Ch 8 - Africa Long Ago

Question 1

What is the highest peak in Africa?

Answer 1

Mount Kilimanjaro

Question 2

What African island is the fourth largest island in the world?

Answer 2

Madagascar

Question 3

Which kingdom was the greatest ancient civilisation in the interior of Africa?

Answer 3

The Kingdom of Cush

Question 4

What African nation had a strong Christian influence in New Testament times?

Answer 4

Ethiopia (Cush)

Question 5

What special fact do we know about the Ethiopian eunuch?

Answer 5

He was the first recorded African Christian.

Question 6

What was Africa’s first and greatest Christian kingdom?

Answer 6

The Kingdom of Aksum

Question 7

Which king had churches carved out of solid rock?

Answer 7

King Lalibela

Question 8

Northern Africa today is inhabited mostly by what group of people?

Answer 8

Arab Muslims

Question 9

What section of Africa carried on much trade during the Middle Ages?

Answer 9

Africa’s east coast (where Kenya and Tanzania are today)

Question 10

Why was Africa called the “White Man’s Grave?”

Answer 10

The intense heat, the dense vegetation and such dangerous tropical diseases as malaria, yellow fever and sleeping sickness took their toll on so many explorers and missionaries.

Question 11

Who was the first European explorer of Africa?

Answer 11

James Bruce

Question 12

What famous Scotsman was one of the first missionaries in South Africa, and near what desert did he minister to people?

Answer 12

Robert Moffat; the Kalahari Desert

Question 13

Who was Africa’s most famous explorer?

Answer 13

David Livingstone

Question 14

What was the “smoke that thunders,” and why was it called that?

Answer 14

Victoria Falls; because the water falls 110m into the Zambesi River, making a thunderous noise with huge columns of mist that rise like smoke.

Question 15

Who went to find and assist Dr Livingstone?

Answer 15

Henry Stanley

Question 16

Who was an early leader in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church?

Answer 16

Fumentius

Question 17

Which great leader in church history, who was also a leader in the African church, boldly proclaimed that Jesus is God?

Answer 17

Athanasius the Great

Question 18

What is the name of the Greek slave who wrote famous fables?

Answer 18

Aesop

Question 19

Who was the explorer who searched for the source of the Nile?

Answer 19

James Bruce

Question 20

What was the name of the man who explored the Niger River?

Answer 20

Mungo Park

Question 21

What was the name of the African chief who ruled his people in righteousness for fifty years?

Answer 21

Khama

Question 22

Who was the first black bishop of the Church of England?

Answer 22

Samuel Crowther

Question 23

Which female missionary was known as “White Ma” or Queen of the Cannibals”?

Answer 23

Mary Slessor

Question 24

What narrow waterway separates Africa from Europe?

Answer 24

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 25

What manmade waterway separates Africa from Asia?

Answer 25

Suez Canal

Question 26

What is the world’s second largest river in water volume?

Answer 26

Congo

Question 27

Which country led the way in exploration and evangelization of Africa?

Answer 27

Scotland

Question 28

Which continent is known as the “Dark Continent”?

Answer 28

Africa

Question 29

Which city was famous as a centre of learning in the Mali Empire?

Answer 29

Timbuktu

Question 30

What is the largest desert region in Southern Africa?

Answer 30

Kalahari

Question 31

What was the name of Africa’s first black republic?

Answer 31

Liberia