NewsTracker Answers for week of Dec. 06, 2010

Q: FIFA, soccer's world governing body, rejected a bid by the United States to select the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar as the host of 2022 World Cup tournament. Where is Qatar?

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Q: Qatar is surrounded by water on three sides, a piece of land known as . . .

A. Archipelago

B. Peninsula

C. Reef

D. Delta

B. Qatar borders the much larger Arabian Peninsula on the south and is bordered by the Persian Gulf on the north and west and the Gulf of Bahrain and Dawhat Sound on the east.

Q: What nation lies on Qatar's southern border?

A. Saudi Arabia

B. Bahrain

C. Oman

D. Yemen

A. Saudi Arabia is the largest nation on the Arabian Peninsula that it shares with Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen.

Q: With the exception of Yemen, vast oil and natural gas reserves have made the peninsula countries among the wealthiest in the world. Qatar has the second highest per-capita income, following . . .

A. Kuwait

B. Luxembourg

C. United States

D. Liechtenstein

D. Qatar's $121,000 per-capita income falls right between the tiny European tax havens of Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. With a per-capita income of $51,200, oil-rich Kuwait ranks eighth ahead of tenth-ranked United States at $46,000.

Q: Qatar is an emirate, which is a form of . . .

A. Anarchy

B. Meritocracy

C. Monarchy

D. Democracy

C. Aside from the Republic of Yemen, Arabian Peninsula countries are ruled by hereditary monarchs.