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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Which country is entirely surrounded by South Africa?	Lesotho	98%
Which country was started by freed slaves from the USA?	Liberia	96%
The capital of the above country is named after who?	James Monroe	84%
Shaka was the leader of which African kingdom in the early 19th century?	Zulu	79%
Which Moroccan city is considered to have the oldest university in the world?	Fes	75%
What language is spoken by the most people?	Arabic	74%
Which King of the Mali Empire was thought to be the richest man who ever existed?	Mansa Musa	64%
What is the second highest mountain in Africa?	Mount Kenya	60%
What island in South Africa was Nelson Mandela imprisoned on?	Robben Island	60%
What is the name of the valley that extends from Djibouti in the North to Tanzania in the South?	Great Rift	59%
Which French territory is located between Madagascar and the African mainland?	Mayotte	46%
The Victoria Falls are located between which two countries?	Zambia and Zimbabwe	42%
What is the largest lake in Ghana?	Lake Volta	33%
What was the colonial name for present day Malawi?	Nyasaland	32%
What is the capital of the self-declared independent state of Somaliland?	Hargeisa	21%
Who was the first European explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope?	Bartolomeu Dias	20%
What is the name of the lake on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo?	Lake Kivu	20%
What is the currency of Ethiopia?	Birr	14%
Name the strait that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden	Bab al-Mandab	12%
What is the main national park in Namibia?	Etosha	12%
What was the name of the king, and now the area, where the stone churches were built in Ethiopia?	Lalibela	12%
Which war that began in 1998 killed an estimated 5 million people?	Second Congo War	12%
What is the largest island of the Seychelles archipelago?	Mahe	11%
What is the name of the largest island in Cape Verde/Cabo Verde?	Santiago	8%
The primatologist Dian Fossey was based in which Rwandan National Park?	Volcanoes National Park	4%