General knowledge Quizz

What Benjamin Franklin invented?

• Bifocal spectacles

• Radio

• Barometer

• Hygrometer

In which decade was the telephone invented?

• 1850s

• 1860s

• 1870s

• 1880s

Nelson Mandela won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for . Who shared the prize with him?

• No one

• Thabo Mbeki

• Pieter Willem Botha

• Frederick Willem de Klerk

The coldest place in South Africa

• Touws River

• Caledon

• Sutherland

• Riviersonderend

Which country is the island of Zanzibar part of?

• Tunisia

• Tanzania

• Kenya

• Rwanda

Afrikaans is a variety of which European language?

• Russian

• Polish

• German

• Dutch

What is Africa's largest country?

• Sudan

• South Africa

• Tunisia

• Tanzania

On the border of which two countries is the Victoria Falls?

• Lesotho and Mozambique

• Zambia and  Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe and Mozambique

• South Africa and Zimbabwe

In and around which desert do the Bushmen live?

• Antartica

• Karoo

• Sahara

• Kalahari

Name the East African country which lies on the Equator

• Kenya

• Uganda

• Gabon

• Somalia