The Quiz answers

The answers to yesterday's Quiz questions are below:

1. The Nile is Africa's longest river. Which is the second longest?
2. Which is Africa's largest country?
3.Which country broke away from Ethiopia in 1993?
4. Which island country supplies much of the world's favourite flavouring, vanilla?
5. Which is the highest mountain in Africa?
6. Which is the most southerly point on the Continent of Africa.
7. What was Botswana known as in colonial times.
8. Name the small country entirely surrounded by South Africa
9. Which country featured in the film White Mischief?
10. Somalia was run by two colonial powers before independence. Britain and which other European power?

Answers:

1. The Congo with the Niger in third place.
2. Algeria. Sudan used to be but Southern Sudan is now a separate country.
3. Eritrea.
4. Madagascar, also known as the Malagasy Republic.
5. Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
6. Cape Agulhas, not Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa.
7. Bechuanaland
8. Lesotho
9. It was set in Kenya.
10. Italy.

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