Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What city was the center of the age? | Baghdad | 88%
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What branch of mathematics is Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi considered the "father" of? | Algebra | 84%
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What did he also estimate the radius of to be 6339.6 km? | Earth | 54%
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The medieval Andalusian polymath Averroes was known for his translations and commentaries of what Greek philosopher? | Aristotle | 53%
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The Islamic Golden Age is often considered to have begun during the reign of what Abbasid caliph? | {Harun} al-Rashid | 53%
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What military commander wrested the control of Holy Land from the Crusaders? | Saladin | 51%
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What tribe invaded the Abbasid caliphate – thus ending the Islamic Golden Age? | The Mongols | 51%
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What ancient branch of chemistry attempted to transform base metals to noble metals? | Alchemy | 44%
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What collection of folk tales was compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age? | Arabian Nights | 44%
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The University of al-Qarawiyyin of what Moroccan city is listed as the world's oldest degree-granting university by Guinness? | Fez | 44%
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What Arabic word referred to any type of educational institution during the era? hint: former name Chennai, India | {Madras}a | 44%
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What was the name of the public academy and the main library of that city? | House of {Wisdom} | 42%
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What name is the polymath Ibn Sina known by in the West, the father of early modern medicine? | Avicenna | 33%
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Which poet from the era, according to some, is the best-selling poet of all time in the United States? | Rumi | 33%
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Polymath Al-Biruni was the first person to make the academic study of what country? | India | 28%
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What Persian scholar designed the Jalali calendar, considered the world's most accurate calendar system? | {Omar} Khayyam | 26%
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What "bright" branch of physics is Ibn al-Haytham the modern "father of"? | Optics | 24%
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Name one of the subjects Ibn Khaldun is considered to be the modern "father of". | Sociology | Economics | Historiography | Demography | 19%
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What popular chemical compound did Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi invent? | Alcohol | 13%
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What Arab-Andalusian physician was the greatest surgeon of the Middle Ages? | Al-{Zahrawi} | 7%
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