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  1. Complete the sentence about Muscat with the correct year: In ______ AD the capital was transferred from Rustaq to Muscat.
  2. Complete the sentence about Muscat with the correct year: The Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque sailed to Muscat in ______, in an attempt to establish trade relations.
  3. Complete the sentence about Nizwa with the correct year: Nizwa has become a more modern city since ______ under the reign of Sultan Qaboos.
  4. Complete the sentence about Sur, Oman with the correct year: In ______, a Vickers Vincent operated by No. 84 Squadron RAF crashed in Khor Gharma while in its initial climb, killing all three crew memb…
  5. Complete the sentence about Ibri with the correct year: In ______, the largest metal hoard in the ancient Near East came to light in ʿIbri-Selme.
  6. Complete the sentence about Barka, Oman with the correct year: Mohammad Taqi Khan Shirazi led a military campaign in Oman in ______, and unsuccessfully besieged Barka on 25 May.
  7. Complete the sentence about Barka, Oman with the correct year: Barka was seized by rebels at the outbreak of the Muscat rebellion, but were driven from the town by HMS Fox and HMS Dartmouth in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Buraimi with the correct year: The Al Hamoud family's rule persisted until ______, with the final ruler being Sheikh Saqr bin Sultan bin Mohammed Al Hamoud.
  9. Complete the sentence about Ibra with the correct year: Ibra has become a more modern city since ______ under the reign of Sultan Qaboos.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ibra with the correct year: The Bait al Kabir was built in ______ during the Ya'riba Dynasty.
  11. Complete the sentence about Seeb with the correct year: As-Seeb is known for being the venue in which the Treaty of Seeb agreement took place between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat on…
  12. Complete the sentence about Seeb with the correct year: In June ______ The Register disclosed that Seeb is the location of a "beyond top secret" GCHQ internet monitoring site.
  13. Complete the sentence about Seeb with the correct year: Construction began in February ______ and phase one is expected to be completed by 2030.
  14. Complete the sentence about Duqm with the correct year: In February ______, a party of soldiers of the Muscat and Oman Field Force and geologists of Petroleum Development Oman landed to begin oil expl…
  15. Complete the sentence about Duqm with the correct year: Although Duqm was a fishing village until recently, in ______ the Omani government launched plans to transform the town into an industrial hub a…
  16. Complete the sentence about Haima, Oman with the correct year: In ______, a school for boys and later one for girls was opened in Haima.
  17. Complete the sentence about Musandam Peninsula with the correct year: In ______, Afonso de Albuquerque captured key areas along the Omani coast, including Sur, Muscat, and Khasab.
  18. Complete the sentence about Musandam Peninsula with the correct year: From then, until ______, the Portuguese used Khasab as a supply point for the dates trade as well as a safe passage for their ship…
  19. Complete the sentence about Dhofar Governorate with the correct year: Dhofar is extensively detailed in the ______ publication Gazetteer of Arabia, produced by the Government in British India and most…
  20. Complete the sentence about Dhofar Governorate with the correct year: The rebellion failed, and once the campaign was declared over in December ______, the active remainder of PFLOAG forces surrendere…
  21. Complete the sentence about Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate with the correct year: As of April ______, 71.4% of the population are Omani nationals and 28.6% are expatriates.
  22. Complete the sentence about Ad Dhahirah Governorate with the correct year: Al Dhahirah Governorate is the location of the biggest oil field in Oman, Yibal, which started operations in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ad Dhahirah Governorate with the correct year: Al Buraimi Governorate was formed from these provinces as a new governorate in October ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Musandam Governorate with the correct year: The Shinas fast ferry service between Muscat and Musandam was launched in August ______ to alleviate this problem and make the r…
  25. Complete the sentence about Rub' al Khali with the correct year: South Ghawar, discovered in ______, is the largest oil field in the world and extends southward into the northernmost parts of the Empt…
  26. Complete the sentence about Wadi Dayqah with the correct year: The dam was opened in ______ by Sayeed Fatik Bin Fahar Al Saeed, Secretary-General at the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
  27. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 21 September ______, the USS Peacock grounded on a coral reef.
  28. Complete the sentence about Masirah Island with the correct year: A dispute between British forces and the local inhabitants took place in ______, led by one of two local sheikhs, who were eventually…
  29. Complete the sentence about Gulf of Oman with the correct year: In ______, a rail tunnel under the sea was suggested to link the UAE with the western coast of India.
  30. Complete the sentence about Arabian Sea with the correct year: In ______, the International Indian Ocean Expedition was among the first groups to conduct hydrographic surveys in the Arabian Sea.
  31. Complete the sentence about Khor Rori with the correct year: The area represents a popular tourist spot within Oman and since ______, is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Land of Frankince…
  32. Complete the sentence about Ras al Hadd with the correct year: On 23 April ______, Ras Al Jinz Turtle Reserve is designated as a nature reserve.
  33. Complete the sentence about Ras al Hadd with the correct year: Located at the heart of Ras Al Hadd is the area's first shopping centre, Alfouz Hypermarket, which opened on 10 May ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the w…
  35. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The name "oryx" was introduced by Peter Simon Pallas in ______ for the common eland as Antilope oryx.
  36. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: In ______, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville subdivided the antelope group, adopted Oryx as a genus name, and changed the species name…
  37. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: In ______, Martin Lichtenstein confused matters by transferring the name Oryx leucoryx to the scimitar oryx, now Oryx dammah.
  38. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Zoological Society of London obtained the first living individual in Europe in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: Oldfield Thomas renamed the scimitar oryx as Oryx algazal in ______ and gave the Arabian oryx its original name.
  40. Complete the sentence about Arabian tahr with the correct year: The Arabian tahr was first described in ______ by Oldfield Thomas who proposed the name Hemitragus jayakari for zoological specimens col…
  41. Complete the sentence about Arabian tahr with the correct year: In ______, a captive-breeding program was set up at the Omani Mammal Breeding Center to reintroduce captive-bred individuals back into t…
  42. Complete the sentence about Arabian tahr with the correct year: In April ______, the Wadi Wurayah preserve in the Emirate of Fujairah was set aside by royal decree in the Emirates for the protection o…
  43. Complete the sentence about Arabian leopard with the correct year: Felis pardus nimr was the scientific name proposed by Wilhelm Hemprich and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in ______ for a leopard from…
  44. Complete the sentence about Arabian leopard with the correct year: Panthera pardus jarvisi, proposed by Reginald Innes Pocock in ______, was based on a leopard skin from the Sinai Peninsula.
  45. Complete the sentence about Green turtle with the correct year: A ______ study clarified the status of genus Chelonia with respect to the other marine turtles.
  46. Complete the sentence about Green turtle with the correct year: The species was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark ______ 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Testudo mydas.
  47. Complete the sentence about Green turtle with the correct year: In ______, Marie Firmin Bocourt named a particular species of sea turtle Chelonia agassizii, in honor of Swiss-American zoologist Louis…
  48. Complete the sentence about Loggerhead sea turtle with the correct year: Carl Linnaeus gave the loggerhead its first binomial name, Testudo caretta, in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Loggerhead sea turtle with the correct year: Thirty-five other names emerged over the following two centuries, with the combination Caretta caretta first introduced in ____…
  50. Complete the sentence about Frankincense with the correct year: In ______, UNESCO inscribed the sites as a World Heritage Site Land of Frankincense.
  51. Complete the sentence about Frankincense with the correct year: In ______, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned that one of the primary frankincense species, Boswellia sacra, is "…
  52. Complete the sentence about Tropic of Cancer with the correct year: In the year ______, more than half of the world's population lived north of the Tropic of Cancer.
  53. Complete the sentence about Liwa, Oman with the correct year: Following the accession of Sultan Qaboos bin Said in ______, Liwa experienced significant development.
  54. Complete the sentence about Dibba Al-Baya with the correct year: In Dibba, three schools for boys and girls have been created in the sphere of education, and these schools can accommodate roughly ____…
  55. Complete the sentence about Oman with the correct year: Oman has been continuously ruled by the Al Bu Said dynasty since ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Oman with the correct year: After the Dhofar rebellion and the ______ Omani coup d'état, the state of Muscat and Oman transitioned into the modern state under Qaboos bin Sa…
  57. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Gonu first hit the southern city of Sur late on 5 June ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Empty Quarter with the correct year: A road between Oman and Saudi Arabia, through the Empty Quarter, was completed in September ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Dhank with the correct year: In October ______, it saw the Battle of Dhank, between the forces of Omani Imam Azzan bin Qais and Sultan of Muscat Turki bin Said.
  60. Which place completes this sentence about Muscat? In 1793 AD the capital was transferred from ______ to Muscat.
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Salalah? Later it decayed, and in the 19th century it was absorbed by the Sultanate of ______ and Oman.
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Barka, Oman? Barka was seized by rebels at the outbreak of the ______ rebellion, but were driven from the town by HMS Fox and HMS Dartmouth in 1914.
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Seeb? As-Seeb is known for being the venue in which the Treaty of Seeb agreement took place between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of ______ on 25 Sept…
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Seeb? The intention for the new city is to house 100,000 residents from ______'s growing population.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Duqm? In February 1954, a party of soldiers of the ______ and Oman Field Force and geologists of Petroleum Development Oman landed to begin oil exploration in…
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Musandam Peninsula? From then, until 1650, the Portuguese used ______ as a supply point for the dates trade as well as a safe passage for their ships in the r…
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Ad Dhahirah Governorate? Al ______ Governorate was formed from these provinces as a new governorate in October 2006.
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Musandam Governorate? By the early 20th century, Musandam was claimed by the Sultan of Oman who stationed a representative in ______.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Al Buraimi Governorate? For many decades, there had been an open border between Al-______ located in Oman and Al-Ain.
  70. Which place completes this sentence about Al Buraimi Governorate? As of 2020, Al ______ Governorate had a population of 121,802, more than doubling in size since 1993.
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Al Buraimi Governorate? The city of Al-______, with 92,223 inhabitants, comprises the vast majority of the governorate's population.
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Al Buraimi Governorate? The largest mosque in Al-______ is the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, named after the former Sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al Said.
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Liwa, Oman? Located on the Gulf of Oman, It lies north of ______, and borders the wilayats of Shinas to the northwest and Mahdah to the west.
  74. Complete the sentence about Masirah Island with the correct year: After sailing along it over open water for about ______ stades from the Isles of Zenobios, you come to the Isle of Sarapis, as it is c…
  75. Complete the sentence about Dhofar Mountains with the correct year: In December ______, a Schokari sand racer was spotted in a mountain in this region.
  76. Complete the sentence about Arabian leopard with the correct year: One individual was killed in the Elba Protected Area in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Frankincense with the correct year: In a ______ study, an ecologist at Wageningen University & Research claimed that, by the late-1990s, Boswellia papyrifera trees in Eritr…
  78. Complete the sentence about Frankincense with the correct year: In ______, a new paper predicted a 50% reduction in Boswellia papyrifera within the next two decades.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Bidbid? The state of Bidbid is about 70 kilometers away from ______ governorate.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Mahdah? In the mid-20th century, the area became a focal point during the ______ Dispute, a territorial conflict between Oman and Saudi Arabia over control of…
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Liwa, Oman? Liwa is approximately 277 kilometers from the capital ______ and the second province away from the border to the United Arab Emirates.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Geography of Oman? Large areas in the capital area region in the Governorate of ______ and in Amerat and Quriyat were severely affected.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Dhank? The battle, won by Turki bin Said, was a key conflict to establishing the Sultanate of ______ and Oman.
  84. Complete the sentence about Al Batinah Region with the correct year: On 28 October ______, Al-Batinah Region was bifurcated into Al Batinah North Governorate and Al Batinah South Governorate.
  85. Complete the sentence about Strait of Hormuz with the correct year: Before the ______ Iran War, the strait had not been closed for any extended time during Middle East conflicts, although Iran occasio…
  86. Complete the sentence about Sea of Oman with the correct year: In ______, a rail tunnel under the sea was suggested to link the UAE with the western coast of India.
  87. Complete the sentence about Oman with the correct year: In ______, the United Nations Development Programme recognised Oman as the most improved country in the world in terms of development during the…
  88. Complete the sentence about Climate of Oman with the correct year: Occasionally, a cyclone from the North Indian Ocean makes landfall, bringing with it heavy rain, such as Cyclone Kelia did in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Ruwi with the correct year: Bait Al Falaj Airport, dating back to ______, was nothing but a dirt track landing strip, mainly put to use for military purposes.
  90. Complete the sentence about Wadi Dawkah with the correct year: Beside its headwater there is a park with vast vegetation of frankincense trees, which has been a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site…
  91. Complete the sentence about Al Hoota Cave with the correct year: The cave was first discovered by locals several hundred years ago and was officially opened as a tourist destination in December ______…
  92. Complete the sentence about Al Qurum with the correct year: The property's general manager, Ibrahim Al Qasmi, said that he was looking to increase footfall at the MCC to 10m in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Al Bustan, Oman with the correct year: In ______ the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture became aware of the cemetery, close to the Al-Bustan Palace.
  94. Complete the sentence about Fahud with the correct year: Only a few hundred yards from the original test well site, a second test well was sunk at Fahud and, in ______, found oil in commercial quantit…
  95. Complete the sentence about Al Ashkharah with the correct year: In ______, British diplomat Samuel Barrett Miles sailed to several Arabic-speaking countries including Al Ashkharah.
  96. Complete the sentence about Mahout with the correct year: A shop display advertising "Mahout" cigarettes features prominently in the background of the "rain dance" sequence of the ______ Gene Kelly fi…
  97. Complete the sentence about Duqm Port with the correct year: In March ______, the United States embassy announced an agreement for USA access to the ports at Salalah and Duqm.
  98. Complete the sentence about Bukha with the correct year: Bukha has developed significantly over the past decades with the arrival of the modern coastal road, as can be seen when comparing a picture of…
  99. Complete the sentence about Telegraph Island with the correct year: The name "Telegraph" comes from the telegraph-cable repeater station built on the island in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Telegraph Island with the correct year: By ______, cables had been laid linking Britain with North Africa and the Ottoman Empire.

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