Apartheid
Apartheid became official government policy in 1948. This topic is part of South Africa within History. This page currently draws on 10 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Apartheid trivia questions
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in which country?
Answer: South Africa
Bonus fact: Apartheid became official government policy in 1948.
Which political party formally instituted apartheid?
Answer: National Party
Bonus fact: The National Party won the 1948 election.
Which 1994 event marked the democratic end of apartheid rule?
Answer: First multiracial national election
Bonus fact: Nelson Mandela became president after the election.
"Sarafina!" is set during resistance to apartheid in which country?
Answer: South Africa
Bonus fact: The story centers on Black students confronting apartheid-era repression.
Which famous leader became South Africa's first Black president in 1994?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Bonus fact: Mandela's election followed the end of apartheid.
Which South African president announced Mandela's release and unbanned the ANC?
Answer: F. W. de Klerk
Bonus fact: De Klerk's reforms opened negotiations to end apartheid.
South Africa's 1994 election was historic because it was the first national election in which what happened?
Answer: Citizens of all races could vote
Bonus fact: It marked the end of apartheid-era political exclusion.
Which novel does the Nobel Prize site identify as Nadine Gordimer's international breakthrough?
Answer: The Conservationist
Bonus fact: Gordimer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 and was active in the anti-apartheid movement.
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, Robben Island was used as a prison, a military base, and what other type of institution?
Answer: Hospital
Bonus fact: Its later maximum-security prison held political prisoners during South Africa's apartheid era.
District 9 uses aliens partly as an allegory for what?
Answer: Apartheid and segregation
Bonus fact: The film's setting and forced relocation imagery evoke South African history.