Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf

Question 1

How many humps does an Arabian camel have?

Answer 1

One

Question 2

Where was Muhammad born and where did he die?

Answer 2

Born in Mecca, died in Medina

Question 3

What is Muhammad known for?

Answer 3

Spreading Islamic beliefs by force.

Question 4

How long did king Nebuchadnezzar rule Babylon?

Answer 4

From 605BC to 562BC

Question 5

How long did Nebuchadnezzar go crazy?

Answer 5

7 years

Question 6

What was the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979?

Answer 6

When college students were angry that America had taken in their former Shah to treat him for cancer and they raided an American embassy.

Question 7

What is the Middle East?

Answer 7

The Persian Gulf area - Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Iraq, and Iran

Question 8

What is Rub’al Kahl?

Answer 8

The largest desert in Saudi Arabia

Question 9

What is an Oasis?

Answer 9

Wet, fertile area in a desert

Question 10

What is a Wadis?

Answer 10

Dry stream beds used to dig wells

Question 11

What is Fossil Water?

Answer 11

Water that isn’t being replaced by rainfall

Question 12

What is the capital city of Saudi Arabia?

Answer 12

Riyadh

Question 13

What is a loose fitting black cloak worn by women in Saudi Arabia?

Answer 13

Abaya

Question 14

What are religious police in Saudi Arabia called?

Answer 14

Mutawa

Question 15

Who influences the price of oil in the world?

Answer 15

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Question 16

What plant found in Africa and Arabia is used as a drug and in tea?

Answer 16

Khat

Question 17

What are ancient Mesopotamian temple towers called?

Answer 17

Ziggurat

Question 18

What does Shah mean?

Answer 18

Persian title for “king”

Question 19

What is the capital city of Iran?

Answer 19

Tehran

Question 20

What is a country run by religious leaders?

Answer 20

Theocracy

Question 21

Religious leaders of Iran

Answer 21

Ayatollahs

Question 22

What is the largest Middle Eastern country?

Answer 22

Saudi Arabia

Question 23

What religion is Saudi Arabia mainly influenced by?

Answer 23

Islam

Question 24

What valuable item does Saudi Arabia export

the most?

Answer 24

Oil

Question 25

What three countries sit on the Persian Gulf and on the Southern border of Saudi Arabia?

Answer 25

Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar

Question 26

What country was the focus of the Iraq war?

Answer 26

Kuwait

Question 27

What two countries are part of the UAE?

Answer 27

Yemen and Oman

Question 28

What country is the hottest?

Answer 28

Oman

Question 29

What country has been the hotbed of Islamic terror organizations and US drone attacks?

Answer 29

Yemen

Question 30

What are Houthis?

Answer 30

Iranian backed Shia rebels

Question 31

What is the capital city of Iraq?

Answer 31

Baghdad

Question 32

What was ancient Iraq known as?

Answer 32

Fertile Crescent

Question 33

Where do the Euphrates and Tigris rivers

flow from?

Answer 33

Iraq

Question 34

What was the response to Iraq’s invasion of

Husia?

Answer 34

Operation Desert Storm(1990- 1991)

Question 35

How long did the Iraq War go on?

Answer 35

From 2008 to 2011

Question 36

What Iraqi leader believed himself to be Nebuchadnezzar’s reincarnation?

Answer 36

Dictator Saddam Hussein

Question 37

Modern Persia

Answer 37

Iran

Question 38

People from Iran are what nationality?

Answer 38

Persian

Question 39

What is the capital city of Iran?

Answer 39

Tehran

Question 40

When was the Islamic Revolution?

Answer 40

1979

Question 41

What state does Hezbollah terrorize?

Answer 41

Lebanon

Question 42

What state does Houthis terrorize?

Answer 42

Yemen

Question 43

What state does Hamas terrorize?

Answer 43

Israel