Q 01/05

How many emirates make up the United Arab Emirates?

A) Three

B) Seven

C) Fifteen

D) Thirty

Answer · why

B) Seven

Seven. Only six signed up when the federation was founded; the last one held out and joined ten weeks later.

Q 02/05

Emirates flies from Dubai, but which national airline has its home in Abu Dhabi?

A) Etihad Airways

B) Gulf Air

C) Middle East Airlines

D) Jazeera Airways

Answer · why

A) Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways. It was created by royal decree in 2003 as Abu Dhabi's own airline, and the emirate soon pulled out of Gulf Air, the carrier it had sha...

Q 03/05

In which year did the UAE become an independent federation?

A) 1991

B) 1975

C) 1971

D) 1981

Answer · why

C) 1971

Six emirates united on 2 December 1971 as Britain ended its treaties; Ras Al Khaimah joined on 10 January 1972.

Q 04/05

Which emirate was the last to join the UAE, in February 1972?

A) Ras Al Khaimah

B) Sharjah

C) Umm Al Quwain

D) Abu Dhabi

Answer · why

A) Ras Al Khaimah

Ras Al Khaimah. Its ruler stayed out for ten weeks, joining only once the new federation promised to back his claim to islands that Iran had just seiz...

Q 05/05

Before independence the emirates were a British protectorate known collectively as what?

A) British Arabia

B) The Pirate Coast Colony

C) The Trucial States

D) The Gulf Sheikhdoms

Answer · why

C) The Trucial States

The Trucial States. The name came from the truces the coastal sheikhs signed with Britain from 1820, ending the sea raids that had earned the shore th...