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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many justices are there?
Supply and Demand
Capitalism
9
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
2. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
19
Southern Yemen
Eastern Orthodox Church
Isthmus
3. Capital for the Abbasids
Kuwait
Baghdad
1095
plates
4. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Sunni
Mixed Economic
Anointed
Alphabet
5. Israel's two greatest kings.
Executive
Mosque
14
David and Solomon
6. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
AQAP
Iran-Iraq War
57 million square miles
Shiites
7. What two orginizations should've protected us?
700 people
NSA - CIA
North Tower
Damascus
8. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Longitude
Plateau
Soviet Union
Parables
9. Dictator of Libya
King Vishtaspa
Muammar Gaddafi
Judicial
Saleh
10. Old warriors who were based in Afghanistan and Pakistan that had been left over from Mujahadeem - traced back to OBL
Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
UN cease-fire
Al Qaeda Central
11. The year of the first crusade.
Stylus
East Jerusalem
Baghdad
1096
12. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
4 years
1993
Torah
Bedouins
13. This country operates the Suez Canal
Egypt
1096
1964
Messiah
14. A small body of water separated from the larger sea by a barrier of sand or coral reefs. It can either be adjacent to coastline or surrounded by an atoll.
1947
Lifetime
Popular Sovereignty
Lagoon
15. Where was Muhammad born?
Zionist
1978
4 years
Mecca
16. The 4 planes hit the ___ - _____ - and ____.
Satrap
Every Even Year
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Constantine
17. The Byzantine's capital
Suq
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Sunni
Constantinople
18. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
North into South
9
Money and Security
Britain - UN
19. ___ planes bombed city attacks.
Government
Yahweh
Daylight Saving Time
Biased
20. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
Pangaea
22
Ottoman Empire
Democracies
21. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Flood Waters
Jerusalem
Pentagon
October 1884
22. In May 1948 - the last ___ troops left Palestine.
Baghdad
Yitzhak Rabin
British
Five Pillars of Islam
23. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
200 million years
Theodor Herzl
Wheel
Security
24. The UN was founded in....
Iron
Mecca and Yathrib
1945
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
25. How much the people want
Yahweh
Martyr
Demand
Anwar Sadat
26. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
632
Oasis
Iranian Plateau
Menorah
27. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
Democracies
UN cease-fire
75
Baghdad
28. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
9 years
GCC - Saleh
Partition - 2
Ottoman Empire
29. Israel is about the size of what state?
American Troops
United - Beliefs
nonbeliever tax
New Jersey
30. The USA should care because until peace is achieved - the USA is appeared _______.
UN
Sueing
11
Biased
31. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
1973
Democracies
Baghdad
70%
32. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
PLO
Mesa
federalism
33. The tower outside the mosque to call people to prayer.
British
Minaret
1776
Greenwich - England
34. Hatred to Jews
Intifada
1776
De Juro
Anti-Semitism
35. When are federal elections held?
Arab
Jerusalem
Every Even Year
Southwest Asia
36. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
Turkey and Iran
Iran-Iraq War
1967
1917
37. Current Head of Al Qaeda
Baghdad
Al Zawahiri
Recruiter and Propagandist
US
38. Zoraster believed that the world was this.
1/3
Recruiter and Propagandist
Battleground between Good and Evil
Three Weeks
39. PLO
Palestine Liberation Organization
Jesus
Alexander of Macedonia
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
40. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
Harry Truman
Sunni
Ring of Fire
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
41. Al qaeda was formed by..
Continental Divide
Bin Laden
Kaaba
1803
42. Approx this many Jews died in the holocaust.
Yitzhak Rabin
Six Million
Carriers of Civilization
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
43. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?
Refugees
Saleh
9 years
Jesus
44. A market economy is controlled by this.
Supply and Demand
equilibrium price
Mongols
Mecca
45. NATO stands for...
Zendavesta
Balfour Declaration
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Cell
46. People who flee their homeland to seek safety somewhere else.
69
Refugees
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
occupied territories
47. OPEC stopped sending the US oil during this war.
700 people
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
9
plates
48. Qu'ran literally means this.
Water
Recitation
Palestine Autonomy Plan
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
49. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
1949
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Islam
1993
50. What was the single-continent called?
1987
Ziggurat
Pangaea
Shaking