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Question 1: Where is the southernmost point in Africa?

Question 2: Which country borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south- west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west?

Question 3: Outside Africa, in which country do you find the largest population of direct African descendants?

Question 4: What do these African singers: Youssou N’dour, Cesaria Evora & Ladysmith Black Mambazo have in common ?

Who said : “I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die” Question 5:

Question 6: Where was the first University ever built in Africa?

Question 7: Which movie received the Oscar for “Best Foreign Language” movie during the 78th Academy awards on March 5, 2006 ?

Question 8: In which language is the famous Walt Disney’s theme for the Lion King « Hakuna Matata » ?

Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal (1696 – 1781), was abducted from his native Eritrea at the age of 7, taken to live in Istanbul as a slave, then sent as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great. He later became major general, military engineer and governor of Reval. He is better known as the great grand father of which famous writer ? Question 9:

Question 10: In 1415, the king of Malindi, Kenya, sent a present to the emperor of China, which the Chinese, impressed, referred to as a "celestial unicorn". What kind of gift was it?

Question 11: Name: 1.the first African country to gain independence 2.the last one, and 3.the only one that was never colonized

Question 12: Which European avant- garde artistic movement was greatly inspired by African art? Face Mask, Fang (Gabon). Wood. 19th/20th C

Question 13: The Rastafari movement is a religious movement that emerged in Jamaica in the early 1930s and has now more than one million adepts. Its most famous representative was Bob Marley, the reggae singer. What did the word Rastafari initially refer to ?

Question 14: How many Africans have won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Question 15: Where did the first Pan - African Congress meet, on July 23, 1900? WEB Dubois

Question 16: Which countries share Victoria Lake?

Question 17: Which animal looks like a stumpy giraffe with zebra-like stripes on the rear legs, has a 35 cm long tongue that allows it to lick its own eyelids, and can only be found in the DRC forest?

Question 18: Which is the only country in the world, where all its citizens speak one language?

Question 19: Which African politician made headlines last year for evading prosecution by jumping bail, dressing in drag and returning home in a canoe?

Question 20: What do Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Angola and Tunisia have in common?

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