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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many years do you have to live in the US to be a president?
Lagoon
14
Judaism
Greeks
2. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?
International Date Line
Baghdad
700 people
Cancer
3. How can president check congress?
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Veto
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Arab
4. Known as 'The Prophet'
Muhammad
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Welfare State
5. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
30
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
The Great Compromise
Soviet Union
6. 1st caliph after Muhammad
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Abu Bakar
Hulagu
7. After the first war in Israel - ____ controlled the West Bank - and ___ controlled the Gaza Strip.
Jordan and Egypt
Mesa
Globalization
24
8. Marketplace
Suq
Supply and Demand
Yitzhak Rabin
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
9. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Greeks
Yemen
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Inspire
10. Palestine is important to Christians for what reason?
700 people
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Pull apart and form rifts
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
11. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
occupied territories
Koran
NYPD
De Juro
12. The Abbassid empire built these.
Veto
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Zendavesta
Demand
13. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?
Drone
1096
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Judicial Review
14. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Kibbutzim
Istanbul
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Sea Routes
15. The 1993 bombing plan injured approx. _____ people.
1000
Likud Party
Judicial Review
Iranian Plateau
16. Capital for the Abbasids
24
Baghdad
Government
Cracks in the Mantle
17. Belief in One God
Department of Homeland Security
NYPD
Monotheistic
Eastern Orthodox Church
18. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.
Gap between Rich and Poor
Refugees - oil
Canyon
plates
19. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Arabs
De Juro
10
Strait
20. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Western Isle
Byzantine
International Meridian Conference
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
21. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Yahweh
Longitude
Limited Government
Britain - UN
22. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.
Hitties
Baghdad
Limited Government
Roads
23. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?
Messiah
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Peninsula
Kuwait
24. In this year - the Yom Kippur war was fought.
Drip Irrigation
1 year
35
1973
25. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
OPEC
Carriers of Civilization
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Mecca and Yathrib
26. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Baghdad
Polytheistic
Anatolian
Byzantine
27. The year the mongols came to power.
19
Preemptive Strike
1258
Good and Evil
28. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy
Labor Party
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
International Trade
Germany
29. This country operates the Suez Canal
Recitation
Veto
Egypt
Cult of Personality
30. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
30
British
15
Palestine Liberation Organization
31. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Saleh
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Separation of Powers
19
32. The length of a senator's term
6
6 years
Millet
Germany
33. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Jesus
Police
Five Pillars of Islam
1978
34. A holy war
Crusade
Impeach+Override Veto
80%
Balfour Declaration
35. 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.
Yom Kippur
Totalitarion
360
Epic of Gilgamesh
36. Muhammad's wife - who inspired him to begin telling people about Islam.
Few Natural Barriers
Khadija
World Trade Centers
Soviet Union
37. How much one buisiness/company has
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Supply
Cell
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
38. Intifada literally means...
Moses
Judicial Review
Babylonians
Shaking
39. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
20 provinces
British
Recitation
40. PLO
Khartoum - Sudan
Khan
PLO
Palestine Liberation Organization
41. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Umayyad
24 - midnight
Palestine Liberation Organization
Israel
42. What are the 6 constituional laws?
Continents
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Prime Meridian
Shanksville
43. The capital for the Umayyads
Eyes and ears of the king
bicameral
Damascus
Pull apart and form rifts
44. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?
Equator
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Parables
2014
45. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?
Security
18
Refugees - oil
Judicial Review
46. We care because we have gotten threats from AQAP - and even acts such as these 2 terror attacks.
Martyrs
Battleground between Good and Evil
Turkey and Iran
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
47. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
Ferdinand de Lesseps
1/5
Steel doors
Israel
48. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
Diaspora
Revolution
1.2 billion
Jews and Arabs
49. Where did the first civilization in the middle east originate?
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
desert
1258
Leon Panetta
50. Baghdad literally means this.
15
God-given
Judicial Review
Drip Irrigation