General Knowledge - Very Difficult XII

A Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. Most well know female figure of the French New Wave cinema movement. Most famous films include Vagabond and Daisies

100 in Roman numerals

1000 in Roman numerals

An Italian Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its centre. Nicolaus ______

First elected President in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ethnically Kurdish. Served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. Jalal ______

Kurdistan Region (KRI), a semi-autonomous region recognized by the Constitution of Iraq, it gained its status as a semi-autonomous region in what year?

The Great Lakes are a chain of deep freshwater lakes in east-central North America comprising the lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and _____.

Within mathematics, the simplist base is two. The gumulgal for example, an Australian indigenous peoples counted like this. 1 = urapon 2 = ukasar 3 = urapon-ukasar. So 4 = _______

Endonym is a name used by a group of people to identify themselves, their language, or a place they live. España is the endonym for Spain for example. Shqipëria is the endonym for ______?

The practice of marrying within the same local community, clan, or tribe.

________Jews are Spanish Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism or face expulsion from Spain after 1492.

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ____ _________ stored at the port in Beirut, Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.

The ______ dragon is the world's largest living lizard, growing up to 10 feet long and weighing up to 330 pounds

A Japanese female entertainer who performs traditional Japanese arts and crafts

A Japanese military tactic of suicide by crashing planes into enemy ships during World War II. The term translates to "divine wind".

______ (1901-1989), known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa, was emperor of Japan during World War II and is Japan's longest-serving monarch in history.

The northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. India and Pakistan fight over this region.

An independent country in the Balkans region of Europe. Both Serbia and Albania dispute this area as being theres.

A landlocked breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova.

The heaviest noble gas. It is also the only radioactive noble gas.

The most abundant element in the Universe and (helium is second). Together they make up roughly 74% and 24% of all matter in the universe respectively.

The fifth prime minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.

The Camp ____ accords, a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978.

"From the river to the sea" is a political phrase that refers geographically to the area between the Jordan River and the _________Sea, an area historically called Palestine, which today includes Israel and the Palestinian territories of the occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Canada has 10 provinces: Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and __________

René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician who invented the_____ coordinate system in the 17th century.

The three types of elephants are the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the ____elephant.

_______ ______are officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, is a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.

A flat leavened oven-baked Italian bread.

Muhammad was born in the year 570 in the town of Mecca, a mountain town in the high desert plateau of western Arabia. His name derives from the Arabic verb hamada, meaning "to praise, to glorify." He was the first and only son of Abd Allah bin Al-Muttalib (father) and Amina bint ____ (mother).

Muhammad's first revelation was the event that initiated the development of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. The exact date is disputed, but it is generally believed to have occurred in 610 CE. According to the Islamic narrative, Muhammad sought solitude in the Cave of Hira and was visited by the angel ______ who revealed to him the beginnings of what would become known as the Quran

The year the Lebanon civil war started (and the Vietnam War ended)

Baqa'a has become the largest Palestine refugee camp. Over 131,630 registered refugees in an area of 1.4 square kilometers reside here. It resides in what country?

Apples and honey are a traditional part of ____ _________, the Jewish New Year, and symbolize the hope for a sweet year ahead. The tradition involves dipping a slice of apple into honey and saying a blessing