Statistics for Middle Eastern Geography By Letter - S

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Country with massive oil reserves	Saudi Arabia	99%
Desert that covers most of Egypt	Sahara	96%
Country which nearly 7 million people have fled since 2011	Syria	96%
Canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas	Suez Canal	95%
Ancient trade route that whose western end was in Istanbul	Silk Road	90%
Peninsula that Israel returned to Egypt in 1982	Sinai	90%
Largest branch of Islam	Sunni	90%
Iran's official branch of Islam	Shia	87%
Capital of Yemen	Sana'a	84%
Title of the Omani monarch	Sultan	83%
Title of the Iranian king	Shah	73%
Currency of Israel	Shekel	73%
Object found on that country's flag	Sword	73%
Bosphorus, Hormuz, Mandeb, e.g.	Strait	70%
Iranian city or variety of red wine	Shiraz	64%
Largest island of Yemen	Socotra	42%
Title used by the rulers of the seven individual United Arab Emirates	Sheikh	36%
Tyre's Phoenician counter-part	Sidon	27%
Ancient Greek city near Izmir	Smyrna	25%
Historic communist country	South Yemen	24%