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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A government in which is ruled by a monarch - such as a king or a queen (it's ruled by 1)
Monarchy
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Cracks in the Mantle
Diaspora
2. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
Drone
Boko Haram
Ocean Currents
bicameral
3. How many muslims are their worldwide?
700 people
1 - General Assembly
Eastern Orthodox Church
1.2 billion
4. Dictator of Libya
Ashkenazim
Iron
Anointed
Muammar Gaddafi
5. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?
Written Language
De Juro
Judicial Review
9 years
6. The sumerians set up this based on the number __.
Measurment - 60
Canaan
Kuwait
24 - midnight
7. Mesopotamia literally means...
Land between the rivers
Soviet Union
Istanbul
20 provinces
8. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Refugees - oil
2 billion
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
1917
9. NATO
Golan Heights
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Europe and Asia
In the atlantic - near iceland
10. PLO was founded In what year?
Ocean Currents
Balfour Declaration
Britain - UN
1964
11. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
Istanbul
Water
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Mumbai
12. Israel's two greatest kings.
Anarchy
Young Turks
OPEC
David and Solomon
13. The parliament that rules Israel
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Knesset
PLO
Totalitarion
14. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Indian Ocean
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
federalism
1258
15. The sumerians invented these two things.
Ramadan
1993
pursue in self-interest
Sail and Plow
16. Kept the temple records
Scribes
Crusade
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Peninsula
17. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
Eyes and ears of the king
Reef
Torah
Messiah
18. What is the line that divides the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hempishere?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
bicameral
24 - midnight
Equator
19. At the equator - each degree of longitude represents a distance of about ___ miles
69
Kaaba
Bouazizi
Drip Irrigation
20. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
435
Egypt
Recruiter and Propagandist
Atoll
21. How much one buisiness/company has
North Tower
Pentagon
Supply
Martyr
22. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Strait
Judaism
City of the Prophet
Leon Panetta
23. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
Cape
OPEC
Hulagu
Dictatorship
24. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Soviet Union
Atoll
Volcano
Sea Routes
25. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Southwest Asia
1978
Democracies
October 1884
26. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Few Natural Barriers
Coinage
15
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
27. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
200 million years
Cuneiform
Islam
Supply and Demand
28. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
Britain - UN
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Popular Sovereignty
29. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
24
1/5
Eastern and Southern
Masada
30. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil
1/3
Canaan
King Vishtaspa
Capitalism
31. When are federal elections held?
Scribes
Saladin
Every Even Year
Written Language
32. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
The Western Wall
Judaism
Theodor Herzl
North Tower
33. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
6
International Date Line
Ottoman Empire
Ali
34. The first civilization in the Middle East.
Sumer
Zionism
Drip Irrigation
Yitzhak Rabin
35. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.
Stylus
Drip Irrigation
Sueing
Capture
36. How much the people want
Theodor Herzl
Zoraster
Demand
Indonesia
37. Would give palestines self-rule - and uproot Jewish settlements and withdraw Israeli troops from occupied lands.
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
Palestine Autonomy Plan
7
United - Beliefs
38. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
Monotheistic
1776
Veto
Coinage
39. Grievences of the middle east
630
Wheel
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Socialism
40. Latitude is sometimes called this
The Western Wall
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Daylight Saving Time
Parallels
41. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
Continents
55% - 45%
Muammar Gaddafi
Dictatorship
42. 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.
Anatolian Plateau
19
Alphabet
Kaaba
43. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
Turkey
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Jews and Arabs
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
44. What causes volcanoes?
Isthmus
Cracks in the Mantle
Measurment - 60
Archipelago
45. Successor to the Prophet
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Caliph
Legislative
God-given
46. Capital for the Crusaders
Northern
Mecca
Globalization
Baghdad
47. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Masada
Anwar Sadat
9
35
48. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
Lifetime
occupied territories
Islam
The Western Wall
49. The Abbassid empire built these.
Jordan and Egypt
International Date Line
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Canaan
50. What is the length of a president's term?
4 years
1869
occupied territories
David and Solomon