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Exploring Iraq: A Quiz on History, Culture, and Geography

Test your knowledge about Iraq's history, culture, and geography with this engaging quiz. Assess your familiarity with important events, facts, and figures related to Iraq.

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1 Which of the following titles did Iraq have?

2 When was Iraq established?

3 What are people from Iraq known as?

4 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Iraq?

5 What is the currency of Iraq?

6 The population density of Iraq: How many people are there per square mile?

7 In 1968, Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown by the Arab Socialist ________.

8 The local ________ is mostly desert, with mild to cool winters and dry, hot, cloudless summers.

9 What religion does Iraq adhere to?

10 Iraq was carved out of the ________ by the French and British as agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • owners of the East 80th Street Houses on Manhattan's Upper East Side have ranged from Clarence Dillon and Vincent Astor to Iraq.
  • retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
  • the 2005 Operation Iron Hammer, aimed to clear Al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Hai Al Becker region in western Iraq, resulted in no reported casualties and no use of deadly force.
  • the 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  • in his book The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008), author Bob Woodward alleged that a secret killing program was used by American forces in Iraq.
  • in a May 1983 attack on communist partisans, forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan killed 150 communist cadres in northern Iraq.
  • as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh, Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
  • hospitals in Iraq reported 6,530 cases and 459 deaths as a result of the 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster.
  • in 1975, Iraq threatened to bomb the Tabqa Dam when Syria reduced the water flow of the Euphrates to fill the lake behind the dam.
  • in 2007, British forces serving in Basra, Iraq were accused of using killer badgers as a weapon.
  • the cargo ship MV Virginian, now under contract to Military Sealift Command, was accidentally hit by an Exocet missile while unloading cargo in Iraq in 1986.
  • the dust storms raised by the Shamal wind bring most travel in Iraq to a halt for several days.
  • the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies.
  • the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people.
  • the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639.
  • thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment.
  • the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station in Iraq helps siphon water under the Euphrates River and is the largest of its type in the Middle East.
  • the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways add about 500 km of new track each year to their network with planned links to Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
  • the Copper Bull sculpture found in Iraq in 1923 was over 4,500 years old.
  • the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region.
  • the HMS Cockchafer played host to the regent of Iraq Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad.
  • a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted.
  • Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland, where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland.
  • private military companies operating in Iraq use the Mamba armoured personnel carrier because it appears "less aggressive".
  • United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade (pictured) was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004.
  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan.
  • Palestinian nationalist poet Ibrahim Touqan wrote the poem Mawtini, which has been the national anthem of Iraq since 2003.
  • Major-General Tim Cross was one of the most senior British military officers involved in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
  • Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic.
  • Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago.
  • Iraqi lawyer Dheyaa al-Saadi was elected president of the Iraqi Bar Association in 2006, but his election was annulled because he was once a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
  • Dair Mar Elia, dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq.
  • Doggles (pictured), a type of sunglasses for dogs, have been sent out to working military dogs in Iraq.
  • Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
  • Sarkis Soghanalian, the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
  • Sir Sassoon Eskell is regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament.
  • Ya'qub Bilbul, an Iraqi Jew who wrote in Arabic, is considered a pioneer of the Iraqi novel and short story.
  • Robert Koldewey led an archeological dig in modern day Iraq which he believed to be the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for 18 years.
  • Operation Diamond, mounted by the Mossad in 1966, resulted in an Iraqi pilot landing a Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 in Israel.
  • Indo-Iraqi relations improved considerably after Iraq supported India's 1998 nuclear tests and its stand on the Kashmir dispute.
  • John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion.
  • Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005.
  • Colorado state representative Joe Rice (pictured) resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council.
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