Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Oman?

A) Salalah

B) Sohar

C) Muscat

D) Nizwa

Answer · why

C) Muscat

The city sits on the Gulf of Oman close to the Strait of Hormuz, and about half of all Omanis live in and around it and the Batinah coast.

Q 02/05

Oman shares land borders with the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and which other country?

A) Afghanistan

B) Bahrain

C) Saudi Arabia

D) Pakistan

Answer · why

C) Saudi Arabia

Iran and Pakistan are only maritime neighbours across the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea.

Q 03/05

Which Omani exclave sits on the Strait of Hormuz, cut off from the rest of the country by the UAE?

A) Madha

B) Al Batinah

C) Musandam

D) Masirah

Answer · why

C) Musandam

The peninsula's fjord-like inlets face Iran across one of the world's busiest oil shipping lanes.

Q 04/05

Inside Oman's Madha exclave lies Nahwa, a small enclave belonging to which UAE emirate?

A) Fujairah

B) Ras Al Khaimah

C) Sharjah

D) Ajman

Answer · why

C) Sharjah

Nahwa is an enclave within an enclave: about forty houses, a clinic and a telephone exchange, wholly surrounded by Omani land that is itself surrounde...

Q 05/05

Oman's ruling dynasty has held power continuously since which year?

A) 1798

B) 1856

C) 1902

D) 1744

Answer · why

D) 1744

Ahmad bin Said Al Busaidi was elected imam that year, ending a civil war and Persian occupation, and his descendants still rule.