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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pilgrimage to Mecca
Zoraster
Oligarchy
1 year
Hajj
2. Moves the time one hour ahead of Sun time
1058
Yemen
Daylight Saving Time
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
3. In May 1948 - the last ___ troops left Palestine.
British
Weightless Economy
1258
HImalayas
4. Is the measuring point for Longitude
American Troops
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Prime Meridian
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
5. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
Masada
Jews and Arabs
1.2 billion
Anatolian Plateau
6. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.
435
9
Britain - UN
55% - 45%
7. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.
Mecca
Scarcity
Drip Irrigation
Security
8. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
HImalayas
Alexander of Macedonia
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
1973
9. 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?
Supply
Alfred Wegener
Saladin
Minaret
10. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
Ottoman Empire
Arabs
Ahura Mazda
Cracks in the Mantle
11. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
Gap between Rich and Poor
Mountains
Sea Routes
Mesa
12. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
Judicial
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
6
Seljuks
13. Capital for the Seljuk Turks
360
Water
Baghdad
Flood Waters
14. Marketplace
Suq
Monotheistic
1803
Baghdad
15. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
capitalism - global
Supply and Demand
1187
1/3
16. Zoraster believed that the world was this.
8
Battleground between Good and Evil
October 1884
Fertile Crescent
17. PLO
Camp David Accords
6-25 miles
Palestine Liberation Organization
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
18. Landforms with highest elevation
Anatolian
Byzantine
Benjamin Netanyahu
Mountains
19. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.
Khartoum - Sudan
268
Muammar Gaddafi
Polytheistic
20. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Mustafa Kemal
Every Even Year
bicameral
Muhammad Ali
21. What are the length of congress's terms?
Anarchy
Estuary
2 years
Irrigation Systems
22. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
David and Solomon
Hulagu
Balfour Declaration
23. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
8 kilometers from Sana
Britain
Arab
Water
24. The year the ottoman empire fell.
1917
British
1949
41 - 25
25. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
occupied territories
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Arab
26. Short stories with simple lessons
Parables
1947
55% - 45%
Sea Routes
27. Israel is about the size of what state?
New Jersey
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
City of the Prophet
John Marshal
28. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
1947
Kuwait
International Meridian Conference
temperates
29. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Europe and Asia
Pull apart and form rifts
recognize each other
30. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents
Sephardim
Suq
Mixed Economic
Ring of Fire
31. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Cult of Personality
UN
Traditional
32. Religious and moral laws
Mecca and Yathrib
Ten Commandments
Oasis
Jihad
33. 1st caliph after Muhammad
Abu Bakar
Saladin
Benjamin Netanyahu
Anwar Sadat
34. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Kibbutzim
Mustafa Kemal
Battleground between Good and Evil
Britain - UN
35. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Refugees
Europe and Asia
Democracies
Yitzhak Rabin
36. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
King Hammurabi
pay more money
Intifada
37. A vent - or opening in the earth's crust that allows molten lava - gases - and other materials to come out of earth's interior.
Many Gods
New York City
Volcano
Peninsula
38. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
Indian Ocean
The Oslo Peace Accord
Palestine
4 years
39. What year was Marbury v. Madison
1803
Cape
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
1 year
40. The arab world's most poverished country.
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
1917
1917
Yemen
41. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
1258
Shanksville
Longitude
Balfour Declaration
42. OPEC
Balfour Declaration
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Palestine Autonomy Plan
43. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.
Young Turks
Constantine
US
14
44. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Continental drift
Ring of Fire
Yassir Arafat
Military commisions act
45. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?
Biased
Western and Northern
1453
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
46. There are __ security council members on the UN.
Recitation
15
De Facto
October 1884
47. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Hellenistic
Strait
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
48. The most famous leader of the PLO
350000
British
Ahura Mazda
Yassir Arafat
49. Father of the Church
Shaking
Pope
Iranian Plateau
Theocracy
50. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
New York City
Satrap
69
1803