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Exploring Africa: A Quiz on Film and Culture

Test your knowledge about the movie 'Africa' and explore the cultural and linguistic diversity of the continent through this engaging quiz.

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1 What role did Minas Konstadopoulos play in the movie Africa?

2 Who played Kellerman in the movie Africa?

3 What role did Patrick Bergin play in the movie Africa?

4 Who played Josh Sinclair in the movie Africa?

5 The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout the ________, North Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia.

6 [10] ________ were significant herbivores in its ancient ecosystems.

7 What role did Aias Manthopoulos play in the movie Africa?

8 Who played Victoria 'Vicky' Young in the movie Africa?

9 [41] The largest powers of West Africa: the ________, the Kingdom of Dahomey, and the Oyo Empire, adopted different ways of adapting to the shift.

10 In numerous countries, English and French (see ________) are used for communication in the public sphere such as government, commerce, education and the media.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre, which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa.
  • the African and Malagasy Union was a former intergovernmental organization created to promote cooperation among African states, but went defunct in 1985.
  • the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa.
  • the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, which began operating in 1854.
  • the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species.
  • the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage.
  • the West African trade union centre CGTA, a splinter-group of the French CGT, rejected the notion of class struggle, stating that there were no antagonistic classes in Africa.
  • the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa.
  • the Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America.
  • the African city of Careysburg, Liberia, hosted a large transmitter for Voice of America, the official external broadcasting service of the United States federal government.
  • the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans.
  • the larvae (pictured) and pupae of African beetles in the genus Diamphidia are used by Bushmen to prepare arrow poisons.
  • the Polish interbellum organization Maritime and Colonial League‎ promoted Polish colonies and settlements in Africa and South America.
  • the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa.
  • the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, for achievements in medical research and services to combat diseases in Africa, is named after a Japanese scientist whose portrait can be found on recent ¥1000 banknotes.
  • the Métro léger de Tunis (pictured), a public transport system using light rail, is the only one of its kind in Africa.
  • the largest African crocodile, the Nile crocodile, is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified, and worshipped as gods.
  • the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa's third-largest Chinese population.
  • the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs.
  • the resort town Arniston, Western Cape near Cape Agulhas, the southern-most tip of Africa, was named after Arniston, an East Indiaman that shipwrecked in the vicinity in 1815.
  • while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic, making her Africa's first female head of government.
  • the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda.
  • the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer.
  • the ancient marketplace of Rhapta on the east African coast is believed to have been an important link in bringing the spices cinnamon and cassia west by merchants.
  • the Niger stingray and the pincushion ray are the only two freshwater stingrays found in Africa.
  • the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa.
  • the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
  • the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion.
  • the Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide.
  • the United States Africa Command, the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt.
  • the African mustard Subularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake on Mount Elgon at 4,150 meters (13,620 ft) high.
  • the 1402 Korean Kangnido map fully depicts the Old World, from Europe and Africa to Japan, long before European explorations.
  • Kalulu (pictured), an African boy who died in 1877, was modelled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London.
  • Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway's first television correspondent stationed in an African country.
  • Lott Cary was an African American slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822.
  • Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
  • Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa.
  • Pointe des Almadies (pictured) is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa.
  • Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa.
  • freak waves are common near Cape Algulhas off the southern tip of Africa.
  • advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003.
  • 800 metres runner Andrew Hart was the fastest non-African in his event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
  • German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis.
  • Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman.
  • Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid–19th century in search of the source of the Nile.
  • Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa.
  • Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados.
  • Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa.
  • despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco.
  • Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria.
  • excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti.
  • in the 1890s, Moloundou, Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa".
  • on Africa’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands.
  • in the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program.
  • Varanus albigularis (pictured), a species of monitor lizard found in southern Africa, may be able to count as high as six.
  • Genlisea margaretae, a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa, has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome.
  • Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games.
  • The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences.
  • WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs.
  • Yunfa, a 19th-century ruler of the Africa kingdom of Gobir, made a personal attempt on the life of Fulani reformer Usman dan Fodio, triggering the Fulani War.
  • Ancistrochilus rothschildianus is a species of semi-terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics.
  • "Bitaqat Khub" is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country.
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