Q 01/05

The Strait of Gibraltar links the Mediterranean Sea to which other body of water?

A) The Black Sea

B) The Red Sea

C) The Indian Ocean

D) The Atlantic

Answer · why

D) The Atlantic

The Atlantic is the only ocean the Mediterranean opens onto: its other natural outlet runs through the Bosporus to the Black Sea, which has no further...

Q 02/05

How wide is the Strait of Gibraltar at its narrowest point?

A) About 3 km

B) About 14 km

C) About 45 km

D) About 150 km

Answer · why

B) About 14 km

About 14 km at the narrowest point, which leaves Africa far closer to Europe than England is to France: the Strait of Dover is more than twice as wide...

Q 03/05

Which Spanish port city faces the Rock of Gibraltar from the opposite shore of its bay?

A) Málaga

B) Almería

C) Algeciras

D) Cartagena

Answer · why

C) Algeciras

Algeciras sits across the water from the Rock, and Spaniards name the bay after their own port instead of after Gibraltar; ferries for Morocco sail fr...

Q 04/05

Which Moroccan port on the Strait of Gibraltar was run as an international zone by foreign powers until 1956?

A) Casablanca

B) Tétouan

C) Tangier

D) Rabat

Answer · why

C) Tangier

Tangier was governed jointly by European powers from the 1920s, which made it a magnet for diplomats, spies and writers, and it rejoined Morocco only ...

Q 05/05

The name Gibraltar comes from an Arabic phrase meaning what?

A) Gate of the West

B) The Passage

C) Rock of the Sunset

D) Tariq's Mount

Answer · why

D) Tariq's Mount

Tariq's Mount, Jabal Tariq in Arabic, honours the Muslim commander who landed at the Rock early in the 8th century; over time the phrase was worn down...