History
What country gained independence on July 9, 2011
South Sudan
Which two national parks host the Great Migration in the neighbouring countries of Kenya and Tanzania?( must give both)
Serengeti and Maasai Mara
What valuable metal has the chemical symbol,Au, from its Latin name "aurum."
Gold
Which Kenyan athlete set the official marathon world record with a time of 1:59:30 at the London Marathon on April 26, 2026?
Sabastian Sawe
What is the name of the spongy, sour flatbread made from teff flour that is typically used to scoop up stews instead of using utensils in Ethiopia and Eriteria?
injera
Which country celebrates Uhuru Day as their day of independence from the British?
Tanzania
What is the longest freshwater lake in the world and the second-deepest located in Tanzania?
Lake Tanganyika
What gas produced by incomplete combustion is known as the ,"Invisible Killer" because it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless and therefore undetectable to humans?
Carbon Monocide( CO)
Which country was Mo Farah,the Olympic gold medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m between 2012 and 2016, from?
Somalia
What is the name of the popular Tanzanian music genre that blends hip-hop and R&B with Swahili lyrics and Diamond Platnumz is one of its most internationally recognized stars.
Answer:
Bongo Flava
Who is the youngest Kabaka(King) of Buganda who took the thrown at 18 years old in August 1914,
Ssekabaka Daudi Chwa II or King Daudi
What is the name of the depression in Ethiopia that sits at 100 meters below sea level contains the active lava lake volcano Erta Ale and acidic Dallol hydrothermal field?
the Danakil Depression
What is the largest individual muscle in the human body by mass?
Glutes / Gluteus maximus
Which country's national basketball team in known as," The Silverbacks" and made its debut at the FIBA Africa Championship in 2015
Uganda
Who is the Ethiopian emperor who became a central figure to the Jamaican religion of Rastafarianism?
Haile Selassie I
Which country experienced the day of the Rangers also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident in 1993?
Somalia
Which country was terrorised by the man eating crocodile nicknamed Gustave, weighing 2,000 lb and 20 feet long, and killed 300 people along the Ruzizi river
Burundi
What is the hypothetical boundary around a black hole marks the point past which nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitational pull?
the event horizon
Who is the South Sudanese player drafted by the Denver Nuggets in 2019 to play centre just like his father Manute Bol ?
Bol Bol
Which Ugandan politician under the stage name," Ginger" had his song "Kiwani" featured on the soundtrack for the Disney movie Queen of Katwe?
Bobi Wine
Which Rwandan president was assassinated in plane crash in 1994 triggering the Rwandan genocide?
Juvénal Habyarimana
Which country hosts the Mosque of the Companions (Masjid aṣ-Ṣaḥābah) in the city of Massawa which is the oldest mosque in Africa built around 613–615 CE?
Eriteria
The roughly 3.2-million-year-old fossil named Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle, belonged to which early species of human beings ?
Australopithecus
Which country is Biniam Girmay, the first Black African to win a Tour De Fance stage in 2024, from ?
Eriteria
According to Greek historian Herodotus, it is rumoured that King Menelik ,the founder of the Ethiopian Empire, was the son of Queen Sheba and which Old Testament king of Israel?