Q 01/05

In which 1985 hit film do Libyan terrorists gun down a scientist who cheated them out of their plutonium?

A) Spies Like Us

B) The Delta Force

C) Back to the Future

D) Real Genius

Answer · why

C) Back to the Future

Back to the Future: Doc Brown swindled the Libyans out of the plutonium that powers his DeLorean, and their revenge attack is what sends Marty racing ...

Q 02/05

Tripoli's name comes from the Greek for 'three cities': Oea, Sabratha and which other?

A) Apollonia

B) Leptis Magna

C) Carthage

D) Ptolemais

Answer · why

B) Leptis Magna

Leptis Magna: after it was abandoned, dunes buried it for centuries, which is why its ruins, dug out in the 1920s, rank among the best-preserved Roman...

Q 03/05

Which of these countries is larger than Libya, Africa's fourth-largest?

A) Egypt

B) Nigeria

C) Algeria

D) South Africa

Answer · why

C) Algeria

Algeria has been Africa's largest country since Sudan split in two in 2011; Libya, at almost 1.8 million square kilometres, is about two and a half ti...

Q 04/05

Gaddafi drew a 'Line of Death' across the mouth of which gulf, daring the US Navy to cross it?

A) Gulf of Aqaba

B) Gulf of Sidra

C) Gulf of Aden

D) Gulf of Gabès

Answer · why

B) Gulf of Sidra

Gulf of Sidra: Washington treated most of it as international waters and kept sailing across the line, and in 1981 US Navy jets shot down two Libyan f...

Q 05/05

Which Roman emperor, born in Libya's greatest Roman city, expanded it into one of North Africa's finest?

A) Septimius Severus

B) Diocletian

C) Antoninus Pius

D) Marcus Aurelius

Answer · why

A) Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus ended his days about as far from home as the empire reached: after invading Scotland he fell ill and died at York in 211.