Quiz: You Think You Know Nigerian History? Episode 1
1. A major cause of depopulation in Nigeria in the 18th century was
The Trans-Saharan Trade which had been on for many centuries included several articles of trade of which slaves were later added; human sacrifices were carried on a very small scale; interethnic warfare took place majorly in the nineteenth century.
2. Which of the following options pioneered Christian missionary activities in Calabar?
Freeman pioneered Methodist missionary activity in Yorubaland; Baikie led the 1857 missionary expedition to the North; Slessor worked together to abolish some negative traditional practices in Calabar.
3. NYSC was established in which year?
The National Youth Service Corps is a program set up by the Nigerian government on the 22nd of May 1973 to involve Nigerian graduates in nation-building and the development of the country.
4. Which of the following was one of the demands of the National Congress of British West Africa?
The congress wanted a legislative council established for each British Colonial territory with majority of the members being Africans.
5. Christianity spread fast in Nigeria because it
6. The most powerful states that emerged after the fall of the Old Oyo empire were
A war broke out in 1861 between Ibadan and Ijaye over who to succeed the old Oyo empire as the political head of Yorubaland.
7. The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was the resultant merger of the
Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and the Northern Protectorate were the constituents of the area that later became Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria upon the amalgamation of Lord Lugard on January 1st 1914.
8. One of the following is not credited with the General Obasanjo's military regime
The Structural Adjustment Programme is the correct answer. It was a Programme inaugurated during President Ibrahim Babangida's regime.
9. Abuja became the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria in
Abuja became the capital of Nigeria on December 12, 1991. It was chosen because geographically, it is in the centre of the country.
10. The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) was formed
The correct answer is May 15, 1994. The NADECO was established to press for the revalidation of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election and the reinstallation of all democratic structures.
11. The Nigerian Second Republic adopted a/an ______ system of governance
12. Historically, the Yorubas came into prominence as a result of
The Yorubas who originated from Ile-Ife arose and became quite popular and remarkable by their trading with the Portuguese, which gave them a large supply of guns.
13. The Africans transported across the Atlantic as slaves were mostly
14. The main cause of the decline of the Benin Kingdom in the 19th century was the
Civil strife broke out among rival claimants to the Benin throne thus weakening her central authority.
15. Which one of the following is incorrect?
The Alkali Courts were headed by the Alkali judges in the Hausa/Fulani Empire not the Hakimis, who were actually the head of districts.
16. Britain suppressed the trans-Atlantic slave trade because
Following the Industrial Revolution, the European countries needed raw materials for their industries, not slaves who used to provide cheap manual labour.
17. The indirect rule system of administration meant that the colonialists
British colonial officials in Nigeria formulated and enforced policies & laws through the traditional rulers who only served as intermediaries between the people and the British government.
18. Taiwo Akinkumi designed the Nigerian national flag in what year?
19. Who was the Head of State when Ken Saro Wiwa was executed?
Ken Saro-Wiwa was outspoken among a group of nine activists from Ogoni of Niger Delta region of Nigeria; popularly called ‘the Ogoni Nine’ who were executed by hanging in 1995 by the military government of General Sani Abacha. Ken Saro-Wiwa and his fellow Ogoni activists were arrested, detained and charged by a ‘Kangaroo’ court with murder and conspiracy to murder of four prominent Ogoni men who were allegedly brutally murdered by a Mob on the 21st May 1994 at Giokoo in Gokana Local Government Areas of Ogoni.
20. The colonial officer who was responsible for splitting the Southern Province into Eastern and Western Provinces was
Governor Bernard Bourdilloun took office in 1935. In 1939, while in office, he turned the Northern and Southern protectorates into provinces and then divided the Southern province into Eastern and Western provinces while the Northern province was left untouched.
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