JEOPARDY: MIDDLE EAST REVIEW

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Chart Questions

Physical : 1 Question:

How does the Mediterranean coast differ from other areas of Southwest Asia?

Answer:climate is suitable for

growing crops

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Physical : 2 Question:

What land feature in the Middle East is described as the “place where no one comes out.”

Answer:Rub al Khali Desert

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Physical : 3 Question:

Give 2 of the three descriptors of a salt flat

Answer:almost uninhabitedExtremely hotWindy and dry

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Physical : 4 Question:

Name 2 of the three risks of transporting crude oil?

Answer:Collisions of tankersOil tankers run

agroundLeaks in pipelines

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Physical : 5 Question:

What is the purpose of a refinery?

Answer:convert crude oil into

useful products

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Human 1 : 1 Question:

What term describes an area in the desert where water is found?

Answer:oasis

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Human 1 : 2 Question:

What is the name of the founder of Islam?

Answer:Muhammad

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Human 1 : 3 Question:

What is the name of the movement to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

Answer:Zionism

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Human 1 : 4 Question:

What is the holy city to which all Muslims hope to make a pilgrimage?

Answer:Mecca

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Human 1 : 5 Question:

Name 3 of the 5 pillars of Islam.

Answer:fastingPrayerFaithPilgrimageCharity

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Human 2 : 1 Question:

What is the purpose of OPEC?

Answer:control the worldwide

prices of oil

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Human 2 : 2 Question:

What is the name for the cite where Muslims believe Muhammad rose to heaven?

Answer:Dome of the Rock

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Human 2 : 3 Question:

What is the holiest Jewish site in Jerusalem?

Answer:Western Wall (Wailing

Wall)

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Human 2 : 4 Question:

What organization was created to regain land currently under Israeli control for the Palestinian Arabs?

Answer:Palestine Liberation

Organization (PLO)

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Human 2 : 5 Question:

What group is characterized as being powerful in Afghanistan, supporting terrorism, and imposing strict laws on the behavior of people?

Answer:Taliban

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Human 3 : 1 Question:

What is necessary for large-scale farming to take place in the Middle East?

Answer:Dams and irrigation

systems

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Human 3 : 2 Question:

What is the name for a resource that is so valuable that nations will go to war to ensure its supply?

Answer:strategic commodity

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Human 3 : 3 Question:

What is the name for a Muslim place of worship?

Answer:mosque

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Human 3 : 4 Question:

What is the lowest place on the exposed crust of the earth?

Answer:The Dead Sea

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Human 3 : 5 Question:

Which of the following do foreign workers in the Middle East not experience?○ Living in special

districts○ Receiving late to no

wages○ Feeling welcomed○ Misunderstandings

over customs

Answer:feeling welcomed

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Issues : 1 Question:

After the war during 19481949, who fled what is now Israel?

Answer:Palestinians

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Issues : 2 Question:

Which ethnic group tried (unsuccessfully) to establish a nation since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after WWI?

Answer:Kurds

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Issues : 3 Question:

What organization was created with the intention of regaining land on the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinian Arabs?

Answer:PLO

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Issues : 4 Question:

Which group of people consider themselves a stateless nation since the nation of Israel was created?

Answer:Palestinians

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Issues : 5 Question:

What is the name for the type of Government controlled by religious leaders who rely on religious law?

Answer:theocratic

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Random 1 : 1 Question:

About 83% of all Muslims belong to the branch known as what?

Answer:Sunni

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Random 1 : 2 Question:

What is the name of the hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee?

Answer:Golan Heights

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Random 1 : 3 Question:

What branch of Muslims live mostly in Iran and parts of Iraq and Afghanistan?

Answer:Shi’ite

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Random 1 : 4 Question:

The following all describe what river?○ Flows through parts

of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

○ Valleys are well suited for agriculture

○ Ancient civilizations lived on its banks

Answer:Euphrates

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Random 1 : 5 Question:

What is the name for foreign, mostly unskilled, laborers brought to the Middle East to fill jobs?

Answer:Guest Workers

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Random 2 : 1 Question:

What organization helps members nations in the export of oil?

Answer:OPEC

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Random 2 : 2 Question:

What is the name of the strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River?

Answer:West Bank

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Random 2 : 3 Question:

What was the name of the government that controlled every aspect of life in Afghanistan until 2002?

Answer:Taliban

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Random 2 : 4 Question:

What is the name for a nation of people who do not have land to legally occupy?

Answer:stateless nation

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Random 2 : 5 Question:

Religious sites considered holy by both Muslims and Jews have resulted in fighting in which Middle Eastern city?

Answer:Jerusalem

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Which region of the world produces the least amount of Petroleum?

How many barrels of petroleum are produced per day by Asia** and Oceania?

Which region of the consumes the most amount of Petroleum?