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Middle Eastern Geography Quiz

Can you answer these geography questions about the Middle East?
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Last updated: September 13, 2018
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First submittedJanuary 28, 2018
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What is the dominant religion in the Middle East?
Islam
What gulf is often referred to as simply "The Gulf"?
Persian Gulf
What is the historical name for the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamia
What is the largest peninsula of Egypt?
Sinai
What is the capital of Qatar?
Doha
What is the second most populous city in Syria, after Damascus?
Aleppo
What is the tallest mountain in Turkey, thought by some to be the place
where Noah's ark landed?
Mount Ararat
What is another name for the Persian language?
Farsi
What is the tallest building in Dubai - and also the world?
Burj Khalifa
What mountain range separates the Middle East and Europe?
Caucasus
What mountain range, starting with the letter Z, passes through western Iran?
Zagros Mountains
What ethnic group's homeland is split between Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq?
Kurds
What river is the West Bank on the west bank of?
Jordan
What is the largest dam on the Nile river?
Aswan Dam
In what city would you find the Kaaba?
Mecca
What "strip" of land borders Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea?
Gaza Strip
What country borders Saudi Arabia on a small, man-made island called "Passport Island"?
Bahrain
What peninsula makes up most of Turkey?
Anatolia
What major city is located on the South Coast of Yemen?
Aden
What type of star is depicted on the flag of Israel?
Star of David
Malbaby
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Level 71
Feb 7, 2018
Good quiz, missed a couple but enjoyed the test.
sumguy
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Level 84
Aug 9, 2018
"What is the tallest mountain and Turkey" should be "in Turkey".
cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Aug 9, 2018
Wikipedia: "Aleppo was the largest Syrian city before the Syrian Civil War; however, now Aleppo is probably the second-largest city in Syria after the capital Damascus."
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Aug 10, 2018
Fixed
jafe
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Level 82
Aug 10, 2018
Dari/Tajik should be accepted for the Persian question.
fromaj
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Level 70
Nov 6, 2018
Both are varieties and not usually called simply Persian.
Aaron197
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Level 72
Dec 24, 2018
They actually are kind of their own language both Tajiki and Dari.
Nickelz
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Level 65
Aug 17, 2022
Tajik*
azhfandak
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Level 75
Aug 10, 2018
burj means tower in arabic. please accept khalifa instead
FolgoreCZ
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Level 60
Oct 23, 2020
It's still the name of the building. Do you call the tower in Paris "Eiffel"? Or is the tallest building in Canada called "CN"?
TeaStain
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Level 48
Feb 3, 2022
Probably all those quizzes accept it as correct if you entered only Eiffel
azhfandak
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Level 75
Aug 10, 2018
What's your idea to call "Arabian sea" just "the sea" for more simplicity?!
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2018
What?
JoshPen
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Level 79
Aug 11, 2018
It would be interesting to see how the average-person-on-the-street would do on this quiz, particularly those with the whole "we should just bomb the whole Middle-East and be done with them" mentality.
jkabq
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Level 62
Nov 6, 2018
why?
InterAlia
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Level 75
Mar 5, 2023
If by "interesting" you mean that it would prove you are smarter, then I'm sure you're right. It's worth interrogating your motivations though. If you actually want something about that situation to change, this is not the way to persuade anyone.
Leek1
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Level 46
Aug 14, 2018
What is Aleppo?
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2018
A leprous hippo.
ander217
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Level 75
Nov 6, 2018
Poor Gary Johnson will never forget that day. "What would you do, if elected, about Aleppo?" "What?" "Aleppo." And he replied, "What is a leppo?"
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Nov 6, 2018
You guys might enjoy this series

If I make another one of those I'm going to have to remember Zagros mountains. Z answers are a little hard to come by.

Npredella
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Level 48
Nov 6, 2018
Can gulf of persia maybe do for persian gulf...?
HinesBrothers
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Level 75
Nov 6, 2018
All easy. Perfect score.
ddddan
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Level 81
Nov 6, 2018
Is Burj al Khalifa not acceptable?
jtjerue
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Level 54
Nov 10, 2018
Raise your hand if you've never heard of the Zagros mountains
introvertigo
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Level 43
Mar 6, 2019
100% with 2:42 left- easy but great quiz!
SIMULATION
+1
Level 62
Sep 13, 2019
I kept typing Parsi.. :')
Findlay
+2
Level 82
Feb 29, 2020
Amazed by how few people got Zagros. Wouldn't expect it to be a huge number, but 12%?
interopia
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Level 85
Jul 17, 2020
The only one I missed...
MikesBrain
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Level 77
Sep 23, 2021
Maybe I'm really old but I learnt that the historical name for the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was the Fertile Crescent.
314venetian
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Level 67
Oct 24, 2022
I'm relatively young, and I too was taught and know that region as the Fertile Crescent. Kept trying typing it and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.
partdavid
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Level 71
Jul 10, 2023
The Fertile Crescent includes considerably more than the land between the rivers, and wasn't really its historical name--it came into use in 1914. Whereas Mesopotamia actually means "between the rivers" and is definitely historical.
xXDabLegendXx
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Level 60
Nov 4, 2023
It seems that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is actually now the largest dam on the Nile (It's on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, that feeds 80% of the Nile's water). Got stuck on that question.
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