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Higher Education, Research and Cultural Heritage Sites

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  1. What is the oldest public university in Ghana, founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast at Legon?
  2. Which premier public university, founded in Kumasi in 1951 as the Kumasi College of Technology, is Ghana's top engineering and technical institution?
  3. Which public university was established in 1962 in the Central Region primarily to train graduate teachers for secondary schools and teacher training colleges?
  4. Which multi-campus public university was established in 1992 to accelerate socio-economic development across northern Ghana?
  5. Which specialized public university, based in Tarkwa, was upgraded to full university status in 2004 to lead education in mining and petroleum engineering?
  6. Which public university located in Winneba was established in 1992 to train professional educators and curriculum specialists?
  7. Which public university located in Sunyani in the Bono Region was established in 2011 to train experts in renewable energy and ecology?
  8. Which public university was established in Ho in 2011 (Act 828) dedicated exclusively to training healthcare and allied health professionals?
  9. Which umbrella scientific research institution in Ghana, established in 1958, coordinates 13 specialized national research institutes?
  10. Which learned society, founded in November 1959 by Kwame Nkrumah as the Ghana Academy of Learning, is the premier national intellectual academy?
  11. What specialized statutory scientific commission oversees the safe application of nuclear science and operates the nuclear research reactor at Kwabenya?
  12. What collective UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ghana encompasses 28 historical fortified trading posts along the Atlantic coast?
  13. Which is the oldest European building in Sub-Saharan Africa, constructed by the Portuguese in 1482 as São Jorge da Mina?
  14. Which major slave fortress in Cape Coast served as the seat of the British colonial governor until 1877, housing notorious slave dungeons?
  15. In which coastal town was the 1697 Dutch-built Fort Apollonia located, representing the westernmost colonial fort in Ghana?
  16. Which coastal fort in Axim was built by the Portuguese in 1515 as their second major fortification in the Gold Coast?
  17. Which coastal fort in Shama, originally built by the Portuguese in 1523, contains the burial site of pioneering Ghanaian-German philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo?
  18. Who was the pioneering eighteenth-century Ghanaian philosopher from Axim who earned a doctorate in Germany and lectured at the Universities of Halle, Wittenberg, and Jena?
  19. What collective UNESCO World Heritage Site located around Kumasi preserves rare surviving examples of traditional Akan wattle-and-daub architecture?
  20. Which historic royal palace in Kumasi, built by the British for Prempeh I in 1925, now operates as a premier museum of Ashanti history?
  21. Which ancient mud-and-reed mosque in the Savannah Region, built in the seventeenth century in Sudanese architectural style, is Ghana's oldest surviving mosque?
  22. What legendary ancient rock located near Larabanga Mosque is famous for returning to its original position whenever moved during colonial road construction?
  23. Where in Kumasi is the unmovable historic sword embedded in the ground by priest Okomfo Anokye over 300 years ago located?
  24. What stilt village constructed entirely over the waters of Lake Amansuri in the Western Region is a celebrated UNESCO tentative heritage site?
  25. What sacred rock shelters and ancestral cave dwellings in the Upper East Region were utilized by the Talensi people as traditional shrines and defensive refuges?

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