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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Police
Mecca and Yathrib
desert
35
2. Settling of Jews out of Palestine
630
Diaspora
De Facto
Lagoon
3. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
Reef
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Many Gods
Turkey
4. Darius sent out special inspectors - known as this.
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Money and Security
Eyes and ears of the king
GCC - Saleh
5. The height of the land above sea level
Elevation
6 months
1095
Capture
6. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Glacier
Battleground between Good and Evil
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Desert Storm
7. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Dictatorship
1917
NSA - CIA
8. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
Africa - Asia - and Europe
A.D. 70
Alexander of Macedonia
Few Natural Barriers
9. Jesus was born here
Bethlehem
Written Language
Ali
Ottoman Empire
10. What is approx number of people in Israel?
5 million
Palestine Liberation Organization
Security
Polytheistic
11. The year the suez canal opened
Government
Prime Meridian
1869
Scribes
12. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
6 months
9
Northern
Crusade
13. Flight 93 hit where?
Shanksville
6 months
Shimon Peres
Mesa
14. OBL was captured when?
David and Solomon
May 2011
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
15. IThe hebrew's sacred book.
Torah
Britain - UN
British
1096
16. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Israel
October 1884
Indian Ocean
Byzantine
17. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
7
Pakistan and Afghanistan
King Vishtaspa
18. These people in the sumerian civilization were important because they knew the prayers to keep the gods happy.
Equator
Judicial Review
Priests
Leon Panetta
19. The center of conflict between Jews and Arabs.
Iran-Iraq War
Pangaea
Palestine
The Western Wall
20. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.
632
Boko Haram
1/5
Canyon
21. An Albanian soldier who had fought against the French - who became governor of Egypt in 1805.
Muhammad Ali
Refugees - oil
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Trade
22. Blending some elements of both market and command economies in answering the three fundamental economic questions.
Elevation
Mixed Economic
Ashkenazim
Northern
23. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Maghreb
6
6-25 miles
24. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?
Traditional
Western and Northern
Yassir Arafat
Ziggurat
25. Israel is about the size of what state?
New Jersey
Anatolian Plateau
Shiites
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
26. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Ziggurat
Yitzhak Rabin
Kuwait
Intifada
27. How can president check congress?
pay more money
Veto
1.2 billion
Yom Kippur
28. Palestine is important to Christians for what reason?
Soviet Union
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Crusade
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
29. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Russia
Delta
1948
30. Capital for the Abbasids
24
New Jersey
Baghdad
Cancer
31. Old warriors who were based in Afghanistan and Pakistan that had been left over from Mujahadeem - traced back to OBL
Continents
Oil
Al Qaeda Central
New York City
32. The 1993 bombing plan injured approx. _____ people.
164
Mediterranean and Red
1000
1/3
33. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Anwar Sadat
Refugees - oil
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Military commisions act
34. To set oneself' on fire
Obama - Panetta
North Tower
Self Immolation
Isthmus
35. Allows to tap on phones
Shiites
Bethlehem
USA Patriot ACt
Bedouins
36. 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
1978
Oasis
Measurment - 60
37. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
desert
Irrigation Systems
Khartoum - Sudan
Saladin
38. What was a key factor that defended the Nile Valley?
Archipelago
Deserts
Suq
Drip Irrigation
39. Qu'ran literally means this.
David and Solomon
Lagoon
Recitation
Ramadan
40. Current Head of Al Qaeda
Good and Evil
Al Zawahiri
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Russia
41. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?
Europe and Asia
164
Shaking
Mixed Economy Systems
42. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
Islam
Refugees
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
43. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil
Island
Democratic Republic
King Vishtaspa
anti-Semitism
44. Supporter of a Homeland for the Jews in the area of Palestine. Movement began in the 1800's.
USA
Priests
Zionist
Canaan
45. How many hours is in one day?
24
Monotheistic
Shiites
King Vishtaspa
46. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
Harry Truman
Mecca
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Russia
47. The arab world's most poverished country.
700 people
Western and Northern
USA Patriot ACt
Yemen
48. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Baghdad
Desert Storm
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
1917
49. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
9 years
18%
Theodor Herzl
50. AQ prefers more ___ territories.
15
1993
Ungoverned
GCC - Saleh