Geography
This is the world’s largest desert found mostly in Saudi Arabia.
What is the Arabian Desert?
This empire once ruled from Turkey across much of the Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Followers of Islam are called this.
What are Muslims?
The largest country in the Middle East.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The group of countries that control much of the world’s oil supply.
What is OPEC?
The Tigris River flows through this country.
What is Iraq?
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Muslims pray facing this holy city.
What is Mecca?
The capital of Kuwait.
What is Kuwait City?
This country has the highest GDP per capita in the Middle East
What is Qatar
The capital of Egypt.
What is Cairo?
This Persian king built the great city of Persepolis.
Who was Darius the Great?
During this month, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
What is Ramadan?
The year Bashar al-Assad became president of Syria.
What is 2000?
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia has an AUM of this approximate amount as of 2025.
What is $925 billion
This narrow waterway connects the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This empire fought the Byzantines and was conquered by Muslim armies in the 600s.
What was the Sassanian Empire?
These are the five pillars of Islam.
What are Shahada (faith), Salah (prayer), Zakat (charity), Sawm (fasting), and Hajj (pilgrimage)?
The current President of Egypt as of 2025.
Who is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi?
This crop, once called “black gold,” was a major export of Yemen.
What is coffee?
The tallest mountain in the Middle East, located in Iran.
What is Mount Damavand?
The city of Baghdad became a major center of learning under this caliphate.
What was the Abbasid Caliphate?
Many mosques have these tall towers where the call to prayer is made.
What are minarets?
The year Ankara replaced Istanbul as Turkey’s capital.
What is 1923?
This is the amount of barrels of oil produced by Saudi Arabia per day.
What is about 10 million barrels per day?