A Quiz to Test Your Knowledge of the Middle East. by B. Bee Sharper
Based on information from a July 2002 Orlando Sentinel article by Charley Reese. Choose the correct numerical answer. Do not be naughty and peep at the answers before you have completed the entire test.
1. Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? 2. Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections? 3. Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of
other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of
United Nations Security Council resolutions? 4. Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the
international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and
artillery and naval gunfire? 5.Q: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins
into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes
called exporting terrorism)? 6. Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military
officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
7. Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers
who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war? 8. Q: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and
refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses? 9 Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to
people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated? 10. Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations
diplomat assassinated? 11. Q: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the
assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister? 12. Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic
facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters,
killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors? 13. Q: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to
steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union? 14. Q: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard,
then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the
American president grant Pollard a full pardon? 15. Q: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in
the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of
Washington insiders? 16. Q: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations
Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S.
vetoes? 17. Q: What country is the United States threatening to bomb because "U.N.
Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?" |
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