Can you name the country/empire which colonized this African country's territory during the Scramble for Africa? by nrs

Present-Day Country	Empire
South Africa
Egypt
Côte d'Ivoire
Malawi
Cape Verde
Gambia
Sierra Leone
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Sao Tome and Principe
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Tanzania
Ghana
Gabon
Mozambique
Seychelles
Zimbabwe
Rwanda
Eritrea
Morocco
Equatorial Guinea
Uganda
Somalia
Nigeria
Senegal
Liberia

Present-Day Country	Empire
Angola
Botswana
Namibia
Ethiopia
Mali
Algeria
Central African Republic
Chad
Burundi
Niger
Madagascar
Swaziland
Kenya
Zambia
Togo
Tunisia
Libya
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Benin
Mauritania
Sudan
Djibouti
Comoros
Republic of the Congo
Mauritius
Lesotho

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Africa by Colonizing Power Quiz

by nrs

Created Nov 25, 2009 in Geography
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	nrs:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 01:12 GMT	7 points
	Note: in debatable cases, the quiz may accept alternate/secondary answers not listed above. This is a feature, not a bug!

	nrs:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 01:13 GMT	3 points
	Note #2: one or more countries may be classified as independent!

	cysion:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 01:57 GMT	4 points
	Lots of UK/France typing, but I liked it anyways :)

	ChinaWhite:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 02:13 GMT	5 points
	Didnt USA help establish Liberia as we know it?

	nrs:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	3 points
	In the spirit of the holiday, I'll add USA as an alternate answer for Liberia, though I think that's a pretty generous interpretation!

	t87:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 06:16 GMT	3 points
	cool quiz! question: why is france accepted for mauritius? mauritius was british after 1810, well before the scramble for africa. if france is accepted, i think the netherlands should be too. also, i had NO IDEA equatorial guinea was spanish!!!

	Auguste:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 10:13 GMT	4 points
	Togo was a German colony before WWI (Togoland), as well as Burundi, Tanzania... It became a Franch colony after the treaty of Versailles. Namibia was some kind of South African colony unitl 1990.

	Spl89:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 10:29 GMT	2 points
	Liberia was a US colony for 26 years in the early 19th century but it gained independance decades before the Scramble for Africa. It was also the only West African country that the European powers didn't try to colonize.

	Spl89:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 10:29 GMT	3 points
	The Italians did have a good go at trying to colonize Ethiopia but they failed and afterwards no one else attempted it.

	Roman:	Jan 9th, 2010 at 18:06 GMT	2 points
	Mussolini's Italy did occupy Ethiopia from 1936-1941 but it wasn't "technically" colonized the same way Nazi Germany occupied several European countries during WWII

	Nobbe:	Jan 13th, 2010 at 12:33 GMT	1 point
	Good idea, but five minutes is way too long when 45 % manage to get all answres right. Three minutes should be enough.

	adeutsch107:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 03:20 GMT	4 points
	@nrs, you should put "note #2" in the top notes section...not everyone reads comments prior to taking quiz

	jnhickson:	May 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 GMT	1 point
	good quiz

	TheBigE1980:	Jul 11th, 2010 at 06:39 GMT	1 point
	Love the quiz! Would you please make "no one" an acceptable answer for "independent?"

	chriskotx:	Jul 25th, 2010 at 20:45 GMT	2 points
	Wow...half of the players got them all right!.. and I thought I was sooooo good lol

	zNATOz:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 10:15 GMT	3 points
	All of modern Togo was put under French rule following WWI, so France should work as an answer.

	ffi:	May 10th, 2011 at 00:00 GMT	2 points
	If you’re going to be enough of a stickler about the dates for the Scramble of Africa that you won’t accept France for Togo or Britain for Namibia, you shouldn’t accept other territorial changes that happened after the outset of World War I—Britain and France for Cameroon, Belgium for Rwanda and Burundi, Italy for Ethiopia, and any others. (The U.S. certainly shouldn’t be taken for Liberia either.) Also, if possible, emphasize the “Scramble for Africa” part and change the title of the quiz to reflect that—I saw the title and immediately started naming former colonial powers, which is something different.

	drummerchic312:	May 12th, 2011 at 14:41 GMT	2 points
	several of the french and uk one's didn't accept anything

	Swingo:	May 31st, 2011 at 00:34 GMT	4 points
	This would work really well as one of those quizzes where you only get one shot at each question

	tbwilson:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 07:55 GMT	4 points
	Why not accept "Liberia" for Liberia and "Ethiopia" for Ethiopia? Even from the perspective of "colonizing territory," both of these governments took part in the conquest of many indigenous groups. Ethiopia's southern regions were not part of Ethiopia for most of its history, and Liberia of course started out as the initiative of a foreign organization.

	ahamilton:	Aug 21st, 2011 at 13:03 GMT	1 point
	South Sudan?

	AtomicIce:	Oct 18th, 2011 at 18:26 GMT	1 point
	If both Germany and UK are going to be listed correct answers for Ghana, then Nigeria needs to be UK/Germany and Togo needs to be Germany/France. Technically the Scramble for Africa was before WW1, so those alternate answers aren't really valid. So alternate answers either need to be added or removed, for consistency/accuracy sake.

	geome12:	Jan 28th, 2012 at 19:30 GMT	0 points
	53/53 with 2:42 left. go me!