Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Lebanon?

A) Beirut

B) Tyre

C) Tripoli

D) Sidon

Answer · why

A) Beirut

Greater Beirut holds about 2.4 million people, nearly half the country, and has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years.

Q 02/05

From 3200 to 539 BC the land of Lebanon was part of which seafaring civilisation?

A) Phoenicia

B) Nabataea

C) Assyria

D) Mycenae

Answer · why

A) Phoenicia

Its colonies included Carthage and Cádiz, and Cyrus the Great absorbed its cities into the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BC.

Q 03/05

The Phoenicians are credited with inventing what?

A) The first coined money

B) The keystone arch

C) The lateen sail for ships

D) The oldest verified alphabet

Answer · why

D) The oldest verified alphabet

It inspired the Greek alphabet and, through it, the Latin one.

Q 04/05

Which ancient Lebanese city gave Greek its word for papyrus?

A) Byblos

B) Tripoli

C) Sidon

D) Tyre

Answer · why

A) Byblos

The Greeks knew it as the port through which Egyptian papyrus arrived, and the word for book, and the Bible, followed.

Q 05/05

According to the Bible, which king of Tyre supplied cedar logs for Solomon's Temple?

A) Pygmalion

B) Ahiram

C) Hiram

D) Ithobaal

Answer · why

C) Hiram

Tyre is also the legendary birthplace of Europa, Cadmus and Carthage's founder Dido.