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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Israel's capital
Turkey
Jerusalem
Brookland Bridge
350000
2. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Intifada
Lebanon
Soviet Union
John Marshal
3. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
Turkey
Oceania
Muhammad
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
4. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Traditional
Hitties
Supply
5. The Northern Tier stretches across ___ and ___.
1 - General Assembly
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Turkey and Iran
Alexander of Macedonia
6. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
temperates
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Damascus
Mandate
7. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?
Abu Bakar
Flood Waters
Lifetime
Jordan
8. Grievences of the middle east
John Marshal
Longitude
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Diaspora
9. Called 'the sick man of Europe'
Sunni
Ottoman Empire
Mixed Economy Systems
Al Shabaab
10. NATO was founded in.....
1949
Kaaba
7
570
11. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
Darius I
Jews and Arabs
capitalism - global
Gap between Rich and Poor
12. 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]
Latitude
The Great Compromise
Yassir Arafat
1949
13. UN stands for..
Attrition
Elevation
City of the Prophet
United Nations
14. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
Supply
East Jerusalem
Anointed
Ottoman Empire
15. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Soviet Union
4 years
SAudia Arabi
Veto
16. The year of the first crusade.
Yom Kippur
Longitude
1096
Arab Culture
17. The highest point of a continent - from which the direction of river flow is determined.
Continental Divide
Legislative
360
Africa - Asia - and Europe
18. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
Anointed
British
Greenwich - England
Popular Sovereignty
19. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
City of the Prophet
NYPD
Judaism
Messiah
20. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
Many Gods
24
57 million square miles
Southwest Asia
21. The length of a senator's term
6 years
Traditional
The Oslo Peace Accord
632
22. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
24
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Government
Mecca
23. Blending some elements of both market and command economies in answering the three fundamental economic questions.
Hemisphere
Mixed Economic
PLO
1945
24. Darius sent out special inspectors - known as this.
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Eyes and ears of the king
De Juro
anti-Semitism
25. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Southern Yemen
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Police
Equator
26. A part of an ocean or sea that is partially enclosed by a curving coastline. A more fully enclosed body of salt water could be called a sea.
Gulf
Impeach president and veto president's veto
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Military commisions act
27. The Phoenicians developed an ____
Oligarchy
Coinage
Alphabet
Young Turks
28. Where people elect representatives
Republic
Sunni
Maghreb
De Facto
29. 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.
Soviet Union
Government
Refugees - oil
Lagoon
30. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
David and Solomon
Tropic
7
Elevation
31. Capital for the Abbasids
Preemptive Strike
Limited Government
Baghdad
1964
32. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
Totalitarion
Fjord
desert
Mountains
33. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Arab Spring
Golan Heights
Three Weeks
Oligarchy
34. Israel's two greatest kings.
Abu Bakar
Peninsula
1848
David and Solomon
35. The location Al Awlaki was killed was ______ _______ from ______.
8 kilometers from Sana
Trade
Martyrs
Bin Laden
36. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Labor Party
1 year
Marbury v. Madison
30
37. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected
6 months
Balfour Declaration
Kuwait
Cult of Personality
38. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.
Canyon
May 14 - 1948
1987
Head Waters
39. What is very scarce in the Middle east?
A.D. 70
1989
Water
Egypt - Suez Canal
40. Only the land-owning people have a say
federalism
Aristocracy
Zionism
The Great Compromise
41. First Prime Minister of Israel
Shiites
USA Patriot ACt
David Ben-Gurion
Abu Bakar
42. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Military commisions act
200 million years
Inspire
South Tower
43. The Hitties are best known for this.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Millet
Northern
Iron
44. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
570
UN cease-fire
City of the Prophet
Obama - Panetta
45. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Britain - UN
Caliph
Darius I
Priests
46. Kept the temple records
Land between the rivers
Masada
Scribes
Persian And Byzantine
47. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.
Hejira
Separation of Powers
Supply and Demand
Battleground between Good and Evil
48. Settling of Jews out of Palestine
Atoll
Babylonians
Diaspora
Eastern and Southern
49. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Delta
Hemisphere
Maghreb
50. Each degree is divided into ___ ______.
60 minutes
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Scribes
Fertile Crescent