Qatari Geography

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  1. Complete the sentence about Doha with the correct year: In December ______, the World Petroleum Council held the 20th World Petroleum Conference in Doha.
  2. Complete the sentence about Doha with the correct year: The earliest documented mention of Al Bidda was made in ______ by the Carmelite Convent, in an account that chronicles several settlements in Qa…
  3. Complete the sentence about Al Rayyan with the correct year: Al Rayyan Municipality was created as an independent municipal administration by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Al Rayyan with the correct year: In ______, Al Jemailiya Municipality was merged with Al Rayyan, and Jariyan Al Batnah Municipality was split between Al Rayyan and Al Wakra…
  5. Complete the sentence about Al Rayyan with the correct year: In ______, the western city of Al-Shahaniya was dissociated from Al Rayyan Municipality to form its own municipality.
  6. Complete the sentence about Al Wakrah with the correct year: According to the United States Hydrographic Office, by ______, there were approximately 300 ships situated in the town.
  7. Complete the sentence about Al Wakrah with the correct year: A following study carried out by the British in ______ stated that there were 250 boats in Wakrah's port.
  8. Complete the sentence about Al Wakrah with the correct year: Al Wakrah was thought to encompass the so-called 'Pirate Coast', as stated by a report written in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Al Wakrah with the correct year: Arnold Burrowes Kemball, a British Political Resident, wrote with reference to Al Wakrah in ______, providing significant historical contex…
  10. Complete the sentence about Al Wakrah with the correct year: According to Kemball's account, Al Wakrah did not exist at the time of Persian Gulf resident John MacLeod's ______ survey of Qatar's east c…
  11. Complete the sentence about Al Khor with the correct year: The region was ruled by the Al Muhannadi tribe, which consists of seven Bedouin families, before Qatar gained its independence in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Al Khor with the correct year: At least eight mangrove sites exist in Qatar, and all are protected areas as of a ______ Emiri decree.
  13. Complete the sentence about Mesaieed with the correct year: Mesaieed was established in ______ as a tanker terminal by QatarEnergy on a previously uninhabited site along the coast.
  14. Complete the sentence about Mesaieed with the correct year: By ______, Mesaieed had approximately 700 residential units, mainly in dormitory-style buildings with some villas.
  15. Complete the sentence about Al Zubarah with the correct year: The ______ history book Qatar's Memorial claimed that a functioning, self-governing settlement existed in the area prior to the arrival of…
  16. Complete the sentence about Al Ghuwariyah with the correct year: As part of this initiative, 55 houses were built in Al Ghuwariyah by ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Al Ghuwariyah with the correct year: In ______, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs opened a municipal office in Al Ghuwariyah.
  18. Complete the sentence about Al Ghuwariyah with the correct year: According to the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, there were about 65 total households within the town limits in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Al Jumaliyah with the correct year: As part of an initiative by the government to provide housing for residents of rural areas, 60 new houses were built in Al Jemailiya in…
  20. Complete the sentence about Al Jumaliyah with the correct year: Al Jemailiya was incorporated in Al-Shahaniya Municipality after the municipality was formed from parts of Al Rayyan Municipality in ___…
  21. Complete the sentence about The Pearl-Qatar with the correct year: The address format is "Unit ______, 1 Viva Bahriya", with "VB‑1" being the shorter, convenient version.
  22. Complete the sentence about Khalifa International Stadium with the correct year: Opened in ______, the stadium was named after then Emir of Qatar Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani.
  23. Complete the sentence about Khalifa International Stadium with the correct year: Sixteen years later, the stadium once again hosted all 15 games of the 11th Arabian Gulf Cup in ______, which saw hosts…
  24. Complete the sentence about Khalifa International Stadium with the correct year: The stadium's reconfiguration in ______ was part of the larger Doha Sports City urban renewal project in Al Rayyan, lat…
  25. Complete the sentence about Stadium 974 with the correct year: During a launch event on 20 November ______, the venue was officially renamed Stadium 974.
  26. Complete the sentence about Hamad International Airport with the correct year: After a series of costly delays, it eventually opened six years later, on 30 April ______, with a ceremonial Qatar Airway…
  27. Complete the sentence about Doha International Airport with the correct year: Doha International Airport opened in ______ replacing Dukhan Airport, which was built in the 1930s.
  28. Complete the sentence about Doha International Airport with the correct year: All scheduled commercial air traffic serving this airport moved to the new Hamad International Airport on 27 May ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Doha Metro with the correct year: In ______, Qatari Diar and Deutsche Bahn signed a joint venture to develop a concept for a railway network in Qatar.
  30. Complete the sentence about Doha Metro with the correct year: In ______, the construction of the Doha Metro officially began with a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of Msheireb station.
  31. Complete the sentence about Doha Metro with the correct year: In May ______ a consortium of Larsen & Toubro, Aktor, Yapi Merkezi, STFA Group and Al Jaber Engineering was awarded to design and construc…
  32. Complete the sentence about Lusail Tram with the correct year: The tender for the operation and maintenance of the Lusail Tramway was launched by Qatar Rail in May ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Hamad Port with the correct year: Commercial operations at the port were officially launched in December ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Ras Laffan with the correct year: The earliest-known English text to describe Ras Laffan was in the ______ book The Persian Gulf Pilot, published by the United Kingdom Hydr…
  35. Complete the sentence about Ras Laffan with the correct year: In an early ______ transcript of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia by J.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ras Laffan with the correct year: Qatargas announced in May ______ that the company's Ras Laffan terminal received its 10,000th non-LNG related shipment.
  37. Complete the sentence about Ras Laffan Industrial City with the correct year: In March ______, the city signed a memorandum of understanding with the Port of Rotterdam on the occasion of an official v…
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: A new site for an NGL plant was prepared by QatarEnergy in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Mesaieed Industrial City with the correct year: A firefighting unit for the industrial area was established in July ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Al Udeid Air Base with the correct year: In ______, Qatar built Al Udeid Air Base at a cost of more than $1 billion.
  41. Complete the sentence about Qatar Peninsula with the correct year: The boundary with Saudi Arabia was settled in ______ but never demarcated.
  42. Complete the sentence about Qatar Peninsula with the correct year: Maritime boundaries were ratified in April ______ with Decree No. 40.
  43. Complete the sentence about Khor Al Adaid with the correct year: Khor Al Adaid was officially designated as a nature reserve by the Qatari government in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Khor Al Adaid with the correct year: Among the settlers in ______ was the pirate Jasim bin Jabir, who was joined there by his crew.
  45. Complete the sentence about Khor Al Adaid with the correct year: As a result, Jassim bin Jabir relocated to Doha in September ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Khor Al Adaid with the correct year: In ______, the Bani Yas tribe once again seceded from Abu Dhabi to resettle in Khor Al Adaid under Sheikh Buttye-bin-Khadim.
  47. Complete the sentence about Halul Island with the correct year: James Ashley Maude documented the first known discovery of the island in July ______, referring to it as "Hawlool Island".
  48. Complete the sentence about Halul Island with the correct year: In ______, the first map of the island was produced by Captain George Barnes Brucks.
  49. Complete the sentence about Halul Island with the correct year: In Brucks' memoir, published posthumously in ______, he gave a brief account of the island as well as its geographic location.
  50. Complete the sentence about Halul Island with the correct year: Scottish hydrographer James Horsburgh wrote a description of the island in his ______ guide The India Directory.
  51. Complete the sentence about Al Shamal with the correct year: Al Shamal Municipality was established in July ______ alongside Qatar's four other initial municipalities.
  52. Complete the sentence about Madinat ash Shamal with the correct year: As part of a government housing project, 50 houses had been built in Madinat ash Shamal by ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Jebel Jassassiyeh with the correct year: The carvings were first discovered by a Danish archaeological team led by Holger Kapel in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Jebel Jassassiyeh with the correct year: Holger's son, Hans Kapel, surveyed and recorded the carvings in the ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Qatar Foundation with the correct year: Stars of Science, a reality TV show was launched in ______ in order to discover "young Arab innovators".
  56. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Qatar with the correct year: In ______, Sheikh Mubarak bin Saif Al Thani presented the first written draft of the anthem to the Qatar National Museum to…
  57. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Qatar with the correct year: Upon Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani's accession to the throne in ______, he drew up plans for a national museum in order to docu…
  58. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Qatar with the correct year: Originally named the Qatar National Museum, it was inaugurated on 23 June ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Qatar with the correct year: In ______, the museum was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
  60. Complete the sentence about Qatar National Library with the correct year: The building was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas of OMA and opened in April ______ alongside events, seminars and exh…
  61. Complete the sentence about Aspire Tower with the correct year: Designed by architect Hadi Simaan and AREP and engineer Ove Arup and Partners, the tower served as the focal point for the 15th Asian Ga…
  62. Complete the sentence about Aspire Tower with the correct year: The tower was a landmark of the ______ Asian Games due to its size and proximity to the main venue, the Khalifa International Stadium.
  63. Complete the sentence about Doha Tower with the correct year: On October 18, ______, the building received the CTBUH Skyscraper Award for the Best Tall Building Worldwide from the CTBUH.
  64. 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…
  65. 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.
  66. 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…
  67. 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.
  68. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Zoological Society of London obtained the first living individual in Europe in ______.
  69. 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.
  70. Complete the sentence about Qatar National Bank with the correct year: QNB was founded on 6 June ______ as the country's first domestically-owned commercial bank.
  71. Complete the sentence about Qatar National Bank with the correct year: In ______, the first branches outside of Doha were opened in Al Khor and Mesaieed.
  72. Complete the sentence about Qatar National Bank with the correct year: The bank installed its first ATMs in ______ in its Doha branches, and introduced VISA cards for its clients the next year.
  73. Complete the sentence about Qatar National Bank with the correct year: In ______, QNB acquired Istanbul-based Finansbank from National Bank of Greece.
  74. Complete the sentence about Al Wajbah with the correct year: The village was the site of the Battle of Al Wajbah, an armed conflict between the Ottomans and the Qatari tribes in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Qatar Sports Club with the correct year: The club was founded in ______ with the merger of two Qatari football clubs, Al-Oruba and Al-Nasour.
  76. Complete the sentence about Qatar Sports Club with the correct year: In ______, Al-Oruba merged with Al-Nasour to form a new football club named Al-Esteqlal.
  77. Complete the sentence about Al Bidda with the correct year: Qatar's Amiri Diwan has been based in Al Bidda since ______, after being converted from an abandoned Ottoman fort.
  78. Complete the sentence about Al Bidda with the correct year: The earliest documented mention of Al Bidda was made in ______, in a Carmelite convent's account which chronicles several settlements in Qat…
  79. Complete the sentence about Al Bidda with the correct year: Following alleged piracy and breaches of a maritime peace agreement, the HCS Vestal Brig bombarded Al Bidda in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Al Koot Fort with the correct year: The Al Koot Fort was rebuilt in ______ by Sheikh Abdulla bin Qassim Al Thani, after it was abandoned by the Ottomans.
  81. Complete the sentence about Al Gharrafa with the correct year: Lorimer's mentioned Al Gharrafa in ______ in his Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, referring to it as "Qarāfah".
  82. Complete the sentence about Al Gharrafa with the correct year: The Al Gharrafa Youth Centre was opened in ______ to promote the fine arts among the youth and held community exhibitions in its early ye…
  83. Complete the sentence about Al Gharrafa with the correct year: In the inaugural municipal elections in ______, Ahmed Hussein Al Kubaisi won the elections, receiving 21%, or 88 votes.
  84. Complete the sentence about Doha Zoo with the correct year: The Doha Zoo was a Zoological garden established in Qatar in February ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Qatar Tourism with the correct year: Qatar received 1.5 million tourists during the first half of ______, according to reporting by Gulf Times.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Al Rayyan? In 2004, Al Jemailiya Municipality was merged with Al Rayyan, and Jariyan Al Batnah Municipality was split between Al Rayyan and ______ Municipalit…
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Al Wakrah? Al Wakrah's eastern edge touches the shores of the Persian Gulf and Qatar's capital ______ is situated immediately north of the city.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Al Khor? Two of its main districts, Simaisma and Al Jeryan, are geographically located in ______.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Al Daayen? An overwhelming portion of the municipality is located within ______ Metropolitan Area boundaries.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Mesaieed? Fearful that the strike would spread to Qatar's other industrial city of ______, Sheikh Khalifa sent a force of 40 policemen to Mesaieed that month.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Al Ghuwariyah? Al Ghuwariyah was a municipality of Qatar until 2004, when it was merged with ______ Municipality.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Al Jumaliyah? Al Jemailiya was incorporated in Al-Shahaniya Municipality after the municipality was formed from parts of ______ Municipality in 2014.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Souq Waqif? As it was a market used for trading activities, the area used to be located immediately on the shore to allow for boats to access it from ______ B…
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Msheireb Downtown Doha? The newly renovated Msheireb Eid Prayer Ground, found opposite of Al Koot Fort and in close proximity to ______, was inaugurated in Oc…
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Lusail Stadium? Like the other stadiums that planned the 2022 World Cup, the ______ Stadium is cooled using solar power and is claimed to have zero carbon foo…
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Lusail Stadium? Like other stadiums constructed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, ______ Stadium received a five-star rating on 16 August 2022 for its design and c…
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Al Bayt Stadium? The Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar was one of eight stadiums used in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the second largest after ______ Stadium.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Education City Stadium? The stadium is located on the outskirts of the capital ______ and has a capacity of 40,000 seats.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Hamad International Airport? After a series of costly delays, it eventually opened six years later, on 30 April 2014, with a ceremonial Qatar Airways flight l…
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Lusail Tram? Construction of the ______ Tram began with the design phase in August 2007.

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