Question: Which country borders Iran to Iran's northwest?
Answer: Armenia

Question: How many people live in Iran?
Answer: 78.4 million

Question: What is Iran's land mass in square miles?
Answer: 636,372 sq mi

Question: What is the unofficial name for Iran?
Answer: Persia

Question: What is Iran's official country name?
Answer: the Islamic Republic of Iran

Question: What civilizations formed in Iran during 3200-2800 BC?
Answer: the Proto-Elamite and Elamite kingdoms

Question: When did the Iranian Medes first unify an empire in the area?
Answer: 625 BC

Question: Who found the Archaemenid Empire in 550 BC?
Answer: Cyrus the Great

Question: When did the Archaemenid Empire collapse?
Answer: 330 BC

Question: Who ended the Archaemenid Empire by conquest in 330 BC?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: What year did the Rashidun Arabs invade Iran?
Answer: 633 AD

Question: What year did the Rashidun Arabs conquer Iran?
Answer: 651 AD

Question: What religion did the Rashidun Arabs convert the indigenous conquered peoples to? 
Answer: Sunni Islam

Question: Which country took over Iran's territories in the Caucasus in the 19th Century?
Answer: Imperial Russia

Question: What movement led to Iran becoming an Islamic republic in 1979?
Answer: 1979 Revolution

Question: What resource does Iran have the largest supply of in the world?
Answer: natural gas

Question: What city is Iran's capital?
Answer: Tehran

Question: How does Iran effect the world economy and international energy markets?
Answer: through its large reserves of fossil fuels

Question: What resource does Iran have the fourth largest supply of in the world?
Answer: proven oil reserves

Question: How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites does Iran have?
Answer: 19

Question: What century did terms referencing Iran begin to be recorded?
Answer: 3rd-century

Question: What inscription referenced the term Aryan to Iranians?
Answer: Parthian

Question: What Proto-Indo-European term means "skillful assembler?"
Answer: *ar-yo-

Question: What is attested as a self-identifier in Iranian languages?
Answer: the gentilic

Question: What other term in the 3rd Century besides Aryan also refer to Iran?
Answer: Ērān

Question: Which historians referred to Iran as Persis?
Answer: Greek historians

Question: What has the West historically referred Iran as?
Answer: Persia

Question: When did Persians settle on the west shore of Lake Urmia?
Answer: the 9th century BC

Question: After Lake Urmia, Persis then shifted over to what region?
Answer: the southern end of the Zagros Mountains,

Question: What is Persis known as today?
Answer: Fars Province

Question: When did Reza Shan request that Iran officially be referred to as Iran and not Persia?
Answer: 1935

Question: Which newspaper reported the official name request in 1935?
Answer: New York Times

Question: Which name is officially used politically?
Answer: Iran

Question: Who endorsed a move to use Persia and Iran interchangeably after opposition to the official name change?
Answer: Professor Ehsan Yarshater

Question: How long ago were the earliest artifacts from that were evidence of humans in Iran?
Answer: the Lower Paleolithic era, c. 800,000–200,000 BC

Question: When did early agricultural communities in Iran begin to appear and prosper?
Answer: 10th to 8th millennium BC

Question: What region of Iran did Neanderthal artifacts from the Middle Paleolithic Period were found?
Answer: the Zagros region

Question: What were dug up from the archaeological sites Kashafrud and Ganj Par in Iran?
Answer: The earliest archaeological artifacts in Iran

Question: What ancient city dates back as early as 4395 BC in Iran?
Answer: Susa

Question: How long ago did ancient cultures and settlements exist across the Iranian plateau?
Answer: the 4th millennium BC

Question: During what Age was Iran the site of several of these ancient civilizations?
Answer: Bronze Age

Question: Which ancient civilization in Iran during the 4th Millenium was the most prominent?
Answer: Elam

Question: Elam's writing system had paralleled Sumer's cuneiform since what era?
Answer: the 3rd millennium BC

Question: Who dominated the area of Irea between the 10th Century BC to the late 7th Century BC?
Answer: the Assyrian Empire

Question: When did this Civil War take place to free the Iranian peoples from Assyrian rule?
Answer: between 616 BC and 605 BC

Question: How long did the Assyrian Empire control and rule Iran?
Answer: three centuries

Question: Who lead the Persians into a coalition with the Medes, Babylon, Scythians, and Cimmerians to fight against the Assyrians?
Answer: king Cyaxares

Question: When did the Median tribes unify under a single ruler to form the Median Empire?
Answer: 728 BC

Question: Who founded the Achaemenid Empire when the city states in Iran came together in unification?
Answer: Cyrus the Great

Question: When did Cyrus the Great found the Achaemenid Empire?
Answer: 550 BC

Question: Who triggered the Persian Revolt? 
Answer: the Median ruler Astyages

Question: What resulted from the Persian Revolt?
Answer: The conquest of Media

Question: What was the first world goverment the world had seen at the time it existed?
Answer: the Achaemenid Empire

Question: What was the largest empire the world had seen at the time it existed?
Answer: the Achaemenid Empire

Question: What sea did the Achaemenid Empire control the majority of the coastal regions of?
Answer: the Black Sea

Question: The Achaemenid Empire expanded into what part of Asia?
Answer: Central Asia

Question: The Achaemenid Empire controlled all of the significant settlements of what ancient country during its greatest extent?
Answer: ancient Egypt

Question: The Achaemenid Empire was the known enemy of what nation's histories during its existence?
Answer: the Greek city states

Question: How many people lived in the Archaemenid Empire in 480BC?
Answer: 50 million people

Question: The Achaemenid Empire had what percentage of the word's population in 480BC?
Answer: 44% of the world's population

Question: What was the Achaemenid Empire's official language?
Answer: Imperial Aramaic

Question: What Seven Wonder of the Ancient world was built by the Archaemenid Empire in the 4th Century BC?
Answer: the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Question: Who invaded the Archaemenid Empire in 334BC?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: Who was the last Archaemenid Emperor at the time of its defeat by Alexander the Great?
Answer: Darius III

Question: Who controlled the Archaemenid Empire after Alexander the Great died prematurely?
Answer: the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire

Question: When did the Parthian Empire rise to become the main power in Iran?
Answer: In the middle of the 2nd century BC

Question: When did the Sassanid Empire succeed the Parthian Empire in control of Iran?
Answer: 224 CE

Question: What wars in the 600s CE lead to the weakening of Iran and a subsequent invasion by the Arabs?
Answer: Byzantine-Sassanid Wars

Question: When did the Arabs invade Iran?
Answer: the 7th century

Question: Which Arab Caliphate defeated Iran first?
Answer: Arab Rashidun Caliphate

Question: What special tax did the discriminated Iranians - both converted and nonconverted - have to pay?
Answer: Jizya

Question: What academy was the most important medical center of the world at the time and became Islamicized after the Arab invasions?
Answer: Academy of Gunde Shapur

Question: What period was known for an era where Iranian civilization blossomed and peaked?
Answer: the Islamic Golden Age

Question: When did the Islamic Golden Age reach its zenith?
Answer: by the 10th and 11th centuries

Question: Prominent Iranian writers during this time of the Islamic Golden Age contributed to what area of writing?
Answer: scientific writing

Question: Where was the main area where the peak of scientific activity take place during the Islamic Golden Age?
Answer: Iran