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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. PLO
Palestine Liberation Organization
Police
Irrigation Systems
Britain - UN
2. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Polytheistic
Jerusalem
Martyrs
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
3. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Ziggurat
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Communism
Torah
4. Explains the life of Jesus
Theodor Herzl
Khan
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Gospels
5. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?
Muhammad
Demographic
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Youthquake
6. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Egypt - Suez Canal
1947
7. What are the senate's job?
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8. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Good and Evil
15
Attrition
In the atlantic - near iceland
9. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Prime Meridian
Islam
Continents
10. A government in which is ruled by a monarch - such as a king or a queen (it's ruled by 1)
Istanbul
Muhammad Ali
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Monarchy
11. The capital for the Umayyads
Hulagu
Damascus
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Gabriel
12. How old do you have to be to be the president?
35
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Greenwich - England
Steel doors
13. Non-muslim community
Millet
Masada
God-given
Al Zawahiri
14. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
Ocean Currents
resolve conflict
Brazil - Russia - India - China
World Trade Centers
15. The world' largest single Muslim community is here.
Labor Party
Judaism
Indonesia
Oslo Accords
16. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Government
pay more money
The Western Wall
Kuwait
17. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
Monotheistic
Jews and Arabs
Arab
1993
18. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Ahriman
Gabriel
Bethlehem
Continental Divide
19. The PLO leader
Yassir Arafat
Turkey
Crusade
Palestine Autonomy Plan
20. The Phoenicians developed an ____
Alphabet
80%
Camp David Accords
Department of Homeland Security
21. The 4 planes hit the ___ - _____ - and ____.
Adam Smith
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
60 minutes
55% - 45%
22. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Measurment - 60
Eastern Orthodox Church
International Date Line
Britain - UN
23. An organization for many groups which represent the Palestinian people.
Britain
Egypt
Cracks in the Mantle
PLO
24. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
Head Waters
nonbeliever tax
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Measurment - 60
25. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
Battleground between Good and Evil
Southwest Asia
Mongols
North into South
26. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Taxes
Southern Yemen
UN
27. How can congress check the president?
New York City
Menorah
Mediterranean and Red
Impeach+Override Veto
28. The year the ottomans came to power.
Elevation
Cell
1453
Lagoon
29. Muhammad's tribe
Supply and Demand
Quraysh
1848
May 14 - 1948
30. Flight 93 hit where?
Al Shabaab
Crusade
Suq
Shanksville
31. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
Elevation
Martyr
Shiites
Desalination Plants
32. How can president check congress?
Diaspora
Veto
Security
US
33. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.
350000
Pentagon
30
Iran-Iraq War
34. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents
25
International Meridian Conference
Ring of Fire
Equator
35. This church was centered in Rome
1949
24
Roman Catholic Church
Europe and Asia
36. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Egypt - Suez Canal
Shanksville
Al Qaeda Central
37. Water spot in desert
Oasis
6-25 miles
Shiites
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
38. The sumerians set up this based on the number __.
Cancer
Yassir Arafat
1869
Measurment - 60
39. UN stands for..
United Nations
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Democracies
Martyr
40. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
1776
Supply
Longitude
Brookland Bridge
41. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
New Jersey
Lebanon
Recruiter and Propagandist
Lifetime
42. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
King Vishtaspa
bicameral
5
43. The day Israel is officially formed
Canyon
Benjamin Netanyahu
2014
May 14 - 1948
44. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.
Shiites
Jihad
268
Russia
45. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
Hejira
Youthquake
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
TSA
46. A government that seeks to subordinate the individual to the state by controlling not only all political and economic matters - but the attitudes - values - and beliefs of its population.
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Totalitarion
May 14 - 1948
Bethlehem
47. How many hemispheres are there?
Four
Desalination Plants
October 1884
Saleh
48. How many time zones are there?
Four
24
De Facto
Priests
49. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
360
Glacier
Jordan and Egypt
Balfour Declaration
50. The sumerians set up this based on the number __.
Arab
Measurment - 60
Ocean Currents
Eyes and ears of the king