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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The month that all muslims must fast
Ramadan
Theocracy
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
1776
2. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
Arab
1/3
Mountains
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
3. The capital for the Ottomans
Police
The Oslo Peace Accord
Istanbul
Theodor Herzl
4. In the west of the Northern Tier is the ___ ___.
Shaking
Quraysh
Yassir Arafat
Anatolian Plateau
5. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Executive
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
East Jerusalem
6. An example of a monarchy
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Britain
Alfred Wegener
7. This is the holiest sight in Judaism - and is remains of the earliest temples.
Roads
AQAP
Judaism
The Western Wall
8. Al Qaeda was formed in..
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
1989
Baghdad
1917
9. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Mediterranean and Red
SAudia Arabi
Roman Catholic Church
2 years
10. What was the 'invisible hand?'
pursue in self-interest
Ashkenazim
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Cancer
11. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Shiites
Roads
Mujahideen
12. The founder of Zionism
Good and Evil
Obama - Panetta
Theodor Herzl
Recitation
13. Where people elect representatives
Gabriel
Republic
Baghdad
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
14. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Obama - Panetta
6
East Jerusalem
Many Gods
15. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Atoll
TSA
Popular Sovereignty
Anatolian Plateau
16. Water spot in desert
Pull apart and form rifts
Mongols
Oasis
OPEC
17. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Oil
9
Police
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
18. Sharpened Reed
Revolution
Stylus
Cancer
69
19. The movement of Jews to re-establish a home in Palestine
Judaism
Pope
Ramadan
Zionism
20. A vent - or opening in the earth's crust that allows molten lava - gases - and other materials to come out of earth's interior.
Young Turks
Volcano
Baghdad
Parables
21. The most famous leader of the PLO
Polytheistic
Yassir Arafat
1803
Palestine
22. What is the length of a president's term?
Cancer
1187
4 years
Preemptive Strike
23. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
International Date Line
1058
1776
1096
24. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
9 years
Many Gods
Soviet Union
Al Zawahiri
25. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Kibbutzim
Europe and Asia
Intifada
Strait
26. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.
Ramadan
Arab Culture
USA Patriot ACt
intifada
27. The Main idea in a civilization
Written Language
9
360
Stylus
28. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
TSA
British
19
Glacier
29. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Babylonians
35
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
De Juro
30. Half of a sphere
World Trade Centers
Hemisphere
Britain - UN
Sovereign
31. Known as 'The Prophet'
1964
Many Gods
Muhammad
The Base
32. 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.
East Jerusalem
Soviet Union
1993
Cape
33. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?
Parallels
Palestine Autonomy Plan
International Trade
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
34. The Phoenicians developed an ____
20%
Saleh
Alphabet
Oslo Accords
35. Where did the first civilization in the middle east originate?
1/3
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Shiites
Baghdad
36. Jews from Eastern and Central Europe
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Ashkenazim
1948 war
De Juro
37. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
Egypt - Suez Canal
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Mongols
USA
38. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
The Base
Mumbai
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Theocracy
39. The crusadess had a limited effect on the Middle East because the civilization of ___ _____ was less advanced than that of the ______.
Western Europe - Islamic
Communism
Polytheistic
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
40. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
1947
Minaret
New York City
Byzantine
41. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
Southwest Asia
Sea Routes
Martyrs
1917
42. Approx how many people live in the middle east?
May 2011
350 million
Theodor Herzl
bankrupt
43. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.
Taxes
Water
Battleground between Good and Evil
Nomads
44. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
King Hammurabi
North Tower
UN
bankrupt
45. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
City of the Prophet
1453
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Cuneiform
46. Israel Prime minister that was assasinated - and was thought to be the last chance at peace.
Battleground between Good and Evil
1978
recognize each other
Yitzhak Rabin
47. What causes volcanoes?
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
19
Yom Kippur
Cracks in the Mantle
48. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?
Iranian Plateau
PLO
Executive
In the atlantic - near iceland
49. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.
nonbeliever tax
Scarcity
Russia
Theocracy
50. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Continental drift
AQAP
70%
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds