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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The last stand for the Jews - it was when the Romans were attacking - and they committed suicide because they didn't want to give up their freedom.
Satrap
desert
Palestine
Masada
2. Al quaeda means...
Refugees
The Base
Scribes
Good and Evil
3. Darius divided his empire into __ _____.
1945
City of the Prophet
Supply and Demand
20 provinces
4. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
A.D. 70
Demographic
Dictatorship
5. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
Written Language
Volcano
22
Quraysh
6. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.
Balfour Declaration
9
Sovereign
6
7. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Crusade
Shiites
1/3
Cuneiform
8. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Turkey
Western Europe - Islamic
15
Masada
9. In this year - the PLO is formed - named Yassir Araft as it's leader.
anti-Semitism
Anatolian
1964
Gaza Strip and West Bank
10. A part of an ocean or sea that is partially enclosed by a curving coastline. A more fully enclosed body of salt water could be called a sea.
Alexander of Macedonia
Muhammad
Gulf
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
11. Where was Muhammad born?
Irrigation Systems
Boko Haram
Aristocracy
Mecca
12. Each degree is divided into ___ ______.
Roman Catholic Church
60 minutes
Palestine Liberation Organization
Sinai Peninsula
13. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
Military commisions act
Ali
2 billion
Anatolian Plateau
14. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?
8 kilometers from Sana
In the atlantic - near iceland
Lebanon
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
15. PLO stands for..
Palestine Liberation Organization
1973
7
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
16. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Darius I
East Jerusalem
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Weightless Economy
17. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
1947
Every Even Year
anti-Semitism
30
18. Landforms with highest elevation
Diaspora
Mountains
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Sueing
19. Operates the Suez Canal
Egypt
Yassir Arafat
Kaaba
UN
20. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.
15
Supply and Demand
Shaking
Maghreb
21. All member of the __ are parties to the statute that established the International Court of Justice or World Culture
UN
Al Qaeda Central
Palestine Liberation Organization
A.D. 70
22. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
East Jerusalem
Sinai Peninsula
Golan Heights
Darius I
23. This case determined Judicial Review.
Marbury v. Madison
Impeach+Override Veto
Demographic
Roman Catholic Church
24. The founder of Zionism
Camp David Accords
Indian Ocean
15
Theodor Herzl
25. An example of a monarchy
Britain
Adam Smith
Anatolian
Khan
26. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Obama - Panetta
9
1096
Priests
27. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Judaism
6 months
Islam
28. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Executive
2 years
Fertile Crescent
29. Half of a sphere
Yitzhak Rabin
federalism
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Hemisphere
30. The capital of Israel
GCC - Saleh
Volcano
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Jerusalem
31. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
Hulagu
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Zionism
Seljuks
32. The 1993 bombing plan injured approx. _____ people.
Carriers of Civilization
1000
Bethlehem
Yassir Arafat
33. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
Atoll
Drip Irrigation
1917
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
34. Jesus was born here
Attrition
Judicial Review
The Great Compromise
Bethlehem
35. Helped the jews escape from egypt
8 kilometers from Sana
Many Gods
Moses
1948 war
36. How many representatives are there?
435
7
Head Waters
1967
37. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
Suq
Cell
Democracies
Shiites
38. In this year - Camp David Accords were signed.
Sueing
1 - General Assembly
Koran
1978
39. Exponential
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Sinai Peninsula
NSA - CIA
Demographic
40. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?
Likud Party
Shiites
Priests
Soviet Union
41. A holy war
Alexander of Macedonia
2 billion
Crusade
Karl Marx
42. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Separation of Powers
Executive
Sail and Plow
Seljuks
43. The conference also voted to adopt a universal world day and a ___-hour clock - based on _______ at the Greenwich meridian.
24
24 - midnight
Sephardim
resolve conflict
44. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
Continental drift
capitalism - global
Legislative
Baghdad
45. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
Roman Catholic Church
International Meridian Conference
Anointed
Police
46. In WWI - the ottoman empire sided with ____.
Karl Marx
British
Aristocracy
Germany
47. A small body of water separated from the larger sea by a barrier of sand or coral reefs. It can either be adjacent to coastline or surrounded by an atoll.
18%
Lagoon
60 minutes
Pangaea
48. A vent - or opening in the earth's crust that allows molten lava - gases - and other materials to come out of earth's interior.
Glacier
Volcano
Muammar Gaddafi
750
49. People who flee their homeland to seek safety somewhere else.
Refugees
A.D. 70
1978
Theodor Herzl
50. The new leaders of Al Qaeda went for _____.
Attrition
Golan Heights
Hemisphere
Ali