Statistics for Iraq Country Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Capital city	Baghdad	97%
Official languages	Arabic	96%
Country that Iraq fought a war against from 1980–1988	Iran	93%
Ocean gulf that Iraq borders	{Persian} Gulf	92%
Country invaded by Iraq in 1990	Kuwait	88%
Dictator of Iraq, 1979–2003	Saddam Hussein	87%
Two main rivers	Tigris	81%
Two main rivers	Euphrates	80%
"Caliphate" that operated in Iraq in the 2010s but is mostly defeated now	ISIS	77%
Ancient name for the region between these two rivers	Mesopotamia	73%
Two words, meaning "God is the Greatest", which are written on the flag	Allahu Akbar	69%
Ancient capital where the Great Ziggurat was located	Babylon	62%
Official languages	Kurdish	56%
Foreign invaders who sacked the capital city in 1258 AD, ending the Islamic Golden Age	The Mongols	56%
Legendary sailor of the seven seas who was said to live in Iraq	Sinbad	50%
Biblical patriarch who was born in the city of Ur	Abraham	45%
Name of Iraq's currency	Iraqi Dinar	45%
King of the above city whose code of laws called for "an eye for an eye"	Hammurabi	44%
Most populous city in Southern Iraq	Basra	39%
Political party of the above	Ba'ath	38%
Former U.S. prison where detainees were abused	Abu Ghraib	29%