Q 01/05

What is the constitutional capital and largest city of Yemen?

A) Sanaa

B) Aden

C) Taiz

D) Hodeidah

Answer · why

A) Sanaa

Sanaa, on a highland plateau about 2,300 metres up, is Yemen's constitutional capital and largest city; the Houthis took control of it in September 20...

Q 02/05

Which two countries share a land border with Yemen?

A) Saudi Arabia and the UAE

B) Saudi Arabia and Oman

C) Oman and the UAE

D) Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Answer · why

B) Saudi Arabia and Oman

Saudi Arabia and Oman: the Saudi frontier runs along the north and the Omani border closes the east, while Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia lie across th...

Q 03/05

The ancient South Arabian kingdom of Saba is thought to be which biblical land?

A) Ophir

B) Midian

C) Sheba

D) Edom

Answer · why

C) Sheba

Its rulers took the title Mukarrib, roughly 'unifier'; the kingdom's influence reached across the Red Sea into Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Q 04/05

What is the legendary queen who visited Solomon called in Arabic tradition?

A) Makeda

B) Zenobia

C) Arwa

D) Bilqis

Answer · why

D) Bilqis

Bilqis is the queen's name in Arabic and Islamic tradition, though the Quran leaves her unnamed; Makeda is the Ethiopian form, and the 12th-century Ye...

Q 05/05

The Sabaeans' Great Dam, an ancient engineering marvel, stood near which city, their capital?

A) Zabid

B) Marib

C) Taiz

D) Najran

Answer · why

B) Marib

Marib: the dam irrigated the oasis around the Sabaean capital for over a millennium; the Quran's Surah Saba recalls its flood, and the final breach ca...