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Answer: Khawlani coffee
💡 Khawlani coffee has been grown on the terraces of the Jazan mountains for hundreds of years, and in 2022 CE UNESCO added the knowledge and practices related to growing it to its list of intangible cultural heritage.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The city of Hail is surrounded by the Aja and Salma mountain ranges, which are mentioned often in classical Arabic poetry.
Answer: Madinah
💡 The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran is in Madinah; it opened in 1984 CE and prints millions of copies of the Quran and translations of its meanings.
Answer: True ✔
💡 Khuzam Palace in Jeddah saw the signing of the oil exploration concession agreement in 1933 CE, and a few years later oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Dhahran.
Answer: Taif
💡 The Companion Abdullah ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him and his father) spent the last part of his life in Taif and died there, and its best-known mosque bears his name.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The Kingdom is located in southwest Asia, and the Red Sea separates it from the African continent.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Saudi Arabia was never colonized, so it has no independence day; its national occasions are Founding Day, Flag Day and National Day.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The Kingdom Centre Tower is known for a large opening at its top crossed by a sky bridge, from which visitors see Riyadh from a great height.
Answer: Abraj Al-Bait
💡 The Makkah Clock tops the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, the tallest tower of the "Abraj Al-Bait" complex next to the Sacred Mosque, and it can be seen from far away.
Answer: Al-Rahma Mosque
💡 Al-Rahma Mosque was built at the edge of the sea on the Jeddah Corniche, so when the sea rises, it looks as if it is floating on it.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The seat of the Asir regional government is Abha, a high mountain city with mild weather in the southwest of the Kingdom; Khamis Mushait is also one of the region's largest cities.
Answer: Its multi-story stone houses
💡 Rijal Almaa is known for its old stone houses, some of which rise several stories, with windows decorated in bright colors, and it lies among the mountains of Asir.
Answer: False ✖
💡 The capital of the Kingdom is Riyadh, in the center of the country, while Jeddah is the largest city on the west coast along the Red Sea.
Answer: Thuwal
💡 KAUST opened in 2009 CE in Thuwal, north of Jeddah, and it is a university specializing in graduate studies and scientific research.
Answer: King Saud University ↔ Riyadh, King Abdulaziz University ↔ Jeddah, The Islamic University ↔ Madinah, King Faisal University ↔ Al-Ahsa
💡 King Saud University in Riyadh is the Kingdom's oldest university, King Abdulaziz University is in Jeddah, the Islamic University is in Madinah, and King Faisal University is in Al-Ahsa.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Taif is a high mountain city in the Sarawat Mountains east of Makkah; its altitude gives it mild summers, and it does not overlook the sea.
Answer: Umm al-Qura (the Mother of Cities)
💡 Makkah is described in the Holy Quran as "Umm al-Qura" (the Mother of Cities), and Umm Al-Qura University there is named after it.
Answer: The Tuwaiq Mountains
💡 The "Edge of the World" is a towering cliff of the Tuwaiq Mountains northwest of Riyadh, and anyone standing on it looks out over a vast plain that seems endless.
Answer: False ✖
💡 The seat of the Al-Qassim regional government is Buraidah, while Unaizah is one of the largest and best-known governorates of Al-Qassim.
Answer: False ✖
💡 Masmak Palace is in the center of Riyadh, and it is linked to King Abdulaziz's recovery of Riyadh in 1902 CE.
