Q 01/05

Qatar shares its only land border with which country?

A) United Arab Emirates

B) Saudi Arabia

C) Bahrain

D) Kuwait

Answer · why

B) Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: when the Saudis shut the crossing in 2017 they cut Qatar's only road link to the world, and food that used to arrive by lorry had to com...

Q 02/05

Which desert antelope, hunted to extinction in the wild by the 1970s, is Qatar's national animal?

A) Sand gazelle

B) Arabian oryx

C) Nubian ibex

D) Arabian tahr

Answer · why

B) Arabian oryx

Arabian oryx: the last wild one was reported in 1972, but zoo-bred herds have been released since 1980, and a cartoon oryx called Orry was the mascot ...

Q 03/05

Qatar's Mutaz Barshim chose to share Olympic gold with a rival at the Tokyo Games in which event?

A) Pole vault

B) Long jump

C) High jump

D) Javelin

Answer · why

C) High jump

High jump: tied with Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi after both failed at 2.39 m, Barshim asked an official whether there could be two golds, and the two fr...

Q 04/05

Which European football club has Qatar's state-backed sports fund owned since 2011?

A) Manchester City

B) Paris Saint-Germain

C) Newcastle United

D) AC Milan

Answer · why

B) Paris Saint-Germain

Paris Saint-Germain was bought by Qatar Sports Investments in 2011; the money paid for Neymar's world-record 222 million euro transfer in 2017, and th...

Q 05/05

Emir Ahmad bin Ali announced Qatar's independence in 1971 from his villa in which country?

A) France

B) Switzerland

C) Great Britain

D) Lebanon

Answer · why

B) Switzerland

Switzerland: he announced independence from a Swiss villa rather than his palace in Doha, and within six months his cousin had deposed him while he wa...