Family Day, Global Studies II Jeopardy

Ottoman Empire

100

This was the main religion during in the Ottoman Empire:

Islam

200

The Ottoman Empire at its biggest, covered these three continents:

Europe, Asia, and Africa

300

The period of expansion saw the Ottoman Empire expand to a large area around this sea:

The Mediterranean Sea

400

The city of Constantinople, which was renamed by Mehmed II the Conqueror, to mean, "The city of Islam", is still a major city in Turkey today and its called:

Istanbul

500

Turkey, the modern day country that would be closest to the Ottoman empire origins, was declared a "Republic" or nation in this decade

1920s -- specifically 1923

Displaced People

100

This displaced person flees their home because of large conflicts, war, natural disasters, human rights violations, etc. and does NOT want to leave or choose to leave their home country.  They cross an international boarder.

Refugee 

200

This displaced person flees their home because of job opportunities, personal conflicts, education, or better quality of life and DOES want to leave or chooses to leave their home country.  They cross an international boarder.

Migrant

300

This displaced person flees their home because of large conflicts, war, natural disasters, human rights violations, etc. and does NOT want to leave or choose to leave their home.  They do NOT cross an international boarder.  

MUST GIVE THE FULL WORDS, not just the first letters (acronym).

Internally Displaced Person/People

400

This displaced person is someone who requests protection in a host country, but their application is not yet processed. Every year, around one million people seek this status.  They go through an application process in order to typically gain "refugee" status. 

Asylum Seeker

500

According to the United Nations, how many displaced people were there in the world in 2022?

1) 1 Million people

2) 10 Million people

3) 50 Million people

4) 75 Million people

5) 100 Million people

6) 200 Million people

5) 100 Million People

Iran in 1970s-80s

100

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the monarch of the Imperial state of Iran from 1941 to 1979 but was more commonly called this: 

The Shah

200

Currently, Iran has this type of government:

1) Democracy

2) Theocratic Republic

3) Democratic Republic

4) Communism

5) Monarchy 

Iran's government is a 

#2) Theocratic Republic -- Where the leader is both the head of the religion and the government.

Current Leader of Iran: Ali Khamenei 

300

There are the two main sects (or branches) of Islam.  Name the sect that is the majority in Iran

Shia (or Shiite) 

Sunni is the other sect that is in the minority in Iran.

400

On November 4th, 1949 a group of Iranian students made headlines in the news by doing this at the American Embassy:

Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage.  They wanted the extradition of the Shah in return for the release of the Americans.  This lasted 444 days.

500

The Iranian Revolution lead to the changing of the government of Iran from a monarchy called the Imperial State of Iran to a new government called the Islamic Republic or Iran in what year?

December 1979 to January 1980 

(both years are accepted)

Human Rights

100

This is the number of articles that are contained in the Universal Declaration for Human Rights:

30

200

The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was created after this major world event:

World War II

300

In this scenario which Universal Human Right is being violated? 

Your employer forces you to work overtime at least 3 times a week and doesn't allow you to take a lunch break.  

The right to "rest and leisure," or the right to "personal time / play" 

--Includes reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

400

This was one of the drafting members of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and a spouse to the US president at the end of WWII, who said: "Where, after all, do Human Rights begin?"

Eleanor Roosevelt spouse to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

500

This concept or idea lies at the heart of human rights. It is mentioned in the first sentence of the Preamble to the Declaration of Human Rights and appears again in Article 1. Yet of all the rights to which everyone is entitled, this is perhaps the most difficult to express and to put into a tangible (or physical) form.

What Decade (10yrs) or Century (100yrs)?

100

In this decade (period of 10 years) DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick:

1) 1890s 

2) 1910s

3) 1920s

4) 1930s

5) 1940s

6) 1950s 

1950s

The discovery in 1953 of the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of DNA, marked a milestone in the history of science and gave rise to modern molecular biology.

200

This is the century (period of 100 years) when Alphabetic Writing was created -- not symbolic writing like hieroglyphs but letters: 

1) 2000 BCE (Before the Common Era)

2) 1800 BCE

3) 1500 BCE

4) 500 BCE

5) 100 BCE

6) 200 CE (Common Era)

2) 1800 BCE -- The first alphabetic system was called "Proto-Sinaitic" 

300

The United Nations was created in this decade:

The 1940s -- Specifically 1945

400

This is the decade when the first FIFA World Cup hosted:

The 1930s -- First World Cup was 1930

500

In this decade in the 1900s we saw the first person in space:

1960s

On April 12, 1961 the first human space flight, was carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen.