Can you name the top 20 most populous countries of Africa without guessing any incorrectly?

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Populous Countries of Africa Minefield Quiz

by sirhc1801

Created Jul 31, 2011 in Geography
Featured Apr 17, 2013
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	Woodchucker:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 20:25 GMT		8 points
	What is this mysterious #20 that people have guessed more than Ethiopia or the DRC?

	Xolotl123:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 20:34 GMT		32 points
	Just glad that Niger is not a mine

	Zak6009:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 20:52 GMT		10 points
	Mali #21. Well... hell with it.

	sonza68:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 20:52 GMT		17 points
	I'm amazed that Niger is at 27% while Nigeria is at 72%.

	frasty:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 21:04 GMT		1 point
	awesome quiz. This is one of the best that I have ever played

	Booger:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 21:55 GMT		-2 points
	I do minefield quizzes that have no need to be minefield quizzes (like this one) at most once and move on.

	Strummer174:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 21:57 GMT		3 points
	It appears there is absolutely no correlation between a country's size or location and its population in this quiz. Interesting.

	nymatts78654:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 22:01 GMT		4 points
	seychelles does not trigger a mine

	nymatts78654:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 22:19 GMT		1 point
	I always forgets #20 on the countries of the world quiz but finally got it

	openroad:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 22:36 GMT		2 points
	Something is off with this quiz, at least as it plays out on my computer. First, in both the answer and view stats sections the answer for 13 is "???". Second, I kept taking the test to try an answer to #13, going through all the African countries and nothing worked, though I noted as mymatts did that Seychelles neither triggers a mine nor gets listed among the 20. Third, my score was always reported as "X-number out of 21 answers correct" which struck me as odd, since the quiz only called for 20 answers. Finally, like Sonza I too am surprised that in the View Stats section a lot more people got Nigeria correct than got Niger correct, because when I typed Nigeria (usually one of the first answers I typed in), it always took "Niger" before I could finish typing Nigeria. I am relatively new to Sporcle. Are these sort of oddities common?

	irishailish:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 22:52 GMT		2 points
	Guessed Mali number 21 on first go... serious fail :/

	ianbob:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 22:56 GMT		0 points
	It would be quite funny if Niger was outside the top 20.

	arjuniustheking:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 23:03 GMT		1 point
	I had a bad feeling about Zimbabwe...

	phamquiz:	Apr 17th, 2013 at 23:38 GMT		3 points
	Senegal...oh well. You have cursed my life once more.

	Ulkomaalainen:	Apr 18th, 2013 at 01:38 GMT		0 points
	Began with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 in order (with 19 as starter for obvious reasons) - yes, I am on a roll! 23... @Booger: that's of course a matter of personal preference, but I think that minefielding this quiz makes perfect sense. After all, there is only a limited number of countries, so you could just go round your mental map and try them all until you got them.

	scoringeagle:	Apr 18th, 2013 at 03:16 GMT		7 points
	CAR bomb!

	CorneliusTree:	Apr 18th, 2013 at 17:24 GMT		1 point
	A lot of the largest countries by area have a lot of desert or jungle (or at least plains or thick forest), which aren't that conducive to big cities. A small country with a good patch of coastline or a major river can surpass it.

	Brainimaniac:	Apr 18th, 2013 at 20:24 GMT		1 point
	It probably should've been a clue to me that "rc" wasn't accepted in the first place... It still didn't stop me from blowing myself up.

	MickeyPearly:	Apr 19th, 2013 at 15:13 GMT		1 point
	MALAWI

	Colmar:	Apr 20th, 2013 at 14:18 GMT		2 points
	@nymatts I love that you bothered to try Seychelles I think this quiz should definitely stay as a minefield. It makes some of us actually use our brains, instead of listing off every African country.

	mutigerlily:	Apr 23rd, 2013 at 16:02 GMT		1 point
	Love that you have this quiz's answers in secret even after you fail. Thank you, seriously! Love the challenge!

	sergio_alj:	May 20th, 2013 at 23:36 GMT		1 point
	sonza68 That´s because most of the people copy "Nigeria" from somewhere (cheating)...