Iraqi Science, Arts and Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Arabic with the correct year: In ______, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic the fourth–most useful language for business, after English, Mandarin Chinese, and French.
  2. Complete the sentence about Mesopotamian Arabic with the correct year: During the Siege of Baghdad in ______, the Mongol Empire killed all Muslims in the city and environs.
  3. Complete the sentence about Mesopotamian Arabic with the correct year: The exception is urban non-Muslims, who continue to speak pre-______ Qeltu dialects.
  4. Complete the sentence about Kurdish language with the correct year: Since ______ most Kurds have used the Roman script to write Kurmanji....
  5. Complete the sentence about Sorani with the correct year: When the Baban dynasty was overthrown in ______, the golden era of Sorani ended and poets including Nalî left the Silêmanî region.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sorani with the correct year: Lastly, Ludvig Olsen Fossum published a grammar book in ______ based on the Central Kurdish variety spoken around Mahabad.
  7. Complete the sentence about Sumerian language with the correct year: After the Old Babylonian period or, according to some, as early as ______ BC, the active use of Sumerian declined.
  8. Complete the sentence about Aramaic with the correct year: The connection between Chaldean, Syriac, and Samaritan as "Aramaic" was first identified in ______ by German theologian Johann Wilhelm Hillig…
  9. Complete the sentence about Iraqi cuisine with the correct year: Among the ancient texts discovered in Mesopotamia is a Sumerian-Akkadian bilingual dictionary, recorded in cuneiform script on 24 stone…
  10. Complete the sentence about Falafel with the correct year: By ______ a falafel shop had been opened in Beirut and from there it spread down the Red Sea coast all the way to Yemen, it had spread west i…
  11. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: The word baklava is first attested in English in ______, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish: باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.
  12. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: Written in ______ in today's Iraq, the cookbook was based on an earlier collection of 9th century Persian-inspired recipes.
  13. Complete the sentence about Iraqi music with the correct year: In Baghdad from 760 to ______, writers spurned musical notation.
  14. Complete the sentence about Iraqi music with the correct year: After the ______ invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, and with some religious figures coming to power, concerts were forbidden in…
  15. Complete the sentence about Oud with the correct year: In ______ Curt Sachs contradicted or refined that idea, saying oud meant flexible stick, not wood.
  16. Complete the sentence about Kadim Al Sahir with the correct year: By ______, he gained popularity in many Arab countries with compositions such as "Ladghat El-Hayya" and "Abart El-Shat".
  17. Complete the sentence about Kadim Al Sahir with the correct year: Al Sahir was born in Mosul, Iraq on September 12, ______, to a Sunni father and a Shia mother from Najaf.
  18. Complete the sentence about Kadim Al Sahir with the correct year: In ______, Al Saher met and formed a songwriting partnership with Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, who wrote the lyrics to his music.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ilham Al Madfai with the correct year: Ilham al-Madfai was born in ______ in Baghdad, Iraq, to Kurdish parents, His Kurdish heritage is an important aspect of his identity…
  20. Complete the sentence about Ilham Al Madfai with the correct year: Returning to Baghdad in ______, he began to mix Western and Eastern instrumentation and rhythms.
  21. Complete the sentence about Ilham Al Madfai with the correct year: In ______ a Polish documentary movie Arabic secret was released in which his Polish son visited him for the very first time in Jordan…
  22. Complete the sentence about Nazem Al-Ghazali with the correct year: In ______, he performed in the play Layla and Majnun by the Egyptian poet and playwright Ahmed Shawqi.
  23. Complete the sentence about Nazem Al-Ghazali with the correct year: After ______, he performed at Radio Iraq and was a member of the Andalusian Muwashshah Ensemble.
  24. Complete the sentence about Nazem Al-Ghazali with the correct year: In ______, he married his musical partner, the Iraqi Jewish singer Salima Murad, who had converted to Islam.
  25. Complete the sentence about Nazem Al-Ghazali with the correct year: In ______, he played a role in the film Ya Salam al hubb starring the Lebanese singer and actress Najah Salam.
  26. Complete the sentence about Nazem Al-Ghazali with the correct year: Al-Ghazali died in his early 40s on 23 October ______, when he just had returned from a concert in Beirut.
  27. Complete the sentence about Salima Murad with the correct year: After some 130.000 Iraqi Jews had been stripped of their citizenship and left Iraq for Israel in the early 1950s, Murad continued to sta…
  28. Complete the sentence about Salima Murad with the correct year: In ______, Murad married the Iraqi singer and actor, Nazem Al-Ghazali and converted to Islam.
  29. Complete the sentence about Nazik al-Malaika with the correct year: Al-Malaika left Iraq in ______ with her husband Abdel Hadi Mahbooba and family, following the rise of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Part…
  30. Complete the sentence about Badr Shakir al-Sayyab with the correct year: In April ______ he was admitted to the American University Hospital in Beirut, and his literary friends, including Yusuf Al-Kha…
  31. Complete the sentence about Badr Shakir al-Sayyab with the correct year: At the end of ______, al-Sayyab travelled to the United Kingdom.
  32. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri with the correct year: After publishing his first poem in ______, he started to work in journalism and as a teacher in Baghdad.
  33. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri with the correct year: In ______, King Faisal I opened the first girls' school in Najaf and received backlash from the conservative groups in the…
  34. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri with the correct year: In ______, al-Jawahiri published the newspaper "al-Inqilab", following the military coup that was initiated by general Bak…
  35. Complete the sentence about Ibn al-Haytham with the correct year: Works by Alhazen on geometric subjects were discovered in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris in ______ by E.
  36. Complete the sentence about Al-Ghazali with the correct year: While the Seljuk influence grew, Abu Suleiman Dawud Chaghri Beg married his daughter, Arslan Khatun Khadija to caliph al-Qa'im in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Al-Jazari with the correct year: Al-Jazari was born in the area of Upper Mesopotamia in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Al-Jazari with the correct year: In ______, al-Jazari invented an early crankshaft, which he incorporated with a crank-connecting rod mechanism in his twin-cylinder pump.
  39. Complete the sentence about Sunni Islam in Iraq with the correct year: According to a ______ survey by Pew Research, 42% of Iraqi Muslims are Sunni.
  40. Complete the sentence about Chaldean Catholic Church with the correct year: The Chaldean Catholic Church emerged in the Schism of ______, when a faction of the Church of the East sought to restore ful…
  41. Complete the sentence about Chaldean Catholic Church with the correct year: In ______, the traditional patriarchal line was united to, and has since led, the Chaldean Catholic Church.
  42. Complete the sentence about Assyrian Church of the East with the correct year: Officially known as the Church of the East until ______, it was then renamed the Assyrian Church of the East.
  43. Complete the sentence about Assyrian Church of the East with the correct year: Receiving support from the Franciscan missionaries, he arrived in Rome and entered into full communion with the Catholic…
  44. Complete the sentence about Judaism in Iraq with the correct year: In ______, the government reversed course and permitted Jews to emigrate in exchange for renouncing their citizenship.
  45. Complete the sentence about Farhud with the correct year: After King Ghazi who inherited the throne of Faisal I, died in a ______ car accident, Britain installed 'Abd al-Ilah as Iraq's governing regen…
  46. Complete the sentence about Farhud with the correct year: Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, came to Baghdad in ______, where he was active in spreading antisemitic and pro-German propaga…
  47. Complete the sentence about Zaha Hadid with the correct year: Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Archite…
  48. Complete the sentence about Zaha Hadid with the correct year: Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Zaha Hadid with the correct year: Zaha Hadid was born on 31 October ______ in Baghdad, Iraq, to an upper-class Iraqi family.
  50. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Makiya with the correct year: In ______ he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, which allowed him to study in the US.
  51. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Makiya with the correct year: When he returned to Baghdad in ______, he was one of the first Iraqis to have obtained formal qualifications in architecture.
  52. Complete the sentence about Jawad Salim with the correct year: In England, he met an artist, Lorna, a native of Sheffield, and the pair were married in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Freedom Monument with the correct year: In ______ the new leader of the Iraqi republic, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim commissioned a monument that would be a celebra…
  54. Complete the sentence about Iraq national football team with the correct year: The team reached its highest FIFA World Ranking of 39th in October ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Iraq national football team with the correct year: On 8 October ______, the Iraq Football Association was founded.
  56. Complete the sentence about Iraq national football team with the correct year: One of the members of Iraq's first national team was Youra Eshaya, who in ______ became the first Iraqi footballer to pla…
  57. Complete the sentence about Younis Mahmoud with the correct year: Mahmoud's first international goal was an equaliser in the 89th minute of the final of the ______ WAFF Championship, which Iraq then w…
  58. Complete the sentence about Younis Mahmoud with the correct year: Three years later, Mahmoud scored in the final of the ______ West Asian Games to lead his team to another title, before becoming the n…
  59. Complete the sentence about Ali Adnan with the correct year: During the ______ winter transfer window, the player received an offer from Saudi club Ittihad FC, to replace Croatian player Anas Sharbini…
  60. Complete the sentence about Ali Adnan with the correct year: On 14 September ______, Adnan scored his second goal with Çaykur Rizespor against Gaziantepspor from a free kick from 35 metres.
  61. Complete the sentence about Hussein Saeed with the correct year: Saeed started his professional football career at the age of 17, when he joined the Iraq national varsity football team and won the ___…
  62. Complete the sentence about Hussein Saeed with the correct year: Hussein Saeed was born on 21 January ______ in Al Adhamiya, where most of the Al-Ubaid tribe lived, to a conservative Baghdadi family.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hussein Saeed with the correct year: Al-Azzawi called him up to the varsity team and, in his first competitive tournament with the team, he won the gold medal in the ______…
  64. Complete the sentence about Hussein Saeed with the correct year: Saeed joined Al-Jamiea when he was 17 years old in ______ with an invitation from the manager Jamal Salih who lived in Saeed's neighbor…
  65. Complete the sentence about Al-Zawraa SC with the correct year: Al-Zawraa was founded on 29 June ______ as Al-Muwasalat, which means 'Transportation'.
  66. Complete the sentence about Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya with the correct year: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya is the oldest existing football club in Iraq, having been founded in ______ under the name Gipsy Moth by a group…
  67. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Premier League with the correct year: In ______, the competition was rebranded as the Iraq Stars League and transitioned into a fully professional competition.
  68. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Premier League with the correct year: Up until ______, leagues in Iraq were organised on a regional basis, reflecting the country's administrative and geographic divi…
  69. Complete the sentence about Iraq at the Olympics with the correct year: Iraq returned to win a Bronze medal at the ______ Summer Olympics in Rome.
  70. Complete the sentence about Iraq at the Olympics with the correct year: On April 9, ______, the National Olympic Committee of Iraq building in Baghdad was damaged in looting and fires from looters.
  71. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Airways with the correct year: While waiting for the Vikings to be delivered, it leased four Douglas DC-3 aircraft from BOAC in December ______.
  72. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The new Vikings were delivered at the end of ______ and the DC-3s returned to BOAC.
  73. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Airways with the correct year: In ______, the four-engined Vickers Viscount turboprop was chosen to replace the Vikings and an order for three was placed in July.
  74. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Airways with the correct year: The Viscounts entered service in ______ and operated all of Iraqi Airways' international services, including a new route to London Heat…
  75. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Airways with the correct year: On 1 April ______, the airline was split from the railway company.
  76. Complete the sentence about University of Baghdad with the correct year: Established in ______, it was the second largest university in the Arab world, after the University of Cairo.
  77. Complete the sentence about University of Baghdad with the correct year: The College of Islamic Sciences claims that it originated in ______ A.D. as Abu-Haneefa.
  78. Complete the sentence about University of Baghdad with the correct year: In ______, the first higher institution for girls, Queen Alia College, was established.
  79. Complete the sentence about Mustansiriyah University with the correct year: The modern Mustansiriyah University was established with the help and financial support of the Republic of Ίrāq Teachers' Un…
  80. Complete the sentence about Mustansiriyah University with the correct year: Mustansiriyah was designated as a separate University in ______, and its branch campuses were detached to form part of the U…
  81. Complete the sentence about Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra with the correct year: The orchestra became officially known as the Iraqi National Symphony in ______ when its members began to receive a…
  82. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Maqam with the correct year: At the Cairo Congress of Arab Music in ______, Muhammad al-Qubanchi and his Baghdad ensemble performed several compositions of Iraqi maqa…
  83. Complete the sentence about Kurdish culture with the correct year: The best example of this is in Turkey, where Kurds were not permitted to speak their native language until ______, which made the dev…
  84. Complete the sentence about Sinbad the Sailor with the correct year: And The story of Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp, was published in Philadelphia in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Aladdin with the correct year: According to Galland's diary, he met with Hanna, who had travelled from Aleppo to Paris with the French traveller Paul Lucas, on March 25, __…
  86. Complete the sentence about Aladdin with the correct year: The other was supposed to be a copy the Arab scholar Mikha'il Sabbagh made of a manuscript written in Baghdad in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Aladdin with the correct year: The arabist Hermann Zotenberg believed in the authenticity of Sabbagh Manuscript, so he published a critical edition of the arabic version of…
  88. Complete the sentence about Aladdin with the correct year: The following is a précis of the Richard Francis Burton translation of ______, one of the more significant versions.
  89. Complete the sentence about Library of Ashurbanipal with the correct year: The group of the legal documents covers letters, contracts and administrative texts and consists of ______ Babylonian tablets…
  90. Complete the sentence about Royal Cemetery at Ur with the correct year: Woolley began his excavation in ______ on behalf of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology…
  91. Complete the sentence about Standard of Ur with the correct year: The Standard was completely dismantled and reassembled in ______, with the inlays on the end panels being adjusted at that time.
  92. Complete the sentence about Burney Relief with the correct year: The relief was first brought to public attention with a full-page reproduction in The Illustrated London News, in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Burney Relief with the correct year: From Burney, it passed to the collection of Norman Colville, after whose death in ______ it was acquired by the Japanese collector Goro…
  94. Complete the sentence about Mask of Warka with the correct year: The Mask of Warka was discovered on 22 February ______ by the expedition of the German Archaeological Institute, led by Dr A.
  95. Complete the sentence about Baghdad Battery with the correct year: Four were found in ______ in Seleucia dating to the Sassanid period.
  96. Complete the sentence about Baghdad Battery with the correct year: The current whereabouts of most of the artifacts are unknown, since the ______ US-led invasion of Iraq.
  97. Complete the sentence about Baghdad Battery with the correct year: Four clay vessels were excavated at Seleucia in ______ under the archaeological direction of Leroy Waterman, University of Michigan.
  98. Complete the sentence about Baghdad Battery with the correct year: In ______ he authored a paper offering the hypothesis that the Khujut Rabu jar may have formed a galvanic cell, perhaps used for elec…
  99. Complete the sentence about Baghdad Battery with the correct year: After the publication of a sensationalist article describing the jar in the March ______ edition of Astounding Science-Fiction, elect…
  100. Complete the sentence about Islamic Golden Age with the correct year: The period is said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate following the Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghda…

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