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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
Written Language
8 kilometers from Sana
Sueing
1848
2. Tallest Mountains in the World
Cape
HImalayas
capitalism - global
Plateau
3. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
North into South
Separation of Powers
Jordan
Mandate
4. What are the senate's job?
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5. Where people elect representatives
Republic
Police
Quraysh
1453
6. The center of conflict between Jews and Arabs.
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Palestine
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Preemptive Strike
7. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Communism
Maghreb
1948 war
Indonesia
8. Belief on more than one god
Polytheistic
Iron
Prime Meridian
International Trade
9. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
5
Tyranny
Executive
Caliph
10. An Albanian soldier who had fought against the French - who became governor of Egypt in 1805.
Atoll
41 - 25
Muhammad Ali
570
11. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
2 years
PLO
Isthmus
632
12. What are the length of congress's terms?
Judaism
2 years
Balfour Declaration
Canaan
13. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
360
Capitalism
Ahura Mazda
200 million years
14. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Communism
Europe and Asia
Bay
15. The PLO leader
Yassir Arafat
Peninsula
Oligarchy
Continents
16. PLO
630
Anarchy
North Tower
Palestine Liberation Organization
17. America has been more strict - such as adding ___ ___ leading into the cockpit.
11
Pull apart and form rifts
Steel doors
Arab Spring
18. What 4 terrorists have died this year - causing Al Qaeda to go downward?
Kaaba
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Priests
632
19. Jihad
1095
24 - midnight
700 people
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
20. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
Recitation
Jordan and Egypt
1967
Democracy
21. What are the 6 constituional laws?
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Canyon
Revolution
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
22. The Byzantine's capital
Continental Divide
Muhammad Ali
UN
Constantinople
23. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?
Peninsula
9 years
Volcano
Judicial
24. Flight 93 hit where?
West Bank
Shanksville
United Nations
1967
25. Capital for the Crusaders
Baghdad
Continents
Drip Irrigation
recognize each other
26. What was the single-continent called?
Pangaea
God-given
Ali
Maghreb
27. Israel's capital
Jerusalem
Popular Sovereignty
Estuary
Quraysh
28. The biggest landmasses on earth
1989
Priests
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Continents
29. Where the people overthrow the government in power and form a new one
Revolution
Darius I
Khartoum - Sudan
May 2011
30. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
Limited Government
Istanbul
Alphabet
Ziggurat
31. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
8
Demographic
Mumbai
1964
32. Hatred to Jews
Zionist
Anti-Semitism
Self Immolation
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
33. The first civilization in the Middle East.
International Trade
1848
Cracks in the Mantle
Sumer
34. The parliament that rules Israel
Knesset
equilibrium price
May 14 - 1948
Veto
35. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Alphabet
Southwest Asia
Supply and Demand
Yahweh
36. The word continent comes from what language?
Oligarchy
latin
Golan Heights
recognize each other
37. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
Harry Truman
Baghdad
HImalayas
Oasis
38. In this year - the Yom Kippur war was fought.
John Marshal
1848
Mantle
1973
39. A point of land extending into the sea. It is usually smaller than a peninsula - mountainous ones are sometimes called a promontory or a headline.
Five Pillars of Islam
Cape
International Trade
Reef
40. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
1058
Scribes
Ahura Mazda
18%
41. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Diaspora
NYPD
Prime Meridian
9
42. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Democratic Republic
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Western Isle
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
43. Grievences of the middle east
Menorah
Sail and Plow
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
44. In the west of the Northern Tier is the ___ ___.
David and Solomon
Hellenistic
632
Anatolian Plateau
45. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
Anwar Sadat
The Base
Self Immolation
Southern Yemen
46. Religious and moral laws
TSA
Hejira
Iranian Plateau
Ten Commandments
47. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Lebanon
1/3
Three Weeks
25
48. Who were called during the fire?
Kibbutzim
NYPD
19
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
49. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
Pentagon
Martyrs
Mesa
Measurment - 60
50. What year did the Jews revolt against roman rule?
A.D. 70
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Caliph
International Trade