The gods weren’t the only ones who got a little crazy coming up with the answers for our quiz on the African continent. Faithful Last Worders, who usually pride themselves on responding without giving in to the temptations of Google and research Web sites, may have needed Internet intervention. Our proof? Puzzler Louise Sanematsu ’82 discovered that the film The Gods Must Be Crazy, part of the answer to Clue 2, was up 6 percent in popularity on the Internet Movie Database the week she worked on her entry. She concluded, “One can only assume it’s Last Word participants verifying the title!”

Of 62 responses, 22 were spot-on. Clue 10 threw many for a loop. Akan and Hausa were the two most-guessed West African people, but the fair-haired Berbers – who count Roman emperor Septimius Severus and French soccer star Zinedine Zidane among their numbers – was the group we were looking for.

Drawing from the pool of intrepid Africa experts, Borders gift certificates go out to these five randomly selected winners: Harry Grant ’68, Carolyn Godlewski, John S. Jensen ’75, Kate Lonsdale MA ’96, PhD ’04, and Paul A. Smith ’74.

Answers ›› 1. Dholuo, Swahili 2. San, Khwe, Sho, Bushmen or Basarwa; The Gods Must Be Crazy; Hoodia gordonii 3. Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya 4. Addis Ababa 5. Liberia 6. Africa 7. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart 8. Kente cloth or nwentoma 9. Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 10. Berbers or Amazigh.