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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The dividing lines between the eastern and western hemisphere






2. The parliament that rules Israel






3. What was the name of the tax that jews+christians had to pay? (A big reason why they converted to Islam)






4. Baghdad literally means this.






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






6. Israel Prime minister that was assasinated - and was thought to be the last chance at peace.






7. Give an example of exponential


8. Pilgrimage to Mecca






9. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?






10. 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.






11. The founder of Chrstianity.






12. Landforms with highest elevation






13. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?






14. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)






15. Became Israel's prime minister after Yitzhak Rabin got shot.






16. The capital of Israel






17. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?






18. The founder of ancient persian religion Zorastrianism






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






20. 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]






21. Exponential






22. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.






23. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.






24. Flight 11 hit where?






25. ___ forces have cracked down violently on the protests against the president of yemen.






26. The day Israel is officially formed






27. The middle east stands at the crossroads of what of three continents?






28. The empire that took over the Abbasids.






29. Dictator of Libya






30. 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.






31. The five largest countries in size in order from largest to smallest:






32. Important to the world for military and economic reasons






33. In the Umayyad dynasty - all the highest jobs and the army went to ___.






34. Hatred to Jews






35. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?






36. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?






37. Capital for the Abbasids






38. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.






39. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.






40. What two orginizations should've protected us?






41. Allows to tap on phones






42. Only occurs in the dictatorial government - when the dictator uses propaganda to make him look like he's 'super human'. E.G: Hitler - Stalin






43. Religious and moral laws






44. Jihad






45. One anointed by God






46. What does Medina mean?






47. UN stands for..






48. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document






49. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.






50. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.