Statistics for Africa A to Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
E	This country produces the most coffee in Africa	Ethiopia	93%
N	Major river in Africa and generally thought of as longest in the world	Nile	91%
F	Name of currency used by many former French African colonies	Franc	89%
G	Largest living primates living in central Africa	Gorilla	89%
S	Famous canal connecting Red and Mediterranean seas	Suez canal	87%
I	Almost one-third of this religion's followers live in Africa	Islam	85%
V	Largest lake in Africa	Victoria	85%
R	Hutu and Tutsi are two ethnic groups in this country	Rwanda	84%
U`	Idi Amin was the former dictator of this country	Uganda	84%
A	Former colony of Portugal	Angola	82%
Z	Largest ethnic group in South africa; Shaka was a famous leader	Zulu	82%
K	Large desert in Southern Africa	Kalahari	80%
L	Africa's first and oldest modern republic	Liberia	78%
O	Largest living birds	Ostrich	76%
M	This country's flag features an AK-47 with a bayonet	Mozambique	75%
J	Capital of South Sudan	Juba	69%
B	Name of indigenous group of people from Algeria	Berber	64%
T	Well-known historical city in Mali	Timbuktu	64%
Y	Capital of Cameroon	Yaounde	56%
W	Most populous territory on U.N.'s list of non-self-governing territories	Western Sahara	47%
D	Last head of state in South Africa under apartheid	de Klerk	42%
H	Africa's first writing system and the beginning of the alphabet	Hieroglyphs	42%
C	Popular staple food in North Africa	Couscous	40%
P	A main export out of Africa (think trees)	Palm oil	24%
Q	Extinct subspecies of zebra that lived in South Africa	Quagga	16%
X	African ground squirrel found throughout southern Africa	Xerus	4%