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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
Oslo Accords
GCC - Saleh
Mongols
In the atlantic - near iceland
2. What are the length of congress's terms?
Reef
Zionist
Western Isle
2 years
3. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...
Zionist
Alfred Wegener
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Jihad
4. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
Ahriman
1978
OPEC
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
5. Jews from Eastern and Central Europe
Yemen
1967
Ashkenazim
Yassir Arafat
6. PLO stands for..
6 years
Palestine Liberation Organization
Balfour Declaration
41 - 25
7. The location Al Awlaki was killed was ______ _______ from ______.
8 kilometers from Sana
Equator
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Hemisphere
8. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Three Weeks
reprisals
1947
9. Baghdad literally means this.
435
Equator
God-given
Arab Spring
10. The court is a part of what location of power?
22
Executive
Mantle
Judicial
11. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
federalism
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Oasis
Mongols
12. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
Eyes and ears of the king
Cuneiform
Quraysh
1095
13. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state led to Israel returning WHAT -and to Egypt in return for diplomatic relations?
Judaism
Sinai Peninsula
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Balfour Declaration
14. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Obama - Panetta
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Oil
Southwest Asia
15. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Many Gods
Five Pillars of Islam
Continental drift
Caliph
16. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
Saladin
Flood Waters
Pull apart and form rifts
360
17. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
Revolution
latin
NSA - CIA
Alexander of Macedonia
18. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Law and Government
Sephardim
Scribes
Anwar Sadat
19. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Koran
Martyrs
6 months
20. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
UN cease-fire
Kuwait
Cuneiform
Deserts
21. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Executive
Intifada
Every Even Year
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
22. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
Strait
desert
Young Turks
Judicial Review
23. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.
Supply and Demand
Communism
350000
Moses
24. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
Ahura Mazda
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Totalitarion
25. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Russia
Mustafa Kemal
Zoraster
Cape
26. In this year - the 6 day war was fought with 6 countries.
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Police
Dictatorship
1967
27. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
24
22
435
28. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
1947
Jesus
PLO
Ferdinand de Lesseps
29. The Abbassid empire built these.
capitalism - global
350000
equilibrium price
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
30. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
Reef
Drip Irrigation
Theodor Herzl
57 million square miles
31. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.
Canaan
1258
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Benjamin Netanyahu
32. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
Judaism
Mecca and Yathrib
Islam
Refugees
33. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Scarcity
The Oslo Peace Accord
1964
34. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
Persian And Byzantine
Equator
Moses
Benjamin Netanyahu
35. When are federal elections held?
Every Even Year
11
Taxes
Arab
36. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
1776
Elevation
Glacier
Palestine Liberation Organization
37. President Bush said we would do what to the terrorists?
Legislative
Zoraster
435
Capture
38. The zero point
Sunni
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Lebanon
British
39. OPEC stopped sending the US oil during this war.
A.D. 70
Gabriel
1948
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
40. This document said that the congress will have 2 houses - one based on Population and one based on equality.
Six Million
Parables
The Great Compromise
80%
41. All member of the __ are parties to the statute that established the International Court of Justice or World Culture
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Khan
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
UN
42. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Damascus
Tropic
1978
75
43. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Torah
Prime Meridian
Menorah
Egypt
44. The egyptian leader that signed the Camp David Accords
Meridian
Anwar Sadat
Mujahideen
Mecca
45. Old warriors who were based in Afghanistan and Pakistan that had been left over from Mujahadeem - traced back to OBL
Al Qaeda Central
Zendavesta
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Sephardim
46. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
Camp David Accords
1947
equilibrium price
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
47. One anointed by God
Security
Irrigation Systems
Messiah
Yemen
48. To wear the other side down
Attrition
Greenwich - England
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Sunni
49. PLO stands for..
Britain - UN
Revolution
Palestine Liberation Organization
Roads
50. Only Power is from the people
Popular Sovereignty
Communism
15
Stylus