Geography
Name three countries in Central Asia.
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia? (all right answers)
Name two Iranic ethnic groups.
Too many to list
Which Central Asian people famously invaded literally everywhere except Antarctica and the Americas.
Mongols
Is polo rice common across Central Asia?
Yes
This region was once ruled by which large modern state, evident in its second language.
USSR (Russians)
Name a holiday common to all Turkic and Iranic peoples.
Nowruz
Turkmen. Khodad Azizi.
Who are a closely related group to the Persians and Lurs, linked partially to the ancient Medes?
Kurds
In what city was Ibn Sina born?
Are Turkic languages related to Iranic?
Not genetically. Areal affects exist.
Which Central Asian people are depicted as the legendary enemies of the Irani people in epics such as the Shahname?
In Afghanistan instead of the Haftsin they have the...?
Haft mewa.
Central Asia is characterised by mountainous terrain in many places, but famously for what other feature?
Steppe flatlands
Al Biruni the prolific Irani scholar and polymath was of of a different but related ethnicity to the Persians, a fact he himself mentions. What is the name of this ethnicity?
Soghdians
Many Persian honourifics come from which Central Asian language?
Mongolian
Which Iranic language group (name any language) from Central Asia is more related to the Classical language Avestan than to Persian and Kurdish.
The Eastern Iranic Languages: Pashto, Wakhi etc.
The literary Persian word for China and the Chinese is derived from the names of which people?
The holiday of "Nayruz" is celebrated by a seemingly unrelated people in Africa due to possible Iranic influence. Who are they?
Copts
Sassanid forces defended and subsequently captured which Arabian region, leaving a lasting cultural and dynastical influence on the country.
Yemen
Which famous female Uzbek singer made a remake parody of the Irani song "Nomre Bist Kelaso Nemikhwam"?
Manzura, Nimaga