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What is the main religion of the people in Egypt?
Islam
100
What is the capital of Algeria?
Algiers
100
Platforms of earth cut into a slope, one above each other are called what?
Terraces
100
Libya and Algeria produce large amounts of this major resource?
Petroleum or oil
100
The Arab Spring started in what county?
Tunisia
200
The capital of Egypt is what?
Cairo
200
80% of Algeria is what land form?
Sahara Desert
200
What is the name for the open market places?
Bazaars or souqs
200
What is the name of the former Spanish colony that Morocco claimed?
Western Sahara
200
What was the name of the leader of Libya who was recently overthrown?
Gaddafi
300
What is the name of the major dam on the Nile river?
Aswan High Dam
300
What foreign power did not occupy Algeria: Rome, Greece, the Turks, the Byzantines, or the Phoenicians?
Greece
300
What is the name of the law code that is based on the life and writings of Muhammad and Islamic scholars?
Sharia
300
All of the countries in the region except 1 border on what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
300
The leader of what church in Egypt died recently?
Coptic Church
400
Where do most rural Egyptians live?
Along the Nile or Suez Canal
400
What is the name of the area where most people in Algeria live?
The Tell
400
The farmers and workers in Egypt and other Arab cultures are called?
Falaheen
400
What is the only country in Africa that Mr. Montgomery has been to?
Morocco
400
Who was the recent leader of Egypt who was arrested after being forced to step down?
Mubarak
500
What Egyptian leader was assassinated partially due to his making peace with Israel?
Anwar Sadat
500
What are the two main ethnic groups in Algeria?
Berber and Arab
500
The older parts of cities in North Africa are called what?
Casbah
500
In what country was the powerful city of Carthage located?
Tunisia
500
Ahmed Ben Bella died yesterday. He was the first leader of what country when it became independent?
Algeria