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Can you answer these general knowledge questions about the Indian Ocean?
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What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?
Madagascar
Who was the first European explorer to sail from Europe to India?
Vasco da Gama
What gulf borders Iraq, Iran, and Qatar?
Persian Gulf
What fictional Arabian sailor sailed the Seven Seas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans?
Sinbad
What sea borders India, Oman, and Pakistan?
Arabian Sea
What river flows through Bangladesh on its way to the Indian Ocean?
Ganges / Brahmaputra
What is the most populous Australia city on the Indian Ocean?
Perth
What bay separates India from Myanmar?
Bay of Bengal
What Tanzanian island, starting with Z, was once an important trading center?
Zanzibar
What island was formerly known as Ceylon?
Sri Lanka
Two cities with a metro population over 15 million border the Indian Ocean. What are they?
Mumbai
Karachi
What canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean?
Suez Canal
What city has a building, under construction, that is planned to be the tallest in the world?
Jeddah
What country is the island of Socotra part of?
Yemen
What is Kenya's largest city on the Indian Ocean?
Mombasa
What bird onced live on the island of Mauritius, but famously went extinct in the 1600s?
Dodo
What language, starting with S, is a lingua franca of Kenya and Tanzania?
Swahili
What country controls the island of Réunion?
France
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
OldSailor
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Level 90
Dec 5, 2017
FYI - many Arab people are not big fans of calling that body of water the Persian Gulf. They prefer the name Arabian Gulf.
chunkeeguy
+85
Level 77
Dec 5, 2017
*take out the world's smallest violin
kalbahamut
+14
Level 82
Apr 1, 2018
This nonsense started very recently. Look at any old Arab map from more than a couple decades ago and the body of water is identified as the Persian Gulf
Malbaby
+20
Level 71
Apr 1, 2018
Old Sailors never die, they just become nitpickers on jetpunk.
Hirundo
+9
Level 67
Oct 1, 2020
Persian people are not big fans of Arabic people not being big fans of calling the gulf Persian.
dirtylenzes
+10
Level 50
Dec 5, 2017
Another spelling for the sailor's name exists (without giving it away) it includes a d in the middle of it.
DonTheLamplighter
+76
Level 84
Dec 8, 2017
Yeah, but only his kids called him Vasco dad Gama.
catcat
+2
Level 59
Mar 24, 2018
Lol@Don
tshalla
+6
Level 75
Apr 1, 2018
Nice one. But yeah, if you prefer Mumbai to Bombay, you should probably prefer Sindbad to Sinbad.
gtj31
+2
Level 86
Apr 1, 2018
Well played.
MrPro
+11
Level 44
Apr 1, 2018
What is the most populous Australia-N city on the Indian ocean? *Spelling error
Devvik2
+10
Level 70
Apr 1, 2018
Kuala Lumpur is not on the Strait of Mallaca. Medan is though!
Raffles
+1
Level 68
Jun 8, 2022
I am not sure about Medan, since on the map its city center is located inland.
KotaTerbesar5544
+1
Level 22
Dec 30, 2022
Medan is bordered by the Malacca Strait
CleverAnt
+1
Level 32
Feb 27, 2024
Or perhaps change the wording in the question from "cities" to "urban areas" (the KL metropolitan area does indeed stretch to the Straits of Malacca)
earthprincess
+6
Level 32
May 7, 2018
Can you consider Sindbad as well. We have grown up reading his stories with this spelling of his name.
HoustonCricket
+2
Level 70
Feb 13, 2019
Mumbai and Karachi are not the Indian Ocean - they lie on the Arabian Sea.
POOCH
+4
Level 72
Mar 27, 2019
Do you mean the Arabian Sea that makes up part of the Indian Ocean in much the same way that the South China Sea makes up part of the Pacific?
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 85
Oct 5, 2022
No, the OTHER Arabian Sea.
KanzazKyote
+2
Level 87
Apr 30, 2020
By what standard is Karachi even close to 20 million??? Even city pop puts it lower.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Aug 6, 2020
Citypopulation used to have them higher. Not sure what changed, but I changed the quiz.
Baxtergrad
+1
Level 52
Dec 7, 2020
They updated to use more accurate and reliable data.
TheGeographyMan
+3
Level 35
Dec 7, 2020
What is the biggest AustraliaN city.
JackintheBox
+7
Level 79
Dec 7, 2020
Thanks for accepting Ceylon for Sri Lanka!
Baxtergrad
+5
Level 52
Dec 7, 2020
Sweet!
AlmostAGenius
+3
Level 80
Sep 11, 2022
That probably should be fixed...
JWatson24
+3
Level 71
Dec 7, 2020
Can you accept "Jamuna," "Padma," and "Meghna" for the question about Bangladesh? Bangladeshis usually use these terms to refer to the three major tributaries/offshoots of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system.
Nathaniel
+6
Level 74
Dec 7, 2020
*AustraliaN

*once[d]

*What city has a building[,] under construction, that is planned to be the tallest in the world? (I'm not 100% percent sure about this one, but I think that comma shouldn't be there)

grantdon
+3
Level 73
Dec 8, 2020
you either need two commas there or none
parkave
+3
Level 57
Dec 8, 2020
The Dubai Creek tower in the UAE is also a contender for tallest in the world, the question is confusing
Raffles
+3
Level 68
Jun 8, 2022
Kuala Lumpur is an inland city. It is not on the Strait of Malacca. You can change it to Batam, Bandar Malaka (Malacca City) or Penang (Georgetown).
CleverAnt
+1
Level 32
Feb 27, 2024
Or perhaps change the wording in the question from "cities" to "urban areas" (the KL metropolitan area does indeed stretch to the Straits of Malacca)
QuizzerBros
+1
Level 66
Mar 16, 2023
Kingdom Tower project in Jeddah has been abandoned
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