Question: When did Nigeria's economy become larger than South Africa's?
Answer: 2014

Question: What is the largest economy in Africa?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: What is Nigeria's debt-to-GDP ratio? 
Answer: 11 percent

Question: When did Boko Haram become active in Nigeria?
Answer: 2002

Question: Who is the President of Nigeria?
Answer: Goodluck Jonathan

Question: How many people had Boko Haram killed by May 2014?
Answer: at least 12,000

Question: How many schoolgirls did Boko Haram kidnap?
Answer: 276

Question: What is Nigeria named after?
Answer: the Niger River

Question: Who came up with the name Nigeria in the 19th century?
Answer: Flora Shaw

Question: What was Nigeria's region called by the British before the name Nigeria?
Answer: Central Sudan

Question: What language does the name of the Niger River come from?
Answer: Tuareg

Question: Which river reaches Timbuktu?
Answer: Niger

Question: Which tribe ran the city of Nri?
Answer: Igbo

Question: When was Nri taken over by the British?
Answer: 1911

Question: Igbo Ukwu made the oldest bronze art using which process?
Answer: lost-wax

Question: Who ruled Nri?
Answer: the Eze Nri

Question: Which clan is Nri in the territory of?
Answer: Umeuri

Question: What region has Nigeria traded with for centuries?
Answer: North Africa

Question: Which countries' explorers were the first Europeans to trade with Nigeria?
Answer: Spanish and Portuguese

Question: Calabar is on which historical Bight?
Answer: Biafra

Question: What is the current name of the Bight of Biafra?
Answer: Bight of Bonny

Question: Who were the major slave traders through Nigeria from the southwest?
Answer: Oyo Empire

Question: When did Britain outlaw slave trade?
Answer: 1807

Question: After which war did Britain establish its West Africa Squadron?
Answer: Napoleonic Wars

Question: Which Lagos king had supported the slave trade?
Answer: Oba Kosoko

Question: Where did Britain intervene in a power struggle?
Answer: Lagos

Question: Where did Britain take slaves it seized from traders?
Answer: Freetown

Question: Where was Britain's claim to West Africa recognized in 1885?
Answer: the Berlin Conference

Question: What company was led by Sir George Taubman Goldie?
Answer: Royal Niger Company

Question: When did the British government take over the Royal Niger Company's territory?
Answer: 1900

Question: When did Nigeria become a British protectorate?
Answer: 1 January 1901

Question: Which country did Britain conquer in 1897?
Answer: Benin

Question: What religion built Western schools in Nigeria?
Answer: Christian

Question: Britain discouraged building Christian missions in which part of Nigeria?
Answer: northern

Question: What religion was the majority in the northern part of Nigeria?
Answer: Islamic

Question: When did Nigeria receive independence?
Answer: 1960

Question: When did northern Nigeria ban slavery?
Answer: 1936

Question: What was Nigeria's status after independence from the UK?
Answer: a Commonwealth Realm

Question: Which Nigerian political party was mostly Islamic?
Answer: Nigerian People's Congress

Question: Which Nigerian political party was mostly Christian?
Answer: National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons

Question: Who led the NCNC party?
Answer: Nnamdi Azikiwe

Question: Which Nigerian political party was mostly Yoruba?
Answer: Obafemi Awolowo

Question: In what year were there two military coups in Nigeria?
Answer: 1966

Question: Which group led the first 1966 coup?
Answer: Igbo soldiers

Question: Which Prime Minister was murdered in the Igbo coup?
Answer: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Question: Which Northern Premier was murdered in the Igbo coup?
Answer: Ahmadu Bello

Question: Which Western Premier was murdered in the Igbo coup?
Answer: Ladoke Akintola

Question: What did Eastern Nigeria want to call itself as an independent nation?
Answer: Republic of Biafra

Question: When did Eastern Nigeria declare its independence?
Answer: May 1967

Question: Who led Eastern Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War?
Answer: Lt. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu

Question: How many months did the Nigerian Civil War last?
Answer: 30

Question: How many people died during the Nigerian Civil War?
Answer: between 1 and 3 million

Question: Which oil group did Nigeria join?
Answer: OPEC

Question: Who failed to use the oil revenues to invest in infrastructure?
Answer: the military administration

Question: Overdependence on oil income led to the fall of what form of government in Nigeria?
Answer: federalism

Question: Which Nigerian leader transferred power in 1979?
Answer: Olusegun Obasanjo

Question: Which Nigerian leader received power in 1979?
Answer: Shehu Shagari

Question: How did Nigerians view the Shagari administration?
Answer: corrupt and incompetent

Question: Who led a military coup against Shagari?
Answer: Muhammadu Buhari

Question: When did another military coup overthrow Buhari?
Answer: 1985

Question: Which Nigerian leader decided Nigeria would return to democracy in 1990?
Answer: Ibrahim Babangida

Question: What did Babangida set up to help pay Nigeria's national debt?
Answer: International Monetary Fund's Structural Adjustment Program

Question: What was most of Nigeria's federal income being spent on?
Answer: debt

Question: What controversial religious group did Nigeria join?
Answer: Organisation of the Islamic Conference

Question: To when did Babangida delay the return to democracy?
Answer: 1992

Question: When did Nigeria finally hold a fair election?
Answer: 12 June 1993

Question: Who won the 1993 Nigerian election?
Answer: Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola

Question: Babangida's reaction to the election results caused violent protests for how long?
Answer: weeks

Question: Who did Babangida appoint as head of an interim government when he finally stepped down?
Answer: Ernest Shonekan

Question: When did Nigeria regain democracy?
Answer: 1999

Question: Who won the 1999 Nigerian election?
Answer: Olusegun Obasanjo

Question: Nigeria was under military rule for how long?
Answer: almost 33 years

Question: How was the 1999 election regarded?
Answer: unfree and unfair

Question: How was the 2003 election regarded?
Answer: unfree and unfair

Question: Who won the 2011 election?
Answer: Goodluck Jonathan

Question: Who was the CPC's 2011 candidate?
Answer: Muhammadu Buhari

Question: How many votes did Goodluck get in 2011?
Answer: 22,495,187

Question: How many votes did Buhari get?
Answer: 12,214,853

Question: What was the main opposition political party in 2011?
Answer: Congress for Progressive Change

Question: What is Nigeria's form of government?
Answer: Federal Republic

Question: What houses does the Nigerian legislature have?
Answer: upper and lower

Question: How many times can a Nigerian president be elected?
Answer: two 4-year terms

Question: Who won the 2015 Nigerian presidential election?
Answer: General Muhammadu Buhari

Question: Who lost the 2015 Nigerian presidential election?
Answer: Goodluck Jonathan

Question: What are Nigeria's 3 biggest ethnic groups?
Answer: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba

Question: When did Nigeria get independence?
Answer: 1960

Question: What major secession movement has Nigeria had?
Answer: MASSOB

Question: What major nationalist movement has Nigeria had?
Answer: Oodua Peoples Congress

Question: How many seats does the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria have in the House?
Answer: 223

Question: How many seats does the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria have in the Senate?
Answer: 76

Question: How many seats does the  All Progressives Congress have in the House?
Answer: 96

Question: How many seats does the  All Progressives Congress have in the Senate?
Answer: 27

Question: How many minor opposition parties does Nigeria have?
Answer: About twenty

Question: What group did Nigeria support against white governments in Southern Africa?
Answer: African National Congress

Question: What group was Nigeria a founding member of?
Answer: Organisation for African Unity