Red Sea Quiz: questions and answers
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The Red Sea is the sea with the richest underwater life. Its bottom is covered with many coral reefs which are inhabited with beautiful fishes.
Red Sea quiz consists of interesting questions and answers about this water body.
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1. What is the Latin name of the Red Sea?
Mare Rubrum
2. What is the primary outflow of the Red Sea?
Bab el Mandeb
3. To some ancient geographers, the Red Sea was known as:
The Arabian Gulf
4. Who collected information about the sea in the 2nd century BC?
Agatharchides
5. Who was the inventor of the direct route from the Red Sea to India?
Hippalus
6. When the Red Sea was an important route for the spice trade?
Middle Ages
7. When did France order to Napoleon to take control of the Red Sea?
1798
8. When The Suez Canal was opened in Egypt?
November, 1869
9. What is the maximum depth of the Red Sea?
3040 m
10. Which country is NOT located on an eastern shore?
Egypt