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History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Kenya with the correct year: Moi came under pressure, notably from US ambassador Smith Hempstone, to restore a multi-party system, which he did by ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about British East Africa with the correct year: The British "sphere of influence", agreed at the Berlin Conference of ______, extended up the coast and inland across the future…
  3. Complete the sentence about British East Africa with the correct year: In ______, administration was again transferred to the Colonial Office.
  4. Complete the sentence about British East Africa with the correct year: In ______ Hugh Cholmondeley, the pioneer of white settlement, arrived in the Kenya highlands, which was then part of the Protecto…
  5. Complete the sentence about British East Africa with the correct year: In ______, the boundaries of the protectorate were extended to include what was previously the Eastern Province of Uganda.
  6. Complete the sentence about British East Africa with the correct year: A regular government and legislature were constituted by Order in Council in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Kenya Colony with the correct year: The colony came to an end in ______ when a native Kenyan majority government was elected for the first time and eventually declared inde…
  8. Complete the sentence about Imperial British East Africa Company with the correct year: In ______ the IBEAC transferred its administration rights of the territory to the British Government.
  9. Complete the sentence about Imperial British East Africa Company with the correct year: Hoping to resolve this common interest in a peaceful manner, in ______ Germany and Britain signed a treaty in wh…
  10. Complete the sentence about Mau Mau rebellion with the correct year: The capture of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi on 21 October ______ signalled the defeat of the Mau Mau, and essentially ended the Brit…
  11. Complete the sentence about Mau Mau rebellion with the correct year: Even before ______, however, Britain's presence in Kenya was marked by dispossession and violence.
  12. Complete the sentence about Mau Mau rebellion with the correct year: The first settlers arrived in ______ as part of Governor Charles Eliot's plan to have a settler economy pay for the Uganda Railway.
  13. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta with the correct year: In ______, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs.
  14. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta with the correct year: In ______, he published an anthropological study of Kikuyu life before working as a farm labourer in Sussex during the Second World War…
  15. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta with the correct year: Influenced by his friend George Padmore, he embraced anti-colonialist and Pan-African ideas, co-organising the ______ Pan-African Congr…
  16. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta with the correct year: In ______, he was among the Kapenguria Six arrested and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising.
  17. Complete the sentence about Jomo Kenyatta with the correct year: On his release, Kenyatta became President of KANU and led the party to victory in the ______ general election.
  18. Complete the sentence about Daniel arap Moi with the correct year: Following independence in ______, Kenyatta who became Prime Minister and later President of the new nation, convinced Moi to merge th…
  19. Complete the sentence about Daniel arap Moi with the correct year: Moi's regime was deemed dictatorial especially before ______ when Kenya was a one-party state.
  20. Complete the sentence about Mwai Kibaki with the correct year: Following the ______ presidential election, he was elected as the President of Kenya.
  21. Complete the sentence about Uhuru Kenyatta with the correct year: On 1 September ______, the court declared the election invalid and ordered a new presidential election to take place within 60 days fr…
  22. Complete the sentence about Raila Odinga with the correct year: Raila Odinga, a member of the Joluo ethnic group, was born at the Anglican Church Missionary Society Hospital in Maseno, Kisumu District…
  23. Complete the sentence about Tom Mboya with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 28, Mboya was elected Conference Chairman at the All-African Peoples' Conference convened by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghan…
  24. Complete the sentence about Tom Mboya with the correct year: In ______, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, to form the first All-Africa ICFTU labour organization.
  25. Complete the sentence about Tom Mboya with the correct year: In ______, Mboya was the first Kenyan to be featured on the front page cover of Time magazine in a painting by Bernard Safran.
  26. Complete the sentence about Oginga Odinga with the correct year: In his autobiography, Not Yet Uhuru, Odinga estimates the date of his birth to be October ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Oginga Odinga with the correct year: According to Luo tradition, a Ker cannot be a politician, so Odinga relinquished his position as king in ______ and became the politica…
  28. Complete the sentence about Oginga Odinga with the correct year: When Kenya became a Republic in ______, he was its first Vice-President.
  29. Complete the sentence about Dedan Kimathi with the correct year: Kĩmathi was born on 31st October ______ in Thege village near Nyeri County in central Kenya, where his father, valuing education, sent…
  30. Complete the sentence about Dedan Kimathi with the correct year: By ______ he had become secretary to the KAU branch at Ol Kalou, which was controlled by militant supporters of the Mau Mau cause.
  31. Complete the sentence about Dedan Kimathi with the correct year: Upon taking the oath of the Mau Mau, Kĩmathi in ______ joined the Forty Group, the militant wing of the defunct Kikuyu Central Associat…
  32. Complete the sentence about Harry Thuku with the correct year: In ______, he rose to the position of a clerk-telegraph operator in the government treasury office in Nairobi.
  33. Complete the sentence about Kenya African National Union with the correct year: The Kenya African Union was a political organization formed in ______ to articulate Kenyan grievances against the Britis…
  34. Complete the sentence about Kenya African National Union with the correct year: The colonial government governor then appointed these leaders of the tribal parties to the Legislative Council in ______…
  35. Complete the sentence about Kenya African National Union with the correct year: A ban on nationalist political parties however remained in force in Kenya until ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Kenya African Union with the correct year: KAU was formed on October 1, ______, with the veteran political leader Harry Thuku as its president.
  37. Complete the sentence about Kenya African Union with the correct year: Nine days later, on October 10, ______, Governor Sir Philip Mitchell appointed Eliud Mathu to become the first African to sit in…
  38. Complete the sentence about Kenya African Union with the correct year: The following month in November ______, at the insistence of the Governor, the name 'Study' was added to the name becoming the Ke…
  39. Complete the sentence about Kenya African Union with the correct year: In the next Delegates Conference in February ______, the name 'Study' was dropped and the party reverted to its old name KAU.
  40. Complete the sentence about Kenya African Union with the correct year: In January ______, Governor Mitchell appointed Fanwell Walter Odede to sit at the Legislative Council to replace Rev.
  41. Complete the sentence about 2010 Kenyan constitutional referendum with the correct year: A constitutional referendum was held in Kenya on 4 August ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about 2010 Kenyan constitutional referendum with the correct year: Voters were asked whether they approved of a proposed new constitution, which had been passed by the National A…
  43. Complete the sentence about Senate of Kenya with the correct year: The Senate was first established as part of Kenya's ______ Constitution.
  44. Complete the sentence about Senate of Kenya with the correct year: Kenya's ______ Constitution established a Senate that consisted of 41 senators elected for six years, with one-third of the members r…
  45. Complete the sentence about Senate of Kenya with the correct year: The Senate was abolished in ______, when its membership was combined with that of the House of Representatives to form a unicameral l…
  46. Complete the sentence about Kenya Wildlife Service with the correct year: Richard Leakey, President Moi, and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stockpile of 12 tons of ivory was bur…
  47. Complete the sentence about Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission with the correct year: The commission organised the general election on 4 March ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Orange Democratic Movement with the correct year: In the ______ Kenyan constitutional referendum, the "no" vote, which the ODM campaigned for, won with 58.12% of Kenyans vo…
  49. Complete the sentence about Orange Democratic Movement with the correct year: Uhuru Kenyatta's KANU was the first, pulling out in July ______ and endorsing President Kibaki's re-election; however, som…
  50. Complete the sentence about Orange Democratic Movement with the correct year: Then, due to an internal rivalry between Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga, the ODM split into two factions in mid-August _…
  51. Complete the sentence about Sultanate of Zanzibar with the correct year: On 12 January ______, revolutionaries led by the African Afro-Shirazi Party overthrew the mainly Arab government.
  52. Complete the sentence about Sultanate of Zanzibar with the correct year: In ______, Zanzibar became part of the overseas holdings of Oman after Saif bin Sultan, the Imam of Oman, defeated the Portugue…
  53. Complete the sentence about Sultanate of Zanzibar with the correct year: After his death in ______, two of his sons, Majid bin Said and Thuwaini bin Said, struggled over the succession, so Zanzibar an…
  54. Complete the sentence with the correct year: When Said ibn Sultan died in ______, his sons quarrelled over the succession.
  55. Complete the sentence about Omani Empire with the correct year: By ______, the Omani Empire had expanded eastwards to Gwadar in present-day Pakistan.
  56. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Empire with the correct year: In ______, Pedro Álvares Cabral, while on a voyage to India, reached what would later be Brazil.
  57. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Empire with the correct year: By ______, a string of naval outposts connected Lisbon to Nagasaki along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
  58. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Empire with the correct year: The ______ British Ultimatum led to the contraction of Portuguese ambitions in Africa.
  59. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Empire with the correct year: In August ______, Dahomey annexed the Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá, and in December that year India annexed Goa, Daman, and D…
  60. Complete the sentence about Scramble for Africa with the correct year: By ______, businessmen from Europe had established small trading posts along the coasts of Africa, but they seldom moved inland…
  61. Complete the sentence about Lord Delamere with the correct year: Delamere moved to Kenya in ______ and acquired vast land holdings from the British Crown.
  62. Complete the sentence about Lord Delamere with the correct year: The young Lord Delamere made his first trip to Africa in ______ to hunt lion in British Somaliland, and returned yearly to resume the h…
  63. Complete the sentence about Karen Blixen with the correct year: Karen Christentze Dinesen was born on 17 April ______ in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen.
  64. Complete the sentence about Out of Africa with the correct year: The book, first published in ______, recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East…
  65. Complete the sentence about Out of Africa with the correct year: The book's title was likely derived from the title of a poem, "Ex Africa," she had written in ______, while recuperating in a Danish ho…
  66. Complete the sentence about Happy Valley set with the correct year: The recession caused by the ______ stock market crisis greatly decreased the number of new arrivals to the Colony of Kenya and the i…
  67. Complete the sentence about Happy Valley set with the correct year: The ______ UK television mini-series Heat of the Sun describes lives and crimes of some fictional Happy Valley dwellers.
  68. Complete the sentence about Kenya Land and Freedom Army with the correct year: After four years, British forces managed to destroy the KFLA militarily, and Kimathi was captured and executed in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Kenya Land and Freedom Army with the correct year: Though the Mau Mau rebellion was ultimately suppressed, it played a major role in achieving Kenya's independence, which o…
  70. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The KFLA began what is now called the Mau Mau uprising in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Kenya Land and Freedom Army with the correct year: Torture was widespread against detainees, and in ______ 11 prisoners were killed by camp guards in the Hola massacre.
  72. Complete the sentence about Hola massacre with the correct year: The ______ Hola massacre was a massacre committed by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau Rebellion at a colonial detention camp…
  73. Complete the sentence about Hola massacre with the correct year: On 3 March ______, the camp commandant put this plan into action – as a result of which 11 of the detainees were clubbed to death by gu…
  74. Complete the sentence about Pio Gama Pinto with the correct year: Pinto was born in Nairobi on 31 March ______ to a family of Goan Catholic descent.
  75. Complete the sentence about Pio Gama Pinto with the correct year: In ______, Pinto returned to Kenya and, after a succession of clerical jobs, became involved in local politics aimed at overthrowing B…
  76. Complete the sentence about J. M. Kariuki with the correct year: In ______, he briefly enrolled in Evanson's Day School but dropped out shortly after due to a lack of school fees.
  77. Complete the sentence about J. M. Kariuki with the correct year: Before his birth, his parents had been displaced in ______ from their family land, Chinga, in the Nyeri native reserve, to work in the…
  78. Complete the sentence about J. M. Kariuki with the correct year: In ______, he attended a political rally where Jomo Kenyatta denounced the British colonial government's treatment of native Kenyans.
  79. Complete the sentence about Kenyatta family with the correct year: In ______, he was baptized a Christian and given the name John Peter which he changed to Johnstone.
  80. Complete the sentence about Kenyatta family with the correct year: In ______, Jomo Kenyatta met and married his first wife Grace Wahu, according to Kikuyu tradition.
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Edna, who died in ______ at the age of 86, was Kenyatta's second wife.
  82. Complete the sentence about Luo people with the correct year: Odingo was the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when it received the Nobel Peace Prize in ______ with Al Gor…
  83. Complete the sentence about Luo people with the correct year: Lupita Nyong'o became the first black African to win an Academy Award in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Luhya people with the correct year: By the time of independence in ______, a sense of being Luhya sat alongside strong loyalties to local subgroups such as Bukusu, Maragoli…
  85. Complete the sentence about Maasai people with the correct year: In ______, there was a report of a concentration of 800 Maasai warriors on the move in what is now Kenya.
  86. Complete the sentence about Maasai people with the correct year: In ______, after having depopulated the "Wakuafi wilderness" in what is now southeastern Kenya, Maasai warriors threatened Mombasa on t…
  87. Complete the sentence about Turkana people with the correct year: In ______, the British colonial administration in Kenya "effectively gained control" over the Turkana people and forcibly confined the…
  88. Complete the sentence about Kenyan Asians with the correct year: In ______, Kenyan Asians were recognised by the Government of Kenya as the nation's 44th tribe.
  89. Complete the sentence about Kenyan Asians with the correct year: In ______, the British East Africa Association was founded with its base in Bombay.
  90. Complete the sentence about Kenyan Asians with the correct year: Significant Indian migration to modern-day Kenya began following the creation of the East Africa Protectorate in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Shifta War with the correct year: In ______, the District Commissioner commented in his Handing Over Report: "The Ewaso Boran have degenerated through wealth and soft livin…
  92. Complete the sentence about Shifta War with the correct year: In the ______ Kenyan general election, the NPPPP gained the support of most Somalis in northern Kenya.
  93. Complete the sentence about Shifta War with the correct year: On 22 November ______ the British government declared that there would be "no altering Kenya's frontier without the decision of the new Ke…
  94. Which place completes this sentence about William Ruto? Ruto was elected Member of Parliament for ______ North constituency from 1997 to 2007 under the KANU, and from 2007 to 2013 through the ODM part…
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Raila Odinga? Raila Odinga, a member of the Joluo ethnic group, was born at the Anglican Church Missionary Society Hospital in Maseno, ______ District, Nyanza…
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Dedan Kimathi? Kĩmathi was born on 31st October 1920 in Thege village near ______ County in central Kenya, where his father, valuing education, sent him to sc…
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Judiciary of Kenya? New courts like the High Court opened in ______ in November 2014 is a good example.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis? A BBC reporter saw 40 bodies with gunshot wounds in a mortuary in ______, which was the opposition's main base.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Garissa University College attack? On 2 April 2015, gunmen stormed the ______ University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people, and injuring at least…
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Wangari Maathai? Maathai was born on 1 April,1940 in the village of Ihithe, ______ District, in the central highlands of the colony of Kenya.

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