Jordan - Quiz
Jordan
  • 1. What is the capital city of Jordan?
A) Amman
B) Zarqa
C) Aqaba
D) Irbid
  • 2. Into how many governorates is Jordan divided?
A) 12
B) 10
C) 8
D) 15
  • 3. What is the term for an administrative centre in Jordan?
A) Nahia
B) Liwa
C) Qda
D) Muhafazah
  • 4. Which two Western countries have maintained close relations with Jordan?
A) France and Germany
B) United Kingdom and Australia
C) United States and Canada
D) United States and United Kingdom
  • 5. During which conflict were Jordan's relations with Western countries damaged due to neutrality?
A) Syrian Civil War
B) First Gulf War
C) 1948 Arab-Israeli War
D) Second Gulf War
  • 6. Which of the following nations has signed a peace treaty with Israel alongside Jordan?
A) Iraq
B) Syria
C) Egypt
D) Saudi Arabia
  • 7. Since what year has the Hashemite dynasty held custodianship over holy sites in Jerusalem?
A) 1948
B) 1924
C) 1999
D) 1967
  • 8. Which organization is Jordan a founding member of?
A) Arab League
B) Gulf Cooperation Council
C) United Nations
D) European Union
  • 9. What was the name of the first organized army in Jordan established in 1920?
A) Arab Legion
B) Desert Patrol
C) Royal Jordanian Army
D) Hashemite Guard
  • 10. In what year was the Arab Legion established?
A) 1946
B) 1948
C) 1920
D) 1924
  • 11. Approximately how many personnel are in the Royal Jordanian Army?
A) 250,000
B) 110,000
C) 50,000
D) 8,000
  • 12. Besides the US and UK, which country provides strong military aid to Jordan?
A) Russia
B) China
C) Italy
D) France
  • 13. What has been particularly significant in enhancing Jordan's military capability to react to threats?
A) Heavy artillery
B) Naval expansion
C) Nuclear development
D) Special Operations Forces
  • 14. How many Jordanian personnel were working on UN peacekeeping missions as of October 2025?
A) 8,000
B) 237
C) 1,500
D) 3,254
  • 15. In 2014, Jordan joined a coalition led by the United States against which group?
A) Taliban
B) Islamic State
C) Houthis
D) Al-Qaeda
  • 16. Which battle in 629 involved the Byzantines and Ghassanids against a Muslim Rashidun force?
A) Battle of Ain Jalut
B) Battle of the Yarmuk
C) Battle of Mu'tah
D) Battle of Hattin
  • 17. In what year did the Muslims defeat the Byzantines at the Battle of the Yarmuk?
A) 636
B) 661
C) 749
D) 629
  • 18. Which village in Transjordan was the starting point for the Abbasid campaign against the Umayyads?
A) As-Salt
B) Karak
C) Amman
D) Humayma
  • 19. To which city did the Abbasids move the caliphate's capital after defeating the Umayyads?
A) Mecca
B) Damascus
C) Baghdad
D) Medina
  • 20. Which group ruled Transjordan immediately after the Abbasid decline?
A) Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
B) Ayyubid dynasty
C) Mamluks
D) Fatimid Caliphate
  • 21. What was the name of the Lordship established by the Crusaders in Transjordan?
A) Lordship of Oultrejordain
B) Lordship of Damascus
C) Lordship of Jerusalem
D) Lordship of Karak
  • 22. Who defeated the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin in 1187?
A) Abdullah I
B) Ibrahim Pasha
C) Saladin
D) Sharif Hussein
  • 23. Which dynasty built the Ajloun Castle?
A) Mamluks
B) Ayyubids
C) Abbasids
D) Umayyads
  • 24. The Mamluks repelled the Mongols in 1260 at which battle?
A) Battle of the Yarmuk
B) Battle of Ain Jalut
C) Battle of Hattin
D) Battle of Mu'tah
  • 25. Which Ottoman-era reform brought prosperity back to Transjordanian agriculture in 1864?
A) Tanzimat
B) Young Turk Revolution
C) Balfour Declaration
D) Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • 26. In what year did the Circassians first settle in the vicinity of Amman?
A) 1867
B) 1841
C) 1908
D) 1833
  • 27. What railway, completed in 1908, linked Damascus with Medina?
A) Ottoman Rail Link
B) Hejaz Railway
C) Levant Express
D) Transjordan Railway
  • 28. Who led the 1916 Arab Revolt?
A) Sharif Hussein
B) Abdullah
C) Ibrahim Pasha
D) Faisal
  • 29. What 1916 agreement secretly divided the region between French and British spheres of influence?
A) McMahon–Hussein Correspondence
B) Balfour Declaration
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Sykes–Picot Agreement
  • 30. Which city was the site of a battle in 1917 during the Arab Revolt?
A) Amman
B) Karak
C) Aqaba
D) Damascus
  • 31. When was the Emirate of Transjordan established with Abdullah as emir?
A) 21 November 1920
B) 24 July 1920
C) 11 April 1946
D) 11 April 1921
  • 32. Who destroyed As-Salt and Al-Karak for harboring a leader of a peasants' revolt?
A) Sharif Hussein
B) Herbert Samuel
C) Ibrahim Pasha
D) Saladin
  • 33. When did Alexander the Great conquer the Persian Empire?
A) 63 BC
B) 332 BC
C) 323 BC
D) 169 BC
  • 34. In what year did the Nabataean Kingdom establish its independence?
A) 332 BC
B) 106 AD
C) 169 BC
D) 323 BC
  • 35. Which city did the Nabataeans control for a short period between 85–71 BC?
A) Petra
B) Jerash
C) Amman
D) Damascus
  • 36. What is the name of the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom?
A) Gerasa
B) Gedara
C) Petra
D) Philadelphia
  • 37. What is considered the most elaborate Nabataean structure?
A) The Via Traiana Nova
B) The Aqaba Church
C) Al-Khazneh
D) The Decapolis
  • 38. Whose mausoleum is Al-Khazneh believed to be?
A) Emperor Trajan
B) Emperor Hadrian
C) Alexander the Great
D) Aretas IV
  • 39. When did Roman legions under Pompey conquer much of the Levant?
A) 63 BC
B) 363 AD
C) 324 AD
D) 106 AD
  • 40. Who annexed Nabataea in 106 AD?
A) Alexander the Great
B) Emperor Trajan
C) Constantine
D) Emperor Hadrian
  • 41. What was the name of the road rebuilt by the Romans that became the Via Traiana Nova?
A) The Amman-Jerash Route
B) The Silk Road
C) The Decapolis Road
D) The King's Highway
  • 42. What was the league of ten Greek cities in the region called?
A) The Levant Union
B) The Byzantine League
C) Decapolis
D) The Nabataean Confederacy
  • 43. Which Roman city in the East is noted for being well-preserved?
A) Philadelphia
B) Gedara
C) Pella
D) Jerash
  • 44. Which Roman Emperor visited Jerash?
A) Licinius
B) Constantine
C) Trajan
D) Hadrian
  • 45. When did the Roman Empire split into two parts?
A) 313 AD
B) 380 AD
C) 636 AD
D) 324 AD
  • 46. What was the official state religion after the Edict of Thessalonica in 380?
A) Paganism
B) Christianity
C) Hellenism
D) Sasanian Zoroastrianism
  • 47. What event contributed to the decline of Petra in 363 AD?
A) A volcanic eruption
B) An earthquake
C) A Sasanian invasion
D) A famine
  • 48. Which empire was a rival to the Byzantines in the east?
A) Sasanian Empire
B) Roman Empire
C) Ptolemaic Empire
D) Seleucid Empire
  • 49. What prehistoric activity was found at a 14,500-year-old Natufian site in Jordan?
A) Statue carving
B) Pottery making
C) Bread-making
D) Copper extraction
  • 50. What is the name of the large Neolithic village site in present-day Amman?
A) Mesha
B) 'Ain Ghazal
C) Wadi Feynan
D) Tulaylet Ghassul
  • 51. During the Bronze Age, which site became a regional center for copper extraction?
A) Gilead
B) The Jordan Valley
C) Wadi Feynan
D) Amman
  • 52. Which of the following was a kingdom in Transjordan during the Iron Age?
A) Babylon
B) Judea
C) Ammon
D) Assyria
  • 53. Who erected the Mesha Stele in 840 BC?
A) King Mesha
B) The King of Israel
C) A Roman official
D) A Babylonian ruler
  • 54. In which region were the Israelites settled during the Iron Age?
A) Amman plateau
B) Wadi Araba
C) Dead Sea highlands
D) Gilead
  • 55. What happened to the kingdoms of Ammon, Edom, and Moab by the beginning of Roman rule?
A) They migrated to Africa
B) They were assimilated into Roman culture
C) They conquered the Roman Empire
D) They became independent states
  • 56. To what religion were the Edomites converted by the Hasmoneans?
A) Christianity
B) Judaism
C) Zoroastrianism
D) Islam
  • 57. What is the primary source of the name 'Jordan'?
A) An ancient king
B) A mountain range
C) The Jordan River
D) A desert region
  • 58. What is the most plausible origin for the word 'Jordan'?
A) The Greek word 'Jordanos'
B) The Egyptian word 'yǝʾor'
C) The Semitic word 'Yarad'
D) The Latin word 'Jordanes'
  • 59. What does the Semitic word 'Yarad' mean?
A) Flow down or descend
B) Big river
C) Holy water
D) Dividing line
  • 60. In which ancient text is the name 'Yārdon' first found?
A) The Rosetta Stone
B) Papyrus Anastasi I
C) The Hebrew Bible
D) The Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 61. To which Egyptian ruler's reign is the Papyrus Anastasi I dated?
A) Akhenaten
B) Thutmose III
C) Rameses II
D) Tutankhamun
  • 62. What does the term 'Transjordan' mean?
A) Jordanian land
B) Across the Jordan
C) Beside the Jordan
D) Highland river
  • 63. What term does the Hebrew Bible use for the area east of the river?
A) Yārdon
B) Ever ha'Yarden
C) Oultrejordain
D) Al-Urdunn
  • 64. What was the name of the military district established around the river in the early Islamic era?
A) Jund Al-Urdunn
B) Yarden
C) Oultrejordain
D) Transjordan
  • 65. Which language group does the root 'Yarad' belong to?
A) Indo-European
B) Greek
C) Semitic
D) Coptic
  • 66. The Egyptian loanword 'yǝʾor' refers to which river?
A) The Indus
B) The Euphrates
C) The Jordan
D) The Nile
  • 67. What does 'yǝʾor' mean in Egyptian?
A) Flow down
B) Military district
C) Across
D) Big river
  • 68. What did early Arab chronicles call the river?
A) Oultrejordain
B) Yārdon
C) Al-Urdunn
D) Yarad
  • 69. Which country borders Jordan to the north?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Syria
C) Lebanon
D) Turkey
  • 70. Where is the Jordan River located?
A) Along the southern border
B) Along the country's western border
C) Along the country's eastern border
D) In the center of the country
  • 71. Which ancient civilization established their kingdom in Petra in the third century BC?
A) The Umayyads
B) The Nabataeans
C) The Ammonites
D) The Romans
  • 72. When did Jordan gain its independence?
A) 1921
B) 1946
C) 1948
D) 1967
  • 73. What is the dominant religion in Jordan?
A) Orthodox Christian
B) Sunni Muslim
C) Shia Muslim
D) Druze
  • 74. What type of government does Jordan have?
A) Absolute monarchy
B) Federal democracy
C) Parliamentary republic
D) Semi-constitutional monarchy
  • 75. What is Jordan's ranking on the Human Development Index?
A) 25th
B) 50th
C) 100th
D) 150th
  • 76. Which body of water does Jordan have a small coastline along in its southwest?
A) Red Sea
B) Mediterranean Sea
C) Persian Gulf
D) Dead Sea
  • 77. When did Jordan renounce its claim to the West Bank?
A) 1988
B) 1967
C) 1994
D) 1948
  • 78. What was the result of the 1994 treaty signed by Jordan?
A) Alliance with Iraq
B) Independence from Britain
C) Peace treaty with Israel
D) Trade agreement with Syria
  • 79. Who was the first king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
A) Abdullah
B) Abdullah II
C) Talal
D) Hussein
  • 80. When did Jordan become a member of the United Nations?
A) 24 April 1950
B) 25 May 1946
C) 22 March 1946
D) 14 December 1955
  • 81. What event led to Jordan's formal annexation of the West Bank in 1950?
A) The Arab League summit
B) The 1948 Palestine war
C) The Jericho Conference
D) The Treaty of London
  • 82. Where was King Abdullah assassinated in 1951?
A) Al-Aqsa Mosque
B) Amman
C) Karameh
D) The Jordanian parliament
  • 83. Who succeeded King Abdullah after his assassination?
A) Hussein
B) Faisal II
C) Talal
D) Abdullah II
  • 84. Which country did Jordan form the Arab Federation with in 1958?
A) Lebanon
B) Iraq
C) Egypt
D) Syria
  • 85. What conflict led to the expulsion of PLO fighters from Jordan in 1970?
A) Black September
B) The Yom Kippur War
C) The Arab Spring
D) The Six-Day War
  • 86. When was the Israel–Jordan peace treaty signed?
A) 26 October 1994
B) 1 March 1956
C) 7 February 1999
D) 14 December 1955
  • 87. What group launched the hotel bombings in Amman in 2005?
A) ISIL
B) Al-Qaeda
C) PLO
D) The fedayeen
  • 88. How many Syrian refugees entered Jordan following the Arab Spring?
A) 2 million
B) 1.4 million
C) 500,000
D) 600,000
  • 89. What is the total area of Jordan?
A) 75,200 square kilometres
B) 95,500 square kilometres
C) 82,100 square kilometres
D) 89,341 square kilometres
  • 90. In which part of the kingdom are the major cities primarily located?
A) North-western part
B) Central-eastern part
C) South-eastern part
D) The southern coastline
  • 91. Which of these is mentioned as a major city in the northwest?
A) Irbid
B) Aqaba
C) Azraq
D) Ruwaished
  • 92. What is the highest point in Jordan?
A) Jabal Umm al Dami
B) The Dead Sea
C) Jabal Amman
D) Mount Nebo
  • 93. When was the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature set up?
A) 1975
B) 1966
C) 1980
D) 1950
  • 94. Which of the following is a nature reserve in Jordan?
A) Petra Wildlife Sanctuary
B) Dana Biosphere Reserve
C) Amman National Park
D) Jordan Forest Reserve
  • 95. Which of these is an oasis town in the east?
A) Al-Karak
B) Azraq
C) As-Salt
D) Madaba
  • 96. What is the approximate distance between Jordan's northernmost and southernmost points?
A) 600 kilometres
B) 400 kilometres
C) 250 kilometres
D) 100 kilometres
  • 97. What is the average elevation of Jordan above sea level?
A) 500 m
B) 2,664 m
C) 812 m
D) 1,200 m
  • 98. What percentage of Jordan's land is covered by forests?
A) 5%
B) 15%
C) Less than 2%
D) 10%
  • 99. In what year was the Jordanian constitution adopted?
A) 1952
B) 1999
C) 1946
D) 2012
  • 100. Which of these is a political party ideology represented in Jordan?
A) Communist
B) Capitalist
C) Islamist
D) Anarchist
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