Saudi Government and Economy

Saudi Government And Economy

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  1. Complete the sentence about Saudi Gazette with the correct year: Saudi Gazette is an English-language daily newspaper launched in ______ and published in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  2. Complete the sentence about Rayyanah Barnawi with the correct year: On May 22, ______, Barnawi arrived at the International Space Station on board SpaceX ship Crew Dragon Freedom.
  3. Complete the sentence about Sultan bin Salman Al Saud with the correct year: Sultan was born in Riyadh on 27 June ______, as the second son of Prince Salman, then governor of Riyadh province and now K…
  4. Complete the sentence about Sultan bin Salman Al Saud with the correct year: Sultan bin Salman started his career in ______ as a researcher in the department of international communications at the Min…
  5. Complete the sentence with the correct year: From 17 June through 24 June ______, he flew as a payload specialist on STS-51-G Discovery.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sultan bin Salman Al Saud with the correct year: In ______, Sultan recorded a commercial message that was broadcast on MTV during the Live Aid concert event.
  7. Complete the sentence about Sultan bin Salman Al Saud with the correct year: Sultan bin Salman served in the Royal Saudi Air Force beginning in ______ and held the rank of lieutenant colonel.
  8. Complete the sentence about Prince Sultan Air Base with the correct year: Following the attack on USAF facilities at Khobar Towers in Dharan in ______, all USAF activities at that location were reloca…
  9. Complete the sentence about Prince Sultan Air Base with the correct year: In mid-______, all U.S. operations at PSAB began migrating to Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar.
  10. Complete the sentence about Saudi Space Agency with the correct year: On July 17, ______, the SSA announced a space cooperation agreement with NASA to collaborate on civilian space research and explor…
  11. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Abdul Rahman Al-Athel was named as the President of the city.
  12. Complete the sentence about King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology with the correct year: In ______, KACST starts planning to develop nuclear technology in Saudi Arabia.
  13. Complete the sentence about KAUST with the correct year: In ______, Ali Al-Naimi chaired a Saudi Aramco team to undertake the building and planning of the academics.
  14. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Saudi Arabia with the correct year: In January ______, a new museum director, Laila Alfaddagh, was appointed, who is expected to lead the museum into a n…
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Saleeg? Ibrahim was the first chef that opened a local restaurant that offered Saleeg in ______ in 1936.
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Talal Maddah? In the mid-1950s, Maddah attended a wedding in Al-______ that featured a selection of artists such as Tariq Abdul-Hakim, Abdullah Mohammed and A…
  17. Which place completes this sentence about Abdulnasser Gharem? In 2003 Gharem studied at the Al-Meftaha Arts Village in ______.
  18. Which place completes this sentence about Prince Sultan Air Base? Following the attack on USAF facilities at ______ Towers in Dharan in 1996, all USAF activities at that location were relocated to PSA…
  19. Complete the sentence about Al-Hilal SFC with the correct year: In September ______, Al-Hilal was awarded Greatest Asian Club of the 20th Century by the IFFHS.
  20. Complete the sentence about Al-Hilal SFC with the correct year: The idea of establishing the club began when the ranks of the Youth Club witnessed in ______ a serious division among its leaders, which…
  21. Complete the sentence about Al-Hilal SFC with the correct year: The club's name lasted for only one year before it was changed to its current name on 3 December ______ by King Saud.
  22. Complete the sentence about Al-Hilal SFC with the correct year: After spending their formative years building a squad, the club made their first mark by lifting the King's Cup trophy in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Majed Abdullah with the correct year: Majed Abdullah retired from football in ______, after Al-Nassr's Asian Cup Winners' Cup Final victory over Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
  24. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As of August ______, they remain the only Asian men's team to win any FIFA tournament.
  25. Complete the sentence about Raja Alem with the correct year: Alem was joint winner of the ______ International Prize for Arabic Fiction for her novel The Doves' Necklace.
  26. Complete the sentence about Women in Saudi Arabia with the correct year: The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report ______ ranked Saudi Arabia as number 132 out of 146 countries, a significan…
  27. Complete the sentence about Women in Saudi Arabia with the correct year: In ______, Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud was appointed as the Saudi ambassador to the US, becoming the first female envoy…
  28. Complete the sentence about King Abdullah University of Science and Technology with the correct year: Founded in ______, the university provides research and graduate training programs in English as t…
  29. Complete the sentence about Saudi Telecom Company with the correct year: In December ______, the company launched a new identity, and the names of its branches in Bahrain and Kuwait were changed from…
  30. Complete the sentence about Saudi Telecom Company with the correct year: In collaboration with Alibaba Group, the Alibaba Cloud was launched in May ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Almarai with the correct year: Almarai started its operations in ______ by Irish brothers Alastair McGuckian, Paddy McGuckian, and Prince Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Ka…
  32. Complete the sentence about Almarai with the correct year: In ______, Almarai entered a new phase, transformed from a company with limited liability to a joint-stock company.
  33. Complete the sentence about Almarai with the correct year: In ______, Almarai began to diversify its portfolio by pushing promotions on other dairy products and not just milk.
  34. Complete the sentence about Flynas with the correct year: The company changed its name from Nas Air to Flynas in November ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Flynas with the correct year: In November ______, Flynas took delivery of the first Airbus A320neo family aircraft.
  36. Complete the sentence about Saudi Electricity Company with the correct year: A transmission company – National Grid SA – was established in ______ to operate the National Grid SA.
  37. Complete the sentence about Al Rajhi Bank with the correct year: In ______, after nearly 50 years of operation solely within Saudi Arabia, the bank launched in Al Rajhi Bank Malaysia, signifying its f…
  38. Complete the sentence about Saudi Arabian Airlines with the correct year: The airline has been a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance since 29 May ______, becoming the first carrier from the Middle…
  39. Complete the sentence about Etihad Rail with the correct year: In ______, Etihad Rail moved to a self-operating model after concluding knowledge transfer programme with Deutsche Bahn.
  40. Complete the sentence about Tourism in Saudi Arabia with the correct year: Saudi Arabia is the second biggest tourist destination in the Middle East with over 16 million visiting in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Tourism in Saudi Arabia with the correct year: On 27 September ______, Saudi Arabia formally announced the issuance of the tourist visa to visitors from 49 countries for a…
  42. Complete the sentence about Saudi Press Agency with the correct year: The Minister of Media, Salman bin Yousif Al Dossary, announced the launch of the Saudi Photo Platform at the second edition of the…
  43. Complete the sentence about Al Arabiya with the correct year: In ______, The New York Times described the channel as working "to cure Arab television of its penchant for radical politics and violence"…
  44. Complete the sentence about Saudi Gazette with the correct year: Saudi Gazette is an English-language daily newspaper launched in ______ and published in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  45. Complete the sentence about Saudi Space Agency with the correct year: On 14 June ______, the Saudi Space Commission was renamed and elevated to the Saudi Space Agency as part of a restructuring of Sau…
  46. Complete the sentence about King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology with the correct year: In ______, Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Suwaiyel, who used to be the KACST vice president for research, became…
  47. Complete the sentence about KAUST with the correct year: In the ______ Nature Index Rising Stars, the university ranked 19th in the world of the fastest rising universities for high-quality research o…
  48. Complete the sentence about Louvre Abu Dhabi with the correct year: In ______ the United Arab Emirates put forward to the French government the idea of creating a museum in the Emirates bearing the na…
  49. Complete the sentence about Al-Ettifaq FC with the correct year: The club was established by the merger of three Dammam-based clubs in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Al-Ettifaq FC with the correct year: Al-Ettifaq were the first Saudi team to win an international title – the ______ Arab Club Champions Cup.
  51. Complete the sentence about Al-Ettifaq FC with the correct year: A key reason for this achievement was the decision to sign the most prolific Ettifaqi player, Khalil Al-Zayani, in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Al-Ettifaq FC with the correct year: Nevertheless, the manager's decision to entrust the defense role to Zayani proved successful, as the club was able to reach the final o…
  53. Complete the sentence about Al-Wehda Club with the correct year: Al Wehda traces its origins to ______, when it was established as Al Mukhtalat Club in the Hejaz Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
  54. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, it went on to win the King Cup, becoming the first team to lift the competition.
  55. Complete the sentence about Al-Raed FC with the correct year: In ______, it was the first team from the Qassim region to enter the Saudi Premier League.
  56. Complete the sentence about Saudi Arabia at the Paralympics with the correct year: Saudi Arabia made its Paralympic Games début at the ______ Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, with two competitors in pow…
  57. Complete the sentence about Fahd of Saudi Arabia with the correct year: Upon the death of King Khalid in ______, Fahd ascended to the throne.
  58. Complete the sentence about Kingdom Arena with the correct year: In September ______, the Kingdom Holding Company obtained the management rights to operate the stadium as the home of Al-Hilal.
  59. Complete the sentence about Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal with the correct year: Bandar bin Khalid received a computer science degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran in __…
  60. Complete the sentence about King Fahd Medical City with the correct year: Salman bin Abdulaziz, then governor of Riyadh, laid its foundation stone in ______.
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Al-Ettifaq FC? The club was established by the merger of three ______-based clubs in 1945.
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Al-Ettifaq FC? Before the establishment of Al-Ettifaq as a professional sports club that also managed football, there were three clubs in the city of ______ t…
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal? Bandar bin Khalid received a computer science degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in ______ in 1988.

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