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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When and where did Arab Spring start?
Drip Irrigation
Constantine
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
resolve conflict
2. Religious teachers
Menorah
Baghdad
Eyes and ears of the king
Prophets
3. How many time zones are there?
24
Iran-Iraq War
Gospels
Capture
4. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Byzantine
Mantle
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
5. Half of a sphere
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Longitude
41 - 25
Hemisphere
6. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
Lebanon
Mountains
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Demand
7. The leader of the Likud bloc that became the prime minister in 1996.
Caliph
Benjamin Netanyahu
Attrition
Continental Divide
8. People that travel from one place to another.
Nomads
Capitalism
Lifetime
Department of Homeland Security
9. Each degree is divided into ___ ______.
60 minutes
World Trade Centers
Palestine Liberation Organization
East Jerusalem
10. In WWI - the ottoman empire sided with ____.
Zionism
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Germany
Indian Ocean
11. How many justices are there?
9
Roads
Ashkenazim
Attrition
12. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Mecca
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Britain - UN
13. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
Yassir Arafat
Shiites
Jordan and Egypt
The Great Compromise
14. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Western Isle
Estuary
Mandate
15. A revolutionary group of young army officers
9 years
Young Turks
Shanksville
Bin Laden
16. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
South Tower
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Anointed
Jerusalem
17. Darius divided his empire into __ _____.
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
570
20 provinces
David and Solomon
18. Flight 93 hit where?
Shanksville
1945
New Jersey
1453
19. Baghdad literally means this.
Greenwich - England
God-given
GCC - Saleh
Mountains
20. Only Power is from the people
UN
May 14 - 1948
Popular Sovereignty
Head Waters
21. Called 'the sick man of Europe'
Measurment - 60
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Menorah
22. IThe hebrew's sacred book.
Water
Torah
Mesa
Monotheistic
23. Where do you have to be born to be the President?
Attrition
Lebanon
Latitude
USA
24. Only occurs in the dictatorial government - when the dictator uses propaganda to make him look like he's 'super human'. E.G: Hitler - Stalin
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Cult of Personality
Alphabet
Bethlehem
25. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Atoll
desert
Hemisphere
Fertile Crescent
26. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
1948
Bouazizi
International Trade
bicameral
27. What killed Al Awlaki?
Drone
Messiah
60 minutes
9
28. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Four
Youthquake
1776
29. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Western and Northern
Limited Government
Yitzhak Rabin
Hejira
30. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Shaduf
desert
Anarchy
1987
31. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Mustafa Kemal
Israel
Mountains
Carriers of Civilization
32. What was the 'invisible hand?'
Mesa
7
pursue in self-interest
International Meridian Conference
33. The parliament that rules Israel
Knesset
Impeach president and veto president's veto
20%
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
34. A holy war
Khan
Crusade
City of the Prophet
1978
35. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
1993
Five Pillars of Islam
Western and Northern
Impeach president and veto president's veto
36. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Damascus
World Trade Centers
UN cease-fire
37. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?
Cult of Personality
Stylus
Judicial Review
Suq
38. Grievences of the middle east
International Trade
Shanksville
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Palestine
39. 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.
1453
Lagoon
Mountains
Umayyad
40. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Strategic Important
Desalination Plants
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
1096
41. No limits on power
2 billion
Bethlehem
Young Turks
Sovereign
42. What does czar/czarina mean?
Drone
Turkey
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
2 years
43. Supporter of a Homeland for the Jews in the area of Palestine. Movement began in the 1800's.
Zionist
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
May 15 - 1948
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
44. Darius sent out special inspectors - known as this.
Totalitarion
Theodor Herzl
Eyes and ears of the king
Koran
45. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
60 minutes
Parallels
Republic
King Hammurabi
46. Muslim Fighter
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Glacier
Mujahideen
47. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.
Shiites
Cuneiform
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Canyon
48. Israel's capital
Few Natural Barriers
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Jerusalem
Greeks
49. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
Refugees - oil
1803
The Western Wall
UN cease-fire
50. Kept the temple records
Al Zawahiri
Flood Waters
Scribes
Iranian Plateau