| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Lebanon is known for this type of tree, depicted on its flag | Cedar Tree | 96%
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| This Lebanon-based civilization rose to prominence as a maritime power | Phoenicia | 80%
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| Tyre | 65%
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| Sidon | 60%
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| More than a million refugees have arrived in Lebanon from this country | Syria | 60%
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| Important port city that later became capital of Lebanon | Beirut | 58%
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| Country that established a mandate of Syria and Lebanon following World War I | France | 58%
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| Name the three most prominent cities of the above civilization (hint: start with B S T) | Byblos | 57%
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| Lebanon embraced Christianity in the first century after conquest by this empire | Roman Empire | 55%
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| Lebanese Shia militia that arose to fight against the above country | Hezbollah | 51%
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| The above's conflict with this southern neighbor caused its invasion in 1982 | Israel | 48%
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| Year of a second war with Lebanon's southern neighbor, ended by UN ceasefire | 2006 | 46%
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| Empire that defeated the above in 1516 to rule Lebanon for four centuries | Ottoman Empire | 46%
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| City-state founded by the above civilization that became an empire | Carthage | 45%
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| Syrian mystic monk whose branch of Christianity gained popularity in the fifth century | Saint Maron | 41%
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| The above's arrival upset the religious balance, leading to this 1975-1990 war | Lebanese Civil War | 40%
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| War in 1948 and again in 1967 caused this people to arrive as refugees | Palestinians | 39%
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| This esoteric syncretic religion sect arose in the eleventh century | Druze | 38%
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| 1915-1918 disaster in Lebanon which killed 200,000 people | Famine | 34%
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| Province that Lebanon was part of in the above and its successive caliphates | Bilad al-Sham | 23%
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| Series of 2005 protests that led to the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon | Cedar Revolution | 21%
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| Group of slave-warriors that captured the above in 1289 | Mamluks | 20%
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| First president of Lebanon upon its independence in 1943 | Bechara El Khoury | 18%
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| Crusader state established in 1102 that comprised part of modern Lebanon | County of Tripoli | 16%
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| Lebanon embraced Islam in the seventh century after conquest by this caliphate | Rashidun Caliphate | 16%
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| Besides inventing the alphabet, the above is also known for this dye | Tyrian Purple | 14%
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| Year of the civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus which massacred Christians | 1860 | 11%
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| Princess and wife of King Ahab who persecuted Hebrew worship in Israel | Jezebel | 9%
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| King who allied himself with Solomon, contributed to first temple in Jerusalem | Hiram I | 7%
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| Governor who ruled with “troubling autonomy” and was beheaded in 1635 | Fakhr al-Din II | 3%
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