Statistics for Indian Ocean General Knowledge

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What island was formerly known as Ceylon?	Sri Lanka	94%
What gulf borders Iraq, Iran, and Qatar?	{Persian} Gulf	90%
What canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean?	Suez Canal	88%
What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?	Madagascar	87%
What is the most populous Australia city on the Indian Ocean?	Perth	86%
What bay separates India from Myanmar?	Bay of {Bengal}	84%
What bird onced live on the island of Mauritius, but famously went extinct in the 1600s?	Dodo	84%
What Tanzanian island, starting with Z, was once an important trading center?	Zanzibar	80%
What country controls the island of Réunion?	France	79%
Two cities with a metro population over 15 million border the Indian Ocean. What are they?	Mumbai	78%
What language, starting with S, is a lingua franca of Kenya and Tanzania?	Swahili	75%
25% of the world's goods travel through the Strait of Malacca - which connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Name one of the two largest cities on that strait.	Kuala Lumpur or Singapore	73%
What sea borders India, Oman, and Pakistan?	{Arabian} Sea	70%
What river flows through Bangladesh on its way to the Indian Ocean?	Ganges / Brahmaputra	70%
Who was the first European explorer to sail from Europe to India?	Vasco da Gama	60%
What fictional Arabian sailor sailed the Seven Seas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans?	Sinbad	55%
Two cities with a metro population over 15 million border the Indian Ocean. What are they?	Karachi	46%
What is Kenya's largest city on the Indian Ocean?	Mombasa	42%
What country is the island of Socotra part of?	Yemen	42%
What city has a building, under construction, that is planned to be the tallest in the world?	Jeddah	26%

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