Geography: Africa Jeopardy Template

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Animals

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Deserts

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Grasslands

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Jungles

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Mountains & Coastlines

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Celebrations

100

What animal is known as the "King of the Jungle"?

A) Lions

B) Tigers

C) George

A) Lions

100

What is the world's largest desert on Earth?

A) The Gobi Desert

B) The Sahara Desert

C) The Siberian Desert

B) The Sahara Desert. It's almost the size of the United States.

100

What national preserve is home to the biggest and wildest animals in Africa, including the Cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhinoceros?

A) Masai Mara National Reserve

B) Serengeti National Park

C) Disney's Animal Kingdom

A) Masai Mara National Reserve

100

What is the longest river in Africa and the disputed longest river in the world?

A) The Amazon River

B) The Mississippi River

C) The Nile River

100

Tanzania is home to the tallest mountain in Africa. What is this mountain's name?

A) Mount Everest

B) Mount Kilimanjaro

C) Mount Sinai

B) Mount Kilimanjaro

100

True or False: Africa is the second largest continent on Earth in terms of landmass?

A) True

B) False

A) True. It's approximately 11.7 million square miles.

200

What is the world's fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds of up to 70 mph.

A) Cheetahs

B) Crocodiles

C) Zebras

A) Cheetahs

200

How many pyramids have been discovered in Egypt...so far?

A) 13

B) 30

C) 130

C) Over 130 pyramids. The largest Egyptian pyramid is the Pyramid of Khufu, located at Giza.

200

In Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania, what can you spot up in the trees?

A) Gorillas

B) Hyenas

C) Lions

200

At 355 feet high, what is the tallest waterfall in Africa?

A) Niagara Falls

B) Iguazu Falls

C) Victoria Falls

200

What mountain located on the equator actually has glaciers at the top of its peak?

A) Mount Kenya

B) Mount Kilimanjaro

C) Mount Sinai

A) Mount Kenya

200

When is the Kwanzaa holiday celebrated?

A) November 26th -- December 1st

B) December 21st -- December 27th

C) December 26th -- January 1st

300

True or False: The African Elephant is the largest living land animal?

A) True

B) False

A) True

300

In Morocco what are thought to be around places with water, such as public baths, drains, sinks, and even pots and pans?

A) Cobras

B) Genies

C) Mosquitos

B) Genies (or "Jjinns")

300

Kenya only has 2 seasons each year. What two seasons are those?

A) A Hot Season and a Cold Season

B) A Rainy Season and a Dry Season

C) A Stormy Season and a Calm Season

B) A Rainy Season and a Dry Season

300

What is both the second largest freshwater lake in the world, and is the largest lake in Africa?

A) Lake Michigan

B) Lake Victoria

C) Crystal Lake

B) Lake Victoria. It is also the source of the Nile River.

300

What is the world's fourth largest island after Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo?

A) Hawai'i

B) Madagascar

C) Gilligan's

B0 Madagascar. Nearly 90% of the plants and animals found here are found nowhere else on Earth.

300

Kwanzaa is a Swahili word that means what?

A) Happy Holidays

B) African Roots

C) First Fruits

400

What is the tallest living terrestrial animal?

A) The Cheetah

B) The Elephant

C) The Giraffe

400

In 1977, George Lucas picked the desert of Tunisia for his setting for what famous film series?

A) Indiana Jones

B) The Lord of the Rings

C) Star Wars

400

Every year in Kenya, the great wildebeest migration starts in what month?

A) December

B) July

C) March

A) December. An estimated 750,000 zebra followed by 1.2 million wildebeest travel 500 miles to the Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya.

400

The Kakum National Park in Ghana is known for its canopy walkway that is how high above the forest floor?

A) 58 feet

B) 98 feet

C) 1,080 feet

B) 98 feet. The park has over 250 species of native birds, and over 500 species of butterflies.

400

The coastline of the Red Sea is one of Sudan's most beautiful natural wonders. What natural wonder is that?

A) Coral Reefs

B) Tropical Rainforests

C) White Sandy Beaches

A) Coral Reefs

400

Egyptians built underground tombs for their kings. People placed clothes, furniture, and food next to the kings' bodies for the afterlife. What is the name for this famous site called?

A) The Fertile Crescent

B) The Rift Valley

C) The Valley of the Kings

500

What is inside a camel's hump?

A) Air

B) Fat

C) Water

B) Fat.

If the dromedary camel does not eat, its hump gets smaller, since they use the fat to fuel its body.

500

The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco is the largest mosque in the world, and it has enough space for how many worshippers?

A) Over 80,000

B) Over 25,000

C) Under 25,000

A) Over 80,000

500

In Tanzania's Olduval Gorge, the world's earliest what was found?

A) Dinosaur Fossil

B) Human Skull

C) Meteorite

B) Human Skull

500

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda is famous due to the fact that roughly half of the world's endangered what live there?

A) Mountain Goats

B) Mountain Gorillas

C) Mountain Oysters

B) Mountain Gorillas

500

What animal would you be surprised to learn lived in parts of Africa?

A) Arctic Foxes

B) Penguins

C) Polar Bears

B) Penguins. The African black-footed penguin lives on the coast of South Africa.

500

The Kwanzaa holiday began in 1966 as a way to celebrate whose heritage?

A) African-Americans

B) Asian-Americans

C) Jewish-Americans

A) African-American

600

What is the world's deadliest large land mammal; killing an estimated 500 people per year in Africa?

A) Gorillas

B) Hippos

C) Lions

B) Hippos

600

Of the 7 ancient wonders, what are the only ones to have survived to present day?

A) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

B) The Library of Alexandria

C) The Pyramids of Giza

600

What animated Disney movie takes place in the Grasslands of Africa?

A) Bambi

B) The Lion King

C) Zootopia

B) The Lion King

600

Each October, about eight million fruit bats arrive. In what part of Africa can you observe this largest mammal migration in the world?

A) Egypt

B) Kenya

C) Zambia

600

Mount Sinai is a special place to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. According to legend, people believe this to be the place where Moses received what?

A) The Bill of Rights

B) The Ten Commandments

C) A Golden Calf

B) The Ten Commandments

600

As part of a coming-of-age ritual, each Maasai boy must kill a what?

A) A Crocodile

B) A Elephant

C) A Lion