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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Pilgrimage to Mecca






2. Moves the time one hour ahead of Sun time






3. In May 1948 - the last ___ troops left Palestine.






4. Is the measuring point for Longitude






5. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?






6. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.






7. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.






8. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.






9. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?






10. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.






11. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?






12. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.






13. Capital for the Seljuk Turks






14. Marketplace






15. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.






16. Zoraster believed that the world was this.






17. PLO






18. Landforms with highest elevation






19. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.






20. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.






21. What are the length of congress's terms?






22. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.






23. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?






24. The year the ottoman empire fell.






25. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.






26. Short stories with simple lessons






27. Israel is about the size of what state?






28. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.






29. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.






30. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents






31. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.






32. Religious and moral laws






33. 1st caliph after Muhammad






34. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.






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






36. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...






37. A vent - or opening in the earth's crust that allows molten lava - gases - and other materials to come out of earth's interior.






38. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?






39. What year was Marbury v. Madison






40. The arab world's most poverished country.






41. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles






42. OPEC






43. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.






44. Defined 'unlawful attacks'






45. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?






46. There are __ security council members on the UN.






47. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.






48. The most famous leader of the PLO






49. Father of the Church






50. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.