General Knowledge
What is the WKMHS motto?
What is Ignorance enslaves and knowledge liberates?
What is the basic unit in the West African society?
What is the family?
What is the name of the leader of the West African tribes?
What is a Town chief or Headman.
What was the currency used in West Africa?
What is the cowrie shell?
List three (3) economic occupations of the West Africans.
Weaving, iron-working, leather working, soldiers, farmers.
Which National Hero is on the $50 bill?
Who is Samuel Sharpe?
What is the Matrilineal and Patrilineal lines?
What is a family being led by either the female or male line.
State two (2) of the leader's responsibilities.
Inter family disputes, seed time, harvest time.
State three (3) reasons why the Africans used that form of currency.
Small, attractive and only found in the Indian Ocean, could not be faked or wear out.
Who replaces ministers in the West African society?
Priests.
What is the FULL name of the public bus system in Jamaica?
What is the Jamaica Urban Transit Company?
Why was marriage prohibited between members of the same extended family?
So that no related family would become husband and wife.
How could the leader increase his power?
What is the acquisition and employment of captives?
When the currency was threaded together, what were they called?
What are Tockies?
Why did villagers keep shrines in their communities?
To keep their religious beliefs going from generation to generation.
What is the Full name of the currency used in England?
What is the Pound Sterling?
Name three (3) common beliefs amongst African tribes.
What are Birth and death, benefits of rain, disaster of flood and droughts, sense of belonging to a family or clan and farm work.
Why did the leader have to consult with the elders?
Knowledgeable and had past experiences.
In the year 1520, how much did one (1) slave cost?
What was six thousand cowries.
What are the two (2) main roles of their religious leaders?
To understand the gods and spirits and to drive out spirits from sick tribal members.
Name the three (3) International Airports in Jamaica?
What are the Sangster, Norman Manley and Ian Fleming International Airports?
List five (5) foods enjoyed by Africans.
What are melons, corn, fish, spinach and edible plants.
What is the difference between an African tribe, mini state and empire?
Larger more powerful more rich than regular tribes.
Who was a Dyula?
A merchant/trader.
Who are the three (3) groups of people in an African village?
The living, the ancestors and those waiting to be born.