Saudi Arabia Quiz and Answers

Quiz

1. Which Saudi city is known as the "Gateway to Mecca"?
2. What is the currency of Saudi Arabia?
3. What is the English name for the Rub’ Al Khali desert?
4. Which Saudi Arabian city is considered the holiest city in Islam?
5. Which loose-fitting, long robe is considered a daily essential dress for Saudi male citizens?
6. What is the official language of Saudi Arabia?
7. What is the name of the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca?
8. What is the capital city of Saudi Arabia?
9. Which body of water lies to the west of Saudi Arabia?
10. What name is given to the stone, cube-shaped building located within the Masjid al-Haram, or the Grand Mosque?
11. Who, as of 2024, is the current King of Saudi Arabia?
12. What is the Islamic legal system derived from the religious precepts of Islam?
13. A fight in Saudi between which two boxers was billed as the Clash On The Dunes in 2019?
14. Saudi Arabia occupies 80% of which peninsula?
15. Ardah is a traditional Saudi Arabian dance performed with what?
16. In which decade was the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia founded?

Answers

1. Jeddah
2. Riyal
3. The Empty Quarter
4. Mecca
5. The thawb
6. Arabic
7. Hajj
8. Riyadh
9. The Red Sea
10. The Kaaba, also spelled as Ka'bah
11. King Salman
12. Sharia
13. Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua
14. Arabian Peninsula
15. Sword or swords
16. 1930s (1932)