Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Bahrain?

A) Riffa

B) Muharraq

C) Doha

D) Manama

Answer · why

D) Manama

Manama was named Arab Capital of Culture in 2012.

Q 02/05

Bahrain is connected by the King Fahd Causeway to which neighbouring country?

A) Kuwait

B) Qatar

C) United Arab Emirates

D) Saudi Arabia

Answer · why

D) Saudi Arabia

The 25 km link opened in 1986 and was the first bridge joining an island nation to its nearest continent.

Q 03/05

The name Bahrain is Arabic for what?

A) The land of palms

B) The pearl island

C) The two rivers

D) The two seas

Answer · why

D) The two seas

Which two seas is still debated: possibly the salt water of the Gulf and the fresh water that bubbles up from springs beneath it.

Q 04/05

Bahrain is the third-smallest nation in Asia. Which two are smaller?

A) Maldives and Kuwait

B) Singapore and Lebanon

C) Brunei and Qatar

D) Maldives and Singapore

Answer · why

D) Maldives and Singapore

Land reclamation has actually made Bahrain bigger, from 665 to about 780 square kilometres.

Q 05/05

Which Bronze Age trading civilisation linking Mesopotamia and the Indus was centred on Bahrain?

A) Magan

B) Dilmun

C) Elam

D) Saba

Answer · why

B) Dilmun

Sumerian myth described it as a paradise without sickness or death.