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