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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which African country was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997?	D.R. Congo	97%
Muammar Gaddafi was a revolutionary and dictator of which country from 1969 until 2011?	Libya	97%
Apartheid is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white and the nonwhite people in which country?	South Africa	97%
Which African leader was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo in 1981?	Anwar Sadat	93%
What was the name of a series of anti-government protests that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s?	Arab Spring	93%
Since 1960 Democratic Republic of the Congo was colony of which country?	Belgium	93%
Haile Selassie I was the Emperor of which African country from 1930 to 1974?	Ethiopia	93%
Which African political was imprisoned on Robben island for 18 years?	Nelson Mandela	93%
In which African country did the genocide of the Tutsi people take place in 1994?	Rwanda	93%
Which African country changed its name to Eswatini in 2018?	Swaziland	93%
Beside Liberia what was the only country in Africa that remained free of European colonisation by 1914?	Ethiopia	90%
Who was the leader of Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956?	Gamal Abdel Nasser	90%
Who was dictator of Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017 and who ruled until age 93?	Robert Mugabe	90%
Which African country was known as Dahomey until 1975?	Benin	86%
Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?	Burkina Faso	86%
Idi Amin was infamous dictator of which African country?	Uganda	86%
At which conference held in 1884 was it agreed that the imperial powers could claim African colonies?	Berlin Conference	83%
Which country accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed in 1988?	Libya	83%
Who played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony into an independent republic?	Patrice Lumumba	83%
Which African country was known as unrecognized state of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?	Zimbabwe	83%
What long-time Egyptian president was overthrown during the revolution of 2011?	Hosni Mubarak	79%
Kofi Annan was the 7th Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 to 2006. Where was he from?	Ghana	76%
In which African country Ebola outbreak started in 2014?	Guinea	76%
Where did Black Hawk Down incident occur in 1993?	Somalia	76%
Which former African footballer was elected for the president of his country in 2018?	George Weah	69%
Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders until his assassination in 1973. Where was he from?	Guinea-Bissau	59%
Before its independence in 1990, what was the name of Namibia?	German South-West Africa	55%
The US embassies in which two African countries were bombed in 1998?	Kenya and Tanzania	55%
In which country a series of anti-government protests were triggered against autocratic regimes in 2010?	Tunisia	48%
The Maji Maji Rebellion, was an armed rebellion of Islamic and animist Africans against whose rule in East Africa?	German	34%