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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The scattering of Jews around the world
Diaspora
18%
Recitation
1917
2. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
750
Shanksville
Every Even Year
Al Shabaab
3. Tallest Mountains in the World
United Nations
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
HImalayas
Lebanon
4. The 4 planes hit the ___ - _____ - and ____.
8 kilometers from Sana
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
1/3
Southwest Asia
5. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
Cape
75
6
Southern Yemen
6. What are moving sections of earth's crust called?
Iran-Iraq War
Torah
plates
David and Solomon
7. Exponential
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
360
Judicial
Africa - Asia - and Europe
8. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state led to Israel returning WHAT -and to Egypt in return for diplomatic relations?
Pentagon
Sinai Peninsula
Oslo Accords
Delta
9. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Balfour Declaration
Anointed
Mixed Economy Systems
Ali
10. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Europe and Asia
1 year
Many Gods
69
11. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Shanksville
15
Scarcity
Mosque
12. People that travel from one place to another.
Northern
Fertile Crescent
Nomads
Trade
13. Mesopotamia literally means...
Land between the rivers
Eastern Orthodox Church
Baghdad
Sovereign
14. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
Sueing
Eastern Orthodox Church
18
Prime Meridian
15. The purpose of al qaeda was to get _____ ____ out of middle east.
Kaaba
Villages
American Troops
Turkey and Iran
16. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Equator
Prime Meridian
Gulf
Balfour Declaration
17. Where people elect representatives
May 15 - 1948
Ashkenazim
International Trade
Republic
18. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
West Bank
Diaspora
70%
19. An example of a country which has large oil resources - but doesn't have a part in OPEC.
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
75
Khadija
Russia
20. Factors of Law
De Juro
anti-Semitism
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Communism
21. The capital for the Umayyads
Damascus
UN
Elevation
International Date Line
22. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
22
Iran-Iraq War
Parallels
Drone
23. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....
Good and Evil
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Khartoum - Sudan
24. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?
Few Natural Barriers
King Hammurabi
Adam Smith
41 - 25
25. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?
Mecca
Soviet Union
632
Good and Evil
26. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
Ahura Mazda
1917
Persian And Byzantine
Messiah
27. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
7
British
Indonesia
Mantle
28. PLO
Balfour Declaration
Glacier
Palestine Liberation Organization
USA Patriot ACt
29. The prime meridian is located here
Khan
King Hammurabi
Fertile Crescent
Greenwich - England
30. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Zendavesta
Islam
Cancer
Legislative
31. This empire expanded eastward - and by AD 115 it ruled much of the Middle East.
Roman
Baghdad
Anatolian
New Jersey
32. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
70%
Fertile Crescent
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Five Pillars of Islam
33. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
West Bank
Sephardim
435
34. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
Water
All-Powerful
Mumbai
New York City
35. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Mandate
Mecca
Intifada
Preemptive Strike
36. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?
Tyranny
West Bank
Southwest Asia
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
37. What two orginizations should've protected us?
NSA - CIA
God-given
1 year
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
38. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state led to Israel returning WHAT -and to Egypt in return for diplomatic relations?
Sinai Peninsula
6
Jesus
Stylus
39. The word continent comes from what language?
Yemen
Mediterranean and Red
Every Even Year
latin
40. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Iron
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Iranian Plateau
Pakistan and Afghanistan
41. The length of a senator's term
Mandate
Byzantine
6 years
intifada
42. The founder of Chrstianity.
268
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Jesus
43. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
Moses
Oil
Arab
Estuary
44. Hatred to Jews
Theocracy
Benjamin Netanyahu
The Great Compromise
Anti-Semitism
45. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
1989
Mandate
International Trade
Yahweh
46. Dictator of Libya
resolve conflict
Muammar Gaddafi
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
47. In this year - the Balfour Declaration was made.
1917
1776
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Zionism
48. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Mustafa Kemal
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Zoraster
1948
49. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
Islam
Peninsula
Lebanon
200 million years
50. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Three Weeks
Baghdad
Egypt
Steel doors