This is widely recognized as one of the most popular Middle Eastern food. These fried balls are made of chickpeas, onions, and spices. It makes a great sandwich inside pita bread with veggies!
What is falafel?
100
What was the former name of Iran?
What is Persia?
100
What three major religions were born in the Middle East?
What is Judaism, Islam, and Christianity?
100
This stateless nation live largely in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. They are a non-Arabic people who speak a language related to Persian. Most of them follow the Sunni faith. Who are they?
Who are the Kurdish people?
100
This is the city where Muslims go on the hajj.
What is Mecca?
200
What is the largest ethnic group of the Middle East?
Who are Arabs?
200
What country is home to the lowest location on Earth?
What is (the Dead Sea) Israel?
200
What is the holy month of Islam, when they fast from sun up to sun down, known as?
What is Ramadan?
200
What is the name of this communal farming settlement in Israel?
What is a kibbutz?
200
What is the name of the current president of Palestine?
What is Mahmoud Abbas?
300
Name four languages spoken by people in the Middle East.
What is Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic)
Indo-European (Kurdish, Persian, Armenian)
Turkic (Turkish, Azeri)
300
The Tigris and Euphrates empty into which body of water?
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
What are the two majors sects of Islam?
What is Sunni and Shi'a?
300
What is the only Middle Eastern country that grants Palestinians wide-scale citizenship?
What is Jordan?
300
After World War I, which country became part of a French mandate sponsored by the League of Nations?
What is Lebanon?
400
Which emperor conquered Egypt, Afghanistan, and countless other areas (327 B.C.E.)?
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
What country has the world's largest population of Muslims?
What is Indonesia?
400
What are the names of Jewish and Muslim religious leaders, respectively?
What is Rabbi and Imam?
400
What was the name of the peace treaty signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979?
What is the Camp David Accords?
400
Which country in the Middle East developed the cell phone and instant messenging?
What is Israel?
500
What is the only dead language that is has been revived in the Middle East, and in the entire world?
What is Hebrew?
500
What is the only country in the MIddle East that is in both the Middle East and in Europe?
What is Turkey?
500
Name the Five Pillars of Islam
What is the profession of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and the hajj?
500
What was the name of the leader of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) from its formation in the early 1950s until his death in the early 2000s?
Who is Yasser Arafat?
500
Which Middle Eastern country is home to the tallest building in the world?