The UAE
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Expat Life
100

On this year's National Day, the UAE will be this many year's old.

What is 54?

100

This, in Latin and then in English, in the motto of Cranleigh Abu Dhabi.

What is "Ex Cultu Robur" and "From Culture Comes Strength"?

100

This is hands-down the most popular fast-food chicken place among young people in AD.

What is Raising Cane's?

100

In March 2019, Abu Dhabi became the first city in the Middle East to host this well known worldwide sporting event.


What is the Special Olympics World Games?


100

This well known gathering place and society for Western expatriates may be evicted from its long-standing location in 2025. 

What is The Club, or "The British Club"?

200

This is the Emirate with the smallest population.

What is Umm Al Quwain?

200

Cranleigh UK is located in this county. 

What is Surrey?

200

In this free video game popular among many of our sons, games of soccer are played with cars.

What is Rocket League?


200

This was the first hotel to be built on Saadiyat Island.

What is the St. Regis?
200
Many American expats were excited to learn, in 2019, that this popular US burger chain would be opening a branch in Abu Dhabi.

What is Shake Shack?

300

After starting to go viral in late 2023, this sweet treat has brought the name "Dubai" back to world-wide fame lately.

What is Dubai Chocolate?

300

This annual Cranleigh event, which some say was partly inspired by ACS' "Fall Festival," is John's favorite, especially because you can get "Cold Chocolate."

What is Cranleigh Winterfest?


300

These are three of the four major music stars/bands will the headliners for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix After-Race Concert 2025.

Who are Katy Perry, Metallica, Benson Boone, and Post Malone?

300

Manchester City Football Club was purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group, backed by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in this year. 

What is 2008?

300

Etihad Airlines currently flies directly to these cities in Pakistan.

Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and Peshawar

400

According to a 2015 report, by this year, the heat in the Arabian Gulf could make it practically uninhabitable for human life.

What is 2100?

400

These were the three headmasters of Cranleigh Abu Dhabi before the current one, from most to least recent.

Who are Tim McConnell Wood, Michael Wilson, and Brendan Law.


400

Because now president Mohammed bin Zayed al Nayhan is himself a keen practitioner of it, this martial art is now taught to young people in 42 government schools in Abu Dhabi.


What is Brazilian jiu-jitsu?

400

Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, NYU Abu Dhabi, and Cleveland Abu Dhabi opened for business in this order.

What is, first NYU Abu Dhabi (2010), next Cranleigh Abu Dhabi (2014), and then Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (2015).

400

In decreasing order of size, these are the countries with the most expatriates in the UAE.

What are India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

500

The law requiring mandatory military service for all Emirati men was passed in this year.

What is 2014?

500

To the nearest hundered, this is the number of students at Cranleigh Abu Dhabi for the 2024-2025 academic year.

What is 2,200 students?

500

The food trucks on Hudayriyat Island, which offer a delicious variety of snacks, meals, and drinks, are also a prime location for this activity among Emirati young people.

What is flirting?

500

Disneyland Abu Dhabi is estimated to be opened by this year "at the earliest."

What is 2030?

500

According to data from 2022, the average length of an expat's stay in the UAE is between this many and this many years.

What is 4 and 5 years (4.4)?

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