Q 01/05

Which two separate territories make up the land claimed by the State of Palestine?

A) The Jordan Valley and the Sinai

B) The West Bank and the Gaza Strip

C) The Golan Heights and the Sinai

D) The Galilee and the Negev

Answer · why

B) The West Bank and the Gaza Strip

The two enclaves have no border with each other and would together be the world's 163rd largest country by land area.

Q 02/05

Which city serves as the de facto administrative centre of the Palestinian government?

A) Ramallah

B) Nablus

C) Bethlehem

D) Hebron

Answer · why

A) Ramallah

It sits about 10 km from Jerusalem, the proclaimed capital, and its Muqata compound houses the state ministries.

Q 03/05

What is the total land area claimed by the State of Palestine?

A) About 8,500 square kilometres

B) About 12,000 square kilometres

C) About 6,020 square kilometres

D) About 27,000 square kilometres

Answer · why

C) About 6,020 square kilometres

With a population above five million, that gives a density of roughly 827 people per square kilometre.

Q 04/05

Which Greek historian gave the earliest surviving written use of 'Palestine' as a region, in the 5th century BCE?

A) Strabo

B) Xenophon

C) Thucydides

D) Herodotus

Answer · why

D) Herodotus

He described a 'district of Syria, called Palaistínē'; the name is a cognate of the biblical Peleshet, or Philistia.

Q 05/05

The name Palestine is generally accepted to be a cognate of which biblical name?

A) Retenu

B) Judah

C) Peleshet

D) Canaan

Answer · why

C) Peleshet

The Philistine pentapolis of five city-states, including Gaza, Ashdod and Ashkelon, is first hinted at in an Egyptian text of about 1100 BCE.