African Rivers Quiz and Answers

Quiz

1. The Tugela River is a large river in which country?
2. The White Nile and Blue Nile converge in which African city to form the main Nile River?
3. Which river is the fourth-longest river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa?
4. Name the longest river in South Africa.
5. Which long river rises in South Africa and flows generally eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean?
6. Name the main river of West Africa.
7. Which tributary of the Congo River gave its name to a virus identified by the virologist Karl Johnson?
8. Which river, the second-longest in Africa, is also the world's deepest?
9. Victoria Falls is located on which river?
10. Which river is the largest single inflow into Lake Victoria?
11. Which river forms the natural border between Mauritania and Senegal?
12. The first recorded exploration of the upper Zambezi was made by which Christian missionary?
13. Which British explorer wrote the 1876 book Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo?
14. Which country’s construction of a huge dam on the Nile has created tensions with Egypt?

Answers

1. South Africa
2. Khartoum
3. Zambezi River
4. Orange River
5. Limpopo River
6. Niger River
7. Ebola River
8. Congo River
9. Zambezi River
10. Kagera River
11. Senegal River
12. David Livingstone
13. Richard Francis Burton
14. Ethiopia