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How Much Do You Actually Know About The Middle East?
Answer these questions, which get harder as you go along, to test your knowledge of the Middle East and the Arab World at large.
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Last updated: May 31, 2020
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1. What is the most common official language in the Middle East?
Others include Hebrew, Farsi, and Pashto, depending on the definition of the Middle East one uses.
Persian
Hebrew
Arabic
French
2. In a somewhat conservative definition of the Middle East, it lies primarily on what continent?
Egypt or Turkey might also be included, and they straddle the Asian boundaries with Europe and Africa, respectively.
It is a continent
Asia
Africa
Europe
3. What religion is most widely associated with the Middle East, especially outside Israel?
Especially Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Baha'i
Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
4. Which of the following empires originated in or near the Middle East?
Most likely in Iraq, near the Turkish border.
Tibetan
Roman
Assyrian
Mongol
5. Which of the following is a (modern) Middle Eastern capital city?
Of Saudi Arabia. Akkad no longer exists; Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey (Ankara is) and Dubai is not the capital of the UAE (Abu Dhabi is).
Riyadh
Istanbul
Dubai
Akkad
6. Which of the following is a term for a particular group of rich countries in the Middle East?
The term often refers to the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
Oil-Rich Gulf States
Middle Eastern Union
NAFTA
OPEC
7. What does the phrase “Allahu Akbar” (الله أكبر) most closely mean?
"For the homeland"
It's a person's name
"For the jihad"
"Allah is great"
8. In a poll, which Middle Eastern country did Iraqi citizens most frequently see as a threat to peace?
The poll collected limited results in the Middle East, but Iraqis certainly saw Israel as the greatest threat worldwide.
Israel
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Iran
9. Many people think of the Middle East as just being a desert. According to the CIA, which of these countries has the most total forest?
9770 square kilometers, with Iraq just behind at 8250. Turkey has the most in the broader Middle East.
Yemen
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
10. Which Middle Eastern country has the highest or second highest GDP per capita in the world (by purchasing power parity)?
Somewhere between $124900 and $138900, international. The only major database which places Qatar second is the CIA World Factbook, which ranks Liechtenstein higher.
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Israel
UAE
11. How many people died in the Middle East and North Africa due to terrorism in 2017?
According to Our World in Data, 10,819.
About 1,000
More than 1,000,000
About 110,000
About 11,000
12. Which of these superlatives is held by a Middle Eastern country?
Held by Yemen, with an index of 0.463. The two “highest” ranks are both held by the US, and the lowest population density in Asia is Mongolia.
Lowest population density in Asia
Highest nominal GDP
Highest recorded temperature
Lowest human development outside Africa
13. Which of the following epi- and pandemics primarily affected the Middle East?
MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Ironically, it is thought to have come from camels.
MERS
H1N1
Pneumonic Plague
Swine Flu
14. True or False: From 2000 to 2019, most US terrorists were immigrants from the Middle East.
In fact, 39 were American-born, while only 9 were Middle Eastern-born. More people came from elsewhere, including Africa and other parts of Asia, than from the Middle East.
False
True
15. Which of the following language groups does not contain a language widely spoken in the Middle East?
The Khoisan languages are spoken primarily in southwestern Africa.
Ural-Altaic
Indo-European
Khoisan
Semitic
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