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  1. Complete the sentence about Aberdare National Park with the correct year: Established in May ______, the Aberdare National Park covers an area of 767 square kilometers and forms part of the Aberdare M…
  2. Complete the sentence about Aberdare National Park with the correct year: Aberdare National Park is best known as the site where in ______, Elizabeth II became Queen after the death of her father King…
  3. Complete the sentence about Aberdare National Park with the correct year: Aberdare National Park was established in ______ with an aim to conserve and protect the Aberdare Mountains.
  4. Complete the sentence about Hell's Gate National Park with the correct year: The ______ film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life was shot on location in this park.
  5. Complete the sentence about Meru National Park with the correct year: Since ______, the protected area is considered part of an Lion Conservation Unit.
  6. Complete the sentence about Mau Forest with the correct year: In ______, Naiyan Kiplagat co-founded the Paran Women Group, which advocates for land restoration in the Mau Forest.
  7. Complete the sentence about Ngong Hills with the correct year: In the ______ film Out of Africa, the four peaks of the Ngong Hills appear in the background of several scenes near Karen Blixen's house.
  8. Complete the sentence about Fort Jesus with the correct year: After the Portuguese recaptured it from the Sultan in ______, they refurbished it and built more fortifications, subsequently making it ha…
  9. Complete the sentence about Lamu Archipelago with the correct year: In ______, the Portuguese explorer Tristao da Cunha set a blockade and established a tributary relationship with Lamu for Portugal.
  10. Complete the sentence about Lamu Archipelago with the correct year: After warring with Pate and Mombasa, Lamu sought and received protectorship from the Sultan of Oman in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Mfangano Island with the correct year: The first car to be driven on the island's soil was on February 2, ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Rusinga Island with the correct year: Mary Leakey discovered the first complete skull of Proconsul, then considered a "stem hominoid", in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Kenya with the correct year: European contact began in ______ AD with the Portuguese Empire, and effective colonisation of Kenya began in the 19th century during the Europe…
  14. Complete the sentence about Coast Province with the correct year: The total population of Kenya enumerated in the ______ census was approximately 21.4 million people.
  15. Complete the sentence about Nairobi County with the correct year: The railway headquarters moved from Mombasa to Nairobi in ______, establishing the city as a critical transport and administrative hub…
  16. Complete the sentence about Turkana County with the correct year: In ______, the district experienced an influx of people classified as belonging to the Turkana group.
  17. Complete the sentence about Turkana County with the correct year: The district maintained an all but complete isolation until ______ when road-blocks leading to the district were lifted by the Kenyan…
  18. Complete the sentence about Turkana County with the correct year: In ______, the people in the north of the county were reported as being harassed by marauding Ethiopians, and were consequently forced…
  19. Complete the sentence about African elephant with the correct year: The first scientific description of the African elephant was written in ______ by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who proposed the scie…
  20. Complete the sentence about African elephant with the correct year: Loxodonte was proposed as a generic name for the African elephant by Frédéric Cuvier in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about African elephant with the correct year: An anonymous author used the Latinized spelling Loxodonta in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about African elephant with the correct year: In ______, Glover Morrill Allen considered this elephant to be a distinct species and called it the 'forest elephant'; later authors…
  23. Complete the sentence about African elephant with the correct year: In ______, Richard Lydekker proposed six African elephant subspecies based on the different sizes and shapes of their ears.
  24. Complete the sentence about Black rhinoceros with the correct year: The species was first named Rhinoceros bicornis by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema naturae in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Black rhinoceros with the correct year: In ______ this was formally fixed and the Cape of Good Hope officially declared the type locality of the species.
  26. Complete the sentence about Cheetah with the correct year: In ______, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber described the cheetah based on a skin from the Cape of Good Hope and gave it the scientific n…
  27. Complete the sentence about Cheetah with the correct year: A South African specimen with notably dense fur was proposed as Felis lanea by Philip Sclater in ______ and became known as the "woolly cheet…
  28. Complete the sentence about Lion with the correct year: Felis leo was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in ______, who described the lion in his work Systema Naturae.
  29. Complete the sentence about Lion with the correct year: A subsequent study of felid fossils from the Kuruwita deposits in ______ described the fossils in further detail but only assigned them to P. le…
  30. Complete the sentence about Giraffe with the correct year: The modern English form developed around ______ from the French girafe.
  31. Complete the sentence about Giraffe with the correct year: Carl Linnaeus originally classified living giraffes as one species in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Giraffe with the correct year: Mathurin Jacques Brisson coined the generic name Giraffa in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Zebra with the correct year: In ______, Italian explorer Filippo Pigafetta recorded "zebra" being used to refer to the African animals by Portuguese visitors to the contine…
  34. Complete the sentence about Wildebeest with the correct year: The name was given by Dutch settlers who saw them on their way to the interior of South Africa in about ______ because they resemble wild…
  35. Complete the sentence about Wildebeest with the correct year: The name Connochaetes was given by German zoologist Hinrich Lichtenstein in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Flamingo with the correct year: The family Phoenicopteridae was introduced by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in ______, with Phoenicopterus as the type genus…
  37. Complete the sentence about Grévy's zebra with the correct year: The Grévy's zebra was first described by French naturalist Émile Oustalet in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Mount Longonot with the correct year: On March 21, ______, bush fires burned up the side of the mountain and descended into the crater, trapping wildlife and feeding on dro…
  39. Complete the sentence about Koobi Fora with the correct year: In ______ Richard Leakey established the Koobi Fora Base Camp on a large sandspit projecting into the lake near the ridge, which he called…
  40. Complete the sentence about Koobi Fora with the correct year: Consequently, the government of Kenya in ______ reserved the region as Sibiloi National Park, establishing a headquarters for the National…
  41. Complete the sentence about Koobi Fora with the correct year: For example, in Area 131 hominin skull KNM-ER ______ was found.
  42. Complete the sentence about Kisumu Impala Sanctuary with the correct year: In March ______, the sanctuary was branded as ‘a lakeshore walk with impalas'.
  43. Complete the sentence about Karen, Nairobi with the correct year: After Nairobi received city status in ______, the counties were redefined.
  44. Complete the sentence about Karen, Nairobi with the correct year: In ______ Karen was placed under the Nairobi City Council's administration.
  45. Complete the sentence about Westlands, Nairobi with the correct year: In ______ a private firm, with police support, began bulldozing homes, an act the Kenyan high court deemed illegal.
  46. Complete the sentence about Eastleigh, Nairobi with the correct year: Eastleigh was originally a large Kenyan Asian enclave until independence in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with the correct year: Originally named Embakasi Airport, the airport's name was changed in ______ to honour Jomo Kenyatta, who was Keny…
  48. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with the correct year: On 14 March ______, construction of the current terminal building was completed on the other side of the airport'…
  49. Complete the sentence about Moi International Airport with the correct year: Benair Engineering constructed its first private aircraft maintenance hangar in ______ as a temporary structure and it is s…
  50. Complete the sentence about Port of Mombasa with the correct year: The Kilindini harbour was inaugurated in ______ when work started on the construction of the Uganda Railway.
  51. Complete the sentence about Port of Mombasa with the correct year: The project was launched in July ______ at a cost of…
  52. Complete the sentence about Uhuru Park with the correct year: The park was reopened to the public on 30 March ______ by Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja.
  53. Complete the sentence about Uhuru Park with the correct year: In ______, Wangari Maathai and many of her followers held a protest at the park, attempting to stop the construction of the 60-storey Keny…
  54. Complete the sentence about Uhuru Park with the correct year: In August ______, a group led by a Catholic cardinal and Archbishop Maurice Michael Otunga burned a heap of condoms in Uhuru Park.
  55. Complete the sentence about Uhuru Park with the correct year: Uhuru Park was the scene of a bomb blast in June ______, which killed six people and left over 100 people injured.
  56. Complete the sentence about Nyahururu with the correct year: The Pan African School of Theology, an evangelical theological college founded in ______, is located near the town.
  57. Complete the sentence about Thomson's Falls with the correct year: In ______, Joseph Thomson was the first European to reach the waterfall and named it for his father.
  58. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The construction on the Uganda side was completed in May ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Isiolo with the correct year: Since ______, the town has been the seat of the Vicariate Apostolic of Isiolo.
  60. Complete the sentence about Isiolo with the correct year: On 14 July ______, Bishop Luigi Locati, who represented the Roman Catholic Church in Isiolo, was murdered.
  61. Complete the sentence about Isiolo with the correct year: American actress Drew Barrymore opened The Barrymore Learning Academy, a school in Isiolo, in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Samburu County with the correct year: The main access road to Samburu County is the A4 road from Rumuruti-Maralal-Baragoi, which as of ______ was being tarmacked from Rumur…
  63. Complete the sentence about Lake Elmenteita with the correct year: Lake Magadi tilapia were introduced to the lake from Lake Magadi in ______ and since that time the flamingo population has dwindled c…
  64. Complete the sentence about Lake Elmenteita with the correct year: Nearby is the Kariandusi Museum, at an important prehistoric site where stone handaxes and cleavers were discovered in ______ by Loui…
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Nairobi? The town quickly grew to replace ______ as the capital of Kenya in 1907.
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Mombasa? Mombasa serves as the capital of Mombasa County and was the original capital of the British East Africa Protectorate, a role ______ assumed in 1907.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Malindi? Once rivalled only by ______ for dominance in this part of East Africa, Malindi has traditionally been a port city.
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Kakamega? Kakamega is 52 km north of ______, and considered the heart of Luhya land.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Nyeri? The town is situated about 150 km north of ______, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands.
  70. Which place completes this sentence about Machakos? Machakos was established in 1887 by Sakshi Shah, ten years before ______ was established.
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Machakos? In 1899, the British moved the capital to ______ after Machakos was bypassed by construction of the Uganda Railway.
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Voi, Kenya? The first older station lies on the Kenya-Uganda Railway which was built by the British between 1895 and 1901 linking the port of ______ with Ugan…
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Nakuru? Water levels in Lake ______ have varied considerably, with the lake almost drying up several times over the past 50 years.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Naivasha? In 1999, the Lake ______ Riparian Association received the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award for its conservation efforts regarding the Lake Na…
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Naivasha? In 1981, the first geothermal plant for Lake ______ was commissioned and by 1985, a total of 45 MW of electricity was being generated in the ar…
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Baringo? Rebmann, German missionaries stationed at ______, about 1850; in J.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Lamu Old Town? The town contains the ______ Fort on the seafront, constructed under Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr, the Sultan of Pate, and completed after his death…
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Lamu Old Town? The town was first attested in writing by an Arab traveller Abu-al-Mahasini, who met a judge from ______ visiting Mecca in 1441.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Lamu Old Town? In 1506, the Portuguese fleet under Tristão da Cunha sent a ship to blockade ______.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Lamu Old Town? In the 1580s, prompted by Turkish raids, ______ led a rebellion against the Portuguese.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Lamu Old Town? During this period, ______ became a centre of poetry, politics, arts, crafts, and trade.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Diani Beach? A small airstrip - Ukunda Airport - is located between the beach area and the ______-Lunga Lunga road.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Watamu? The novel describes a few years living in the ______'s suburb of Russian writer Andy and his wife, Jennifer, who was born in Kenya.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Nyanza Province? The provincial capital was ______, the third-largest city in Kenya.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Mount Longonot? Mount Longonot is a stratovolcano located southeast of Lake ______ in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Kisumu Impala Sanctuary? Located within ______ city, Kisumu Impala Sanctuary lies on the shores of Lake Victoria, covering less than 1km2.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Isiolo? The Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba National Reserve lie north of the town, while Lewa Downs Reserve in ______ County is located south of Isiolo.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Narok County? Along with ______ County, Narok County has reported cases of female genital mutilation in the country, despite the practice being outlawed in 20…
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Elmenteita? Today the lake is a protected area due to its bird life and has been named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with Lake ______ and Lake…
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Elmenteita? Over 400 bird species have been recorded in the Lake ______/Lake Elmenteita basin.
  91. Complete the sentence about Tana River with the correct year: A ______ study reported that two-thirds of Kenya's electrical needs were supplied by the series of dams along the Tana River.
  92. Complete the sentence with the correct year: From ______, the protected area is considered part of a Lion Conservation Unit.
  93. Complete the sentence about Lake Nakuru National Park with the correct year: In ______ the three lakes were inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, Kenya Lake System of the Great Rift Valley.
  94. Complete the sentence about Lake Nakuru National Park with the correct year: In ______, levels again increased rapidly, leading to the migration of many flamingos to Lake Bogoria in search of food sup…
  95. Complete the sentence about Ngong Hills with the correct year: The Ngong Hills Wind Power Station, the first wind farm in the country, was completed in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Moi International Airport with the correct year: In ______, a group of terrorists fired two Strela missiles at an Israeli aircraft as they took off from Moi International A…
  97. Complete the sentence about Nyahururu with the correct year: Samuel Wanjiru, the Olympic Marathon Record holder and the first Kenyan to win the Marathon at the Olympics, called Nyahururu home until hi…
  98. Complete the sentence about Busia, Kenya with the correct year: In July ______, the construction of a one-stop-border-crossing between Busia, Kenya and Busia, Uganda was concluded.
  99. Complete the sentence about Narok County with the correct year: Narok County governor is Patrick Ole Ntutu, elected in the ______ general elections, and his Deputy is Tamalinye K.
  100. Complete the sentence about Nanyuki with the correct year: British immigrants settled in Nanyuki in ______, and some of their descendants still live in and around the town.

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