Johannesburg City Facts Quiz【Questions – Answers】

Johannesburg City Facts Quiz - South Africa

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Question 1: Johannesburg is the capital of which South African province?

(A) Durban

(B) Soweto

(C) Gauteng

(D) Gqeberha

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  (C) Gauteng 

Question 2: In what year was it founded?

(A) 1886

(B) 1882

(C) 1885

(D) 1887

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  (A) 1886 

Question 3: In what year was it chartered as a city?

(A) 1927

(B) 1928

(C) 1929

(D) 1930

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(B) 1928  

Question 4: The history of Johannesburg is the history of gold.Who was the miner who first found alluvial gold in the River Jukskei in 1853? 

(A) Christiaan Johannes

(B) Johannes Rissik

(C) Pieter Jacob Marais

(D) None of above

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(C) Pieter Jacob Marais  

Question 5: who was the Australian, who was the first to find gold in Witwatersrand but failed to exploit his find?

(A) Pieter Jacob Marais

(B) Johannes Rissik

(C) George Harrison

(D) Christiaan Johannes

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(C) George Harrison  

Question 6: What, today, is a very striking feature of the city?

(A) The great yellow slag heaps, souvenirs of the mining

(B) Hector Pieterson

(C) Carlton Centre

(D) None of these

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  (A) The great yellow slag heaps, souvenirs of the mining 

Question 7: The heart of Johannesburg’s commercial area is ___?

(A) Hector Pieterson

(B) Hillbrow Tower

(C) Carlton Centre

(D) Commissioner Street

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(D) Commissioner Street  

Question 8: Johannesburg’s main shopping artery is ___?

(A) Diagonal Street

(B) Eloff Street

(C) Donkin Street

(D) None of above

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  (B) Eloff Street 

Question 9: Most of the original Victorian buildings have gone now, but one exception is to be found on Pritchard Street What is it called?

(A) Hillbrow Tower

(B) Carlton Centre

(C) The Markham Building

(D) Hector Pieterson

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(C) The Markham Building  

Question 10: Few tourists would miss the opportunity to visit the recreation of a Victorianera mining city called ___?

(A) Gold Reef City

(B) The Markham Building

(C) Hillbrow Tower

(D) NOne of above

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  (A) Gold Reef City 

Question 11: who like drama make a bee-line for the world-renowned Market Theatre, located in___?

(A) The Apartheid Museum

(B) Constitution Hill

(C) The Maboneng Precinct

(D) The old Produce

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(D) The old Produce  

Question 12: which museum would you go to learn about the history and ethnology of Southern Africa?

(A) Pretoria

(B) The Africana Museum

(C) The Lindfield Victorian House Museum

(D) The Apartheid Museum

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  (B) The Africana Museum 

Question 13: The University of Witwatersrand started out as ___ what?

(A) North-West University

(B) Central Johannesburg College

(C) IMM Graduate School of Marketing

(D) The South African School of Mines

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(D) The South African School of Mines  

Question 14: What is the name of the site near to Johannesburg where the first evidence of Australopithecus africanus was found?

(A) Sterkfontein

(B) Maboneng Precinct

(C) Vilakazi Street

(D) Regina Mundi

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(A) Sterkfontein  

Question 15: Who was the Johannesburg-born President of South Africa and Nobel Laureate whose reforms led to the end of apartheid?

(A) Jacob Zuma

(B) F.W de Klerk

(C) Cyril Ramaphosa

(D) Nelson Mandela

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  (B) F.W de Klerk