Palestine
The "West Bank" is West of which body of water?
The Jordan River
What is the most common element in the human body?
A: Carbon
B: Hydrogen
C: Oxygen
D: Calcium
C: Oxygen!
It makes up almost 63% of the average human.
A: Carbon- 19.37%
B: Hydrogen- 9.31%
Nitrogen- 5.14%
Sulfur- 0.64%
Phosphorus- 0.63%
Located in a disputed region, India's northernmost state is Jammu and THIS area
Kashmir
The opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympics, in ______ on February 9th as athletes from the two Koreas marched into the stadium together.
Pyeongchang, South Korea
Which country has the largest Muslim population?
Indonesia
How many Palestinians are the globally?
Over 6 million!
Which year did the first WOMAN go into space?
DOUBLE POINTS for providing the name of the woman OR country of origin.
1963!
The first woman in space was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova of the U.S.S.R.
Oman & Iran lie on opposite sides of this strait
Strait of Hormuz
He doesn't speak 3rabi
What is the first month of the Islamic calendar?
Muharram
How many times is Christmas celebrated in Palestine per year?
DOUBLE points for naming ALL of the exact dates!
Christmas is celebrated THREE times in Palestine!
12/25-- Western tradition
1/6-- Greek Orthodox tradition
1/18-- Armenian tradition
What is the hardest naturally occurring substance of the following:
A: Emerald
B: Tourmaline
C: Diamond
D: Corrundum
C: Diamond!
Diamonds are crystals formed almost entirely of carbon. Because of its hardness, the diamond is the most enduring of all gemstones.
Asia's 2 smallest MAINLAND nations are Qatar at 4473 square miles AND this country at 4015 square miles.
Lebanon!
Stephen Hillenburg, who died during 2018 at age 57, was the creator of which popular Nickelodeon cartoon character?
DOUBLE POINTS if you name the month and day the show debuted
SpongeBob SquarePants
The show debuted in May 1999.
What do we call the angels who write down our good and bad deeds?
Kiraman katibin
What is the dollar value of the exports and imports into Palestine as of 2016?
$951 million in EXPORTS and $4.95 billion in IMPORTS (MIT OEC research center)
This was the first genetically engineered organism of the following:
A: Corn
B: Tobacco
C: Sheep
D: Rat
DOUBLE POINTS for providing the location
B: Tobacco!
In 1983, a tobacco plant, designed to be resistant to certain herbicides, was grown in Wisconsin.
At the beginning of WWI, this was the ONLY independent nation in West Africa
Hint: Abraham Lincoln
Liberia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The WHO is calling it the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history.
Ibn al-Haitham of Cairo is known as the originator of which technological device?
Camera!
Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy's theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.
Which Oslo-based research organization was the one to secretly broker the Oslo accords?
Fafo Research Foundation
The planets make up this percentage of the MASS in our solar system?
A: 0.0135%
B: 0.135%
C: 1.35%
D: 13.5%
B: 0.135% of the mass in our solar system!
The sun dominates, accounting for 99.86% of the entire solar system's mass.
Although it's Central America's smallest country in the area, it is in the TOP 3 by population
El Salvador
After 6 months of travel, which NASA spacecraft landed safely on Mars?
A: InForm
B: InSight
C: InStinct
D: InTel
B: InSight
It stands for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport"
Who created the FIRST degree-awarding university in the world?
Double points for the name of the country and time period/leadership!
Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriya (CNN).
Born in 800, under the Abbasid Caliphate, Fatima and her sister Mariam studied Fiqh and hadith. When their father passed away, the sisters used their inheritance to establish the University of Al-Qarawiyn (Fatima was 56 years old at the time). It is the oldest continually operating educational institution in the world, still in operation today!