Q 01/05

What opened inside a Dubai shopping mall in 2005, the first of its kind in the Middle East?

A) An indoor ski resort

B) An indoor rainforest

C) An indoor theme park

D) An indoor skydiving tunnel

Answer · why

A) An indoor ski resort

An indoor ski resort, Ski Dubai keeps its five slopes close to freezing all year in a city where summer highs average 40 °C, and its penguins are let ...

Q 02/05

Dubai sits on the coast of which body of water?

A) The Red Sea

B) The Persian Gulf

C) The Gulf of Aden

D) The Arabian Sea

Answer · why

B) The Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf reaches into the city as Dubai Creek, a natural inlet that Sheikh Rashid had dredged with borrowed money so that bigger ships could d...

Q 03/05

Before it became a trading hub, Dubai was a small village living on which two trades?

A) Camels and horses

B) Frankincense and dates

C) Pearling and fishing

D) Copper and salt

Answer · why

C) Pearling and fishing

Pearling and fishing kept Dubai alive until the pearl trade collapsed in the 1930s, plunging the town into a depression so deep that many residents le...

Q 04/05

Which family has ruled Dubai since 1833?

A) Al Nahyan

B) Al Qasimi

C) Al Thani

D) Al Maktoum

Answer · why

D) Al Maktoum

Al Maktoum rule began when Maktoum bin Butti led about 800 tribesmen away from a feud at home and took over the little town without a fight.

Q 05/05

In 1901 Dubai's ruler took what step that turned the town into a regional trading hub?

A) Minted its own silver currency

B) Opened the town's first bank

C) Declared it a tax-free port

D) Signed an Ottoman treaty

Answer · why

C) Declared it a tax-free port

Declared it a tax-free port, and merchants from Lingeh on the Iranian coast moved their businesses across; by 1906 Dubai had replaced Lingeh as the ch...