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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Period of racial segregation in South Africa	Apartheid	97%
D	Bird of Mauritius that went extinct in 1681	Dodo	93%
R	Country where a genocide against the Tutsi people was committed	Rwanda	91%
Q	Central religious text of Islam	Quran	90%
U	Country Idi Amin used to rule brutally	Uganda	89%
P	Rulers of Egypt	Pharaoh	88%
I	White material that has been traded illegally for decades	Ivory	85%
Z	Former name of Democratic Republic of the Congo	Zaire	81%
C	Ancient civilization that had its center in the modern-day Tunisia	Carthage	80%
N	Only European colonial power without a colony in Africa in the 19th century	Netherlands	80%
O	Caliphate that controlled much of the northern coast of Africa after the 15th century until the beginning of the 19th century	{Ottoman} Empire	78%
V	Plastic horn that was used in the 2010 FIFA World Cup	Vuvuzela	58%
J	Religion that once was big in Ethiopia	Judaism	56%
L	Nickname for the oldest bone fossils founded in Ethiopia	Lucy	53%
S	Ethiopian emperor that is a central figure in Rastafari	Haile Selassie	52%
G	Colonial name of Ghana	Gold Coast	51%
H	Type of financial disaster that hit Zimbabwe	Hyperinflation	51%
M	King of Mali Empire who once was the wealthiest man in the world	Mansa Musa	49%
B	People that migrated to Southern Africa from Cameroon around 1000 BC	Bantu	48%
E	Site of a WWII battle that was a turning point in the African campaign	El Alamein	45%
Y	City that replaced Douala as country's national capital in 1920	Yaoundé	45%
T	Moroccan city that used to be an international zone	Tangier	42%
W	What the "Second Congo War" is also known as	African {World} {War}	38%
K	First president of Kenya	Jomo Kenyatta	38%
X	Longest-running military action in the history of African colonialism	{Xhosa} Wars	34%
F	South African province that used to be an independent Boer republic	Free State	25%