SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
World Cultures Basics
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
trivia
,
culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. The year the mongols came to power.
1258
30
Many Gods
Carriers of Civilization
2. 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.
1 year
15
Masada
Ali
3. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
Demographic
Mediterranean and Red
Mandate
1987
4. Jihad
1/3
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Lebanon
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
5. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.
Every Even Year
19
Gospels
11
6. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Obama - Panetta
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
6 years
1989
7. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Refugees
Moses
Kaaba
8. The world' largest single Muslim community is here.
14
Indonesia
Isthmus
24
9. Intifada literally means...
De Juro
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
reprisals
Shaking
10. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
Mumbai
NSA - CIA
Globalization
1803
11. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
Southern Yemen
equilibrium price
Government
Scarcity
12. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.
North Tower
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Drip Irrigation
Welfare State
13. An imaginary line around the middle of the earth that divides norther and souther hemispheres.
Jews and Arabs
Demographic
Priests
Equator
14. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
30
Dictatorship
20 provinces
1967
15. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
Tyranny
632
North into South
Zionism
16. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
164
Reef
Continental Divide
Head Waters
17. The day Israel is first attacked by 6 ARab nations.
55% - 45%
OPEC
May 15 - 1948
Monotheistic
18. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Bin Laden
Egypt - Suez Canal
Kibbutzim
Military commisions act
19. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Knesset
federalism
11
Stylus
20. The Main idea in a civilization
Khadija
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Written Language
Government
21. In this year - the 6 day war was fought with 6 countries.
60 minutes
Cancer
1967
GCC - Saleh
22. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Tropic
Roads
Republic
15
23. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Pentagon
Continental Divide
Britain
Desalination Plants
24. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
70%
Epic of Gilgamesh
7
1917
25. President of Yemen
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Mustafa Kemal
Judicial Review
Saleh
26. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
City of the Prophet
Hejira
Canaan
United Nations
27. Is the measuring point for Longitude
1987
Prime Meridian
UN
Aristocracy
28. The scattering of Jews around the world
Globalization
Diaspora
Mongols
Ramadan
29. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Muhammad Ali
Separation of Powers
Arab
Aristocracy
30. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.
Yitzhak Rabin
Judicial
2 years
The Oslo Peace Accord
31. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Roads
1947
Police
1917
32. The Northern Tier stretches across ___ and ___.
Turkey and Iran
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
City of the Prophet
33. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?
164
Lebanon
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
5 million
34. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.
Southern Yemen
11
Britain - UN
Karl Marx
35. Sumerians wrote on ____ _____.
Cult of Personality
6 months
Hellenistic
Clay Tablets
36. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
Alfred Wegener
57 million square miles
nonbeliever tax
Egypt - Suez Canal
37. 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]
1776
8 kilometers from Sana
Isthmus
Latitude
38. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
Revolution
PLO
Monotheistic
Pentagon
39. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Menorah
Arab Spring
Sumer
Byzantine
40. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Brookland Bridge
Soviet Union
Priests
Cell
41. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Many Gods
Boko Haram
Greenwich - England
Byzantine
42. What is yemen scarce on?
Intifada
resolve conflict
Water
57 million square miles
43. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
1973
Land between the rivers
Good and Evil
Marbury v. Madison
44. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
Boko Haram
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Delta
Attrition
45. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
Zionism
Kaaba
8
Palestine Autonomy Plan
46. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
Villages
Anatolian Plateau
North into South
1000
47. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Four
Canyon
15
federalism
48. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Measurment - 60
Iranian Plateau
Turkey and Iran
4 years
49. All countries today have this - meaning that they have no economic system that is 100% the same thing.
Judicial Review
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Mixed Economy Systems
David and Solomon
50. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
Popular Sovereignty
Arab
Greeks
57 million square miles