African history quiz
Kush, Aksum, the Mali Empire, Great Zimbabwe, the slave trades, colonisation, independence and apartheid: a quiz on African history, from the Maghreb to the Cape.
- 347 questions
- 35 answers given
- 40% correct answers
A taste of it
A few questions from this quiz, without the answers: you will find out by playing.
What sentence did Nelson Mandela receive at the 1964 Rivonia trial?
- Twenty years of hard labor
- Fifteen years in prison
- Life imprisonment
- The death penalty
Which July 1879 battle ended the Anglo-Zulu War?
- Ulundi
- Isandlwana
- Blood River
- Kambula
Which group of French Protestant refugees arrived at the Cape from 1688 and developed winegrowing there?
- The Jansenists
- The Jesuits
- The Acadians
- The Huguenots
According to Herodotus, which pharaoh sent Phoenician sailors around Africa about 600 BC?
- Ptolemy I
- Ramesses II
- Psamtik I
- Necho II
Above which Scottish town did a bomb aboard a Pan Am Boeing kill 270 people in 1988?
- Dundee
- Lockerbie
- Inverness
- Aberdeen
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