Statistics for Middle Eastern Geography By Letter - B

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
City that was the center of the Islamic Golden Age	Baghdad	95%
Capital of Lebanon	Beirut	95%
City where Jesus was born	Bethlehem	94%
World's tallest building	Burj Khalifa	94%
Kingdom in the Persian Gulf	Bahrain	91%
Sea Turkey borders to its north	Black Sea	90%
Ancient capital near that city	Babylon	82%
Strait on which Istanbul sits	Bosphorus	82%
Term for a Middle Eastern marketplace	Bazaar	80%
Turkish city or a DC superhero	Batman	69%
Sultan Ahmed Mosque's more common name	{Blue} Mosque	67%
Ancient Greek name for Istanbul	Byzantium	65%
Most populous city in southern Iraq	Basra	64%
Nomadic Arab ethnic group	Bedouin	64%
Universalist religion that was founded by Bahá'u'lláh	{Bahá}'{í} Faith	53%
Saddam's or Assad's political party	Ba'ath	48%
Ethnic area in southeastern Iran, and parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan	{Baloch}istan	40%
Ottoman capital between 1335–1363	Bursa	33%
Biggest city in the Negev Desert	Beersheba	24%
Iran's largest and most important port	Bandar Abbas	13%