Statistics for Middle Eastern Geography By Letter - S

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Country with massive oil reserves	Saudi Arabia	99%
Desert that covers most of Egypt	Sahara	96%
Country which nearly 7 million people have fled since 2011	Syria	95%
Canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas	Suez Canal	94%
Ancient trade route that whose western end was in Istanbul	Silk Road	90%
Peninsula that Israel returned to Egypt in 1982	Sinai	90%
Largest branch of Islam	Sunni	88%
Iran's official branch of Islam	Shia	86%
Capital of Yemen	Sana'a	83%
Title of the Omani monarch	Sultan	80%
Object found on that country's flag	Sword	74%
Title of the Iranian king	Shah	72%
Currency of Israel	Shekel	71%
Bosphorus, Hormuz, Mandeb, e.g.	Strait	69%
Iranian city or variety of red wine	Shiraz	60%
Largest island of Yemen	Socotra	40%
Title used by the rulers of the seven individual United Arab Emirates	Sheikh	37%
Tyre's Phoenician counter-part	Sidon	25%
Ancient Greek city near Izmir	Smyrna	24%
Historic communist country	South Yemen	23%