Flags
Capitals and Landmarks
Music and Films
Cuisine and Culture
Languages/ Slang Origins
100
Name this flag
What is Nigeria?
100
The Massive, ancient pyramids of Giza sit right on the outskirts of this major North African capital city.
What is Cairo?
100
In this 2005 DreamWorks animated film, four pampered Central Park Zoo animals — Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippo — accidentally end up shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar.
What is Madagascar?
100
North African staple consists of small, steamed granules of rolled durum wheat semolina, traditionally served with a stew on top
What is Couscous?
100
This South African slang word, used to mean "hello" or "how's it going," is one of the most widely recognized terms from South African youth culture.
What is "howzit"?
200
The flag of this country has three vertical colors: green, yellow and red from left to right with a green star at the center.
What is Senegal?
200
This capital of Kenya is famous for having a national park of wild lions and rhinos right outside its skyscrapers.
What is Nairobi?
200
This Nigerian genre, blending West African rhythms with hip-hop and R&B, gave the world stars like Burna Boy and Wizkid.
What is Afrobeats?
200
This spongy "flatbread" is base food and the main utensil for eating stews in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine
What is Injera?
200
his language, with over 100 million native speakers, is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Nigeria and one of the official languages of the country, along with Igbo and Hausa.
What is Yoruba?
300
Name this flag.
What is Madagascar?
300
This Capital of Ethiopia is widely known as the political capital of Africa and features the landmark Holy Trinity Cathedral.
What is Addis Ababa?
300
This 2018 Marvel film, largely set in the fictional nation of Wakanda, became a cultural phenomenon and earned Best Picture nomination.
What is Black Panther?
300
This Nigerian film inudstry is the second largest in the world by film output, behind only India's Bollywood.
What is Nollywood?
300
This Nigerian slang term, meaning to show off or flaunt one's wealth and style, blew up internationally thanks to Afrobeats lyrics and social media.
What is "shakara" (or "flexing")?
400
The flag of this country has three horizontal solid colors as red, black and green with a white crescent and star at the center.
What is Libya?
400
Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, towers over the country whose official capital is Dodoma.
What is Tanzania?
400
This South African music genre, originating in Soweto in the 2010s, blends deep house with African percussion and soulful vocals — Black Coffee is one of its biggest global stars.
What is Amapiano?
400
This colorful, patterned fabric is orginally hand-woven by the Ashanti people of Ghana, and is commonly seen as a symbol of African identity and pride.
What is Kente cloth?
400
This East African lingua franca, an official language of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, blends Bantu grammar with Arabic vocabulary and is spoken by over 100 million people across the region.
What is Swahili?
500
This landlocked nation's flag features a traditional black and white shield along with two spears.
What is Eswatini (Swaziland)?
500
This flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town is often considered one of the New7Wonders of Nature.
What is Table Mountain?
500
This Oscar-winning South African film, a 2005 gang drama set in the slums of Johannesburg, follows a young criminal who unexpectedly finds himself caring for an infant.
What is Tsotsi?
500
This traditional, slow-cooked Moroccan stew shares its name with the pot it is cooked in.
What is a Tajine?
500
This South African language, one of 11 official languages, uses distinctive click consonants and is the mother tongue of Nelson Mandela.
What is Xhosa?