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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • 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. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.






2. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?






3. According to Zoraster - the forces of evil were led by this person.






4. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.






5. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.






6. Israel's capital






7. The emperor of the large Persian empire in about 500 B.C.






8. Wrote Communist Manifesto






9. The purpose of al qaeda was to get _____ ____ out of middle east.






10. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?






11. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?






12. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?






13. In this year - the Balfour Declaration was made.






14. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.






15. Capital for the Crusaders






16. What was the name of the tax that jews+christians had to pay? (A big reason why they converted to Islam)






17. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth






18. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula






19. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.






20. Defined 'unlawful attacks'






21. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.






22. How many muslims are their worldwide?






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






24. A point of land extending into the sea. It is usually smaller than a peninsula - mountainous ones are sometimes called a promontory or a headline.






25. In which two hemispheres is Australia located?






26. The year the suez canal opened






27. The court is a part of what location of power?






28. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______






29. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?






30. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?






31. Current Head of Al Qaeda






32. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?






33. Factors 'on the ground'






34. The resources necessary to produce goods and servaces






35. The center of conflict between Jews and Arabs.






36. What does czar/czarina mean?






37. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.






38. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______






39. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.






40. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.






41. What is the length of the supreme court's rule?






42. What fraction of the population of Yemen in going hungry?






43. Muhammad died in this year.






44. Fertile Desert Area that has enough water to support plant and animal life






45. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.






46. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.






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






48. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles






49. Defined 'unlawful attacks'






50. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.