Envoy!

The Premise of Envoy:

The United Nations has resolved to form a Peace Envoy to send the Middle East. The students with the best knowledge of the Middle East will be selected. Fill out the form below and see if you have what it takes.

Envoy! is more than just a trivia quiz. It challenges you to draw inferences based on your knowledge of the Middle East. Some of the answers will appear on other web sites. Use the Links page to access other web sites on the Middle East. The questions have been carefully crafted so that there is only one "best" answer.

You will only be allowed to play the game once. Please enter your full name in the space provided. The name field will only be used to identify you for the Hall of Fame and to ensure that you don't play the game more than once.

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Question 1: The countries in the Middle East have been completely conquered by which of the following?
Persian Emprie, Alexander the Great, Ottoman Empire, and the Crusaders	Umayyad Dynasty, Roman Empire, Persian Empire, and the Seljuks
Abassid Dynasty, Umayyad Dynasty, Alexander the Great, and the Ottoman Empire	Persian Empire, Alexaner the Great, Umayyad Dynasty, and the Abassid Dynasty

Question 2: After World War I, which countries gained control over huge portions of Middle Eastern territories?
England and France	England and the United States
France and Russia	Greece and England

Question 3: Which Middle Eastern country was the first to gain independence in the 20th century?
Turkey	Iran
Egypt	Kuwait

Question 4: Which of the following sets of documents have contributed to the peace process?
Gaza-Jericho Agreement and the Sykes-Pico Agreement	McMahon Correspondences and Washington Declaration
Balfour Declaration and White Papers	U.N. Resolution 242 and the Declaration of Principles

Question 5: Peace treaties have been signed between which of the following countries?
Egypt and Israel; Jordan and Israel	Kuwait and Israel; Egypt and Israel
Iraq and Israel; Kuwait and Israel	Iran and Israel; Jordan and Israel

Question 6: U.N. Resolution 598 ended a war in the Middle East which claimed over 1 million lives and wounded an additional 1.7 million. This war was:
The Yom Kippur War	Iran-Iraq War
Six Day War	War of Israeli Independence

Question 7: Which of the following countries have literacy rates at or over 80%?
Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Israel	Bahrian, Kuwait, Israel, UAE, and Egypt
Kuwait, UAE, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia	Jordan, Turkey, Oman, Lebanon, and Israel

Question 8: Which of the following sets of countries have roughly equal populations?
Israel and libya	UAE and Oman
Iran and Egypt	All of the above

Question 9: As part of the peace process with Israell, which country has taken the lead in establishing a regional desalinization research center?
Oman	Jordan
Syria	Egypt

Question 10: The largest manuscript collection in Syria can be found at:
Center for Historical Documents	Zahiriyya Library
Institute Francais des Etudies Arabes a Damascus	Asad National Library

Created: July 15, 1996
Last Modified: August 13, 1996
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