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Is Timbuktu a real country?
No, it's a town.
100
How long is the Niger River? A. 15,312,000ft B. 12,672,000ft C. 13,728,000ft
C. 13,728,000ft (2,600 miles)
100
What is a major problem with croplands?
Dryness
100
About how many ethnic groups are there? A. 437 B. 250 C.78 D. 732
What is 250
100
Where did most slaves go? A. Antarctica B. The North Pole C. Lesser Antilles D. Luxembourg
What is Lesser Antilles
200
What is Ouagadougou the capitol of? A. Niger B. Liberia C. Burkina Faso
C. Burkina Faso
200
How many countries are in West Africa?
17
200
What does overcrowding lead to in Lagos? A. Traffic Jams B. Poverty C. Traffic Jelly's
What is Traffic Jams
200
What are the houses made of? A. brick B. paper C. straw D. cow dung
What is cow dung
200
How did Ghana get powerful?
They controlled salt and gold trade
300
What is a griot? A. storyteller B. magician C. Sphinx
A. storyteller
300
What is the Sahel? A. a desert B. a mountain C. a camel D. answer not given
A. a desert
300
What do people fish with? A. fishing poles B. boats C. nets D. gummy worms
What is nets
300
What is animisim?
What is the belief that natural objects have spirits.
300
By what date were most African's enslaved? A. 1800 B. 1974 C. 2247 D. 1500
What is 1800
400
What s Wolof? A. a sweater B. a sheep C. a language D. a mask
C. a language
400
What is the regions only high mountains? A. Tibesti B. Atlas C. Himalaya D. Chad
A. Tibesti
400
What is the most populous country? A. Niger B. Nigeria C. Mali
What is Nigeria
400
What does white on a mask represent? A. death B. nothing C. the spirit world
What is the spirit world
400
What is the oldest republic in West Africa? A. Siberia B. Togo C. Liberia D. Sierra Leone
What is Liberia
500
Is Kwame an animal?
No
500
Why is the Senegal/Gambia border so odd?
French and British diplomats
500
What is a major land use around the Niger River? A. boating B. logging C. commercial farming
What is commercial farming
500
Name 1 language from West Africa.
What is French, English, Portuguese, Fula, and Hausa
500
What is Africa's early history and oral history based on? A. taxidermy B. archaeology C. Sergio
What is archaeology