Saudi Arabia
Riyadh lies in the central Arabian Peninsula. This topic is part of Countries within Geography. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Saudi Arabia trivia questions
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Riyadh
Bonus fact: Riyadh lies in the central Arabian Peninsula.
Saudi Arabia occupies most of which peninsula?
Answer: Arabian Peninsula
Bonus fact: It is the peninsula's largest country.
Which two holiest cities of Islam are located in Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Mecca and Medina
Bonus fact: Mecca and Medina are Islam's two holiest cities.
Which country shares land borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Kuwait
Bonus fact: The UN Geospatial world map shows Kuwait in this set of international land-boundary relationships.
Bahrain is an island country in which region?
Answer: Persian Gulf
Bonus fact: Bahrain lies off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia.
Bahrain is connected by causeway to which neighboring country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Bonus fact: The King Fahd Causeway links Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Wadi Rum Protected Area is in which country?
Answer: Jordan
Bonus fact: UNESCO describes Wadi Rum as a 74,000-hectare desert landscape in southern Jordan near Saudi Arabia.
Which country occupies a peninsula projecting into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Peninsula?
Answer: Qatar
Bonus fact: Qatar has its only land border with Saudi Arabia.
The Hajj pilgrimage takes Muslims to which city?
Answer: Mecca
Bonus fact: Mecca in Saudi Arabia is home to the Kaaba, the focal point of Islamic prayer.
What name is commonly given to the Afghan fighters who resisted Soviet forces?
Answer: Mujahideen
Bonus fact: Different mujahideen groups received varying degrees of support from Pakistan, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and others.
Which country occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Bonus fact: The Arabian Peninsula is bordered by the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Persian Gulf region.
The album title "Blues for Allah" was partly inspired by the death of which Middle Eastern monarch?
Answer: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Bonus fact: Robert Hunter wrote the title material after Faisal's 1975 assassination, though the lyrics are impressionistic rather than a narrative tribute.