SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
World Cultures Basics
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
trivia
,
culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. UN stands for..
United Nations
Latitude
The Oslo Peace Accord
Anatolian
2. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Southwest Asia
1848
Suq
Britain
3. The conference also voted to adopt a universal world day and a ___-hour clock - based on _______ at the Greenwich meridian.
Strategic Important
David Ben-Gurion
Four
24 - midnight
4. 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]
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Latitude
American Troops
Meridian
5. The founder of ancient persian religion Zorastrianism
Zoraster
Germany
8
Arab
6. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
resolve conflict
Cell
Traditional
30
7. What is yemen scarce on?
David and Solomon
632
Water
Shaduf
8. The scattering of Jews around the world
1.2 billion
Bouazizi
Al Shabaab
Diaspora
9. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
John Marshal
South Tower
Yitzhak Rabin
Brookland Bridge
10. Sharpened Reed
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Stylus
6-25 miles
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
11. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Constantinople
Yitzhak Rabin
Jerusalem
anti-Semitism
12. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.
Flood Waters
Judaism
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
AQAP
13. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Soviet Union
6-25 miles
Nomads
Bay
14. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Refugees - oil
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Wheel
15. Individuals own all resources - both human and non-human.
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Capitalism
14
Dictatorship
16. Short stories with simple lessons
Torah
Parables
Alphabet
Pentagon
17. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
Kuwait
Koran
Globalization
268
18. The Abbassid empire built these.
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Saudi Arabia
Demand
Dictatorship
19. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
Kaaba
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Muammar Gaddafi
Isthmus
20. SC currently has __ representatives - but will have one more in the upcoming election.
6
Sinai Peninsula
5
Hellenistic
21. Why is the arabian peninsula so important?
Meridian
1917
Oil
GCC - Saleh
22. The year that the UN partioned Palestine into 2 states.
Western and Northern
1947
Canaan
Biased
23. The five largest countries in size in order from largest to smallest:
Monotheistic
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Strait
24. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
desert
Islam
1/3
1967
25. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
Good and Evil
5 million
Kaaba
Adam Smith
26. In 1982 - Israel invaded ____.
1/5
Lebanon
Longitude
Yom Kippur
27. Belief in One God
Southwest Asia
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Monotheistic
28. 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?
Capitalism
West Bank
Partition - 2
Alfred Wegener
29. One anointed by God
Turkey
Carriers of Civilization
Shanksville
Messiah
30. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Sunni
Saladin
Carriers of Civilization
Coinage
31. Intifada literally means...
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
632
9
Shaking
32. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Stylus
Ottoman Empire
Popular Sovereignty
Peninsula
33. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.
Epic of Gilgamesh
TSA
Sovereign
24 - midnight
34. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.
1058
Arab Spring
Partition - 2
1.2 billion
35. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Three Weeks
Capture
Water
Ashkenazim
36. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
Egypt
UN
19
Arab
37. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.
Germany
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Sueing
Constantine
38. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
Fjord
North Tower
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
39. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.
Yom Kippur
Desert Storm
Alphabet
Moses
40. PLO was founded In what year?
Young Turks
Mecca and Yathrib
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
1964
41. Became Israel's prime minister after Yitzhak Rabin got shot.
Sueing
Shimon Peres
Refugees
reprisals
42. NATO
Ottoman Empire
4 years
Europe and Asia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
43. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
October 1884
Pope
Persian And Byzantine
1095
44. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?
Damascus
King Hammurabi
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
80%
45. Mesopotamia literally means...
Mixed Economic
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Land between the rivers
Desert Storm
46. What are the senate's job?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
47. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Indian Ocean
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Minaret
Hulagu
48. The culture that blends Greek with the Middle East.
Hellenistic
North Tower
Recruiter and Propagandist
The Base
49. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
Roman
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
1945
Capitalism
50. NATO was founded in.....
1869
1949
Oasis
Hulagu