Statistics for Africa A-Z

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	Clue	Answer	% Correct
N	Longest river	Nile	98%
E	Largest animal	Elephant	97%
K	Country with the most elite marathoners	Kenya	94%
G	Country between Togo and the Ivory Coast	Ghana	93%
D	Small country near Ethiopia	Djibouti	92%
J	Biggest city in South Africa	Johannesburg	92%
O	Term for a wet area in a desert	Oasis	91%
A	Language of South Africa that came from Dutch	Afrikaans	90%
C	____ of Good Hope	Cape	90%
F	Official language of 28 countries	French	89%
H	Swahili phrase that means "no worries"	{Hakuna} Matata	87%
V	Largest lake by surface area	Victoria	87%
P	Ramses or Tutankhamun, e.g.	Pharaoh	84%
Q	Nefertiti or Amanitore, e.g.	Queen	79%
Z	The D.R. Congo, formerly	Zaire	79%
L	Most populous urban area	Lagos	76%
S	Term for a dry grassland area	Savannah	75%
T	City in Mali that was once a center of learning and trade	Timbuktu	62%
W	Capital of Namibia	Windhoek	56%
B	Ethnic group of Morocco and Algeria	Berber	52%
Y	95% of these tubers are grown in Africa	Yams	50%
R	Great ____ Valley	Rift	43%
M	Nomadic herding group of Kenya and Tanzania	Maasai	42%
X	Mandela's ethnic group	Xhosa	36%
I	Ancient Egyptian architect / physician	Imhotep	23%
U	Swahili for freedom and name for the peak of Kilimanjaro	Uhuru	13%