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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. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)






2. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.






3. The PLO leader






4. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?






5. The Chief features of the Maghreb are these landscapes.






6. Where were the protestors in New York arrested?






7. Less than __ percent of the land receives enough water to make farming possible.






8. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?






9. Kept the temple records






10. OPEC






11. Where do you have to be born to be the President?






12. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.






13. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown






14. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)






15. The founder of Zionism






16. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.






17. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)






18. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.






19. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?






20. In 1993 - hopes for peace revived when Israel and the PLO agreed to this accords.






21. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.






22. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.






23. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?






24. Israel is about the size of what state?






25. PLO stands for..






26. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.






27. What does czar/czarina mean?






28. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.






29. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.






30. The goal of this group was to end the power of western oil companies over oil prices.






31. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.






32. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....






33. The goal of this group was to end the power of western oil companies over oil prices.






34. The year the suez canal opened






35. OBL was captured when?






36. To wear the other side down






37. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government






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






39. The continents slowly moving across the melted rock is called






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.






41. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?






42. Allows to tap on phones






43. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?






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?






45. What is very scarce in the Middle east?






46. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.






47. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.






48. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.






49. Instead of 1 - a small group






50. Is the measuring point for Longitude