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History Middle East A-Z - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 383 times
- The average score is 10 of 26
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The river on which the West Bank region lies on. A middle eastern country takes its name from this river | Jordan River | 80%
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| Mustafa Ataturk led this country to become a republic and aimed to make them a secular state, the first in the Middle East | Turkey | 68%
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| British major who aided the Arab Revolt in 1916 following the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence. Played by Peter O'Toole in a 1962 film | T. E. Lawrence | 65%
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| This was fought from January-March 1991 by coalition forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control | The First Gulf War | 61%
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| Ayatollah who led Iran as the supreme leader from 1979 until his death in 1989 | Khomeini | 60%
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| Group led by Osama bin Laden who orchestrated 9/11 | al-Qaida | 58%
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| Full name of the first Israeli Prime Ministe | David Ben-Gurion | 58%
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| The name for the Palestinian uprising that burst out of Gaza and the West Bank in 1987 | Intifada | 54%
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| Ideology that developed in the late 19th century that supports the development of a Jewish state | Zionism | 53%
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| Organisation that Count Bernadotte worked for when he was assassinated in 1948 after proposing a two-state solution | United Nations | 52%
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| Third Arab-Israeli war that occurred on this holy day in Judaism in 1973 | Yom Kippur | 52%
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| Treaty that ended WW1 and which the Wafd Party of Egypt was allowed to attend, but by the time they arrived the USA had recognised British rule over Egypt | Treaty of Versailles | 49%
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| First name of Nasser's second in command who took over following his death in 1970 and became the first Arab leader to visit Israel in 1977. | Anwar Sadat | 47%
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| This was finished in 1869 and the focal point of Anthony Eden's premiership | Suez Canal | 42%
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| Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1995 following the peacemaking process with Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords | Yitzhak Rabin | 39%
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| Full name of the Prime Minister who issued the White Paper in 1939, limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine | Neville Chamberlain | 37%
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| The Sunni muslim political group to which Saddam Hussein was a part of. They ruled Iraq from 1968 - 2003. | Baath Party | 36%
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| Islamic 'group of siblings' that were founded in 1928. Caused huge unrest in Syria in the late 1970s to early 1980s, culminating in the 1982 Hama massacre. | Muslim Brotherhood | 28%
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| Group formed in Cairo in 1964 with the aim of unifying refugees and winning back land | Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) | 26%
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| The country which Nasser's Egypt completed an arms deal with in 1955. This was seen as one of Egypt's first move in breaking away from Western control. | Czechoslovakia | 24%
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| The king that France expelled from Syria in 1920 and who was subsequently made king of Iraq in 1921 | Faisal | 22%
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| Saddam Hussein's Halabja massacre (1988) could be seen as an ____________ of the Kurds | Extermination | 14%
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| Jewish military group that became the IDF in May 1948 | Haganah | 13%
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| Zionist leader who worked hard to gain British support for a Jewish homeland resulting in the Balfour Declaration 1917. Also the first president of Israel | Chaim Weizmann | 6%
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| The weapon used by Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states following Nixon's approval of $2.2 billion arms package to Israel in 1973 | The Oil Weapon | 2%
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| In alphabetical order, the countries that Britain controlled in the Middle East directly after 1920 (According to textbook) | Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan | 1%
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