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Exploring Ghana: A Quiz on Geography, History, and Culture

Test your knowledge about Ghana's geography, history, and culture with this engaging quiz.

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1 What timezone is Ghana in during daylight savings?

2 The Gold Coast was known for centuries as 'The White Man's Grave' because many of the Europeans who went there died of ________ and other tropical diseases.

3 How many square miles is Ghana in area?

4 What type of government does Ghana have?

5 What is the area of Ghana in square km?

6 What % of the area of Ghana is water?

7 What are people from Ghana known as?

8 What is the currency of Ghana?

9 The Constitution of 1992 prohibited him from running for a third term, so his party, the National Democratic Congress, chose his Vice President, ________, to run against the opposition parties.

10 It also contains much of Ghana's oil palms and ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking-related charges.
  • forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region.
  • communities of the Dagaaba people of Ghana in the 1990s still used cowrie shells as an alternate currency, long after they had been replaced elsewhere by the Ghanaian cedi.
  • the elephants of Mole National Park, Ghana (pictured) do more damage to the economically important trees of the park than to less valuable species.
  • the bark of the African tree Bombax buonopozense is burnt in Ghana to drive away evil spirits.
  • the salt industry sector of Ghana aims to compete with Brazil and Australia in supplying salt to western Africa.
  • the Ghana Navy was established under British Royal Navy command and headed by D. A. Foreman, a retired British officer commissioned as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore.
  • akuaba are dolls, traditionally carried on the backs of Ghanian women who want to conceive.
  • Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana.
  • Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later.
  • Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade.
  • Albert Adu Boahen, an academic at the University of Ghana, challenged former head of state of Ghana Jerry Rawlings in the presidential election of 1992.
  • Kwame "The Snow Leopard" Nkrumah-Acheampong is the first Ghanaian to qualify for the Winter Olympics.
  • Osu Castle (pictured) is the seat of government in Ghana.
  • Salaga in northern Ghana was once one of the biggest slave markets in West Africa.
  • Robert Kotei, then Ghana's high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military coup against the NRC government, only to be executed years later after a successful coup against his own SMC government.
  • "Tuesday's Child", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City, was filmed entirely on location in Ghana.
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