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100

This is the largest country in South Asia by area.

What is India?

100

The Dead Sea is famous for this unusual feature (besides the salt).

What is being the lowest point on Earth’s surface?

100

This North African country’s coastline stretches along both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

What is Morocco?

100

This Southeast Asian country is the largest Muslim-majority country in the world.

What is Indonesia?

100

This landlocked country is the largest by area in Central Asia.

What is Kazakhstan?

200

This mountain range separates India from Nepal and Bhutan.

What is the Himalayas?

200

The Middle Eastern country known for the ancient city of Petra is this.

What is Jordan?

200

Libya is mostly desert, but its ancient city of Leptis Magna was part of this empire.

What is the Roman Empire?

200

This Islamic festival in Indonesia features a massive homecoming tradition called “Mudik.”

What is Eid al-Fitr?

200

This mountain range stretches across Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

What is the Pamirs?

300

Bollywood, the world’s largest film industry by output, is centered in this city

What is Mumbai (Bombay)?

300

The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, were said to have been located in this Mesopotamian city.

What is Babylon?

300

The city of Timbuktu, famous historically as a center of learning, is located in this country.

What is Mali?

300

This city-state is made up of over 60 islands, with only one-third developed.

What is Singapore?

300

The historic Silk Road city of Samarkand is located in this country.

What is Uzbekistan?

400

The Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, is shared between which countries.

What is Bangladesh and India?

400

This Middle Eastern country has the world’s only flag that is square in shape.

What is Qatar?

400

The Great Mosque of Kairouan, one of the oldest in the world, is in this country.

What is Tunisia?

400

The Wali Songo were a group of nine saints credited with spreading Islam in this island.

What is Java

400

The traditional nomadic dwellings of Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia are called this.

What is a yurt?

500

This ancient city in Pakistan is considered one of the world’s earliest planned cities and part of the Indus Valley Civilization

What is Mohenjo-Daro?

500

The famous scholar Avicenna, known for medicine and philosophy, was from this modern-day country.

What is Iran?

500

This famous North African scholar wrote “The Book of Knowledge” and influenced Islamic philosophy across the Maghreb

Who is Ibn Khaldun?

500

This spice, historically worth its weight in gold, was a major reason European powers colonized parts of Southeast Asia.

What is nutmeg (or alternatively, cloves)?

500

This Sufi scholar from Bukhara is known as the “reviver of Islamic knowledge” in Central Asia.

Who is Imam al-Bukhari?