| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who became the first female president of this African nation, is related by marriage to funny lady Retta Liberia |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | SPARK JOY $1,000 (Daily Double): One a Buddhist, one a South African Anglican, these 2 religious leaders co-wrote "The Book of Joy" the Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $400: Ethiopia's Haile Selassie was regarded as the messiah of the African race by this movement founded in Jamaica Rastafarianism |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $800: Add a syllable to "Kenya" to get this last name of Kenya's first & current presidents, father & son Kenyatta |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $1200: The first woman elected head of state in Africa is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of this country founded in the 1800s Liberia |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $1600: It's the first name of Nigerian president Jonathan, & it's what we wish him in battling Boko Haram rebels Goodluck |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $2000: Under president Siad Barre, who left in 1991, this East African land had its last real government for many years Somalia |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Thabo Mbeki fought to eliminate apartheid & now leads this African country South Africa |
| #4959, aired 2006-03-16 | WORLD LEADERS $400: This African was a prisoner for 28 years, then a world leader for 5 Nelson Mandela |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: Leaders in this movement to unite the continent included Kwame Nkrumah & W.E.B. Du Bois Pan-Africanism |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | WORLD LEADERS $300: Now serving as president, this world leader spent 27 years in South African jails Nelson Mandela |
| #2649, aired 1996-02-22 | WORLD LEADERS $600: This South African president shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with future president Nelson Mandela F.W. de Klerk |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | AFRICA $800: African leaders met in 1963 in Addis Ababa to form the OAU, which stands for this The Organization of African Unity |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | WORLD LEADERS $600: In 1989 this South African education minister succeeded P.W. Botha as the country's president De Klerk |
| #1996, aired 1993-04-19 | HISTORIC LEADERS $500: After 30 years as president of this North African country, Habib Bourguiba was deposed in 1987 Tunisia |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma became president of this newly independent African nation in 1990 Namibia |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | WORLD LEADERS $400: In 1847 Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first president of this black African nation Liberia |
| #1252, aired 1990-01-30 | WORLD LEADERS $200: In 1960 Zulu chief Albert Lutuli became the 1st African to win this Nobel Prize the Nobel Peace Prize |
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