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

Saudi Arabia is joined to Bahrain by the 25 km King Fahd Causeway, opened in November 1986 and named for the Saudi king whose government paid for it.

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

The two seas is the literal meaning of al-Bahrayn, the dual of the Arabic word bahr (sea); the name once covered the whole eastern Arabian coast befor...

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

Dilmun was the Bronze Age trading power centred on Bahrain from around 3200 BC, passing copper from Magan (Oman) and goods from the Indus to Mesopotam...