Free African Trivia Questions With Answers

 

Which 100-mile long waterway links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?
A: Suez Canal.

In which country is the Aswan Dam?
A: Egypt.

Which country has the rand as its currency?
A: South Africa.

What does ANC stand for?
A: African National Congress.

Where would you look for the best free African trivia questions with answers?
A: Trivia Country!

Who was the Egyptian king whose tomb and treasures were discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922?
A: Tutankhamen.

Which volcano in Tanzania is the highest mountain in Africa?
A: Kilimanjaro.

Which country, bordering Zaire, takes its name from the former name of the Zaire river?
A: Congo.

Which is the second longest river in Africa?
A: Zaire, formerly Congo.

What is the name shared by the currency units of "Algeria and Tunisia?
A: Dinar.

What is the capital of Kenya?
A: Nairobi.

Which country is the island of Zanzibar part of?
A: Tanzania.

What is the capital of Sierra Leone?
A: Freetown.

Who was Zambia's first president?
A: Kenneth Kaunda.

Name the East African country which lies on the Equator.
A: Kenya.

What appears in the middle of the Rwandan flag?
A: A letter R.

Which country includes the Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa-Fulani peoples?
A: Nigeria.

Who was the founder of the Back to Africa movement who largely inspired Rastafarianism?
A: Marcus Garvey.

At which town in the Sudan do the White and Blue Niles join?
A :Khartoum.

In which country did King Hassan II ascend the throne in 1961?
A: Morocco.

In which country are Tangier and Casablanca?
A: Morocco.

The flag of Libya is a plain rectangle of which color?
A: Green.

From which European country did Angola achieve independence in 1975?
A: Portugal.

Mount Toubkai is the highest peak of which range of mountains?
A: Atlas Mountains.

Which South African politician won the Nobel peace Prize in 1960?
A: Albert Luthuli.

In which township were 69 demonstrators killed by South "African police in March 1960?
A: Sharpeville.

Afrikaans is a variety of which European language?
A: Dutch.

What is the former name of the People's Republic of Benin?
A: Dohomey.

Which country unilaterally declared independence in November 1965?
A: Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

What is Africa's largest country?
A: Sudan.

Which African country is sandwiched between Ghana and Benin?
A: Togo.

Which country is the home of the Ashanti?
A: Ghana.

Which country was called Upper Volta until 1984?
A: Burkina Faso.

Which explorer was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope?
A: Bartolomeu Diaz.

In which country are the towns of Gweru and Kwekwe?
A: Zimbabwe.

Where did Idi Amin rule from 1971 -1979?
A: Uganda.

Who was the Egyptian president who was assassinated in 1981?
A: Sadat.

Which British general was killed at Khartoum in 1885?
A: Gordon.

Which country mainly makes up the Horn of Africa?
A: Somalia.

In which country are the ruins of ancient Carthage?
A: Tunisia.

In which country does the White Nile leave Lake Victoria?
A: Uganda.

What are the two main arms of the River Nile called?
A: Blue Nile; White Nile.

Which actor won an Academy Award for his performance in The African Queen?
A: Humphrey Bogart.

On the border of which two countries is the Victoria Falls?
A: Zambia and  Zimbabwe.

Who was the woman sentenced to six years in jail after the murder of Stompei Seipi?
A: Winnie Mandela.

Which African explorer translated the Arabian Nights?
A: Richard Burton.

After which American President is the capital of Liberia named?
A: James Monroe.

What is the name of the volcanic valley that runs from the Sinai peninsula to central Mozambique?
A: Great Rift Valley.

In which country were the Mau-0Mau a secret guerrilla movement?
A: Kenya.

Who was the Danish author of Out of Africa?
A: Karen Blixen.

Which new city in Nigeria has been shaped like a crescent, and has replaced Lagos as capital?
A: Abuja.

The Zambezi and which other river define the borders of Matabeleland?
A: Limpopo.

In and around which desert do the Bushmen live?
A: Kalahari.


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