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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Umayyad
Recruiter and Propagandist
Bedouins
1967
2. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Flood Waters
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Pangaea
Bin Laden
3. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
Parables
Judicial Review
AQAP
Sueing
4. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Demand
Zendavesta
Socialism
5. NATO
Strait
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Shanksville
Six Million
6. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Greeks
Ramadan
East Jerusalem
7. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Peninsula
In the atlantic - near iceland
Tropic
Khadija
8. What year did the Jews revolt against roman rule?
Germany
14
A.D. 70
Yahweh
9. The world' largest single Muslim community is here.
Pentagon
75
Ten Commandments
Indonesia
10. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.
Refugees
Inspire
75
American Troops
11. There are __ security council members on the UN.
15
Lagoon
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Biased
12. Halfway point around the earth - where one day ends and a new day begins.
The Great Compromise
Germany
International Date Line
Republic
13. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
Preemptive Strike
Bethlehem
1869
capitalism - global
14. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
8
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Abu Bakar
41 - 25
15. Belief on more than one god
Popular Sovereignty
Khadija
Polytheistic
Monarchy
16. Sumerians wrote on ____ _____.
Limited Government
Continental drift
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Clay Tablets
17. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
Sephardim
Revolution
West Bank
Shiites
18. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
Water
West Bank
750
1973
19. What killed Al Awlaki?
Drone
Gospels
Judaism
1964
20. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Deserts
Turkey
Island
Desert Storm
21. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Southern Yemen
Military commisions act
Wheel
Khan
22. How many countries are in the middle east?
19
Koran
Roman
Europe and Asia
23. First Prime Minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Self Immolation
Arab
De Juro
24. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Epic of Gilgamesh
Anarchy
Pangaea
Law and Government
25. Approx how many people live in the middle east?
HImalayas
350 million
Karl Marx
Water
26. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
Every Even Year
Germany
19
75
27. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.
Reef
1945
11
20 provinces
28. How many justices are there?
9
Saleh
Water
Taxes
29. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
City of the Prophet
Byzantine
Oslo Accords
35
30. What 3 main bodies of water is the Arabian Peninsula?
PLO
30
1964
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
31. Became Israel's prime minister after Yitzhak Rabin got shot.
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
1/3
nonbeliever tax
Shimon Peres
32. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
Golan Heights
Tyranny
Constantinople
Head Waters
33. Struggle in God's service
Gap between Rich and Poor
Jihad
Gospels
Deserts
34. Another word to call Longitude
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Ramadan
Meridian
Yassir Arafat
35. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
The Great Compromise
Jihad
Africa - Asia - and Europe
De Facto
36. Al qaeda was formed by..
Boko Haram
Jihad
Bin Laden
United Nations
37. Supporter of a Homeland for the Jews in the area of Palestine. Movement began in the 1800's.
Zionist
1095
Palestine Liberation Organization
Government
38. In this year - the 6 day war was fought with 6 countries.
Western Isle
1978
1967
11
39. The year the Seljuks seized Baghdad.
24
Mongols
1058
Inspire
40. Supporter of a Homeland for the Jews in the area of Palestine. Movement began in the 1800's.
1258
Zionist
Every Even Year
Constantinople
41. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Ali
SAudia Arabi
Supply and Demand
Europe and Asia
42. The two leading towns in the Arabian Penninsula at the time of Muhammad
De Facto
Boko Haram
Mecca and Yathrib
Scarcity
43. Capital for the Mongols
1803
Baghdad
1973
Islam
44. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
All-Powerful
Kaaba
De Facto
Archipelago
45. Al quaeda means...
Minaret
Shiites
The Base
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
46. A huge - many tiered temple.
Ziggurat
Deserts
Monotheistic
GCC - Saleh
47. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
Arab Culture
bankrupt
De Juro
desert
48. The PLO leader
UN
1187
Yassir Arafat
15
49. NATO was founded in.....
630
Karl Marx
1949
desert
50. A triangular-shaped land found at the mouth of some large rivers. So much soil is transported by the river that the coastal waters cannot wash it all away.
Moses
Delta
Intifada
Boko Haram