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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?






2. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?






3. Landforms with highest elevation






4. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?






5. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.






6. How much of the world's people are Muslim?






7. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?






8. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?






9. Baghdad literally means this.






10. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.






11. How much of the world's people are Muslim?






12. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.






13. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?






14. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?






15. To set oneself' on fire






16. A tall - flat-topped mountain with steep vertical sides. Erosion-resistant ones are left standing after all else has gone.






17. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?






18. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.






19. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.






20. The sumerians invented these two things.






21. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?






22. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?






23. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?






24. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.






25. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?






26. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.






27. How many justices are there?






28. Uprising of Palestines






29. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.






30. Muhammad's wife - who inspired him to begin telling people about Islam.






31. The main principle of Hammurabi's code






32. The month that all muslims must fast






33. The movement of Jews to re-establish a home in Palestine






34. Measured in degrees according to the distance north or south of the equator (being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees) [basically circling the globe going left to right]






35. In the west of the Northern Tier is the ___ ___.






36. Father of the Church






37. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?






38. The hebrews called their god this.






39. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.






40. How much one buisiness/company has






41. The month that all muslims must fast






42. Who was also killed along with Al Awlaki?






43. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?






44. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring






45. Non-muslim community






46. The most famous leader of the PLO






47. Allows to tap on phones






48. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.






49. The year the ottomans came to power.






50. PLO