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100
This Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine is the author of Orientalism, and was influenced by authors such as Franz Fanon, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.
Who is Edward Said?
100
Name three religions that originated in India.
What are Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism?
100
What people are the most homogenous people on earth?
What are Koreans?
100
What are the two major sects or denominations of Islam?
What is Shia and Sunni?
100
This president is a big supporter of agribusiness. Under his watch, the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest increased by 88% for the month of June 2019.
Who is Jair Bolsonaro?
200
This is the name that is commonly used to refer to the autonomous region in Northeastern Syria that is based on a libertarian socialist ideology.
What is Rojava?
200
In May of 2019, the BBC reported that more than 600 million people voted in the six-week-long elections, the largest democratic exercise in the world. Name the party that the elected prime minister belongs to
What is the BJP? (Bharatiya Janata Party)
200
This term is used to describe the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, which underwent rapid industrialization and maintained exceptionally high growth rates between the early 1960s and 1990s.
What is “The Four Asian Tigers” or “Four Asian Dragons”?
200
An Islamic state is a political area, usually a country, that uses a certain kind of law as its basis for government, laws, and social norms. What is the name of this law?
What is Sharia?
200
Who is the Chief Executive of the “special administrative region,” which saw millions of people participate in the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) Movement.
Who is Carrie Lam?
300
What is the Arabic name for the region of Greater Syria, Syria-Palestine or the Levant?
What is al-Sham?
300
What country in South Asia (and in Asia in general) has the oldest democracy?
What is Sri Lanka?
300
China began enforcing the one-child policy, a part of a birth planning program to control the size of its population, in 1979. What year did it end?
What is 2015?
300
What is the best known work of fiction from the Islamic world is? It is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. In Englis, it is often known as “Arabian Nights.”
What is One Thousand and One Nights?
300
This former Prime Minister is a controversial figure who identified as a Marxist-Leninist. Desmond Tutu called him "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator." He passed away this month.
Who is Robert Mugabe?
400
Of the estimated 8.8 million Jews living in Europe at the beginning of World War II, the majority of whom were this ethnic group, about 6 million – more than two-thirds – were systematically murdered in the Holocaust.
What is Ashkenazi?
400
This person, once a figure of peace, has been criticized for allowing the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in the country of Myanmar, upwards of 1.1 million who have fled to Bangladesh.
Who is Aung Sang Suu Kyi?
400
In this country, women give men chocolates on February 14th, on March 14 (White Day), men give women chocolate, and on April 14th, people who did not receive gifts get together and commiserate being single.
What is South Korea?
400
This belief and practice is commonly described as “Islamic mysticism.” Rumi and Kahil Gibran are two writers and poets influenced by this tradition.
What is Sufism?
400
This climate activist, after participating in white-dominated environmental clubs and organizations, left and co-founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.
Who is Isra Hirsi?
500
The film had an all-Saudi cast and was the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia.
What is Wadjda?
500
India’s central government has instituted a security lockdown and media blackout in this Muslim-majority territory since the August 5th move to revoke laws that granted the state significant autonomy and prevented other Indian residents from settling there.
What is Kashmir?
500
This special administrative region of China was Portugal’s last colony in Asia until 1999, when it was transferred to China. It is recognized as a gambling and shopping Mecca.
What is Macao?
500
Pictured here is a physically active meditation which originated among Sufis. This meditation is still practiced by the Dervishes of what Sufi order?
What is Mevlevi?
500
The day before Eid, military authorities launched a massacre of unarmed pro-democracy protesters opposing military rule after this dictator was forced from office.
Who is Omar al-Bashir?