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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many people get most of the wealth?
Longitude
The Oslo Peace Accord
20%
De Juro
2. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Nomads
Al Qaeda Central
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Africa - Asia - and Europe
3. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
41 - 25
Roman
Ashkenazim
4. Belief in One God
Greenwich - England
Roman Catholic Church
Monotheistic
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 main principle of Hammurabi's code
Turkey
Ashkenazim
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
75
6. Capital for the Crusaders
Baghdad
Parables
King Vishtaspa
Mandate
7. There were ___ hijackers.
Ashkenazim
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Mountains
19
8. When and where did Arab Spring start?
Battleground between Good and Evil
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Cuneiform
Greenwich - England
9. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Maghreb
Anti-Semitism
Mumbai
Strait
10. All countries today have this - meaning that they have no economic system that is 100% the same thing.
1/3
20%
Mixed Economy Systems
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
11. What is very scarce in the Middle east?
Yom Kippur
Yassir Arafat
Water
Sephardim
12. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
Longitude
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Turkey
Aristocracy
13. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
Indian Ocean
David Ben-Gurion
Prime Meridian
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
14. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
1258
bankrupt
Arab
New Jersey
15. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
350000
Mesa
700 people
41 - 25
16. All member of the __ are parties to the statute that established the International Court of Justice or World Culture
recognize each other
Attrition
UN
Baghdad
17. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Ahura Mazda
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Zendavesta
Iran-Iraq War
18. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
75
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Baghdad
The Great Compromise
19. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....
Priests
Diaspora
Golan Heights
Khartoum - Sudan
20. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
Mecca and Yathrib
Anointed
Jerusalem
British
21. The world' largest single Muslim community is here.
Indonesia
Mandate
22
Kaaba
22. Maghreb comes from an Arab term meaning this.
Theocracy
Western Isle
Volcano
Torah
23. One reason Islam expanded so swiftly is because the arab armies were ___ by their ___ - because Islam taught that Muslim warriors who died in service of Islam would win a place in paradise.
1989
United - Beliefs
Northern
Cancer
24. AQ prefers more ___ territories.
Egypt - Suez Canal
Oceania
Ungoverned
268
25. The UN's purpose was to...
resolve conflict
Leon Panetta
Muhammad Ali
Plateau
26. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Intifada
All-Powerful
Wheel
International Meridian Conference
27. Declaration to re-establish the Jews a home in Palestine
69
Deserts
Bethlehem
Balfour Declaration
28. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
Iran-Iraq War
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Head Waters
Bedouins
29. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
East Jerusalem
Mecca and Yathrib
Refugees - oil
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
30. Marketplace
Suq
Al Zawahiri
Canaan
SAudia Arabi
31. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
7
October 1884
Flood Waters
Hulagu
32. How many people get most of the wealth?
Glacier
24
20%
Ahriman
33. Terror group in Nigeria.
Boko Haram
Impeach+Override Veto
Estuary
1973
34. Water spot in desert
Sovereign
Ottoman Empire
Oasis
Police
35. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.
9
Atoll
Glacier
Drone
36. Where the supreme power is maintained by the people
Shaking
Sumer
desert
Democracy
37. The UN is headquarters in ____.
Western Europe - Islamic
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Eyes and ears of the king
New York City
38. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?
New York City
Sephardim
Jews and Arabs
Soviet Union
39. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Gabriel
Socialism
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Cuneiform
40. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?
Quraysh
bankrupt
Traditional
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
41. The year the mongols came to power.
1258
Four
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Jihad
42. The new leaders of Al Qaeda went for _____.
Ziggurat
Abu Bakar
Attrition
Darius I
43. How many years do you have to live in the US to be a president?
Six Million
14
NYPD
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
44. How much is a majority on the UN?
Delta
Hemisphere
9
Head Waters
45. Helps protect us from terror
Department of Homeland Security
Cape
Marbury v. Madison
Aturuk
46. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?
Kaaba
360
9 years
Moses
47. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
Prime Meridian
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Land between the rivers
Arabs
48. The dividing lines between the eastern and western hemisphere
Latitude
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Prime Meridian
Diaspora
49. What was the 'invisible hand?'
pursue in self-interest
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Jews and Arabs
7
50. Israel Prime minister that was assasinated - and was thought to be the last chance at peace.
Mumbai
1917
Yitzhak Rabin
reprisals