Mastermind Club
Quiz 2024-13
Africa
Set by Joyce Fulbrook
Answers
1/ How many African countries does the equator pass through?
Seven. Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Sao Tome & Principe.
2/Which statesman said “The wind of change is blowing through this continent” when addressing the South African parliament in 1960?
Harold MacMillan.
3/Where did the hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane crash land when it ran out of fuel in 1996? Which well known wartime photo journalist, who was one of the passengers, lost his life as a result?
4/Which colonial power did Rwanda gain independence from in 1962?
Belgium
There are no major navigable rivers into the interior of the continent. They are all made impassable at some point by waterfalls & cataracts.
6/What connects Lucy, Dr Donald Johanson & Hadar in Ethiopia?
The skeleton of Lucy, a hominid 3.5 million years old, was found by Dr Johanson, in Hadar in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974.
7/What do Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel Arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki, Uhuru Kenyatta & William Ruto all share?
They have all been presidents of Kenya. William Ruto being the present one.
8/What was the old, colonial name of Maputo?
Lourenco Marques.
9/Alfred Ilg was the chief advisor to which African leader? This leader was chiefly responsible for the modernisation of his country.
Emperor Menelik 2nd of Ethiopia
10/Which is South Africa’s longest river? Which ocean does it flow into?
The Orange River. The Atlantic.
11/What is the name of the first woman to be elected president of an African country? Which country was she president of?
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia.
12/Which countries are known as the Maghreb countries?
Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia. Its a region in North Africa that’s considered the Western Arab world.
13/How are General Napier & Magdala connected & what links them to Queen Victoria?
Napier stormed the mountain top court of Emperor Tewodros 2nd of Ethiopia at Magdala in order to rescue British hostages held by the Emperor. Tewodros had written to Queen Victoria, asking for military support against the Ethiopian Muslims. When he failed to get a reply, Tewodros took the hostages.
14/What connects a Danish lady to Karen?
Karen Blixen, the Danish author of “Out of Africa” farmed in Karen, Kenya. Karen is named after her.
15/Who was the well known author of the Constant Gardener, a thriller based in Kenya?
John Le Carre.
16/What brought about the Suez Crisis of 1956?
The nationalisation of the Suez Canal by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser.
17/Dr Hastings Banda was the infamous first president of which African country?
Malawi.
18/Name the sovereign African island nations that are located in the Indian Ocean.
19/Henrik Verwoerd, President of South Africa during the apartheid era, was assassinated in parliament in 1966. Who was his assassin?
20/What was Ujaama? In what African country was it practised?
21/In which African country did the author Doris Lessing spend most of her childhood & early adult life?
22/Which series of trade agreements take their names from a capital city of a West African country?
The Lome Conventions, named after Lome, the capital of Togo, where the meetings took place.
23/What connects Rivonia to Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu & Govan Mbeki amongst others?
24/Which 3 African nations are still monarchies?
Uganda’s