Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Jordan?

A) Zarqa

B) Amman

C) Irbid

D) Aqaba

Answer · why

B) Amman

With around five million people it is the largest city in the Levant and the seventh-largest in the Arab world.

Q 02/05

What is Jordan's ruling royal house, descended from the Sharif of Mecca, called?

A) Alaouite

B) Hashemite

C) Fatimid

D) Saudi

Answer · why

B) Hashemite

The Hashemites, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad through Sharif Hussein of Mecca, have ruled since 1921.

Q 03/05

Which ancient rock-cut city, capital of the Nabataeans, is Jordan's most famous attraction?

A) Umm Qais

B) Palmyra

C) Jerash

D) Petra

Answer · why

D) Petra

Its inhabitants called it Raqmu; the pink sandstone earned it the nickname "Rose City", and it is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.

Q 04/05

Which Swiss traveller rediscovered the Nabataean rock-cut city for the Western world in 1812?

A) Charles Doughty

B) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

C) Richard Burton

D) Ulrich Seetzen

Answer · why

B) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

He spoke fluent Arabic and was on his way to explore the Niger when he heard tales of a dead city holding the tomb of Aaron.

Q 05/05

Al-Khazneh, "the Treasury", is believed to be the mausoleum of which Nabataean king?

A) Aretas IV

B) Obodas I

C) Rabbel II

D) Malichus II

Answer · why

A) Aretas IV

The elaborate first-century AD facade is 24 m wide and 37 m tall and echoes the architecture of Alexandria.