Geography
Apartheid
Economy
Countries
Ancient Cultures
Imperialism
At the Movies
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
McGee Teachers
100
The main land feature of southern Africa.
What are plateaus?
100
A government policy with force of law that separated persons in South Africa by race and origin.
What is Apartheid?
100
Precious items exported by South Africa.
What are gold and diamonds?
100
The enclave in South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
100
A people who built an empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Shona?
100
When the Europeans arrived in the region.
What is the 1400s?
100
A 1994 movie about a cub named Simba.
What is Lion King?
100
The language in southern Africa marked by pops and clicks.
What is Khoisan?
100
A country surrounded completely by another, different country.
What is an enclave?
100
A CCSU Hall of Fame runner.
Who is Mr. Keefe?
200
A steep face on the edge of a plateau.
What is an escarpment?
200
The meaning of the word "Apartheid".
What is "apartness" or "separateness"?
200
How ancient empires became rich and powerful.
What is trade?
200
A country that is one of Africa's success stories.
What is Botswana?
200
The tribal affiliation (ethnicity) of the people who built an empire in the 1400s.
What is Bantu?
200
It's always about money.
Why do countries engage in imperialism?
200
The actor who provided the voice for Lockwood in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs".
Who is Bill Hader?
200
A country in southern Africa made up of four tiny islands.
What is Comoros?
200
The river with a large inland delta.
What is the Okvango River?
200
The Chess Club adviser, the Boys Soccer coach and the Softball coach.
Who is Mr. Beaupre?
300
Pans.
What are low, flat areas that drained the Kalahari?
300
The number of divisions in the population under Apartheid.
What is four?
300
It drove the economy of the region until 1830.
What is slavery?
300
A country in southern Africa that was ruled for over 20 years by a socialist dictator, its income comes from exports of coffee, vanilla, sugar and cloves.
What is Madagascar?
300
The greatest artifact of pre-European culture in southern Africa.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
300
The specific Europeans who arrived in southern Africa in the 1400s.
Who are the Portuguese?
300
The King of Halloweentown.
Who is Jack Skellington?
300
The disease that affects millions in southern Africa.
What is HIV?
300
To carry out a plan; to put into effect.
What is the definition of execute?
300
A 6th grade teacher and former marathon runner.
Who is Mrs. Connolly?
OR
Who is Mrs. Botticello?
400
Depending on wind, it may rain on one side only.
What is an effect of rain on mountains?
400
How other countries protested the policy of racial segregation in South Africa.
What are sanctions?
400
A popular tourist destination in South Africa, it sits next to Table Mountain.
What is Capetown?
400
The country that gained its independence from South Africa in 1990.
What is Namibia?
400
The modern day countries of Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
What was the territory of Great Zimbabwe?
400
The second group of Europeans to arrive in southern Africa.
Who are the Dutch?
400
What Skrat is always chasing.
What is an acorn?
400
A political or economic penalty.
What is a sanction?
400
The world's smallest country; it's an example of an enclave.
What is Vatican City?
400
The trombone player in the band "Locomotion".
Who is Mr. Urso?
500
Timber and water for hydroelectric power.
What are Madagascar's resources?
500
Jailed for protesting Apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
It is a small country and has few resources and little agricultural land.
Why is Lesotho poor?
500
The country with a program to take farmland away from white citizens.
What is Zimbabwe?
500
Proof that Great Zimbabwe traded far and wide.
What is Chinese Pottery?
500
The correct name for the South Africans of European origin.
What is Afrikaners?
500
Mr. Fox's wife in "Fantastic Mr. Fox".
Who is Felicity?
500
A mountain range with a name that means "Dragon City".
What are the Drakensberg Mountains?
500
Where Elon Musk was born.
What is South Africa?
500
Our vice principal
Who is Mr. Constant?
600
A danger to Madagascar's animals.
What is "deforestation"?
600
The rights that black South Africans had in white areas.
What is none?
600
Important metal resources in South Africa.
What are gold, platinum and chromium?
600
An island country off the coast of Africa.
What is Madagascar?
600
It made Great Zimbabwe unique and shows the lie in the idea that Africans had not achieved greatness before the arrival of the Europeans.
What are stone walls and stone buildings?
600
A farmer of European origin who resisted the British in South Africa.
What is a Boer?
600
The country of origin for the Mousekewitz family?
What is Russia?
600
A word meaning "of the coast", it's the name our text uses for Muslim Africans living on the coast of southern East Africa.
What is Swahili?
600
The first movie to use the phrase "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." (The phrase has appeared in at least 58 movies and / or television shows.)
What is "Wizard of Oz"?
600
This teacher once brought a full sized trebuchet to school.
Who is Mr. Rosa?
700
Home to lions, leopards, elephants, baboons and antelope.
What are plains?
700
The group founded to protest Apartheid.
What is African National Congress?
700
They are afraid that moving too quickly will hurt the economy.
Why are some government official afraid to execute new policies in South Africa?
700
A country that benefits from ecotourism.
What is Madagascar?
700
The two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa.
What are Bantu and Zulu?
700
The language of the South Africans of European origin.
What is Afrikaans?
700
Captain Hook's principal enemy.
Who is Peter Pan?
700
Because it shares a border with two countries.
Why is Swaziland not an enclave?
700
Major problems in Africa.
What are drought, disease, poverty and environmental destruction?
700
A former front page model for Hair Loft of Avon, has worked as a cowboy and as an EMT.
Who is Mr. Dix?
800
The desert on the Atlantic coast of South Africa.
What is Namib?
800
What the "homelands" lacked.
What are good farmland, mines and natural resources?
800
It replaced slaves as the principal trade item of the region after slavery was abolished.
What is ivory?
800
Why Comoros is not successful.
What are lack of resources and political instability?
800
A powerful fighting force in the region when the British arrived.
Who are the Zulu?
800
Where a trading station was set up by Europeans in 1652.
What is The Cape of Good Hope?
800
Mickey Mouse's original name, before he became famous.
Who is Mortimer?
800
The first country in the world to put environmental protection into its constitution.
What is Namibia?
800
A part of a country that does not touch a single part of the main country.
What is an exclave?
800
The former Assistant Principal for whom our Library Media Center is named.
Who is Joseph Suranna?