Q 01/05

What is the capital and most populous city of Ghana?

A) Kumasi

B) Accra

C) Tamale

D) Lagos

Answer · why

B) Accra

Accra, on the Atlantic coast, has a metropolitan population of roughly 4 million and became the colonial capital in 1877, when the British moved their...

Q 02/05

What did Ghana do on 6 March 1957?

A) Hold a general election

B) Achieve sovereignty

C) Join the United Nations

D) Abolish the monarchy

Answer · why

B) Achieve sovereignty

Achieve sovereignty: yet for its first three years Elizabeth II remained its head of state, with a governor-general standing in for her.

Q 03/05

By what name was Ghana known as a British colony?

A) Ivory Coast

B) Gold Coast

C) Slave Coast

D) Grain Coast

Answer · why

B) Gold Coast

Gold Coast: the colony was named for the gold that drew European traders, and at independence it took the name of Ghana, an ancient Sahel empire.

Q 04/05

Who led Ghana to independence and served as its first prime minister and president?

A) J. B. Danquah

B) Jerry Rawlings

C) Kofi Annan

D) Kwame Nkrumah

Answer · why

D) Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah founded the Convention People's Party in 1949 under the slogan 'Self-Government Now', led the country to independence in 1957 and was ov...

Q 05/05

Clips of Ghana's dancing pallbearers became a 2020 meme set to which EDM track?

A) Levels

B) Astronomia

C) Sandstorm

D) Animals

Answer · why

B) Astronomia

Astronomia: families pay the pallbearers extra to dance, sending loved ones off in style rather than in mourning.