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Category Elimination - African Geography #1

In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
# = the number of answers possible. Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
All data as of February 2022. In this quiz, population refers to urban populations. More info.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: February 20, 2022
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First submittedMarch 5, 2020
Times taken67,208
Average score75.0%
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Green Categories
54
Countries of Africa
24
... with a maximum elevation above 2500m
9
... which is landlocked
5
... doesn't border either Congo
1
... and doesn't end in a vowel
Chad
 
Orange Categories
57
Capital Cities of Africa
22
... in the Southern hemisphere
12
... with a population of at least 1 million
4
... ending in the letter A
1
... and is on the coast
Luanda
Blue Categories
54
Countries of Africa (by Flag)
11
... which don't have green on them
8
... that have white on them
4
... with at least one star on them
1
... without red on it
Somalia
 
Purple Categories
111
Countries or Capitals of Africa
44
... containing the letter E in their name
18
... with a population above 5 million
5
... with more than one word in its name
1
... and is landlocked
Central
African
Republic
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Level 75
Mar 5, 2020
Would nominate but there is no point since it'll get featured anyways.
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Level 89
May 18, 2020
Stewart's so good at making quizzes and getting them featured, it's almost a guarantee at this point. :)
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Level 23
Jul 16, 2022
it did just now
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Level 77
Mar 5, 2020
Tunisia can be also final answer in flag category.
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Level 68
Mar 5, 2020
Sorry for that, don't know how I missed it. I've updated the final clue of that.
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Level 32
Jul 16, 2022
Bro, in flags flag DON'T HAVE RED. Tunisia have red
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Level 55
Jul 16, 2022
The quiz was updated and fixed that issue, read Stewart's reply buddy.
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Level 70
Mar 6, 2020
Now I know why you were asking if Mozambique's flag had green on it
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Level 66
Mar 6, 2020
Was typing luand then time was up. Would ve helped if I wasnt in the dark and could ve seen the kb (better). Now I kinda had the same speed as typing with one finger. And didnt get somalia, was happy I got the one before though. Cant remember what I tried just that it was on the west coast, Cape verde I believe, after trying togo, and or ghana and or cameroon. I knew there were some stars in that area, just all the exact colours
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Level 75
Mar 7, 2020
That's weird -

I got Somalia but "...that have white on them" says I didn't get it right at the end

Edit: Oh yeah, it's a yellow box quiz... never mind..

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Level 76
Mar 8, 2020
Another great quiz in a great series... one thought though, you have "is landlocked" as a clue in the "capitals or countries" section, which kind of gives it away as a country!
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Level 68
Mar 8, 2020
Nope! Capitals can be landlocked too. In particular their country can be landlocked as well.
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Level 85
May 18, 2020
So a city is landlocked if it's not on the ocean?
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Level 68
May 18, 2020
Yes, this is generally how I decided whether a capital was landlocked or not. Obviously it's hard to quantify that, which is why I rarely used the idea.
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Level 51
Mar 22, 2020
Got all of them correct!
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Level 60
Apr 7, 2020
I love it when you randomly pick that country or capital that happens to take to you to the end. :-)
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Level 70
Apr 15, 2020
did that for Somalia
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Level 66
May 9, 2020
Eritrea is a country in Africa with E and population below 5 million but it didn't work for me in that place. Am I missing something?
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Level 68
May 9, 2020
Looks like I had the 3 and 5 in its population swapped in my spreadsheet! Fixed now. 3.5m not 5.3m!
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Level 70
May 18, 2020
I put in Freetown -- with an e, less than 5 million pop, and more than one word in its name! Free and town are two words, right? Then I realized what you meant.

Great quiz.

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Level 38
May 18, 2020
Category elimination always gets a nomination from me 5/5
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Level 65
May 18, 2020
This is the first one of these quizzes that I've got on the first try. Great quiz.
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Level 71
May 18, 2020
Doesn't Eswatini fit the purple question?
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Level 68
May 18, 2020
It does the first 3, but it only has one word not two, so therefore fails at the 4th clue.
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Level 59
May 18, 2020
Egypt has white on its flag (not one of the 8 valid answers though)
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Level 68
May 18, 2020
Works fine for me typing it in. Perhaps you didn't have the yellow box aligned?
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Level 66
May 20, 2020
Very well made quiz!
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Level 68
May 20, 2020
Thanks Wolfy! :)
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Level 75
May 22, 2020
Stewart, you are being tricksey giving us a clue for a country that contains an e, when that country is usually written as an abbreviation without one. :) As always, great quiz.
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Level 68
May 22, 2020
:)
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Level 60
Oct 22, 2020
Haha. I started all country ones with CAR, since it's fastest to write and used it as far as I could. Laziness payed out at the end.
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Level 45
Jan 27, 2021
in the capital one you can just write luanda five times XD
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Level 69
Feb 23, 2021
The Gambia should work for the fourth pink clue
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Level 68
Feb 23, 2021
There's no E in Gambia, so it fails the second clue. We use the names on the Countries of the World quiz.
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Level 74
Feb 25, 2021
Thank you for making this. These elimination quizzes are awesome.
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Level 36
Feb 26, 2021
Somalia is not part of Africa
+7
Level 64
Mar 25, 2021
You are clearly not qualified for jetpunk do some research before commenting
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Level 64
Jul 20, 2022
They did. Facebook told them so
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Level 29
Mar 23, 2024
bro graduated from walmart
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Level 58
May 9, 2021
Amazing Quiz! Could you please give a brief explanation of how you make these if you want? I've tried making my own by figuring it out myself, but theres a cap on how many 'containing' you can use in order to accept multiple countries. Thanks!
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Level 68
May 10, 2021
Sure.

The easiest way is to separate answers by | (the pipe) in Step 2, this will produce auto typeins in Step 3, separating one answer per line. You can then set this to custom (to make sure it doesn't change) and then go back to Step 2 and change the visible text to be a check character.

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Level 47
May 18, 2021
On first category I guessed Chad all the way through. Best feeling ever.
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Level 57
Aug 9, 2021
Really fun quiz.
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Level 45
Aug 28, 2021
I feel like Lilongwe could be the answer to countries or capitals, because it has the letter e, has a population under 5 mil, has more than one word in it's name (long and we) and it's landlocked
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Level 68
Aug 28, 2021
It has 1 word in its name - "Lilongwe". Example of one with 2 words is Buenos Aires for example.
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Level 40
Oct 1, 2021
writing the purple categories be like..

"CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR"

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Level 25
Jan 28, 2022
very cool quiz, i'm french so it's hard but that's cool
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Level 73
Feb 26, 2022
In the third question of the blue category, every alphabet seems like working. I was about to type Congo but it automatically filled in when I typed C and then other alphabets as well. Is that a mistake?
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Level 68
Feb 26, 2022
fixed, thanks
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Level 54
Mar 1, 2022
I love these types of quiz, and i'm so proud of my 18/20 even though it isnt perfect, its my first go
+1
Level 50
Mar 18, 2022
Breezed through blue and purple for no reason lol
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Level 68
Jul 16, 2022
Fun quiz, thanks!
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Level 66
Jul 17, 2022
Needed another couple of minutes, it takes me a while to go through the flags in my head
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Level 59
Jul 17, 2022
In purple category, CAR is not valid anymore, population got over 5 million. Overall a nice quiz, thanks!
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Level 56
Jul 18, 2022
was genuinely surprised on how good i did on this
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Level 23
Oct 12, 2022
i was missing just one, and it was Luanda.
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Level 45
Nov 30, 2022
Central African Republic has a population over 5 million people currently, there are 5.9m people, so the last question should be revised I think.
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Level 68
Nov 30, 2022
this has now been fixed thanks
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Level 36
Mar 5, 2023
If you've completed the green category, you'ra a gigaCHAD
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Level 67
Jul 17, 2023
This is a great quiz, I do declare
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Level 32
Aug 2, 2023
it says that tunisia doesnt have white on their flag
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Level 68
Aug 2, 2023
No, no it does not
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Level 58
Jan 15, 2024
Wouldn't the Democratic Republic of Congo work for the purple category final answer? It's over 5 million, has an e in its name, and is landlocked.
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Level 43
Mar 2, 2024
I just kept typing Chad and it kept working, and then I kept typing Luanda and it kept working. I should buy a lottery ticket!
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Level 34
Mar 23, 2024
So If I Type one City or country in, it is not Out for that row? T