World Cultures Awareness Survey
Geography
- Can you name the 7 continents of planet Earth?
- List the 5 oldest civilization locations.
- Name 4 of the world's major oceans.
- Name the 2 most important canals in the world.
- Name the city that divides the ancient East and the modern West.
- The earth is divided into __________ hemispheres. the USA is located in which of the hemispheres? _____________ .
- In what country would you find each of the following rivers?
- Rhine _____________
- Thames _____________
- Mekong _____________
- Volga _____________
- Danube _____________
- Yellow _____________
- Tiber _____________
- Yangtze _____________
- Indus _____________
- Seine _____________
- Jordan _____________
- Amazon _____________
- Ganges _____________
- Nile _____________
- Tigris - Euphrates _____________
- Rhine _____________
- In what country would you find each of the following cities?
- Baghdad _____________
- Damascus _____________
- Addis Ababa _____________
- Kabul _____________
- Casablanca _____________
- Dublin _____________
- London _____________
- Paris _____________
- Managua _____________
- Helsinki _____________
- Hiroshima _____________
- Montreal _____________
- Vatican City _____________
- Pretoria _____________
- San Salvador _____________
- Beirut _____________
- Rome _____________
- Athens _____________
- Delhi _____________
- Mecca _____________
- Berlin _____________
- Jerusalem _____________
- Zurich _____________
- Amsterdam _____________
- Santiago _____________
- Leningrad _____________
- Peking _____________
- Melbourne _____________
- Warsaw _____________
- Cairo _____________
- Tegucigalpa _____________
- Seoul _____________
- Baghdad _____________
General history
- Scientists estimate the world is about ________ years old.
- List the 5 major religions in the world: _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________
- The largest size country in the world is _____________.
- The second largest sized country in the world is _____________.
- The most populous country in the world is _____________.
- The second most populous country in the world is _____________.
- About how many people are there in the world? _____________
- About how many countries are there in the world? _____________
- About how many languages are spoken by over 1 million people? _____________
- How do we number years before year 0? _____________
- Who is considered to be the "father of history"? _____________
- Name the period of history in which life was based on land ownership and the lord serf system. _____________
- Name the period of history in which the individual and art had a re-birth in Italy. _____________
- Name the period of history in which machines replaced the making of Goods by hand. _____________
- A good term for our period of history is the age of _____________.
- Name the current leader of Russia. _____________
- What one word best explains the basic reason for years of fighting in Northern Ireland and the Middle East? _____________
- Briefly explain why this is called the 20th century if we live in the 1900's. _____________
- On July 4, 1987, we celebrated America's _______th birthday
- Name the President of the United States ______________ -before him? ______________ -before him? ______________ -before him? ______________ -before him? ______________ -before him? ______________ -before him? ______________ -before him? ______________
- About how many wars would you guess are ongoing in today's world? _____________
- How many time zones are there in the world? _____________
- The very first people to ever populate the Americas were probably from _____________.
- What is Contra? _____________
- With what country would you associate each of the following names?
- Waldheim _____________
- Lenin _____________
- Franco _____________
- DeGaulle _____________
- Nasser _____________
- Gandhi _____________
- Churchill _____________
- Gorbachev _____________
- Duarte _____________
- Castro _____________
- Peron _____________
- Thatcher _____________
- Tse-tung _____________
- Sadat _____________
- Faisal _____________
- Waldheim _____________