Friday Challenge: Test your knowledge from politics and history to geography, sport and science
How many of these can you answer?
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Questions
1 What do we call someone who studies birds for a living?
2 Name the main border crossing with Zimbabwe?
3 In terms of KZN politics, what does GPU an acronym for?
4 How often do full moons, spring high tides and spring low tides occur?
5 What is the speed limit on national highways in South Africa?
6 Who is the ruler of eSwatini?
7 What is Africa’s highest waterfall?
8 Which teams are contesting the CAF final?
9 What is the fastest animal in the world?
10 US forces kidnapped the leader of a sovereign country recently. Which country was that?
11 Zambia’s capital, long a refuge for the ANC in exile during the Apartheid years, is?
12 The highest mountain in Africa is called?
13 How much does petrol cost in KZN?
14 If you take the N3 from KZN to Free State, over what would you cross the Drakensberg?
15 Which Boer leader did Zulu king Dingaan kill at his kraal?
16 What was the Afrikaans name for KZN?
17 Who was King Shaka’s father?
18 What is the highest court in the land (South Africa)?
19 Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
20 What culinary dish is idombolo?
Answers
1 An ornithologist. 2 The Beit Bridge border post. 3 Government of Provincial Unity. 4 Twice a month. 5 120kp/h. 6 King Mswati III. 7 The Tugela Falls in the Drakensberg. At 948m, it is the second-highest in the world after Venezuela’s Angel Falls. 8 Morocco and Senegal. 9 The peregrine falcon. 10 Venezuela. 11 Lusaka. 12 Mt Kilimanjaro. 13 R20.47-R21.12 per litre for 93 and 95 unleaded petrol. 14 Van Reenen’s Pass. 15 Piet Retief. 16 Natalia. 17 Senzangakhona. 18 The Constitutional Court (ConCourt). 19 Fruit. 20 Traditional steamed bread (made with flour, yeast, water, sugar, and salt).
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