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Burkina Faso means
The second most important river in Russia is the
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The second most important river in Russia is the
Ural River
Volga River
Caspian River
Don River
2
Burkina Faso means
“Rising sun”
“Land of upright men
“Land of many faces”
“Stand up and be counted”
3
Elephants trainers in Thailand are called
Elephant tamers
Eletrainers
Mahouts
Khmer Rouge
4
The term glasnost means
“Closed system”
“Restructuring”
“Capitalism”
“Openness”
5
The narrow, arid area of southern Israel bordering the Mediterranean Sea that Israel captured
During the 6-Day War but later turned to the Palestians is
Tyre
The Gaza Strip
Goshen
6
The vast grasslands of Russia in the Black Earth region are the
Plains
Prairies
Steppes
Savannas
7
ancient empire controlled the gold trade on the trade routes across the Sahel from the 4-13cent
Ghana
Greek
Roman
Egyptian
8
The low Aïr Mountains in the northern part of Niger are called the
“Oasis in the desert”
“Ice cube of the desert”
“Deep freeze of the big heat”
“Switzerland of the desert”
9
When a missionary goes to a country and gets a real job so he can minister to the natives he
Is engaging in job hopping
Is engaging in Tent Making
Is engaging in full-time service
Is engaging in Espionage
10
Several African villages whose inhabitants have a common ancestor from what is called an
Commune
Family
Tribe
Clan
11
What is the largest group of islands called?
Paradise
Atoll
Nirvana
Archipelago
12
What is the most important river in India?
Brahmaputra
Ganges
Indus
Hindu Kush
13
What is the worlds largest atoll?
Nauru
Kiribati
Guadalcanal
Kwajalein
14
Jumbucks is the Australian term for
Cattle
Horses
Sheep
Kangaroos
15
Which islands history includes the stories of the HMS Bounty?
Pitcairn Island
Tuvalu
Tonga
Easter Island
16
Sierra Leone means
“Lionhearted”
“Lion King”
“Line of seriousness”
“Lion Mountains”
17
The Largest of the Solomon Islands is
Guadalcanal
Bougainville
New Britain
Kwajalein
18
Most Pakistanis are
Hindus
Sikhs
Muslims
Buddhists
19
From which country do most of the immigrants to Southeast Asia come?
China
Brazil
Australia
The United States
20
Brown coal is called
Ore
Lignite
Aquifer
Bauxite
21
Ceremonies that Africans go through to mark their official transition from child->adulthood are
Household chores
Last rites
Religious passages
Initiation rites
22
Islam’s most holy shrine, located at Mecca, is the
Ka’bah
Hajj
Qur’an or Koran
Hegira
23
Where Communist Vietnamese force defeat French forces, to end French colonialism in Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi
Vientiane
Saigon
24
The small part of Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula is called
Palestine
Thrace
Byzantium
Thrice
25
Largest country in sub-Saharan Africa and the third largest on the continent is
Nigeria
The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gambia
Cameroon
26
structure that was made in the 14-17centuries to protect China from the Mongols & Turkic tribes
DMZ
Forbidden City
Great Wall
Hadrian’s Wall
27
Which country of Northern Africa has coasts on both the Atlantic Ocean & the Mediterranean Sea?
Algeria
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
28
The legislative branch of Russia’s national government is the
Parliament Assembly
Congress
Federation Assembly
Constituent Assembly
29
The word pacific means
“Harsh”
“Peaceful”
“Turbulent”
“Paradise”
30
The rigorous policy of racial separation practiced in South Africa fromv1948-1997 was called
Apartheid
Genocide
Cataracts
Escarpment
31
What group consists of priests and teachers in the Indian caste system?
Vaisyas
Brahmins
Karmas
Untouchables
32
About 92% of the people in China are part of the ethnic group known as the
Chin
Matsui
Han
Chang
33
Dried coconut meat, a major export for many of the islands of Oceania, is called
Papaya
Sirloin
Copra
Taro
34
The process where the grasses & trees of an area dry out and are replaced by dry wilderness is
Encroachment
Desertification
The dry season
Desalinization
35
The first modern missionary to South Asia was
St. Thomas
William Carey
Francis Xavier
Hudson Taylor
36
What is the acceptance and adoption of a foreign people’s values and lifestyles?
Acculturation
Compromise
Sociology
Social Studies
37
The title “Father of Modern Turkey” is generally attributed to
Mahmoud Abbas
Alexander the Great
Yasser Arafat
Kemal Ataürk
38
The sparsely populated interior of Australia is known as the
Outback
Great Artesian Basin
Low Country
Highlands
39
Zarathustra founded which Persian religion?
Zoroastrianism
Sufism
Baha’ism
Wahhabism
40
The leader of Tibetan Buddhism is called the
Samurai
Kuomintang
Red Guard
Dalai Lama
41
Mount Everest is in
India
Nepal
Bhutan
Tibet
42
White desert nomads who live in Niger are called
Tibestis
Berbers
Songhais
Tuaregs
43
What are isolated underwater volcanoes called?
Nunataks
Bubblers
Seamounts
Sea stacks
44
The Moors have an ancestry of mixed
Arab and Berber
Dutch and Berber
French and Arab
British and Arab
45
What is the name of the place where the borders of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand meet?
“Rim of Fire”
“Three Corners”
“Golden Triangle”
“Golden Arches”
46
Which country became the major battleground between Cold Was superpowers in sub-Saharan Africa?
South Africa
Angola
Kenya
Zimbabwe
47
English explorer who sailed around Antarctica in 1773 searching for a fabled southern continent
James Cook
Jacques Cousteau
Carsten Borchgrevink
Ronald Amundsen
48
Which student of the ocean used his knowledge and theories to rescue a lost ship and its crew?
Matthew Maury
James Cook
Ernest Shackleton
Robert Scott
49
New Zealand’s highest mountain is
Mount Cook
Ayers Rock
The Western Plateau
Mount Kosciuszko
50
The area of low hills in Israel between the Plain of Philistia & the Lebanese Mounts. is called
Pontic Hills
Hills of Jezreel
Shephelah
Syrian Highlands
51
What is the oldest European colony in Asia, founded by the Portuguese in 1557?
Taipei
Hong Kong
Macau
Beijing
52
What is the open water between ice floes called?
A lead
Fales
An ice shelf
A trench
53
Name of the guerrilla group that played in conquering South Vietnam for the communists?
Khmer Rouge
Viet Cong
Vietminh
Vietnamese Red Army
54
The region of Western Africa along the curving eastern portion was once called the
Gold Coast
Bright of Benin
Slave Coast
Volta Coast
55
Which country is the financial and high-tech hub of Southeast Asia
Philippines
Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
56
Instead of a Vice President, Russia’s executive branch has a
Provost
Premier
Prime minister
Chancellor
57
The grasslands of Africa are called
Savannas
Escarpments
Cataracts
Zulus
58
Which country surrounds Lesotho?
South Africa
Madagascar
Zimbabwe
Kenya
59
What are the single-sail boats that Yemeni fishermen use in the Arabian Sea?
Swift boats
Abayas
Sultans
Dhows
60
Japan’s largest island is
Honshu
Shikoku
Hokkaido
Kyushu
61
Australia’s lowest point is located in
The Murray River
Lake Eyre
Sydney
The Gibson Desert
62
The boundary of the region of Antarctica is marked by which parallel of latitude?
17° S
66 1/2° S
33° S
39° S
63
What name describes the great coniferous forests of Siberia?
Woodlands
Troika
Great Forest
Taiga
64
Which country is the only landlocked Central African country?
Republic of the Congo
Benin
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
65
Explorers discovered what group of Christians in India?
St. Francis Christians
St. Thomas Christians
St. Bartholomew Christians
St. Xavier Christians
66
The most important water system in Australia is
The Cook Strait
Lake Eyre
The Great Australian Bight
The Murray River
67
A steep rise from a plain to a plateau is called a(n)
Apartheid
Savanna
Escarpment
Cataracts
68
What is the phosphate-rich area between Morocco and Mauritania that Morocco controls?
Northeastern Mauritania
Southwestern Morocco
Maghreb
Western Sahara
69
The name given to the Hawaiian islands at the time of the discovery by Europeans was
Micronesia
Polynesia
Melanesia
The Sandwhich Islands
70
What is China’s largest city?
Beijing
Shanghai
Pyongyang
Taipei
71
The major city of Lebanon that was built on an island was
Bekaa
Tyre
Damascus
Jerusalem
72
What is the leading Muslim terrorist group that grew to prominence following the first Gulf War
Alhambra
Red Crescent
Order of the Eastern Star
Al-Qaeda
73
What is the largest city of the Middle East?
Istanbul
Beirut
Damascus
Jerusalem
74
The predominant religion of Japan is
Taoism
Christianity
Shintoism
Confucianism
75
An early and valuable commodity traded by the people of Mali for gold was
Iron ore
Salt
Seashells
Diamonds
76
Shallow salt lakes in the desert are called
Hammadas
Chotts
Ergs
Regs
77
What kind of government does Thailand have?
Democratic oligarchy
Federal republic
Military dictatorship
Constitutional monarchy
78
What is the process whereby salt is removed from saltwater?
Thermal distillation
Desalination
Evaporation
Reverse osmosis
79
Which country has the lowest literacy rate, life expectancy, and per capita GDP in the Mid East
Yemen
Iran
Oman
Saudi Arabia
80
Which biblical mounts. situated in Turkey but also in an area that lies between Armenia & Iran
Mount of Olives
Mount Golan
Mount Ararat
Mount Herman
81
Which ethnic minority lives in the northern highlands of Iraq near the Turkish border?
Kurds
Shiites
Sunnis
Swamis
82
The highest mountain range in the world is in the
Western Ghats
Hindu Kush Mountains
Himalaya Mountains
Andes Mountains
83
Collapsible round tents in which Mongolian nomads live are called
Teepees
Regs
Lean-tos
Gers
84
Common language of peeps on the Ecoast of Africa developed way before European colonialist came
Bantu
Swahili
Afrikaans
Burundi