Statistics for Middle East A-Z #2

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Hint		Answer	% Correct
B	Largest city in Iraq	Baghdad	98%
I	Country boycotted by the Arab League	Israel	88%
J	River that feeds the Dead Sea	Jordan	88%
E	Title of the ruler of Dubai	Emir	87%
G	Territory ruled by Hamas	Gaza	86%
D	Oldest city in the world	Damascus	77%
S	Country presently ruled by Alawites	Syria	76%
M	From Greek, the land "between rivers"	Mesopotamia	74%
F	Birthplace of civilization	The {Fertile} Crescent or The Hilly {Flanks}	70%
O	Oil cartel founded in "B" in 1960	OPEC	63%
K	First Ayatollah of Iran	Khomeini	55%
A	Ancient Semitic language, precursor of Arabic	Aramaic	50%
R	De-facto capital of the Palestinian National Authority	Ramallah	48%
L	Used to be called Thebes	Luxor	47%
U	Ancient city; birthplace of Abraham	Ur	46%
C	Sumerian system of writing	Cuneiform	44%
Z	Pyramidal structures built in "M"	Ziggurat	39%
W	Saudi brand of fundamentalist Islam	Wahhabism	36%
H	Shia rebels who fought the Yemeni government	Houthi	26%
T	Saddam Hussein's home town	Tikrit	24%
Y	Ethnic/religious minority targeted by Islamic State	Yazidi	23%
V	Roman emperor who (re)conquered Judea	Vespasian	17%
P	Military force of Kurdistan	Peshmerga	16%
Q	Shia majority city in Saudi Arabia's Eastern provinces	Qatif	4%
N	City bulldozed by Islamic State	Nimrud	3%