and Answers
Top 102 Africa Quiz Questions and Answers Part 1
1) After which American President is the capital of an African country named?
Answer: James Monroe.
2) Through which country does the greater part of the Nile flow?
Answer: Sudan.
3) Which are the towns at the either end of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Port Said and Suez.
4) Two South African provinces take their names from rivers. Which are they?
Answer: Orange Free State and Transvaal.
5) The Mercato is one of Africa’s largest open-air markets and is located in the city of Addis Ababa. But in which country is it?
Answer: Ethiopia.
6) Of which country is Cyrenaica a part?
Answer: Libya.
7) Where are the craters of the Moon?
Answer: Rwenzori Mountains.
8) This African city was once an internationally administered enclave. Which city is this?
Answer: Tangier.
9) The longest African river which emptying into the Indian Ocean is:
Answer: The Zambezi.
10) The biggest city in Natal is:
Answer: Durban.
11) The highest peak in Africa is:
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro.
12) The northernmost city in Africa is:
Answer: Bizerte.
13) Which northern Nigeria city is the centre on which the major caravan routes converge?
Answer: Kano.
14) This country was once called Dahomey. Which country?
Answer: Benin.
15) Which is the capital of the country that used to be called Abyssinia?
Answer: Addis Ababa.
16) What is the name of the Angolan enclave sandwiched by Zaire and Congo?
Answer: Cabinda.
17) In which country is the Kalahari Desert?
Answer: Botswana.
18) What is Sahrawi?
Answer: The name Western Sahara has been given by those seeking its independence.
19) Which mountain range stretches across Algeria and Morocco?
Answer: Atlas Mountains.
20) The westernmost major city of Africa:
Answer: Dakar.
Africa Quiz Questions and Answers Part 2 (Quiz 21-40)
21) Kimberley is famous for:
Answer: Diamonds.
22) Belgian Congo is now called:
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
23) What is the area of land in Egypt which is below sea level?
Answer: Qattara Depression.
24) Two countries share the waters of Lake Kariba. Which are they?
Answer: Zambia and Zimbabwe.
25) Where is Swahili generally spoken?
Answer: East Africa.
26) The Malagasy Republic is now called:
Answer: Madagascar.
27) The capital of Togo is:
Answer: Lome.
28) Which country is completely landlocked by South Africa?
Answer: Lesotho.
29) Where is the Nubian Desert?
Answer: Sudan.
30) What is Nigeria’s main export?
Answer: Oil.
31) Of which country is Bangui the capital?
Answer: Central African Republic.
32) Which is Kenya’s biggest port?
Answer: Mombasa.
33) Which nationals first arrived in South Africa?
Answer: Dutch in Cape of Good Hope (1652).
34) What is known as the White Gold of Egypt?
Answer: Cotton.
35) What is the main agricultural produce of the Nile Valley?
Answer: Cotton.
36) A mixed race inhabiting North Western part of Africa is called:
Answer: Berbers.
37) Which is the largest city in Africa?
Answer: Cairo.
38) How many states are there in Africa?
Answer: 54.
39) Which state in Africa is most populous?
Answer: Nigeria.
40) Which province of South Africa is known as the Garden Province?
Answer: Natal.
Africa Quiz Questions and Answers Part 3 (Quiz 41-60)
41) On which river is Brazzaville?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
42) A part of Namibia is a finger pointing eastwards. What is this territory called?
Answer: Caprivi Strip.
43) Which major city developed as a consequence of the boom in the Witwatersrand?
Answer: Johannesburg.
44) In which countries are there cities commemorating in their names Stanley and Livingstone?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia.
45) Which was the largest of the French West African countries in area?
Answer: Mali.
46) Of which country or territory is St. Denis the chief town?
Answer: Réunion.
47) Near which well-known coastal physical feature is Cape Town?
Answer: The Cape of Good Hope.
48) The historical names of the four stretches of coast from Nigeria to Liberia are:
Answer: Slave Coast, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast and Grain Coast.
49) How many lakes are apart of Congo’s eastern borders?
Answer: Five.
50) The island of Pemba is a part of this country. Which country?
Answer: Tanzania.
51) The capital of Cameroon is:
Answer: Yaounde.
52) There is an island nation lies between Madagascar and the African Mainland. Which is it?
Answer: Comoros.
53) This island nation, geographically considered part of Africa has an Indian population in the majority?
Answer: Mauritius.
54) Salisbury is now called:
Answer: Harare.
55) Which African city finds a prominent place in the battle song of the US Marines?
Answer: Tripoli.
56) What does South Africa’s mineral wealth mainly comprise of?
Answer: Gold and Diamonds.
57) This former Italian colony was integrated with Ethiopia in 1952. Name it:
Answer: Eritrea.
58) Of whose empire was Congo once a part?
Answer: Belgium.
59) The names of the Spanish enclaves in North Africa are:
Answer: Ceuta and Melilla.
60) Where in Africa would you find the Mahgreb?
Answer: Moorish Africa – Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Africa Quiz Questions and Answers Part 4 (Quiz 61-80)
61) Between which countries is Togo Sandwiched?
Answer: Ghana and Benin.
62) Which are the two small countries sandwiched by the borders of Uganda and Tanzania?
Answer: Rwanda and Burundi.
63) What is al Qahira better known as?
Answer: Cairo.
64) What was Malawi once called?
Answer: Nyasaland.
65) What is South-West Africa now called?
Answer: Namibia.
66) Which city lies in the shadow of Table Mountain?
Answer: Cape Town.
67) Which is the capital of Congo?
Answer: Kinshasa.
68) In which country would you expect to find the Copper Belt?
Answer: Zambia.
69) Which is the largest lake in West Africa?
Answer: Lake Volta.
70) Of which country is Freetown the capital?
Answer: Sierra Leone.
71) Which countries have parts of their boundaries in Lake Victoria?
Answer: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
72) Where is Serengeti National Park?
Answer: Tanzania.
73) With which West African country is Pagalu linked?
Answer: Equatorial Guinea.
74) Of which country is the Ogaden a region?
Answer: Ethiopia.
75) The coast of which country is called the Gold Coast?
Answer: Ghana.
76) Which city lies in the confluence of the two main branches of the River Nile?
Answer: Khartoum.
77) What was Burkina Faso previously called?
Answer: Upper Volta.
78) Zambia and Zimbabwe had a common territorial name when they were administered by Britain. What was this name?
Answer: (North and South) Rhodesia.
79) In which country is Lambarene, where Dr. Schweitzer lived?
Answer: Gabon.
80) Lake Chad is, of course in Chad. But which countries does it seasonally extend into?
Answer: Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon.
Africa Quiz Questions and Answers Part 5 (Quiz 81-102)
81) What is the name of the lake the Aswan High Dam has helped create?
Answer: Lake Nasser.
82) Which country is entirely surrounded by Senegal, except for a narrow coastal strip?
Answer: Gambia.
83) Which is the capital of Madagascar?
Answer: Antananarivo.
84) Swaziland is encircled by South Africa except for a short boundary with one other country. Which country?
Answer: Mozambique.
85) What is the narrow feature that separates Africa from Asia?
Answer: The Suez Canal.
86) With which of its Southern neighbours does Libya have the longest boundary?
Answer: Chad.
87) Which is the main port of Kenya?
Answer: Mombasa.
88) One island in the Comoros Group has a different political status. Which one?
Answer: Mayotte.
89) Which group of islands is a nation just north-east of Madagascar?
Answer: Seychelles.
90) To whom do the Azores Islands belong?
Answer: Portugal.
91) Which nation or islands is to the west of the Central African coast?
Answer: São Tomé and Príncipe.
92) To whom do the Canary Islands belong?
Answer: Spain.
93) By which river delta is Port Harcourt located?
Answer: Niger.
94) Two neighbouring African countries get their names from a river they share. What is the name of the river?
Answer: Niger.
95) In the middle of which country is Timbuktu?
Answer: Mali.
96) What is Leopoldville now called?
Answer: Kinshasa.
97) Which was the occupying power in Western Sahara and which is the present power?
Answer: Spain and Morocco.
98) The coast of which country is called the Gold Coast?
Answer: Ghana.
99) In which country would you find the Hoggar Mountains?
Answer: Algeria.
100) Which city is known, as Switzerland of Africa?
Answer: Rwanda, Africa.
101) Which place is known as Whiteman’s Grave?
Answer: Guinea, West coast of Africa.
102) If you set off on a Safari trip from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara game reserve, which country would you be in?
Answer: Kenya.
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