The Middle East Quiz

A country in Western Asia constituting the vast majority of the Arabian Peninsula.

• Iraq

• Iran

• Kuwait

• Saudi Arabia

The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest.

• Persian Gulf

• Red Sea

• Gulf Shores

• Black Sea

A geological feature in Central Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. It is the part of the Eurasian Plate wedged between the Arabian and Indian plates, situated between the Zagros Mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Kopet Dag to the north, the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus Mountains in the northwest, the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf to the south and the Indo-Gangetic Plain to the east

• New Plateau

• Indigeo Plateau

• Iranian Plateau

• Armenian Plateau

The eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the Persian Gulf.

• Blue River

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Persian River

The first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC

• Sargon the Sad

• Sargon the Poor

• Sargon the Great

• Sargon the Horrible

A Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East in the area today is known as the Levant that existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC.

• Assyria

• Babylon

• Persia

• Assad

The capital city of an ancient empire, which itself is a term referring to either of two separate empires in the Mesopotamian area in antiquity. These two empires achieved regional dominance between the 19th and 15th centuries BC, and again between the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

• Syria

• Assyria

• Babylon

• Persia

A seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden.

• Red Sea

• Blue Sea

• Black Sea

• Yellow Sea

A potentially active stratovolcano, the highest peak in Iran and the highest volcano in Asia, at an elevation of 5,671 metres (18,606 ft).

• Mt Damavand

• Mt. Ararat

• Mt. Catherine

• Mt. Moon

A snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones.

• Mt. Moon

• Mt. Damavand

• Mt. Ararat

• Mt. Catherine