Kenyan History
Kenya ilishinda uhuru lini?
December 12, 1963
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What is the most abundant element on Earth?
Nitrogen
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River
Donald Trump is the _______th prez of America
45th
How long was Moi president of Kenya?
24 years (78 - 02)
This mathematician famously created one of the world's 1st computers to solve the German WWII enigma machine
Hint: the movie "The imitation Game" is about him
Alan Turing
What is mitosis?
The process through which cells replicate themselves by growing, replicating their DNA, and dividing into two
In what country is the tallest mountain located?
Nepal
What are the 5 Major Religions?
Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism
Who was the Supreme Chief of Nandi who led the Nandi Resistance in 1980 against the British?
Koitalel Arap Samoei
A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a
Geometer
What is the region between Jupiter and Mars that separates the inner planets from the Gas Giants?
What razor-thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America?
Chile
What African country has the most pyramids?
Sudan: Over 200!
When was Kenya established as a British Protectorate
1895
In a 3 X 3 square, use numbers 1-9 to fill the square such that each row and column adds to the same #
8 3 4
1 5 9
6 7 2
What is the monomer of nucleic acids?
Nucleotides
What is an isthmus?
Hint: opposite of a strait
An isthmus is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
Chinua Achebe
What was the Garissa Massacre of 1980?
Massacre of ethnic Somali residents by the Kenyan government in the Garissa District of the North Eastern Province, Kenya. Kenyan government forces, acting on the premise of flushing out a local gangster known as Abdi Madobe, set fire to a KDF camps in NFD, killing soldiers. They then forcefully interned the populace at Garissa Primary School football pitch for three days without water or food, resulting in over 3000 deaths.
The "Sieve of ______ " method for finding prime numbers works like this, and was named for a famous mathematician in the field of geometry
check to see if any smaller primes are factors
Eratosthenes
You have 2 planets of equal mass. If you double their masses, to maintain their gravitational forces, what must you do the their radii?
Quadruple
What is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
Africa
WWII was fought amongst two main groups, the Allies and the ...
the Axis Powers