Pop quiz #1

[fabulouslyghetto]

Harare, Zimbabwe (good luck with your new PM)

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Johannesburg, South Africa

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

nevermind...I was thinking of Papua New Guinea....

I'm so stupid. When you said that, in the context of the topic, I did a 180 head spin, I was like "Did they buy New Guinea?" I went to google to see what the hell was goin' on lol.

 

[tommyj]

N'djemi Chad

 

[treanir]

I doubt I could even name that many African countries.

 

[RationalLunacy]

How'd I know you were gonna take a weird one? You probably have a map of Ougadougou on your wall, don't you? The Amish have walls, right?

The only reason I know about Ougadougou is because it is full of wildebeest.

Yes the Amish have walls.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Oh, and......

Ilhéu das Cabras, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe

 

[RationalLunacy]

No it doesn't; those are in southern Africa, silly

How do you know? Have you been there?

 

[JustWes]

Antananarivo, Madagascar

 

[RationalLunacy]

As a matter of fact...... I've worked in several African countries... but you don't have to have been there to know the range of Connochaetes gnou.

Touché.

 

[LittleDove]

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

[hermanding]

cairo egypt, pretoria south africa uh uh uh
ding

 

[LittleDove]

Windhoek, Namibia

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Dar Es Salaam is one of the capital cities but I can't remember which country, I know it's an easy one and if I looked it up I'd be like "Ohhhh." It's on the tip of my tongue, one of the more well-known countries.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

So far we have (though this isn't confirmed yet)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Alger, Algeria (I think it's Algires or Algeris though)

Antananarivo, Madagascar

Bangui, Central African Republic

Bisseau, Guinea-Bisseau

Bujumbura, Burundi

Cairo, Egypt

Cape Town, Pretoria, (1 more), South Africa

Dakar, Senegal

Dakhlah, Western Sahara

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Harare Zimbabwe,

Ilhéu das Cabras, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe

Johannesburg, South Africa

Khartoum Sudan

Kinshasa, Congo (I think I disagree with this one though)

Lome, Togo

Luanda, Angola

Maputo, Mozambique

Monroeville, Liberia

Nairobi, Kenya

N'djemi, Chad

Ougadougou, Burkina Faso

?Ouagodugou, Mali?

Port Louis, Mauritius

Praia, Cape Verde

Rabat, Morocco

St-Denis, Réunion Island

Tripoli, Libya

Tunis, Tunisia

Windhoek, Namibia

 

[cbtfan]

?Ouagodugou, Mali?

Nope. Try Bamako

Read post two for Ouagodugou

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Isn't there one that starts with a "B" where the capital is the same name as the country? It's on the tip of my tongue. Grrrrr.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Nope. Try Bamako

Thanks for the correction. To be honest neither city nor capital sounds even remotely familiar. Anyone else see any mistakes?

 

[cbtfan]

Thanks for the correction. To be honest neither city nor capital sounds even remotely familiar. Anyone else see any mistakes?

The only reason I know this is because I have always wanted Timbuktu to be the capital of somewhere... but it was only so in the 15th cent. or there abouts.
Timbuktu is in present day Mali.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

What, you prefer Leopoldville, the name under the Belgian Congo colonial period?

or Kinshasa, Zaire.... Mobutu changed the name to Zaire when he ruled in the 60's and 70's and then it was changed back although the techincal name is Democratic Republic of Congo.

or are you referring to Brazzaville, Congo? that one was a French colony.

Remember, there are two Congos now.

Don't mess with Palindromos.... he knows Africa.

I knew it was Brazzaville, just couldn't think of the word but I knew Kinshasa didn't sound right

The only reason I know this is because I have always wanted Timbuktu to be the capital of somewhere... but it was only so in the 15th cent. or there abouts.
Timbuktu is in present day Mali.

That's how I'm remembering some of the ones I posted. Most of this wasn't really enforced in high-school, watching a movie (like Congo) or a news report always jogs my curiosity. I knew Sudan from looking up stuff about Darfur.

Unless my brain farts, I think I'm at capacity, I might've posted all I know.