Modern Middle East
Quizzo
Round 1 – Arab Israeli Conflict
1. What is the name of the movement
that wanted the creation of a Jewish
homeland?
2. What is the word for dividing an area
into parts?
Round 1 - Arab Israeli Conflict
3. Who is Theodore Hertzl?
4. What is the name of the document
written by Britain that agreed that
there was a need for the creation of a
Jewish homeland?
5. What is the term for the hatred of
Jewish people?
Round 1 - Answers
1. Zionism
2. Partition
3. Famous Zionist
4. Balfour Declaration
5. Anti-Semitism
Round 2 – Arab Israeli Conflict
1. Why is the United States involved in
the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
2. What is the name of the country
associated with the Jewish people
in the area also known at the Holy
Land?
3. What is the name of the country
associated with the Arab people in
the area also known at the Holy
Land?
Round 2 – Arab Israeli Conflict
4. What is the name for the spreading
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out of the Jewish people?
What is the name of the peninsula
in the northeast part of Egypt?
What happened to the Palestinians
after the 1948 War?
Why was Camp David important?
Why were the Oslow Accords
important?
Round 2 - Answers
1. Similar culture
6. Refugee camps
2. Israel
7. 1st peace
3. Palestine
conference
between Arab
country & Israel
8. 1st peace
conference
between Israel
and Palestinians
4. Diaspora
5. Sinai Peninsula
Round 3 - OPEC
1. What does OPEC stand for?
2. What is another name for oil?
3. What is the term for a small group
controlling a product or resource?
4. What is the term for a resource that
cannot be replaced once it is
removed from the Earth?
Round 3 - OPEC
5. Where are most of the countries in
OPEC located?
6. Name one of the 2 ways OPEC
controls oil
7. Why is the U.S. not part of OPEC?
8. Why is the World’s energy use
increasing faster than the U.S.’?
Round 3 - Answers
1. Organization
of Petroleum
Exporting
Countries
2. Petroleum
3. Oligopoly
4. Nonrenewable
resource
5. Middle East
6. Price of oil and
amount of oil
7. The U.S. does not
export oil
8. The World is
gaining technology
we already had
(modernizing)
Round 4 - Iraq
1. What country did Iraq fight in a war
in the 1980s?
2. What was the effect of the war Iraq
fought in the 1980s?
3. What was the cause of the Persian
Gulf War start?
4. What is the term for the many
countries that worked together in
the Persian Gulf War?
Round 4 - Iraq
5. What did Iraq have to do as a
result of the Persian Gulf War?
6. Name one of the two reasons the
U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003
7. Who was the leader the U.S.
removed from power in Iraq?
8. What happened to him after he
was captured?
Round 4 - Answers
1. Iran
2. Huge debt
3. Iraq invaded
Kuwait
4. Coalition
5. Allow U.N. to
inspect for
weapons
Round 4 - Answers
6. Either of the following: Iraq was not
allowing weapons inspections OR
the U.S. suspected Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction
7. Saddam Hussein
8. He was convicted of crimes against
his own people and hanged
Round 5 - Afghanistan
1. What country invaded Afghanistan
during the Cold War?
2. What group gained control of
Afghanistan during the 1990s?
3. What was this group’s goal?
4. What is al Queda?
Round 5 - Afghanistan
5. Who was the leader of al Queda?
6. What group was responsible for the
attacks of 9/11?
7. What the name of the operation
when the U.S. attacked
Afghanistan?
8. Why did the U.S. attack Afghanistan
after 9/11?
Round 5 - Answers
1. Soviet Union
2. Taliban
3. Strict Islamic state
4. Terrorist organization
5. Osama bin Laden
6. Al Queda
7. Operation Enduring Freedom
8. Taliban wouldn’t turn over bin Laden
Round 6 – Contributing Factors
1. Which of the following countries has
oil: Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq?
2. Which of the following countries was
directly affected by the Cold War:
Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq?
3. Which of the following countries was
directly affected by WWI: Israel,
Afghanistan, Iraq?
4. What caused the Jewish people to be
spread throughout the world?
Round 6 - Answers
1. Iraq
2. Afghanistan
3. Iraq and Israel
4. Invaded by neighbors