Palestinian History
Every year in May, Palestinians around the world remember this historical day of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. Zionist military forces expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and captured 78% of historic Palestine. On that day, the state of Israel came into being.
What is the Nakba?
(For a bonus 100, name the exact day and year)
What traditional folk dance combines circle dance with line dancing and is performed at weddings and other joyous events throughout the Levant?
What is Dabke (Dabka)?
Palestine Cola is an alternative to what boycotted soda company?
What is Coca-Cola?
Which Middle Eastern meal features a variety of cooked meats and maybe some vegetables on a skewer?
What is Kebab?
Thomas Hodgkin was an 1800s British physician, and his name is most commonly associated with what type of cancer today?
What is Lymphoma?
Starting in 1987, this was a sustained series of nonviolent protests, acts of civil disobedience, and riots carried out by Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Palestine.
What was the First Intifada?
An Oud and a Kamanjah are two examples of traditional Middle Eastern what?
What are instruments?
This media mogul giant is on the BDS list because of their use of Zionist actors and inclusion of Zionist propaganda in their films.
What is Disney?
Filo pastry, chopped nuts like walnuts or pistachios, and syrup or honey, are the layers in what traditional Mediterranean dessert?
What is Baklava?
A nephrologist is a doctor who specializes in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases affecting what organ?
What is Kidney?
What is the name of the treaty made between Britain and France in 1916 that divided the Ottoman Empire’s Arab territories between the two colonial countries, subsequently denying the Palestinians their sovereignty?
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
The following lyrics come from what song: "Palestine, Land of the fathers, To you, I do not doubt, I will return. Struggle, revolution, do not die, For the storm is on the land."
What is Baladi, Baladi (My Country, My Country)?
What boycotted online marketplace offers short term lodging rentals to people who are traveling?
What is Airbnb?
Considered a loan word from Greek, what is the difficult-to-spell name of the dip or sauce made of strained yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, and other seasonings? It is most often served cold as part of an appetizer.
What is Tzatziki?
Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive what?
What is sweating?
The Second Palestinian Intifada, also called the Al-Aqsa Intifada, began in September of what year?
What is the year 2000?
What is the regional name for traveling storytellers and musicians found throughout Palestine and the surrounding area?
What is Zajaleen?
This boycotted brand allows users to make their own fizzy drinks at home by injecting Carbon Dioxide and flavored syrups into tap water.
What is Sodastream?
What chocolate-flavored coffee drink gets its name from a city in Yemen that was once a center of the coffee trade?
What is Mocha?
What is removed during a cholecystectomy?
What is the Gall Bladder?
Between the years of 636CE and 640CE, the Muslim armies of the second Islamic caliph conquered Palestine and granted religious freedom to Christians, Jews and Samaritans. What was the name of the second Islamic caliph?
Who is caliph Umar?
What popular type of sung Palestinian poetry consists of four verses, with the first three verses ending with the same word in terms of sound, but not in terms of meaning, and the fourth verse usually ending with "Aab" or "Aywa"?
What is Ataaba?
Despite halting a $25 billion investment into a microchip factory in “Israel”, this tech giant remains on the BDS list because it continues to be the largest investor in the genocidal apartheid state.
What is Intel?
What vegetable from the nightshade family is traditionally used as the basis for both moussaka and baba ghanoush?
What is eggplant?
Which term is used to describe a disease that is common or even constantly present in a specific population?
What is endemic?