Southern Africa

I

100

What country experienced rapid and devastating hyperinflation, resorting to the government printing off 100 Trillion Dollar Bills at one point?

Zimbabwe

200

What desert covers much of Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa?

Kalahari Desert

300

The Skeleton Coast, a ship graveyard where many shipwrecks have historically occurred, is off the coast of what country?

Namibia

400

What was the name of the Dutch-speaking settlers who arrived in South Africa in the 1600s?

Boers

500

Name all THREE capitals of South Africa.

Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town 

II

100

What was the name for the racial segregation policy in South Africa that was in place for nearly 50 years?

Apartheid

200

What country features an AK-47 Assault Rifle on its flag to represent its war for Independence from Portugal?

Mozambique

300

Robert Mugabe was the long-time President from 1987-2017 in what country?

Zimbabwe

400

The San, or Bushmen, were the early inhabitants of what country?

Botswana

500

Windhoek is the capital of what country?

Namibia

III

100

Angola and Mozambique used to be colonies of what European country?

Portugal

200

Zambia is a center of mining for what resource?

Copper

300

Antananarivo is the capital of what country?

Madagascar

400

King Mswati III rules what country as an absolute monarchy?

Eswatini

500

Gaborone is the capital of what country?

Botswana

IV

100

Nelson Mandela was the first Black President of what country?

South Africa

200

Maputo is the capital of what country?

Mozambique

300

The first settlers to Madagascar came from where?

The islands of Indonesia

400

The MPLA and UNITA political factions fought a Civil War in what country?

Angola

500

What was the former name of Zimbabwe?

Rhodesia