Geography
Islam
Afghanistan
Israel and Arab
Geography 2
Final Jeopardy
100
A resource plentiful and abundant in the region
What is oil?
100
This is the city that Muslims are required to pilgrimage to at least once in their lives.
Where is Mecca?
100
The group that has occupied parts of Afghanistan for the past two decades (and now largely controls the country).
Who is the Taliban?
100
The peninsula that was fought over by Egypt and Israel, features the Suez canal.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
100
This waterway runs through much of Eastern Africa
What is the Nile River?
100
These are the holy sites for each of the three monotheistic religions that are located in Jerusalem
What are the Western/Wailing Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, and the Dome of the Rock
200
The area around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is called
The Fertile Crescent
200
The name of the month in the Islamic calendar which Muslims fast during (also known as Sawm)
What is Ramadan?
200
The group that Osama bin Laden was formerly a part of?
What is the Mujahadeen?
200
The negotiations between Egypt and Israel in 1979 took place here.
Where is Camp David?
200
This country borders Saudi Arabia to the southeast
What is Yemen?
300
This capital of Iran.
What is Tehran?
300
This cube is located in the holy city of Mecca
What is the Kaaba?
300
Many Afghani farmers turned to this cultivating plant which can be used to make opium
What are poppy seeds?
300
Evangelical Christians support the institution of Israel primarily for this reason.
What is because Jewish possession over the holy land is essential to the return of Jesus Christ?
300
This city is known as what
What is Jerusalem?
400
This is a waterway in the Middle East.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
400
This sect of Islam believed that Mohammad's successor should be someone that Mohammad chooses.
What are the Sunni?
400
This former country invaded Afghanistan during the 1980s.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
The name of the Palestinian territory that borders the Jordan River
What is the West Bank?
400
This waterway separates Iran and Saudi Arabia
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
This is a country in North Africa
What is Tunisia?
500
ISIS is an acronym for this.
What is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
500
The road that connects 4 different cities throughout Afghanistan which was never completed
The Ring Road
500
The landmark that divides East and West Jerusalem
What is the Green Line?
500
A peninsula in modern day Turkey
What is the Anatolian Peninsula?