What's your Africa IQ? Find out what you know by answering the following questions

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1. WHAT 2006 ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING MOVIE BECAME THE FIRST MAINSTREAM MOTION PICTURE TO BE FILMED ENTIRELY ON LOCATION IN UGANDA?

a. Blood Diamond

b. Babel

c. Pirates of the Caribbean

d. The Last King of Scotland

2. HOW ACCURATE WAS THE WRITER EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' DEPICTION OF SENEGAL IN THE NOVEL TARZAN?

a. Very accurate. Because of Burroughs, I want to visit the homeland.

b. Tarzan didn't take place in Senegal. It was Nigeria!

c. Entertaining read, but no truth to it at all.

d. Slightly accurate, except that Tarzan took place in Brazil!

3. ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF IS THE FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED FEMALE PRESIDENT OF WHAT AFRICAN COUNTRY?

a. South Africa

b. Botswana

c. Mozambique

d. Liberia

4. WHAT AFRICAN COUNTRY IS COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY SOUTH AFRICA?

a. Zimbabwe

b. Namibia

c. Lesotho

d. Angola

5. TRUE OR FALSE: AFRICA IS LOSING ITS ENVIRONMENTALLY PROTECTED BIG GAME ANIMALS TO DINERS IN PARIS AND LONDON?

6. WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE WORLD'S LARGEST SUPPLY OF PLATINUM MINES?

a. Russia

b. Lesotho

c. Zimbabwe

d. South Africa

7. WHAT AFRICAN COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED BY AFRICAN-AMERICANS?

a. Congo

b. Ethiopia

c. Niger

d. Liberia

8. HOW MUCH MONEY DID SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER SOLOMON LINDA MAKE FROM CREATING "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT," THE HIT SONG FEATURED IN DISNEY'S INTERNATIONAL HIT THE LION KING?

a. 10 shillings

b. $5,000

c. Zero

d. $2.3 million, plus rights for all future Broadway productions of The Lion King

9. WHICH TWO OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRITIES WERE NOT BORN IN AFRICA?

a. Chiwetel Ejiofor

b. Djimon Hounsou

c. Idris Elba

d. Youssou NDour

10. WHICH OF THESE CITIES IS NOT IN AFRICA?

a. Cairo

b. Dar Es Salaam

c. Tripoli

d. Pretoria

e. Mumbai

11. MT. KILAMANJARO IS IN WHAT AFRICAN COUNTRY?

a. Tanzania

b. Kenya

c. Uganda

d. Ghana

12. WHAT IS THE LARGEST COUNTRY IN AFRICA?

a. Egypt

b. South Africa

c. Sudan

d. Nigeria

13. SUPERMODEL IMAN IS FROM WHAT AFRICAN COUNTRY?

a. Ethiopia

b. Sudan

c. Somalia

d. Chad

14. THE ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILM CASABLANCA, STARRING HUMPHREY BOGART AND INGRID BERGMAN, WAS SET IN WHAT COUNTRY?

a. Morocco

b. Algeria

c. Mali

d. Sierra Leone

15. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES IS AN ISLAND?

a. Ivory Coast

b. Madagascar

c. Cameroon

d. Libya

16. DARFUR IS THE SITE OF A BRUTAL CIVIL WAR THAT HAS CLAIMED MORE THAN A MILLION LIVES. BUT WHERE IN AFRICA IS DARFUR?

a. Rwanda

b. Sudan

c. Congo

d. Uganda

17. HALE SELASSIE, THE FATHER OF RASTAFARIANS, WAS FROM WHAT COUNTRY?

a. Jamaica

b. Somalia

c. Ethiopia

d. Egypt

18. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ANIMALS ARE NOT NATIVE TO AFRICA?

a. Gorillas

b. Lions

c. Elephants

d. Tigers

19. TO WHICH COUNTRY DID ROOTS AUTHOR ALEX HALEY TRACE HIS AFRICAN ANCESTRY?

a. Ghana

b. South Africa

c. Gambia

d. Ivory Coast

20. AFRICA IS LOCATED BETWEEN WHAT TWO OCEANS?

a. Indian Ocean

b. Pacific Ocean

c. Atlantic Ocean

d. Arctic Ocean

Answers To Africa Quiz

1. D. The Last King of Scotland

2 C. Burroughs was rumored to have never visited Africa.

3. D. She was elected in 2005.

4. C. Lesotho

5. True. The African Journal of Ecology says European dinner palates play a part in killing kob antelopes.

6. D. South Africa has 85 percent of the world's platinum reserves.

7. D. Liberia

8. A. Solomon Linda wrote the 1939 song, originally titled "Mbube" (or lion in Zulu) and licensed it for 10 shillings to a South African label. He died in 1962, his family poor and destitute. But the Linda family launched a copyright lawsuit, and in 2006 won $1.6 million in royalties.

9. A and C. Actors Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor were born in England. Elbe is of West African descent, and Ejiofor is of Nigerian descent. Hounsou is an actor originally from Benin. NDour is a pre-eminent Senegalese musician.

10. E. Mumbai is in India.

11. A. Tanzania

12. C. Sudan

13. C. Somalia

14. A. Morocco

15. B. Madagascar

16. B. Sudan

17. C. Ethiopia

18. D. Tigers are native to Asia, but a new program releases Chinese Tigers into Africa to help the rare animals increase in population.

19. C. Gambia

20. A and C

Scoring Your Africa IQ

If you got ...

* 17 to 20 answers right, congratulations! You've got the basics down pat!

* 12 to 16 answers right, good try.

* 9 to 12 answers right, time to pay more attention to news from Africa.

* 4 to 9 answers right, better hit the library.

* 0 to 4 answers correct, consider hiring a tutor, or learn more about Africa in this and future issues of EBONY magazine.

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