Countries of Africa Quiz
Africa holds fifty-four countries - more than any other continent - and this quiz works the full register, from Chad and Tanzania to island states the size of a city, with the occasional outsider planted to test the edges.
The six that are easiest to forget
A countries of Africa quiz has fifty-four right answers to draw on, and six of them are island states that people routinely forget to file under Africa at all – Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cabo Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe – and this bank treats them exactly like the mainland: Madagascar and Cabo Verde answer questions of their own, while São Tomé and Príncipe and Mauritius stand among the options.
The impostors, and what each one probes
Israel is the sharpest plant in the bank: it borders Egypt, yet files under Asia while Egypt files under Africa, because the convention cuts between the two neighbours at Suez. The gentler outsiders are Bulgaria and Ireland, both European, Peru in South America, and New Zealand in Oceania – each revealed with its true continent on the answer line the moment the question is settled.
Names built to mislead
Two Congos are both African – the Republic of the Congo, which answers a question in this bank, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – two distinct countries facing each other across the Congo River, not one long name and its abbreviation. The three Guineas are likewise all African – a family confusing enough that the Asia quiz gives it a warning section of its own. No question here ever deals two of a family into the same option row, so each of these names can be judged on its own – the blur lives in the atlas, not in the buttons.