Notable Nigerians

1. The play 'The Lion and the Jewel was written by _________.

• Chinua Achebe

• Chimamanda Adichie

• Wole Soyinka

• Eddie Iroh

2. She was the first Nigerian female athlete to win the gold medal in 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

• Mary Onyali

• Chioma Ajunwa

• Blessing Okagbare

• Falilat Ogunkoya

3. Wole Soyinka is the first African to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

• True

• False

4. Who established the first television station in Africa in 1959?

• Chief Obafemi Awolowo

• Nelson Mandela

• Nnamdi Azikiwe

• Donald Trump

5. She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria.

• Stella Obasanjo

• Okonjo Iweala

• Obi Ezekwesili

• Stella Adadevoh

6. The founding father of nationalism in Nigeria is ________.

• Herbert Macaulay

• Sir Tafawa Balewa

• Wole Soyinka

• Jaja of Opobo

7. Whose picture is on one hundred naira note?

• Sir Tafawa Balewa

• Chief Obafemi Awolowo

• Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe

• Herbert Macaulay

8. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in 1904, in _____________.

• Bauchi

• Ikene

• Zungeru

• Abeokuta