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Amman is capital of what country?
Jordan
100
Tell the difference between barren and fertile.
Land that is able to grow crops is fertile. If it is not it is barren.
100
What is the country with the most people in the world?
China
100
What year did Israel become a nation?
1948
100
What is the important line of latitude that divides the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere?
equator
200
Ankara and Baghdad are the capitals of what countries?
Turkey and Iraq
200
What is a area of high, level land called?
plateau
200
What is the highest mountain in the world and the highest mountain system in the world? (two answers)
Everest and the Himalayas
200
Name the two largest oil producers in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia and Iran
200
What is the largest city in Turkey?
Istanbul
300
Beirut and Damascus are the capitals of which countries?
Lebanon and Syria
300
What is the triangular peninsula between Egypt and Israel called?
Sinai Peninsula
300
What is the world largest lake? What is the deepest lake in the United States?
Caspian Sea. Crater Lake is known to be the deepest lake in the United States and the seventh deepest in the world.
300
Which country was known for its cedars in ancient times? Which Middle Eastern country of Iran was once called what?
Lebanon. Persia.
300
What is zionism?
The movement to regather the Jews to their land.
400
Jerusalem, Riyadh and Tehran are the capitals of which countries?
Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iran
400
Who founded Islam and spell his name correctly?
Muhammad
400
From which important line of longitude are the meridians used to measure east or west?
prime meridian
400
What is the largest country in the Middle East?
Saudia Arabia
400
Who is the first prime minister of Israel?
David Ben-Burion
500
Answer the following two questions correctly: What is the altitude of Mt. Everest? (Be within 500ft) What is the world's highest mountain system?
29,035 ft. Himalayas
500
Name the lines of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere.(two) Name the lines of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere. (two)
Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere. Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere.
500
What language is dominant in the Middle East?
Arabic
500
What is the name of the famous missionary to the Middle East?
Henry Martyn
500
Who is the current leader of Iran?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad