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African history trivia

Kush, Aksum, the Mali Empire, Great Zimbabwe, the slave trades, colonization, independence and apartheid. Trivia on the history of Africa, from the Maghreb down to the Cape.

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  1. 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
  2. Which July 1879 battle ended the Anglo-Zulu War?

    • Ulundi
    • Isandlwana
    • Blood River
    • Kambula
  3. Which group of French Protestant refugees arrived at the Cape from 1688 and developed winegrowing there?

    • The Jansenists
    • The Jesuits
    • The Acadians
    • The Huguenots
  4. According to Herodotus, which pharaoh sent Phoenician sailors around Africa about 600 BC?

    • Ptolemy I
    • Ramesses II
    • Psamtik I
    • Necho II
  5. 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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