Saudi Arabia by LuskT

Champion(s):

BillPennington
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Runner(s)-Up:

grimesr


Quiz Description

In honor of my recent trip to the Kingdom, here are twelve questions about it.

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Questions:

Like most of the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia's majority religion is Sunni Islam, which holds that what man was the successor of the prophet Muhammad?

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Abu Bakr

Geographically, Saudi Arabia is the second largest nation in the Arab world after what other country?

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Algeria

Written Arabic, with its lack of symbols for selected vowels, qualifies it not as an alphabetic system but instead an impure form of what other writing system?

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Abjad

Taking the throne on January 23, 2015, which son of Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud) is the current king of Saudi Arabia?

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Salman

Saudi kings hold the honorary tittle 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques," a title first believed to be held by what man - the founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty and victor over Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin in 1187?

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Saladin

Arabic-style coffee is often infused with the green variety of what spice of the Elettaria genus, native to India and south Asia?

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Cardamom

In addition to the Hajj, many Muslims travel to Saudi Arabia - specifically, Mecca - to undertake what 'lesser pilgrimmage' that can occur any time of year?

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Umrah

After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, U.S.-led coalition forces began assembling to protect the northern border of Saudi Arabia from further invasion. This defensive action is known by what codename?

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Operation Desert Shield

Southern Saudi Arabia is dominated by what desert, the largest contiguous sand desert in the world and whose name in English means "empty quarter?"

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Rub' al Khali

The national emblem of Saudi Arabia consists of two crossed swords shown beneath what other object?

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Palm tree

Wojdan Shaherkani was the first female Saudi athlete to compete in the Olympics, participating in the 78 kg division of what sport at the 2012 London games?

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Judo

Headquartered in Dharan, the Saudi oil industry is dominated by what company, whose proven reserves of approximately 250 billion barrels make it a contender for the most valuable company in the world?

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Saudi Aramco