Jordan
Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city. This topic is part of Countries within Geography. This page currently draws on 16 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Jordan trivia questions
What is the capital of Jordan?
Answer: Amman
Bonus fact: Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city.
Which ancient rock-cut city is Jordan's most famous archaeological site?
Answer: Petra
Bonus fact: Petra was a major Nabataean city.
Jordan has a short coastline on which gulf?
Answer: Gulf of Aqaba
Bonus fact: Aqaba gives Jordan access to the Red Sea.
The Dead Sea lies between Jordan and what territory?
Answer: Israel and the West Bank
Bonus fact: The Dead Sea sits in the Jordan Rift Valley.
Who delivered Jordan Grand Prix's first Formula 1 victory at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix?
Answer: Damon Hill
Bonus fact: Hill led teammate Ralf Schumacher home for a Jordan 1-2 at Spa-Francorchamps.
Michael Jordan won six NBA championships in which sport?
Answer: Basketball
Bonus fact: Michael Jordan won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Which basketball star famously won the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest with a leap from the free-throw line area?
Answer: Michael Jordan
Bonus fact: Jordan's free-throw-line dunk became an iconic image.
Who famously won the 1988 NBA dunk contest with a free-throw-line dunk?
Answer: Michael Jordan
Bonus fact: Jordan's leap became one of basketball's iconic images.
Which Coogler film launched the Creed boxing series?
Answer: Creed
Bonus fact: Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Creed.
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.
Who directed The Friends of Eddie Coyle?
Answer: Peter Yates
Bonus fact: BFI lists Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle and Richard Jordan among the featured cast.
Petra, the famous rock-cut UNESCO World Heritage site, is in which country?
Answer: Jordan
Bonus fact: UNESCO describes Petra as situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea.