Geography
History
Religion
People
Grab Bag
100
The region in which Palestine is located is commonly called this
What is the Middle East? OR What is the Levant?
100
The group that created the PLO
What is the Arab League?
100
The religion of most Palestinians
What is Islam?
100
The cartoon character depicted below
Who is Handala/حنظلة?
100
Name and year of the catastrophe in which over 750,000 palestinians were expelled from their homes.
What is Nakba, 1948?
200
The West Bank is bordered on the East by this country
What is Jordan?
200
Public statement by the British government during WWI that supported a Jewish state
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
What is the Balfour Declaration?
200
The second most common religion of Palestinians
What is Christianity?
200
Prominent Palestinian author and politician. Killed by a car bomb placed by the Israeli Mossad
Who is Ghassan Kanafani?
200
The US Dollar Amount given to Israel by the US every day, on average.
What is $10.1 Million
300
The body of water bordered by Palestine's west coast.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
The organization that partitioned Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab after WW II
What is the United Nations?
300
Often regarded as the birthplace of Jesus
What is Bethlehem?
300
Former professor of Literature at Columbia University
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
Who is Edward Said?
300
The countries that Israel attacked in the 1967 war.
What is Egypt, Syria, Jordan?
400
Region of Palestine in which Jerusalem and Bethlehem are located
What is the West Bank
400
The Arab word for uprising that literally means "shaking off"--there was one in 1987
What is intifada?
400
The most religiously diverse city in Palestine (greatest distribution of PERCENTAGE per religion present).
What is Nazareth?
400
Palestinian cartoonist assassinated in London (creator of Handala/حنظلة)
Who is Naji Al-Ali
400
Over 540 barriers run by the Israelis to control the movements of Palestinians
What are checkpoints?
500
A term for the geographical area where Palestine is located, reflecting the rich soil of the region
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
Many Middle Eastern countries were formed by partitioning the land of this empire
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
The prophet who was able to command Jinns, born in Jerusalem in the 11th-10th century BC.
Who is Sulayman/Solomon?
500
A group of resistance fighters recently formed in Nablus
Who are the Lions Den?
500
The empire that ruled over the Middle East, North Africa and some parts of Southern Spain (750 to 1258 CE).
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?