Middle East A-Z #2 - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Hint		Answer	% Correct
B	Largest city in Iraq	Baghdad	98%
G	Territory ruled by Hamas	Gaza	88%
J	River that feeds the Dead Sea	Jordan	87%
E	Title of the ruler of Dubai	Emir	86%
I	Country boycotted by the Arab League	Israel	86%
D	Oldest city in the world	Damascus	78%
S	Country presently ruled by Alawites	Syria	73%
M	From Greek, the land "between rivers"	Mesopotamia	71%
F	Birthplace of civilization	The {Fertile} Crescent or The Hilly {Flanks}	68%
O	Oil cartel founded in "B" in 1960	OPEC	60%
K	First Ayatollah of Iran	Khomeini	54%
A	Ancient Semitic language, precursor of Arabic	Aramaic	50%
R	De-facto capital of the Palestinian National Authority	Ramallah	47%
L	Used to be called Thebes	Luxor	46%
C	Sumerian system of writing	Cuneiform	43%
U	Ancient city; birthplace of Abraham	Ur	43%
Z	Pyramidal structures built in "M"	Ziggurat	37%
W	Saudi brand of fundamentalist Islam	Wahhabism	34%
H	Shia rebels who fought the Yemeni government	Houthi	29%
T	Saddam Hussein's home town	Tikrit	21%
Y	Ethnic/religious minority targeted by Islamic State	Yazidi	21%
V	Roman emperor who (re)conquered Judea	Vespasian	16%
P	Military force of Kurdistan	Peshmerga	14%
N	City bulldozed by Islamic State	Nimrud	3%
Q	Shia majority city in Saudi Arabia's Eastern provinces	Qatif	3%