Shoeless Trivia: Episode 3 (Africa)

It’s a big continent with a long and consequential history, and I don’t know nearly enough about it. This is a category we’ll be returning to a lot.

1. Crossword clues G (5 letters): In 2009 this nation’s president Omar Bongo died after more than forty years in office.
2. Name the first president of Kenya, whose self chosen baptismal name was a portmanteau referencing two Apostles, Peter and John.
3. Which major tributary of the Nile originates from Lake Tana in Ethiopia? A photogenic waterfall on the river is one of Ethiopia’s biggest tourist attractions.
4. This is the largest landlocked country in Africa, edging out Niger by about 6500 square miles.
5. This image shows what 2015 board game that shares its name with an east African port city?

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1. Gabon
2. Jomo (Johnstone) Kenyatta
3. Blue Nile
4. Chad
5. Mombasa