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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?
International Date Line
bankrupt
Few Natural Barriers
Hulagu
2. The year the mongols came to power.
Factors of Production
1258
1803
Marbury v. Madison
3. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
360
Government
Alfred Wegener
Lebanon
4. Under the Oslo Accords - Israel and the PLO said they would _____ ____ ___.
Department of Homeland Security
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
recognize each other
Police
5. The year the suez canal opened
Ziggurat
Gaza Strip and West Bank
1869
Balfour Declaration
6. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.
Hajj
A.D. 70
55% - 45%
Seljuks
7. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?
164
22
350000
1949
8. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.
Muammar Gaddafi
AQAP
1 - General Assembly
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
9. What killed Al Awlaki?
Drone
Impeach president and veto president's veto
NYPD
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
10. What are the length of congress's terms?
2 years
Young Turks
Supply and Demand
Elevation
11. Father of the Church
Fertile Crescent
Prophets
Northern
Pope
12. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
4 years
Germany
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Democracies
13. The UN's purpose was to...
Menorah
resolve conflict
Istanbul
bicameral
14. In WWI - the ottoman empire sided with ____.
Soviet Union
19
Germany
Arab
15. How deep does earth's crust go?
Israel
David and Solomon
Brookland Bridge
6-25 miles
16. AQ wants the west to go ___
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
bankrupt
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Ungoverned
17. This flourished under Roman rule.
Trade
Hajj
Kuwait
Recruiter and Propagandist
18. Hatred to Jews
Preemptive Strike
PLO
Anti-Semitism
Ashkenazim
19. The capital for the Umayyads
Peninsula
anti-Semitism
Damascus
Diaspora
20. Successor to the Prophet
Judaism
Jesus
Judicial Review
Caliph
21. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.
Theodor Herzl
UN cease-fire
Socialism
55% - 45%
22. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Yassir Arafat
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Hajj
435
23. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Written Language
equilibrium price
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Delta
24. The day Israel is officially formed
Monotheistic
May 14 - 1948
Anti-Semitism
20%
25. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Head Waters
Harry Truman
1967
26. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Eyes and ears of the king
Obama - Panetta
Hulagu
27. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
60 minutes
1 - General Assembly
International Date Line
Peninsula
28. How much the people want
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Demand
Millet
Volcano
29. Jesus was born here
80%
Bethlehem
NSA - CIA
Mongols
30. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.
5 million
Constantine
Obama - Panetta
Oasis
31. How many representatives are there?
Balfour Declaration
nonbeliever tax
435
bankrupt
32. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
East Jerusalem
King Vishtaspa
1/5
1948
33. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?
Republic
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
OPEC
pay more money
34. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
Anarchy
Legislative
Theodor Herzl
Zendavesta
35. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents
De Juro
Traditional
Ring of Fire
TSA
36. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
Longitude
1/5
Deserts
capitalism - global
37. Upper river springs - steams - and tributaries. These can refer to continental divides or watersheds. Watershed also describes a region drained by a river.
United Nations
John Marshal
Head Waters
Lifetime
38. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
Mixed Economic
Oasis
2 billion
Britain - UN
39. How many plates are known?
Prime Meridian
18
Mandate
Gap between Rich and Poor
40. This church was centered in Rome
Kuwait
1967
Yassir Arafat
Roman Catholic Church
41. Each degree is divided into ___ ______.
60 minutes
Kuwait
8
East Jerusalem
42. A body of land completely surrounded by water. It is smaller than a continent but larger than a cay - a key - or certainly a large rock.
Muhammad Ali
55% - 45%
Supply
Island
43. Grievences of the middle east
Benjamin Netanyahu
Constantine
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Zionism
44. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?
1848
Islam
Priests
80%
45. Pilgrimage to Mecca
Masada
Bay
Hajj
1095
46. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
1917
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
All-Powerful
Constantinople
47. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Ali
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
David Ben-Gurion
Theodor Herzl
48. The last stand for the Jews - it was when the Romans were attacking - and they committed suicide because they didn't want to give up their freedom.
1967
Egypt
Balfour Declaration
Masada
49. Israel's two greatest kings.
David and Solomon
Anatolian Plateau
Canyon
Flood Waters
50. The PLO leader
bankrupt
Coinage
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Yassir Arafat