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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A market economy is controlled by this.
1947
Supply and Demand
Democracy
200 million years
2. When and where did Arab Spring start?
Camp David Accords
Sovereign
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Few Natural Barriers
3. Only the land-owning people have a say
Adam Smith
1987
Aristocracy
PLO
4. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
22
Democracies
Judaism
Brazil - Russia - India - China
5. The year the suez canal opened
1869
Cracks in the Mantle
Stylus
14
6. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
King Hammurabi
Southwest Asia
US - Russia - UK - France - China
7. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
Capitalism
Hejira
Sunni
Arab Spring
8. What is the length of a president's term?
Theodor Herzl
4 years
Priests
International Trade
9. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
Gap between Rich and Poor
Arab
Reef
Egypt
10. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Tropic
Bay
Republic
630
11. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Wheel
Hellenistic
Canyon
South Tower
12. Darius sent out special inspectors - known as this.
Eyes and ears of the king
Continental Divide
Baghdad
1058
13. The dividing lines between the eastern and western hemisphere
Epic of Gilgamesh
Cuneiform
Strait
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
14. This country operates the Suez Canal
Egypt
Gabriel
A.D. 70
British
15. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology
Weightless Economy
1917
1964
Indian Ocean
16. The day Israel is officially formed
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
May 14 - 1948
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Continental drift
17. The founder of ancient persian religion Zorastrianism
700 people
Reef
Gospels
Zoraster
18. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
David Ben-Gurion
1917
Pope
Anarchy
19. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
Ahura Mazda
Police
Democracies
Longitude
20. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Mountains
temperates
Pakistan and Afghanistan
A.D. 70
21. How old do you have to be to be the president?
35
Turkey
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Yom Kippur
22. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
1187
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Sovereign
Ziggurat
23. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected
Southwest Asia
Supply and Demand
Balfour Declaration
Pope
24. Who was also killed along with Al Awlaki?
Khan
Drip Irrigation
Roads
Jews and Arabs
25. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
occupied territories
Intifada
Gulf
Ahriman
26. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
British
Kaaba
6 months
27. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
8
Alexander of Macedonia
Zionism
Money and Security
28. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Carriers of Civilization
Koran
Mediterranean and Red
Three Weeks
29. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Benjamin Netanyahu
UN
Maghreb
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
30. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Islam
May 15 - 1948
Many Gods
1964
31. The egyptian leader that signed the Camp David Accords
Anwar Sadat
Preemptive Strike
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Mandate
32. In this year - the Yom Kippur war was fought.
1973
Soviet Union
Mediterranean and Red
Inspire
33. The Phoenicians developed an ____
Alphabet
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Saudi Arabia
Continental Divide
34. How many hours is in one day?
24
Britain - UN
US
Military commisions act
35. How can congress check the president?
24 - midnight
New York City
Impeach+Override Veto
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
36. The capital of Israel
AQAP
Jerusalem
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Lebanon
37. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?
Lebanon
Preemptive Strike
temperates
Youthquake
38. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
Veto
Judicial Review
plates
Southern Yemen
39. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
700 people
Yassir Arafat
Reef
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
40. Give an example of exponential
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41. The UN is headquarters in ____.
Drone
60 minutes
Palestine Liberation Organization
New York City
42. The Byzantine's capital
The Western Wall
Koran
Deserts
Constantinople
43. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
Cuneiform
May 15 - 1948
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Mantle
44. How many justices are there?
9
350000
8
Six Million
45. Secretary of Defense
Bedouins
Germany
1948 war
Leon Panetta
46. How old do you have to be to be the president?
11
temperates
35
Royal Greenwich Observatory
47. President of Yemen
6 months
Saleh
PLO
Hitties
48. The year that the UN partioned Palestine into 2 states.
The Oslo Peace Accord
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
1947
Turkey
49. President Bush said we would do what to the terrorists?
All-Powerful
Capture
International Meridian Conference
Land between the rivers
50. What was Karl Marx's famous quote?
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