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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Religious and moral laws






2. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.






3. Capital for the Abbasids






4. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?






5. Darius divided his empire into __ _____.






6. The sumerians set up this based on the number __.






7. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?






8. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government






9. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected






10. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?






11. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?






12. Muslim Fighter






13. Israel's two greatest kings.






14. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?






15. This case determined Judicial Review.






16. The two leading towns in the Arabian Penninsula at the time of Muhammad






17. A revolutionary group of young army officers






18. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?






19. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?






20. AQ prefers more ___ territories.






21. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.






22. ___ planes bombed city attacks.






23. The day Israel is officially formed






24. The architect for the Suez Canal






25. The year the Seljuks seized Baghdad.






26. The first civilization in the Middle East.






27. The year the mongols came to power.






28. The conference also voted to adopt a universal world day and a ___-hour clock - based on _______ at the Greenwich meridian.






29. Approx how many people live in the middle east?






30. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?






31. What 3 main bodies of water is the Arabian Peninsula?






32. Helped the jews escape from egypt






33. NATO was founded in.....






34. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?






35. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.






36. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.






37. Capital for the Crusaders






38. Maghreb comes from an Arab term meaning this.






39. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.






40. The court is a part of what location of power?






41. How many justices are there?






42. The purpose of al qaeda was to get _____ ____ out of middle east.






43. What killed Al Awlaki?






44. NATO was founded in.....






45. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.






46. Uprising of Palestines






47. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth






48. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.






49. The Byzantine's capital






50. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.