We Are Africa North America 2023 Pub Quiz Round One

Round One

  1. What are the big five?

  2. Name the large African city at roughly the same latitude as Houston or New Orleans?

  3. You can’t get a baobab or protea without these flower children that have been making the world more colorful since the early Cretaceous?

  4. Name the English queen falls in Africa?

  5. Largest lake in Africa by area?

  6. By population, what’s the largest city in the smallest country in Africa?

  7. After the Netherlands and Ecuador, Kenya exports more of these than any other nation?

  8. In what African country is the second largest canyon on Earth?

  9. What is the state nickname of Utah?

  10. In twelfth century China you might use one to fight a war, but today many visitors to Africa use it to shoot wildlife?

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The Zambezi Rising in Chavuma 2020

On the Zambezi River it is the season of “the river is going to either go up, or it is going to go down.” Some will proclaim that the river has an obvious cycle and this year will be a high year because last year was low. Others will say that the smell of the water today means that there is another drought coming. I try not to proclaim or smell anything, and instead just try to look at what has happened, and hope that it provides a clue to what might happen.
 
That’s why I like to look at the water gauges along the upper Zambezi and hope that they provide a clue as to what’s to come. If we those stations, and thus watch Mother Nature, she will tell us what she is capable of.  So next time she plans a flood or a drought, we’ll be a bit more prepared. After all, everything one has ever learned has come from nature.
 
The quick takeaway (until the next week of data is released) is the Zambezi peaked very early this year (top 5 earliest) and very high (top 10 highest) at Chavuma. This was also the briefest time (1 day) that the river stayed above 5,000 m3/s before falling.  If there aren’t further rains in Angola, then this adds up to a peak at the falls around mid to late March that should go down soon thereafter.

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