African Geography

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1. In which country would you find the city of Fez?
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2. What is the only country that is located in both the continents of Asia and Africa?
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3. What country is central to the books Out of Africa and The Green Hills of Africa?
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4. What Sudanese citys name literally means elephants trunk?
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5. What fresh water lake is the main water source for the river Nile?
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6. What is Africas highest mountain?
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7. What flat-topped mountain overlooks Cape Town, South Africa?
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8. What valley separates East Africa from the rest of the continent?
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9. What desert spans Botswana, Namibia and South Africa?
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10. How many continents border the Mediterranean Sea?
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11. In what modern Mediterranean country is the site of ancient Carthage?
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12. What country was Julius Caesar referring to with the famous words I came, I saw, I conquered?
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13. Including white, how many colours appear on the flag of South Africa?
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14. What is the capital of Libya?
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15. What is the capital of Nigeria?
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16. What is the currency of Egypt?
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17. What is the longest river in the world?
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18. What is the name of the legendary ghost ship captained by a Dutch mariner who is eternally doomed to sail around the Cape of Good Hope?
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19. Which mountain range spans northern Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia?
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20. In which city does the Blue Nile meet the White Nile?
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21. The Orange river flows into the Atlantic Ocean between which two southern African countries?
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22. If you were visiting the zebra, giraffe, and elephants at Serengeti National Park, what mountain could you see in the distance.
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23. Into what body of water does the Nile flow?
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24. What country is Casablanca in?
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25. What country is Mount Kilimanjaro in?
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26. What is the capital of the Ivory Coast?
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27. Which large island in the Indian Ocean has Antananarivo (Ann-tan-an-a-rivo) as its capital?
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28. What is the currency of Egypt?
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29. Which sea separates Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
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30. What famous waterfall carries the world’s largest amount of falling water?
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1. What Egyptian president sent his troops to attack the Suez Canal on October 6, 1973?
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2. What was the name of the system of laws enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1990?
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3. Who overthrew President Milton Obote of Uganda in January 1971?
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4. Which former Egyptian president co-won the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize?
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5. What black-listed country returned to the Commonwealth in 1994 after an absence of 33 years?
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6. What are the first names of Mr.Ghali, former UN Secretary-General?
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7. What does the Afrikaans word apartheid mean?
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8. Which war was a conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire, the allied Transvaal and the Orange Free State?
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9. Name the narrow, 25-mile-long strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea that Israel captured from Egypt in the 1967 War.
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10. What two men shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize?
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11. What country saw 21 people die from bomb blasts in the days before its first truly democratic election in 1994?
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1. What games international governing body is known as FIFA?
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2. Which Hollywood star flys his own Boeing 707, a former Qantas plane?
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