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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
Aristocracy
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Lebanon
30
2. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.
Inspire
Kaaba
Britain
Southern Yemen
3. The PLO leader
Masada
Sumer
West Bank
Yassir Arafat
4. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?
Deserts
1187
Western and Northern
Cancer
5. The Chief features of the Maghreb are these landscapes.
Mixed Economy Systems
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
The Base
Cell
6. Where were the protestors in New York arrested?
Five Pillars of Islam
Brookland Bridge
1993
Arabs
7. Less than __ percent of the land receives enough water to make farming possible.
The Western Wall
Executive
Muhammad Ali
10
8. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
Yassir Arafat
18%
United - Beliefs
Ali
9. Kept the temple records
24
Mecca and Yathrib
Reef
Scribes
10. OPEC
Cancer
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Equator
11. Where do you have to be born to be the President?
Four
intifada
USA
55% - 45%
12. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.
Zionism
Bay
Estuary
Constantine
13. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
Dictatorship
Egypt
reprisals
Democratic Republic
14. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
6
Soviet Union
Steel doors
15. The founder of Zionism
Theodor Herzl
1000
20 provinces
75
16. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Democracies
Cuneiform
Judaism
17. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)
Ashkenazim
Abu Bakar
Inspire
Archipelago
18. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
Islam
Yitzhak Rabin
1187
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
19. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
All-Powerful
Russia
Gap between Rich and Poor
20. In 1993 - hopes for peace revived when Israel and the PLO agreed to this accords.
Oslo Accords
1964
Parables
350000
21. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.
Welfare State
Arab Spring
1987
20 provinces
22. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Britain - UN
Irrigation Systems
Six Million
Plateau
23. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
8
1/3
Recitation
24. Israel is about the size of what state?
Socialism
New Jersey
Coinage
Battleground between Good and Evil
25. PLO stands for..
Gaza Strip and West Bank
75
Palestine Liberation Organization
Bouazizi
26. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.
Taxes
USA
City of the Prophet
Shanksville
27. What does czar/czarina mean?
5
Factors of Production
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Isthmus
28. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
Royal Greenwich Observatory
temperates
Mandate
anti-Semitism
29. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.
Hitties
435
Priests
Inspire
30. The goal of this group was to end the power of western oil companies over oil prices.
Oasis
OPEC
4 years
Inspire
31. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Oasis
Equator
1187
32. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....
Palestine Liberation Organization
Fjord
Diaspora
Khartoum - Sudan
33. The goal of this group was to end the power of western oil companies over oil prices.
OPEC
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Security
Ottoman Empire
34. The year the suez canal opened
Judaism
1869
Polytheistic
Martyrs
35. OBL was captured when?
May 2011
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Ocean Currents
Pope
36. To wear the other side down
Attrition
Republic
Judaism
International Trade
37. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Saudi Arabia
Anarchy
Supply and Demand
Polytheistic
38. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
15
Bedouins
Clay Tablets
Monotheistic
39. The continents slowly moving across the melted rock is called
Continental drift
15
Pakistan and Afghanistan
US - Russia - UK - France - China
40. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.
Damascus
Plateau
Flood Waters
Oslo Accords
41. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
20 provinces
NYPD
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Monotheistic
42. Allows to tap on phones
Western and Northern
Clay Tablets
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
USA Patriot ACt
43. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
Epic of Gilgamesh
1947
2 billion
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
44. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?
Alfred Wegener
Suq
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Yahweh
45. What is very scarce in the Middle east?
Bethlehem
SAudia Arabi
Water
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
46. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.
1803
Strait
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Mixed Economic
47. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
25
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
1/3
plates
48. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Many Gods
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Daylight Saving Time
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
49. Instead of 1 - a small group
Factors of Production
Egypt - Suez Canal
May 14 - 1948
Oligarchy
50. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Al Zawahiri
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Mumbai
Prime Meridian