Islam
The two major denominations of Islam
(double points for what the difference is between them)
What is Sunni and Shia
Sunni: supported the succession of Abu Baker and non hereditary caliphs
Shia: Party of Ali, supported succession of Ali and than Hussein
The most practiced religion in Iran
What is Shia Islam
What is a molecule
The war considered by Ezra Klain along with many others to be the worst foreign policy decision of the 21st century so far
What is the Iraq War
The day of rest or Sabbath celebrated from Friday night through Saturday
What is Shabbat
The name of the pilgramage to Mecca
What is the Hajj
The title for kings/monarchs of Iran and Persia before the 1979 Revolution
What is Shah
The reason oil and water don't mix
What is polarity
The act passed by Obama widely considered his largest success as president, which Trump has repeatedley attempted to overturn.
What is the affordable care act
The hebrew name of the "old testamate" or "hebrew bible"
What is the Torah
The first Caliphate to conquer the middle east
What is the Ummayad Caliphate
A religion that originated in Persia
What is Zoroastrianism, Manicheaism, Mazdakism, Babism, the Bahai Faith
The forces that attract water molecules to themselves
What are hydrogen bonds (or intermolecular forces)
The woman who served as UN ambassador and than National Security Advisor under Obama and was than rumored to be on the shortlist for Biden's Vice President pick
Who is Susan Rice
The Holiday celebrated to mark the Jewish New Yeart
Rosh Hashana
The Jizyah tax
What is the tax that was placed on non Muslims after the Arab conquest of the Middle East
The 1840s reformer and Visier who's original name before adopting a more catchy title was Mirzah Taki Kahn
Who is Amir Kabir
The group of elements that are considered unreactive
What are the noble gases
The term used by Ronald Reagan as a racial dog whistle to refer to low income women recivieng government aid
What is a Wellfare Queen
The Holiday celebrating the story of Esther, in which a young jewish woman married to the Achaeminid King Ahausuares prevents his right hand man, Haman, from carrying out a plot of genocide against the empire's jewish population
What is Purim
The first of Muhammad's succesors
Who is Abu Bakur
The dynasty that was overthrown by Ayatollah Khominei's revolution in 1979
What is the Pahlavi dynasty
The laberatory method used to determine the concentration of a solute in a solvent using a reactant with known concentration
What is a titration?
The Libyan city in which the US embassy was attacked in 2012 by a terrorist group prompting a scandal in which members of the Obama administration (especially Hillary Clinton) were accused of cover ups, inadequacy, and other offenses by the right wing media.
What is Benghazi
The Jewish Holiday for the trees, which in the modern day centers around ecological awareness and is sometimes called the "new year of the trees"
Tu Bishavat