Iraqi Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

137 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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  1. Complete the sentence about Islamic Golden Age with the correct year: Select scholars extend the end of the golden age to around ______, thereby including the Timurid Renaissance.
  2. Complete the sentence about Plimpton 322 with the correct year: Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, believed to have been written around ______ BC, that contains a mathematical table written in…
  3. Complete the sentence about Al Iraqiya with the correct year: On 31 May ______, Ali Jaafar, a sports anchorman for the channel, was killed in Baghdad by unidentified gunmen.
  4. Complete the sentence about Rudaw with the correct year: Rudaw Research Center is headquartered in Erbil city, and was launched in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Turkish coffee with the correct year: Coffee was in use in Istanbul by ______; a legal document mentions that Ottoman admiral Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha's house had a coffee…
  6. Complete the sentence about Turkish coffee with the correct year: A ______ Danish expedition recorded that "northern and eastern Arabs" prepared bean coffee "in the same way as with the Turks".
  7. Complete the sentence about Turkish coffee with the correct year: Already in ______ several ships were ordered to be sunk in Istanbul harbour for importing coffee.
  8. Complete the sentence about Iraqi football with the correct year: Iraq is one of eight AFC nations to have won the AFC Asian Cup, claiming the title in ______ in spite of difficult conditions and limi…
  9. Complete the sentence about Iraq at the 2004 Summer Olympics with the correct year: The following is the Iraqi squad in the men's football tournament of the ______ Summer Olympics.
  10. Complete the sentence about Iraqi women with the correct year: The Iraqi Revolt in ______ included women who participated against British oppression.
  11. Complete the sentence about Iraqi women with the correct year: In ______, the Iraqi women's movement started with the founding of the Women's Awakening Club, and the first women's magazine, Layla, pub…
  12. Complete the sentence about Iraqi women with the correct year: In the 1930s and 1940s, female College students gradually started to appear unveiled, and most upper- and middle class urban women in Ira…
  13. Complete the sentence about Iraqi women with the correct year: Instability dominated the region until ______ when the Ba'ath Party took control over the President Al Bakr and Iraq began to enjoy a per…
  14. Complete the sentence about Healthcare in Iraq with the correct year: Medical facilities, which in ______ were among the best in the Middle East, deteriorated.
  15. Complete the sentence about Healthcare in Iraq with the correct year: In ______ the incidence of typhoid, cholera, malaria, and tuberculosis was higher in Iraq than in comparable countries.
  16. Complete the sentence about Healthcare in Iraq with the correct year: The conflict of ______ destroyed an estimated 12 percent of hospitals and Iraq's two main public health laboratories.
  17. Complete the sentence about Demographics of Iraq with the correct year: The percentage of Christians has fallen from 6% in ______ or 1.5 million to about one third of this.
  18. Complete the sentence about Culture of Iraq with the correct year: Since ______, the Turkmen/Turkoman have switched from the Arabic script to the Turkish alphabet.
  19. Complete the sentence about Transport in Iraq with the correct year: An overland trans-desert bus service between Beirut, Haifa, Damascus and Baghdad was established by the Nairn Transport Company of…
  20. Complete the sentence about Baghdad International Airport with the correct year: The construction of today's three terminals began in ______, under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
  21. Complete the sentence about Baghdad International Airport with the correct year: During the invasion of Iraq in ______, the airport was the scene of heavily intense fighting between the United-States…
  22. Complete the sentence about Basra International Airport with the correct year: Actual development proceeded in the airport only after the ______ US led invasion of Iraq.
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The unit was re-deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan during mid ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Basra International Airport with the correct year: Following the American control and since ______, SkyLink Arabia has been providing ground operations and fuel supply at t…
  25. Complete the sentence about Erbil International Airport with the correct year: The airstrip was used as a military base until ______ by the Ba'ath Party regime as a result of United Nations Security C…
  26. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 26 May ______, the airport was given the ICAO airport code ORER.
  27. Complete the sentence about Erbil International Airport with the correct year: Endowed with natural resources including oil, natural gas and other minerals, investment in Iraq has increased substantia…
  28. Complete the sentence about Erbil International Airport with the correct year: A newly built, US$550 million airport was opened on 5 July ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Kurds with the correct year: The Kurdish expectation of independence, promised in the Treaty of Sèvres in ______, was short-lived.
  30. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Kurds with the correct year: In ______, the Treaty of Lausanne established the Republic of Turkey, redefining borders and negating provisions for a Kurdish state.
  31. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Kurds with the correct year: Similarly, the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of ______, which laid the groundwork for Iraqi independence, did not include any guarantees for Kurdish…
  32. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Kurds with the correct year: In the year ______, Abdul Karim Qasim made a coup against the British and the Republic of Iraq was established.
  33. Complete the sentence about Iraqi Kurds with the correct year: So the KDP began an insurgency against the Government in Baghdad in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Kurds with the correct year: The total number of Kurds in ______ was placed at 22.5 million, with 48% of this number living in Turkey, 24% in Iran, 18% in Iraq, and 4% in S…
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Al-Kindi? Al-Kindi was born in ______ to an aristocratic family of the Arabian tribe of the Kinda, descended from the chieftain al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, a contemp…
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Abu Hanifa? When Hammad died, Abu Hanifa succeeded him as the principal authority on Islamic law in ______ and the chief representative of the Kufan school of…
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Shia Islam in Iraq? The Battle of ______ took place in 680, where Husayn ibn Ali was martyred by Umayyad forces of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and Umar ibn Sa'd at…

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