Question: What is one example of a unique factorization domain?

Answer: the Gaussian integers Z[i]

Answer: Gaussian integers

Answer: Gaussian integers Z[i],

Answer: Gaussian integers Z[i]


Question: What form do complex Gaussian integers have?

Answer: a + bi

Answer: a + bi

Answer: a + bi

Answer: a + bi


Question: What do a and b represent in a Gaussian integer expression?

Answer: arbitrary integers

Answer: arbitrary integers

Answer: arbitrary integers

Answer: arbitrary integers


Question: Of what form are rational primes?

Answer: 4k + 3

Answer: 4k + 3

Answer: Z


Question: In what theory is the idea of a number exchanged with that of an ideal?

Answer: In ring theory

Answer: ring

Answer: ring theory

Answer: ring theory


Question: What type of ideals generalize prime elements?

Answer: Prime ideals

Answer: Prime

Answer: Prime ideals

Answer: Prime ideals


Question: What type of number theory utilizes and studies prime ideals?

Answer: algebraic number theory

Answer: algebraic

Answer: algebraic

Answer: algebraic


Question: Which theorem can be simplified to the Lasker–Noether theorem?

Answer: The fundamental theorem of arithmetic

Answer: theorem of arithmetic

Answer: fundamental theorem of arithmetic

Answer: The fundamental theorem of arithmetic


Question: What type of commutative ring does the Lasker–Noether theorem express every ideal as an intersection of primary ideals in?

Answer: a Noetherian commutative ring

Answer: Noetherian

Answer: Noetherian commutative ring

Answer: Noetherian


Question: What are the points of algebro-geometric objects?

Answer: Prime ideals

Answer: Prime ideals

Answer: Prime ideals

Answer: Prime ideals


Question: What does factorization of prime ideals approximate?

Answer: ramification in geometry

Answer: ramification

Answer: ramification

Answer: ramification in geometry


Question: In what type of ring can prime ideals be used for validating quadratic reciprocity?

Answer: ring of integers of quadratic number fields

Answer: integers of quadratic number fields

Answer: integers of quadratic number fields

Answer: the ring of integers of quadratic number fields


Question: What does quadratic reciprocity seek to achieve?

Answer: the solvability of quadratic equations

Answer: solvability of quadratic equations

Answer: solvability of quadratic equations

Answer: the solvability of quadratic equations


Question: What happens to the norm when a number is multiplied by p?

Answer: norm gets smaller

Answer: gets smaller

Answer: gets smaller

Answer: gets smaller


Question: To what may general global fields be transferred to or from?

Answer: completed (or local) fields

Answer: completed (or local) fields

Answer: the completed (or local) fields

Answer: the completed (or local) fields


Question: Completing Q with respect to what will produce the field of real numbers?

Answer: the absolute value

Answer: the absolute value

Answer: absolute value

Answer: the absolute value


Question: What principle highlights the significance of primes in number theory

Answer: local-global principle

Answer: local-global

Answer: local-global principle

Answer: local-global principle


Question: Which French composer wrote ametrical music using prime numbers?

Answer: Olivier Messiaen

Answer: Olivier Messiaen

Answer: Olivier Messiaen

Answer: Olivier Messiaen


Question: What is one work by Olivier Messiaen?

Answer: La Nativité du Seigneur

Answer: La Nativité du Seigneur

Answer: La Nativité du Seigneur

Answer: La Nativité du Seigneur


Question: What is another piece created by Olivier Messiaen?

Answer: Quatre études de rythme

Answer: Quatre études de rythme

Answer: Quatre études de rythme

Answer: Quatre études de rythme


Question: In which etude of Neumes rythmiques do the primes 41, 43, 47 and 53 appear in?

Answer: the third étude

Answer: third

Answer: third

Answer: third


Question: Messiaen says that composition with prime numbers was inspired by what?

Answer: the movements of nature

Answer: the movements of nature, movements of free and unequal durations

Answer: the movements of nature, movements of free and unequal durations

Answer: the movements of nature, movements of free and unequal durations


Question: Where does the Rhine begin?

Answer: Swiss canton

Answer: s in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps,

Answer: Graubünden

Answer: Graubünden


Question: Where does the Rhine empty?

Answer: North Sea

Answer: the North Sea in the Netherlands

Answer: North Sea

Answer: North Sea


Question: What is the largest city the Rhine runs through?

Answer: Cologne, Germany

Answer: Cologne, Germany

Answer: Cologne


Question: What river is larger than the Rhine?

Answer: Danube

Answer: the Danube

Answer: Danube

Answer: Danube


Question: How long is the Rhine?

Answer: 1,230 km (760 mi)

Answer: 1,230 km (760 mi)

Answer: 1,230 km

Answer: 1,230 km


Question: Where is the Rhine?

Answer: Europe

Answer: Central and Western Europe

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany


Question: What country does the Rhine empty?

Answer: Netherlands

Answer: Germany

Answer: Netherlands

Answer: Netherlands


Question: How long is the Rhine?

Answer: 1,230 km

Answer: 1,230 km (760 mi)

Answer: 1,230 km

Answer: 1,230 km


Question: Where does the name Rhine derive from?

Answer: Gaulish name Rēnos

Answer: Rēnos

Answer: the Gaulish name Rēnos

Answer: Rēnos

Answer: Rēnos


Question: What is the French name for the Rhine?

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin


Question: What is the Proto-Germanic adaptation of the name of the Rhine?

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: *Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz


Question: What century did the name of the Rhine come from?

Answer: 1st century BC

Answer: 1st

Answer: Roman-era

Answer: 1st century BC


Question: What does the name The Rhine come from?

Answer: Gaulish name Rēnos

Answer: Rhenus

Answer: the Gaulish name Rēnos

Answer: 1st century BC

Answer: Rēnos


Question: What is the Rhine called in French?

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin

Answer: Rhin


Question: What is the Rhine called in Dutch?

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn


Question: What is the Proto-Germanic adoption of the Gaulish name of the Rhine?

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz

Answer: Rīnaz


Question: How was the Dutch name for the Rhine originally spelled?

Answer: Rhijn

Answer: Rhijn

Answer: Rhijn

Answer: Rhijn

Answer: Rhijn


Question: What is the conventional method to measure the Rhine?

Answer: Rhine-kilometers

Answer: Rhine-kilometers

Answer: "Rhine-kilometers"

Answer: Rhine-kilometers

Answer: Rhine-kilometers


Question: When was the scale to measure the Rhine introduced?

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939


Question: Where does the Rhine river's measurement begin?

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: the Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge


Question: Where does the Rhine river's measurement end?

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: (1036.20 km)

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: Hoek van Holland


Question: What has shortened the Rhine river?

Answer: canalisation projects

Answer: canalisation projects

Answer: the river's natural course due to number of canalisation projects completed in the 19th and 20th century

Answer: canalisation projects

Answer: canalisation projects


Question: What is the conventional measurement of the Rhine?

Answer: Rhine-kilometers"

Answer: Rhine-kilometers

Answer: kilometres

Answer: Rhine-kilometers

Answer: Rhine-kilometers


Question: When was the measurement of the Rhine introduced?

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939

Answer: 1939


Question: Where does the Rhine begin?

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: the Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge at Constance

Answer: Old Rhine Bridge


Question: Why has the Rhine been shortened?

Answer: canalisation projects

Answer: canalisation projects

Answer: from the river's natural course due to number of canalisation projects completed in the 19th and 20th century

Answer: canalisation projects

Answer: canalisation projects


Question: Where does the Rhine end?

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: Hoek van Holland

Answer: Hoek van Holland


Question: Near Chur, which direction does the Rhine turn?

Answer: north

Answer: north

Answer: north

Answer: north

Answer: north


Question: How long is the section of the Rhine near Chur?

Answer: 86 km long,

Answer: 86 km

Answer: 86 km long

Answer: 86 km

Answer: 86 km


Question: What is the alpine valley that the Rhine flows through?

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley


Question: What is the natural dam that the Rhine flows through?

Answer: Sargans

Answer: Near Sargans

Answer: Sargans

Answer: Sargans

Answer: Sargans


Question: What is the other country the Rhine separates Switzerland to?

Answer: Austria

Answer: Liechtenstein

Answer: Austria to the East.

Answer: Austria

Answer: Austria


Question: Where does the Rhine make a distinctive turn to the north?

Answer: Chur

Answer: Chur

Answer: Chur

Answer: Chur


Question: How long is the section that turns north?

Answer: 86 km

Answer: 86 km

Answer: 86 km long

Answer: 86 km

Answer: 86 km


Question: What is the height of the section that turns north?

Answer: 599 m

Answer: 599 m to 396 m

Answer: 599 m to 396 m

Answer: 599 m

Answer: 599 m


Question: What is the glacial alpine valley known as?

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley

Answer: Rhine Valley


Question: The Rhine forms the border between Austria and what other country?

Answer: Switzerland

Answer: Switzerland

Answer: Liechtenstein

Answer: Switzerland

Answer: Switzerland


Question: The Rhine forms an inland delta into which lake?

Answer: Lake Constance

Answer: Lake Constance

Answer: Lake Constance

Answer: Lake Constance


Question: What is the delta in the Rhine delimited in the west by?

Answer: Alter Rhein

Answer: Alter Rhein

Answer: the Alter Rhein

Answer: Alter Rhein


Question: What is the delta in the Rhine delimited in the east by?

Answer: modern canalized section

Answer: modern canalized

Answer: modern canalized section

Answer: canalized section


Question: In local Alemannic dialect, what is the the singular form of the names of the islands formed by the Rhine?

Answer: Isel

Answer: Isel

Answer: "Isel"

Answer: Isel


Question: What is the animal that the Rhine's islands are named after?

Answer: Donkey

Answer: Donkey

Answer: "Donkey")

Answer: Donkey


Question: The inland delta at the mouth of the Rhine is with what Lake?

Answer: Lake Constance

Answer: Lake Constance

Answer: West by the Alter Rhein

Answer: Lake Constance


Question: What delimits the delta of the Rhine in the East?

Answer: modern canalized section

Answer: modern canalized

Answer: modern canalized section

Answer: canalized section


Question: What delimits the delta of the Rhine in the west?

Answer: Alter Rhein

Answer: Alter Rhein

Answer: Alter Rhein

Answer: Alter Rhein


Question: What did the Rhine branch off to form in Austria?

Answer: small islands

Answer: small islands by precipitating sediments

Answer: small islands

Answer: islands


Question: What is the Almannic dialect to describe the islands outside in Austria?

Answer: Isel

Answer: Isel

Answer: "Isel"

Answer: Isel


Question: Where is the upper canal regulation of the Rhine?

Answer: Diepoldsau

Answer: Diepoldsau

Answer: near Diepoldsau

Answer: Diepoldsau


Question: What is the lower canal regulation of the Rhine?

Answer: Fußach

Answer: Fußach

Answer: Fußach

Answer: Fußach


Question: Besides constant flooding, why else was there regulation of the Rhine?

Answer: strong sedimentation

Answer: strong sedimentation

Answer: strong sedimentation in the western Rhine Delta

Answer: strong sedimentation


Question: After the Dornbirner Ach was diverted, where does the Rhine flow now?

Answer: parallel to the canalized Rhine

Answer: the canalized Rhine

Answer: parallel to the canalized Rhine into the lake.

Answer: into the lake


Question: What is expected with the continuous input of sediment into the Dornbirner Ach?

Answer: silt

Answer: silt up the lake

Answer: the continuous input of sediment into the lake will silt up the lake

Answer: silt up the lake


Question: Where was the Rhine regulated with a lower canal?

Answer: Fußach

Answer: Fußach

Answer: Fußach

Answer: Fußach


Question: Why was the Rhine regulated?

Answer: constant flooding

Answer: constant flooding and strong sedimentation

Answer: to counteract the constant flooding and strong sedimentation in the western Rhine Delta

Answer: to counteract the constant flooding and strong sedimentation


Question: Where was the Rhine regulated with an upper canal?

Answer: Diepoldsau

Answer: Diepoldsau

Answer: near Diepoldsau

Answer: Diepoldsau


Question: What was diverted and now flows parallel to the Rhine?

Answer: Dornbirner Ach

Answer: Dornbirner Ach

Answer: The Dornbirner Ach

Answer: Dornbirner Ach


Question: What will cause the lake near the Rhine to silt up?

Answer: continuous input of sediment

Answer: continuous input of sediment

Answer: It is expected that the continuous input of sediment into the lake will silt up the lake

Answer: continuous input of sediment into the lake


Question: How many bodies of water makes up Lake Constance?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three bodies of water:

Answer: three


Question: What does Untersee mean?

Answer: lower lake

Answer: lower lake

Answer: "lower lake"

Answer: lower lake


Question: What lake connects the Rhine to Lake Constance?

Answer: Lake Rhine

Answer: Seerhein

Answer: Untersee

Answer: Seerhein


Question: Which border does the Rhine flow from the south?

Answer: Swiss-Austrian border

Answer: Swiss-Austrian

Answer: Swiss-Austrian border


Question: What does Obersee mean?

Answer: upper lake

Answer: upper lake

Answer: ("upper lake"

Answer: upper lake


Question: How many bodies of water makes up Lake Constance?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three bodies of water

Answer: three


Question: Besides Germany and Switzerland, where else is Lake Constance?

Answer: Austria

Answer: Austria

Answer: Austria

Answer: Austria


Question: What mountainous region is Lake Constance by?

Answer: Alps

Answer: Alps

Answer: the Alps

Answer: Alps


Question: Where is the border of Swiss and Austria?

Answer: 47°39′N 9°19′E / 47.650°N 9.317°E / 47.650; 9.317.

Answer: 47°39′N 9°19′E / 47.650°N 9.317°E / 47.650; 9.317

Answer: 47°39′N 9°19′E / 47.650°N 9.317°E / 47.650; 9.317


Question: Lake Constance separates the German state Bavaria from what other one?

Answer: Baden-Württemberg

Answer: Baden-Württemberg

Answer: Baden-Württemberg

Answer: Baden-Württemberg


Question: Why does the Rhine water fall into depths at the Rheinbrech?

Answer: greater density of cold water

Answer: greater density of cold water

Answer: because of the greater density of cold water


Question: What Lake in a German island Mainau receives a fraction of the Rhine's flow?

Answer: Lake Überlingen

Answer: Lake Überlingen

Answer: Lake Überlingen


Question: Where does the cold and warm water meet the warm water?

Answer: Rheinbrech

Answer: Upper Lake

Answer: Rheinbrech


Question: How much of the lake connecting with the Rhine can you see from the German islands?

Answer: entire length

Answer: the entire length of the lake

Answer: entire length of the lake


Question: What is the Island off of the German shore of the Rhine that this warm and cold water meet?

Answer: Lindau

Answer: Lindau

Answer: Lindau


Question: Where does the cold water mix with Lake Constance?

Answer: Rheinbrech

Answer: Upper Lake

Answer: Rheinrinne


Question: What island does the cold water flow of the Rhine and Lake Constance flow to?

Answer: Lindau

Answer: Lindau

Answer: Mainau


Question: A small fraction of the cold water flow from Lake Constance goes to what other lake?

Answer: Lake Überlingen

Answer: Lake Überlingen

Answer: Lake Überlingen


Question: What does the word Rheinrinne translate to?

Answer: Rhine Gutter

Answer: Rhine Gutter

Answer: Rhine Gutter


Question: What does the flow of the Rhine being visible depend on?

Answer: water level

Answer: water level

Answer: water level


Question: After the Rhine emerges from Lake Constance, what direction does it flow?

Answer: westward

Answer: westward

Answer: westward


Question: What is the major tributary of the Rhine?

Answer: river Aare

Answer: Aare

Answer: river Aare


Question: How much water does the Aare give to the Rhine?

Answer: 1,000 m3/s (35,000 cu ft/s)

Answer: 1,000 m3/s


Question: Where is the highest point of the Rhine basin?

Answer: Finsteraarhorn

Answer: summit of Finsteraarhorn

Answer: Finsteraarhorn, t


Question: Where is the so-called Rhine Knee?

Answer: Basel

Answer: Basel

Answer: Basel, leaving Switzerland


Question: When the Rhine emerges from Lake Constance which way does it flow?

Answer: westward

Answer: westward

Answer: westward


Question: What is the major tributary for the Rhine?

Answer: Aare

Answer: Aare

Answer: river Aare


Question: The Rhine gets how much water from the Aare?

Answer: 1,000 m3/s (35,000 cu ft/s),

Answer: 1,000 m3/s


Question: What is the highest point of the Rhine basin called?

Answer: Finsteraarhorn

Answer: summit of Finsteraarhorn

Answer: Finsteraarhorn


Question: There's a rough border between Switzerland and what other country formed by the Rhine?

Answer: German

Answer: German-Swiss border

Answer: German


Question: What is the first major city in the stream of the Rhine?

Answer: Basel

Answer: Basel

Answer: Basel,


Question: What is the bend of Rhine in Basel called?

Answer: Rhine knee

Answer: Rhine knee

Answer: Rhine knee


Question: What is the boundary between the High and Upper Rhine?

Answer: Central Bridge

Answer: Central Bridge

Answer: Central Bridge


Question: How long is the Upper Rhine Plain?

Answer: 300 km long

Answer: 300 km long

Answer: 300 km long


Question: How wide is the Upper Rhine Plain?

Answer: 40 km wide

Answer: 40 km wide

Answer: 40 km


Question: What is the first major city in the course of the Rhine?

Answer: Basel

Answer: Basel

Answer: Basel


Question: What is the first major bend in the Rhine called?

Answer: Rhine knee

Answer: Rhine knee

Answer: Rhine knee


Question: The bend on the Rhine goes from the West to what direction?

Answer: North

Answer: North

Answer: North


Question: What ends at this bend in the Rhine?

Answer: High Rhine

Answer: High Rhine

Answer: High Rhine


Question: What is the legal boundary behind the High and Upper Rind?

Answer: Central Bridge

Answer: Central Bridge

Answer: Central Bridge


Question: Which century was there a program to straighten the Rhine?

Answer: 19th Century

Answer: 19th

Answer: 19th


Question: What happened to the rate of flow in the Rhine during the Rhine straightening program?

Answer: increased

Answer: increased

Answer: rate of flow was increased


Question: What happened to the ground water in the Rhine during the Rhine straightening program?

Answer: fell significantly

Answer: fell significantly

Answer: level fell significantly


Question: Which canal was dug in France to carry Rhine's water?

Answer: Grand Canal d'Alsace

Answer: Grand Canal d'Alsace

Answer: Grand Canal d'Alsace


Question: What is the Bassin de compensation de Plobsheim in Alsace?

Answer: large compensation pools

Answer: large compensation pools

Answer: compensation pools


Question: What region of the Rhine was changed by the Rhine Straightening program?

Answer: Upper Rhine

Answer: Upper Rhine

Answer: Upper Rhine region


Question: When did the Rhine Straightening program begin?

Answer: 19th Century

Answer: 19th

Answer: 19th Century


Question: What happened with the rate of flow in the Rhine with the straightening program?

Answer: increased

Answer: increased

Answer: was increased


Question: What happened with the ground water level with the Rhine straightening program?

Answer: fell significantly

Answer: fell significantly

Answer: level fell


Question: What carries a significant amount of the Rhine flow through France?

Answer: Grand Canal d'Alsace

Answer: Grand Canal d'Alsace

Answer: Grand Canal d'Alsace


Question: Where does the Rhine encounter it's tributary the Neckar?

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany


Question: What is the average discharge of the Moselle to the Rhine?

Answer: 300 m3/s (11,000 cu ft/s)

Answer: 300 m3/s

Answer: 300 m3/s


Question: What is the longest river in Germany?

Answer: Rhine

Answer: Rhine

Answer: The Rhine


Question: What is a main tributary to the Rhine that goes through Northeastern France and part of Belgium?

Answer: Moselle

Answer: Moselle

Answer: the Moselle


Question: What is the average width of the Rhine?

Answer: 400 m (1,300 ft).

Answer: 400 m

Answer: 400 m


Question: The Rhine is the longest river in what country?

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany


Question: Which country does the Rhine encounter it's main tributaries?

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany


Question: Which of the tributaries in Germany contributes most?

Answer: Moselle

Answer: Neckar

Answer: Neckar


Question: What country does the Moselle take the Rhine to?

Answer: France

Answer: France

Answer: France


Question: How much does the Rhine discharge at the Dutch border?

Answer: 2,290 m3/s (81,000 cu ft/s)

Answer: 2,290 m3/s

Answer: 2,290 m3/s


Question: What flows between the Bingen and Bonn?

Answer: Middle Rhine

Answer: Middle Rhine

Answer: Middle Rhine


Question: What gorge is between the Bingen and Bonn?

Answer: Rhine Gorge

Answer: Rhine Gorge

Answer: Rhine Gorge


Question: How was the Rhine Gorge formed?

Answer: erosion

Answer: erosion

Answer: by erosion


Question: What is the area called near the Rhine Gorge with castles from the middle ages?

Answer: the Romantic Rhine

Answer: the Romantic Rhine

Answer: the Romantic Rhine


Question: What flows between Bingen and Bonn?

Answer: Middle Rhine

Answer: Middle Rhine

Answer: Middle Rhine


Question: Where does the Middle Rhine flow between Bingen and Bonn?

Answer: Rhine Gorge

Answer: Rhine Gorge

Answer: Rhine Gorge


Question: What is the Rhine Gorge known for?

Answer: castles

Answer: castles and vineyards

Answer: castles and vineyards


Question: What is the section of the Rhine Gorge recognized by UNESCO called?

Answer: Romantic Rhine

Answer: the Romantic Rhine

Answer: the Romantic Rhine


Question: What contributed to water pollution in the Rhine?

Answer: plants and factories

Answer: industry

Answer: industry


Question: What is Europe's largest inland port?

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Duisburg


Question: What rive joins the Rhine in Duisburg?

Answer: Ruhr

Answer: Ruhr

Answer: The Ruhr


Question: What does the Ruhr provide to it's community?

Answer: drinking water

Answer: drinking water

Answer: drinking water


Question: Where are a bulk of factories concentrated along the Rhine?

Answer: Switzerland

Answer: Lower Rhine

Answer: Lower Rhine


Question: What did industry do to the Rhine until the 1980s?

Answer: pollution

Answer: pollution

Answer: water pollution


Question: Which section of the Rhine is most factories found?

Answer: Lower Rhine

Answer: Lower Rhine

Answer: Lower Rhine


Question: What country has the most factories that pollute the Rhine?

Answer: Switzerland

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Switzerland


Question: What city has the largest inland port in Europe?

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Duisburg


Question: Which river joins the Rhine in Duisburg?

Answer: Ruhr

Answer: Ruhr

Answer: The Ruhr


Question: Besides viniculture, what's a dominant economic sector of the Middle Rhine?

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism


Question: There's a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Rhine Gorge between the Koblenz and what?

Answer: Rüdesheim am Rhein

Answer: Rüdesheim am Rhein

Answer: Rüdesheim am Rhein


Question: What is the famous rock near Sanke Goarshausen?

Answer: Lorelei

Answer: Lorelei

Answer: Lorelei


Question: What is considered the epitome of the Rhine romanticism?

Answer: Middle Rhine Valley

Answer: Middle Rhine Valley

Answer: Middle Rhine Valley


Question: Besides viniculture, what is the other dominate economic sector in the middle rhine?

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism


Question: What is the Rhine Gorge listed as?

Answer: UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Answer: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Answer: World Heritage Site


Question: The Rhine Gorge is between Koblenz and what other city?

Answer: Rüdesheim am Rhein

Answer: Rüdesheim am Rhein

Answer: Rüdesheim am Rhein


Question: What is the famous rock called that the Rhine flows around?

Answer: Lorelei

Answer: Lorelei

Answer: Lorelei


Question: Where is the famous rock the Rhine flows around?

Answer: Sankt Goarshausen

Answer: Near Sankt Goarshausen

Answer: Lorelei


Question: What city has the biggest port in Germany?

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Duisburg

Answer: Duisburg


Question: What is the Canal in Wesel?

Answer: Wesel-Datteln Canal

Answer: Wesel-Datteln Canal

Answer: Wesel-Datteln Canal


Question: What does the Wessel-Datteln canal run parallel to?

Answer: Lippe

Answer: Lippe

Answer: Lippe


Question: What is the largest suspension bridge in Germany?

Answer: Emmerich Rhine Bridge

Answer: Emmerich Rhine Bridge

Answer: Emmerich Rhine Bridge,


Question: How wide is the Rhine in Germany between Emmrich and Cleves?

Answer: 400 m

Answer: 400 m

Answer: 400 m


Question: What part of the Rhine flows through North Rhine-Westphalia?

Answer: Lower Rhine

Answer: Lower

Answer: Lower Rhine


Question: What is the region called that is the largest conurbation of the Rhine?

Answer: Rhine-Ruhr

Answer: Rhine-Ruhr

Answer: Rhine-Ruhr region


Question: What is the largest port in Europe called?

Answer: Duisport

Answer: Duisport

Answer: Duisburg


Question: What is the name of the longest bridge in Germany?

Answer: Emmerich Rhine Bridge

Answer: Emmerich Rhine Bridge

Answer: Emmerich Rhine Bridge


Question: How wide is the Rhine in Germany?

Answer: 400 m wide

Answer: 400 m

Answer: 400 m


Question: What does the water flow of the Rhine merge with after flowing through Merwede?

Answer: Meuse

Answer: Meuse

Answer: Meuse


Question: What is the Dutch name for the Rhine?

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn


Question: How much of the water flow does the Waal get from the Rhine?

Answer: Two thirds

Answer: Two thirds

Answer: Two thirds


Question: Which direction does two thirds of the Rhine flow outside of Germany?

Answer: west

Answer: west

Answer: west


Question: Where does two thirds of the Rhine flow outside of Germany?

Answer: Waal

Answer: Waal

Answer: through the Waal


Question: What does the Rhine merge with outside of Germany?

Answer: Meuse

Answer: Meuse

Answer: Meuse


Question: What's the name of where the Rhine branches off near Dordrecht?

Answer: The Oude Maas

Answer: Oude Maas

Answer: Oude Maas


Question: If two thirds of the Rhine flows through the Maas, where doe the other one third flow through?

Answer: Pannerdens Kanaal

Answer: Pannerdens Kanaal

Answer: the Pannerdens Kanaal


Question: The Rhine redistributes into the Ijssel and what other body?

Answer: Nederrijn

Answer: Nederrijn

Answer: Nederrijn


Question: What does the Nederrikn's name change into?

Answer: Lek

Answer: Lek

Answer: the Lek


Question: Where does the Lek join?

Answer: Noord River

Answer: Nieuwe Maas

Answer: Noord River


Question: If two thirds of the Rhine flows through Waal, where does the other third flow through?

Answer: Pannerdens Kanaal

Answer: Pannerdens Kanaal

Answer: the Pannerdens Kanaal


Question: Other than the Ijssel, where does the water from the Pannerdens Kanaal redsitrubute?

Answer: Nederrijn

Answer: Nederrijn

Answer: Nederrijn


Question: How much of the Rhine flow does Ijssel carry?

Answer: one ninth

Answer: one ninth

Answer: one ninth


Question: What does the Nederrijn change it's name to?

Answer: Lek

Answer: Lek

Answer: the Lek


Question: Where does the Nederrijn change it's name?

Answer: Wijk bij Duurstede

Answer: at Wijk bij Duurstede

Answer: Wijk bij Duurstede


Question: What is the name for the smaller streams along the region northern Germany?

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn

Answer: Rijn


Question: The smaller streams are used for what?

Answer: draining the surrounding land

Answer: draining the surrounding land and polders

Answer: for draining the surrounding land and polders


Question: What is the name of the old north branch of the Rhine?

Answer: Kromme Rijn

Answer: Kromme Rijn

Answer: Kromme Rijn


Question: What is the translation of the old north branch of rhe Rhine?

Answer: Bent Rhine

Answer: Bent Rhine

Answer: Bent Rhine


Question: What part of the Rhine flows west at Katwijk?

Answer: Old Rhine

Answer: Oude Rijn

Answer: Oude Rijn


Question: What is the name of the Delta in the Netherlands?

Answer: Rhine-Meuse

Answer: Rhine-Meuse Delta

Answer: Rhine-Meuse


Question: Where does the Delta in the Netherlands begin?

Answer: Millingen aan de Rijn,

Answer: near Millingen aan de Rijn

Answer: near Millingen aan de Rijn


Question: What is the nickname for the Delta in the Netherlands?

Answer: Rhine Delta

Answer: Rhine Delta

Answer: Rhine Delta


Question: At Millingen aan de Rijn where the Rhine splits, what does it change it's name to?

Answer: Nederrijn at Angeren

Answer: Nederrijn at Angeren

Answer: Nederrijn at Angeren


Question: How many main flows are branched off from the Nederrijn?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three


Question: What is the largest main branch of the Rhine?

Answer: Waal

Answer: Waal

Answer: Waal


Question: What is the translation of Oude Maas?

Answer: Old Meuse

Answer: Old Meuse

Answer: Old Meuse


Question: What is the English translation of Het Scheur?

Answer: the Rip

Answer: the Rip

Answer: the Rip


Question: What flood impacted the Meuse?

Answer: St. Elizabeth's

Answer: St. Elizabeth's

Answer: St. Elizabeth's flood


Question: What year did the flood that impacted the Meuse take place?

Answer: 1421

Answer: 1421

Answer: 1421


Question: Where did the Meuse flow before the flood?

Answer: Merwede-Oude Maas

Answer: Merwede-Oude Maas

Answer: North Sea


Question: When did the Meuse and Waal merge?

Answer: 1421 to 1904

Answer: 1421 to 1904

Answer: From 1421 to 1904


Question: What did the Merwede-Oude Maas form with Waal and Lek?

Answer: archipelago-like estuary

Answer: archipelago-like estuary

Answer: archipelago-like estuary


Question: What do closed rivers serve as after they close?

Answer: drainage channels

Answer: drainage channels

Answer: drainage channels


Question: What changed the Rhine's Delta?

Answer: construction of Delta Works

Answer: construction of Delta Works

Answer: construction of Delta Works


Question: What is the term for closing off rivers that are no longer connected?

Answer: dammed

Answer: dammed

Answer: dammed


Question: When was the construction that changed the Rhine's Delta?

Answer: 20th Century

Answer: 20th Century

Answer: second half of the 20th Century


Question: What type of Delta is the Rhine-Meuse?

Answer: tidal delta

Answer: tidal

Answer: tidal delta


Question: Besides rivers, what shapes the sedimentation of the rivers?

Answer: tidal currents

Answer: tidal currents

Answer: tidal currents


Question: What does a high tide risk near lands?

Answer: tear huge areas of land into the sea.

Answer: tidal currents

Answer: tear huge areas of land into the sea


Question: Between Brakel and what other city can the most landward tidal influence be detected?

Answer: Zaltbommel

Answer: Zaltbommel

Answer: Zaltbommel


Question: The present Mediterranean Sea descends from what sea?

Answer: Tethys sea

Answer: Tethys

Answer: Tethys sea


Question: What period did plates reverse directions to compress the Tethys floor?

Answer: Jurassic Period

Answer: Jurassic Period

Answer: Jurassic Period


Question: Microplates squeezing and rotating created the features of what?

Answer: Mediterranean geography

Answer: Mediterranean geography

Answer: Mediterranean geography


Question: What period opened the Tethys Ocean?

Answer: Mesozoic Era

Answer: Triassic Period

Answer: Triassic Period


Question: What pushed up the Pyrenees?

Answer: Iberia

Answer: Iberia

Answer: Iberia


Question: What rift system developed in the Alpine orogeny?

Answer: N–S

Answer: N–S

Answer: N–S rift system


Question: What elements from the rift system in the Alpine orogeny in Southwest Germany?

Answer: Upper Rhine Graben

Answer: Upper Rhine Graben

Answer: Upper Rhine Graben


Question: What time did a river system develop in the Upper Rhine Graben?

Answer: Miocene

Answer: By the time of the Miocene

Answer: time of the Miocene


Question: The Rhine and what other river drained the northern flanks of the alps?

Answer: Danube

Answer: Danube

Answer: Danube


Question: How did the Rhine extend watershed southward?

Answer: stream capture

Answer: stream capture

Answer: stream capture


Question: What period did the Rhine capture streams?

Answer: Pliocene period

Answer: Pliocene

Answer: Pliocene period


Question: Where are the streams the Rhine captured?

Answer: Vosges Mountains

Answer: Vosges Mountains

Answer: Vosges Mountains,


Question: What period was 2.5 million years ago?

Answer: Ice Ages

Answer: geological period

Answer: geological period of the Ice Ages


Question: How many major ice ages have occurred?

Answer: six

Answer: six

Answer: six


Question: How far did the sea level drop in the ice ages?

Answer: 120 m

Answer: 120 m

Answer: 120 m


Question: In early Pleistocene, what direction did the Rhine flow?

Answer: northwest

Answer: northwest

Answer: northwest


Question: During glacial times, where was the mouth of the Rhine located?

Answer: Brest

Answer: Brest, France

Answer: offshore of Brest,


Question: When did the last glacial start?

Answer: 74,000 (BP

Answer: ~74,000 (BP = Before Present)

Answer: ~74,000 (BP = Before Present)


Question: When did the last glacial end?

Answer: 11,600 BP

Answer: (~11,600 BP

Answer: end of the Pleistocene (~11,600 BP)


Question: Which direction did the Rhine flow during the last cold phase?

Answer: west

Answer: west

Answer: west


Question: How much lower was the North Sea in the last cold phase than it is today?

Answer: 120 m

Answer: 120 m

Answer: 120 m


Question: Besides the North Sea and the Irish Channel, what else was lowered in the last cold phase?

Answer: English Channel

Answer: English Channel

Answer: English Channel


Question: What was the source of the Rhine in the last Ice Age?

Answer: glacier

Answer: glacier

Answer: a glacier


Question: What stretched across middle Europe in the last ice age?

Answer: tundra

Answer: tundra

Answer: A tundra


Question: When was the Last Glacial Maximum?

Answer: 22,000–14,000 yr BP

Answer: 22,000–14,000 yr BP

Answer: ca. 22,000–14,000 yr BP


Question: What covered Scandinavia, the Baltics, Scotland, and the Alps in the last Ice Age?

Answer: ice-sheets

Answer: ice-sheets

Answer: ice-sheets


Question: What is the term for wind-blown dust in a tundra?

Answer: loess

Answer: loess

Answer: loess


Question: When did Europe slowly begin to warm up from the last Ice Age?

Answer: 22,000 years ago

Answer: 22,000 years ago

Answer: 22,000 years ago


Question: What did frozen subsoil and expanded alpine glaciers begin to do?

Answer: thaw

Answer: thaw and fall-winter snow covers

Answer: thaw


Question: Where did the discharge from glaciers go in Europe in the last Ice Age?

Answer: Rhine

Answer: Rhine

Answer: the Rhine


Question: When did rapid warming begin and help vegetation?

Answer: 13,000 BP

Answer: 13,000 BP

Answer: 13,000 BP


Question: When was Europe fully forested and recovered from the last Ice Age?

Answer: 9000 BP

Answer: 9000 BP

Answer: 9000 BP


Question: When did tides and currents similar to our current system begin?

Answer: 7500 yr ago

Answer: 7500 yr ago

Answer: 7500 yr ago


Question: Why did natural sedimentation by the Rhine compensate the transgression bby the sea?

Answer: Rates of sea-level rise

Answer: sea-level rise had dropped

Answer: Rates of sea-level rise had dropped


Question: How long has the Rhine coastline been in the same location?

Answer: last 7000 years

Answer: 7000 years

Answer: last 7000 years


Question: Why is the current sea level rising?

Answer: tectonic subsidence

Answer: tectonic subsidence

Answer: ongoing tectonic subsidence


Question: How quickly is the sea level rising?

Answer: 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) per century

Answer: 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) per century

Answer: 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) per century


Question: When was the Holocene?

Answer: 11,700 years ago

Answer: ~11,700 years ago

Answer: ~11,700 years ago


Question: When did the formation of the Holocene Rhine-Meuse delta begin?

Answer: 8,000 years ago

Answer: ~8,000 years ago

Answer: ~8,000 years ago


Question: Where did the Rhine occupy during the Holocene?

Answer: Late-Glacial valley

Answer: Late-Glacial valley

Answer: Late-Glacial valley


Question: What country did the Rhine continue to rise during the holocene?

Answer: Netherlands

Answer: Netherlands

Answer: Netherlands


Question: When have humans started impacting the delta?

Answer: 3000 yr BP

Answer: ~3000 yr BP

Answer: ~3000 yr BP


Question: What has increased sediment and delta growth also produced in the Rhine?

Answer: increased flooding and sedimentation

Answer: Bronze Age agriculture

Answer: increased flooding and sedimentation


Question: What increased in the Rhine because of the land clearance in the upland areas?

Answer: sediment load

Answer: sediment load

Answer: sediment load


Question: When did embankment of the major Rhine distributaries take palce?

Answer: 11–13th century

Answer: 11–13th century AD

Answer: 11–13th century AD


Question: How many avulsions have occurred in the past 6000 yeas?

Answer: 80

Answer: 80

Answer: 80


Question: Where do the branches Waal and Nederrijn-Lek discharge to?

Answer: North Sea

Answer: North Sea

Answer: North Sea

Answer: North Sea


Question: What do the Waal and the Nederrijn-Lek discharge throguh?

Answer: Meuse estuary

Answer: Meuse estuary

Answer: Meuse estuary

Answer: Meuse estuary


Question: Where does the Ijssel branch flow?

Answer: IJsselmeer

Answer: IJsselmeer

Answer: IJsselmeer

Answer: IJsselmeer


Question: What did the Zuider Zee brackish lagoon change into?

Answer: freshwater lake

Answer: freshwater lake

Answer: freshwater lake

Answer: freshwater lake


Question: How many branches does the Rhine branch into?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three


Question: When was the Rhine first discovered?

Answer: 1st century BC

Answer: 1st century BC

Answer: 1st century BC


Question: The Rhine first formed a boundary between Gaul and what else?

Answer: Germania

Answer: Germania

Answer: Germania


Question: Since when was the Rhine part of the areal of Hallstatt culture?

Answer: 6th century BC

Answer: 6th century BC

Answer: 6th century BC


Question: Who first wrote about the Rhine's discovery and border?

Answer: Maurus Servius Honoratus

Answer: Maurus Servius Honoratus


Question: When did Augustus die?

Answer: AD 14

Answer: AD 14

Answer: AD 14


Question: The Rhine and what other river were accepted as the Germanic frontier?

Answer: Danube

Answer: upper Danube

Answer: upper Danube


Question: When did the Rhine stop being the Roman boundary?

Answer: the empire fell

Answer: until the empire fell

Answer: until the empire fell


Question: Which direction did Romans use to drift through the Rhine?

Answer: eastwards

Answer: eastwards

Answer: eastwards


Question: Where are the upper Rhine and upper Danube crossed?

Answer: southern

Answer: between the modern Baden and Württemberg


Question: How many legions in five bases were along the Rhine by the Romans?

Answer: eight

Answer: eight

Answer: eight


Question: Vetra and I Germanica and XX Valeria were the two legions for what?

Answer: army of Germania Inferior

Answer: army of Germania Inferior

Answer: army of Germania Inferior


Question: What was the Colonia Agrippina's original name?

Answer: Ubiorum

Answer: oppidum Ubiorum

Answer: oppidum Ubiorum


Question: What did the number of legions in Roman times depend on?

Answer: threat of war

Answer: whether a state or threat of war existed

Answer: whether a state or threat of war existed


Question: What does Colonia Agrippina's original name translate into?

Answer: town of the Ubii

Answer: town of the Ubii

Answer: town of the Ubii


Question: When did Germanic tribes cross the Rhine to migrate?

Answer: 5th century

Answer: Migration period

Answer: 5th century


Question: What did Germanic tribes establish with help from the Rhine?

Answer: kingdoms

Answer: kingdoms

Answer: kingdoms


Question: What is the translation of Siebengebirge?

Answer: dragons rock

Answer: dragons rock

Answer: dragons rock


Question: Who is the hero who killed a dragon on the Drachenfels?

Answer: Siegfried

Answer: Siegfried

Answer: Siegfried


Question: Who threw gold into the Rhine, according to legend?

Answer: Hagen

Answer: Hagen

Answer: Hagen


Question: When did the Rhine become borders with Francia?

Answer: 6th century

Answer: 6th century


Question: When was the Rhine fully within the Holy Roman Empire?

Answer: 10th century

Answer: 10th century

Answer: 10th century


Question: The Rhine flowed through Swabia, Franconia and what other location in the 10th Century?

Answer: Lower Lorraine

Answer: Lower Lorraine

Answer: Lower Lorraine


Question: Who sold the Upper Rhine to Burgundy?

Answer: Archduke Sigismund

Answer: Archduke Sigismund of Austria

Answer: Archduke Sigismund of Austria


Question: When was the Upper Rhine sold to Burgundy?

Answer: 1469

Answer: 1469

Answer: 1469


Question: What was the name of the time the Upper Rhine form a border between France and Germany?

Answer: Peace of Westphalia

Answer: Peace of Westphalia

Answer: Peace of Westphalia


Question: What was a long term goal of French foreign policy along the Rhine?

Answer: Establishing "natural borders"

Answer: Establishing "natural borders"

Answer: Establishing "natural borders" on the Rhine


Question: Who established the Confederation of the Rhine?

Answer: Napoleon

Answer: Napoleon

Answer: Napoleon


Question: When was the confederation of the Rhine?

Answer: 1806

Answer: 1806

Answer: 1806


Question: When was the Rhine crisis?

Answer: 1840

Answer: 1840

Answer: 1840


Question: When was Rhineland subject to the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer: end of World War I

Answer: end of World War I

Answer: end of World War I


Question: When would the occupation of allies leave Rhineland?

Answer: 1935

Answer: 1930

Answer: 1935


Question: After 1935, who would be forbidden to enter Rhineland?

Answer: German army

Answer: German army

Answer: German army


Question: What do some believe the Treaty of Versailles assisted in?

Answer: Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Answer: helping Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Answer: Adolf Hitler's rise to power


Question: When did the German army reoccupy Rhineland?

Answer: 1936

Answer: 1936

Answer: 1936


Question: Where is the Rhine Bridge?

Answer: Arnhem

Answer: Arnhem

Answer: Arnhem


Question: What was the Rhine considered to invaders in WWII?

Answer: formidable natural obstacle

Answer: formidable natural obstacle

Answer: natural obstacle


Question: When was Operation Market Garden?

Answer: September 1944

Answer: September 1944

Answer: September 1944


Question: What bridge did the Germans fail to demolish?

Answer: Ludendorff Bridge

Answer: Ludendorff Bridge

Answer: Ludendorff Bridge


Question: What was the Warsaw Pact war plan?

Answer: Seven Days to the River Rhine

Answer: plan for an invasion of Western Europe

Answer: plan for an invasion of Western Europe during the Cold War


Question: What was the accepted length of the Rhine prior to 1932?

Answer: 1,230 kilometres (764 miles)

Answer: 1,230 kilometres

Answer: 1,230 kilometres


Question: Who stated a change of the length of the Rhine?

Answer: Knaurs Lexikon

Answer: Knaurs Lexikon

Answer: Knaurs Lexikon


Question: Why was the Rhine measurement changed?

Answer: typographical error

Answer: typographical error

Answer: a typographical error


Question: in 1932 what was the Rhine measurement changed to?

Answer: 1,320 kilometres (820 miles)

Answer: 1,320 kilometres

Answer: 1,320 kilometres


Question: When was the Rhine measurement corrected back to the original?

Answer: 2010

Answer: 2010

Answer: 2010


Question: When was the current parliament of Scotland convened?

Answer: Following a referendum in 1997

Answer: 1998

Answer: 1998


Question: What act set out the Parliament's powers as a devolved legislature?

Answer: Scotland Act 1998

Answer: Scotland Act 1998

Answer: Scotland Act


Question: The legislative competence of the Parliament species what areas?

Answer: in which it can make laws

Answer: the areas in which it can make laws

Answer: powers that are "reserved" to the Parliament of the United Kingdom


Question: To what body are certain powers explicitly specified as being reserved for?

Answer: Parliament of the United Kingdom

Answer: Parliament of the United Kingdom

Answer: The British Parliament


Question: The Scottish Parliament may legislate as it pleases as long as the powers aren't already reserved by where?

Answer: Westminster

Answer: Westminster

Answer: Westminster


Question: What remained an important issue in Scottish national identity for many years?

Answer: lack of a Parliament of Scotland

Answer: the lack of a Parliament of Scotland

Answer: the lack of a Parliament of Scotland


Question: How many hundred of years was Scotland directly governed by the parliament of Great Britain?

Answer: three hundred

Answer: three hundred years

Answer: three hundred years


Question: Why were the initial suggestions for a devolved parliament before 1914 shelved?

Answer: First World War.

Answer: First World War

Answer: the outbreak of the First World War


Question: When was there a sharp rise in nationalism in Scotland?

Answer: the late 1960s

Answer: late 1960s

Answer: late 1960s


Question: What did Kllbrandon's report in 1973 recommend establishing?

Answer: directly elected Scottish Assembly

Answer: directly elected Scottish Assembly

Answer: a directly elected Scottish Assembly


Question: Which sea was oil discovered in?

Answer: North

Answer: North Sea

Answer: the North Sea


Question: What campaigh did the Scottish National Party (SNP) run?

Answer: "It's Scotland's oil"

Answer: It's Scotland's oil

Answer: "It's Scotland's oil"


Question: When did Prime Minister Wilson commit to some form of devolved legislature?

Answer: 1974

Answer: 1974

Answer: 1974


Question: What did the SNP publicly opine about the oil revenues?

Answer: not benefitting Scotland as much as they should

Answer: not benefitting Scotland as much as they should

Answer: the revenues from the oil were not benefitting Scotland as much as they should


Question: When was the final legislative proposals for a Scottish Assembly passed?

Answer: 1978

Answer: 1978

Answer: 1978


Question: Where was an elected assembly to be set up, under the terms of the Scotland Act of 1978?

Answer: Edinburgh

Answer: Edinburgh

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: How many of the Scottish electorate would need to for it on the referendum?

Answer: majority

Answer: 40%

Answer: at least 40%


Question: What percentage of the vote for a Scottish Assembly in favor of it?

Answer: 51.6%

Answer: 51.6%

Answer: 51.6%


Question: How did trying to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly go in 1979?

Answer: failed

Answer: failed

Answer: failed


Question: What percentage of Scotland's voting population failed to actually vote?

Answer: 32.9%

Answer: 32.9%

Answer: 32.9%


Question: In the range between 1980 and 1990, what did demand for grow?

Answer: a Scottish Parliament

Answer: Scottish Parliament

Answer: Scottish Parliament grew


Question: Whose control of the UK's government helped fuel a desire for a Scottish Parliament?

Answer: the Conservative Party

Answer: Conservative Party

Answer: the Conservative Party


Question: When was the Scottish Constitutional Convention held?

Answer: 1989

Answer: 1989

Answer: 1989


Question: What provided much of the basis for the structure of the Parliament in 1995?

Answer: blueprint

Answer: blueprint

Answer: the Convention


Question: Where has the official home of the Scottish Parliament been since 2004?

Answer: Scottish Parliament Building

Answer: Scottish Parliament Building

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: Who designed the Scottish Parliament building?

Answer: Enric Miralles

Answer: Enric Miralles

Answer: Enric Miralles


Question: What nationality is the architect Enric Miralles?

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish

Answer: Spanish


Question: What shape are some of the buildings in the Parliament complex?

Answer: leaf-shaped

Answer: leaf-shaped

Answer: leaf-shaped buildings


Question: Who opened the new Parliament building on October 9, 2004?

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: What was the building vacated twice to allow for?

Answer: meeting of the Church's General Assembly

Answer: meeting of the Church's General Assembly

Answer: the meeting of the Church's General Assembly


Question: Where was Parliament's temporary home whilst the permanent building was being built?

Answer: General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland

Answer: General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland

Answer: the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland


Question: Where were interviews held while the parliament was in its temporary building?

Answer: courtyard

Answer: courtyard adjoining the Assembly Hall

Answer: the courtyard


Question: In May 2002, where would you go to address the Parliament?

Answer: University of Aberdeen

Answer: University of Aberdeen

Answer: the University of Aberdeen


Question: Where was Parliament temporarily relocated to in May of 2000?

Answer: former Strathclyde Regional Council debating chamber in Glasgow

Answer: former Strathclyde Regional Council debating chamber

Answer: the former Strathclyde Regional Council debating chamber


Question: Who did the Parliament rent additional buildings from?

Answer: City of Edinburgh Council

Answer: City of Edinburgh Council

Answer: the City of Edinburgh Council


Question: What  former administrative building was used for the MSP's offices?

Answer: Lothian Regional Council

Answer: Lothian Regional Council

Answer: Lothian Regional Council on George IV Bridge


Question: What happened to the building on George IV Bridge when the Parliament was done with it?

Answer: demolished

Answer: demolished

Answer: demolished


Question: What do the former Midlothian County Buildings face?

Answer: Parliament Square, High Street and George IV Bridge in Edinburgh

Answer: Parliament Square, High Street and George IV Bridge

Answer: Parliament Square


Question: Which hall was used as Parliament's principle committee room?

Answer: main

Answer: main

Answer: the main hall


Question: Who is elected to serve as the Presiding Officer at the beginning of each parliamentary session?

Answer: one MSP

Answer: MSP

Answer: MSP


Question: Who is currently speaker of the Scottish Parliament?

Answer: Tricia Marwick

Answer: Tricia Marwick

Answer: Tricia Marwick


Question: What type of ballot is used to elect the Presiding Officer and deputies of the Parliament?

Answer: secret

Answer: secret

Answer: a secret ballot


Question: How many MSPs are there?

Answer: 129

Answer: 129

Answer: 129


Question: Who is responsible for operating the electronic voting equipment and chamber clocks?

Answer: A vote clerk

Answer: vote clerk

Answer: vote clerk


Question: Who is responsible for ensuring the Parliament works smoothly?

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: the Presiding Officer


Question: Who sets the work agenda and allocates time in the chamber?

Answer: the Parliamentary Bureau

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: the Parliamentary Bureau


Question: How many seats must a political party have to be represented on the Parliamentary Bureau?

Answer: five

Answer: five or more

Answer: five or more seats


Question: Who represents the Scottish Parliament at home and abroad in an official capacity?

Answer: The Presiding Officer

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: The Presiding Officer


Question: What is the seating arrangement of the debating chamber?

Answer: hemicycle

Answer: hemicycle

Answer: a hemicycle


Question: Why is the seating of the debating chamber arranged as it is?

Answer: encourage consensus amongst elected members

Answer: encourage consensus amongst elected members

Answer: reflects the desire to encourage consensus amongst elected members


Question: How many seats are in the debating chamber?

Answer: 131

Answer: 131

Answer: 131


Question: How many members in the seats of the Scottish Parliament are members of the Scottish Government?

Answer: 2

Answer: 2

Answer: 2


Question: What can the non-elected members from the Scottish Government not do?

Answer: vote

Answer: vote

Answer: vote


Question: Where does the gold in the parliamentary mace come from?

Answer: Scottish rivers

Answer: Scottish rivers

Answer: Scottish rivers


Question: What is the parliamentary mace made of?

Answer: silver

Answer: silver

Answer: silver and inlaid with gold


Question: Who presented the mac to the Scottish Parliament when it was initially opened?

Answer: the Queen

Answer: the Queen

Answer: the Queen


Question: What words are inscribed on the mace of parliament?

Answer: Wisdom, Compassion, Justice and Integrity

Answer: Wisdom, Compassion, Justice and Integrity

Answer: Wisdom, Compassion, Justice and Integrity


Question: What is the mace displayed in?

Answer: a glass case suspended from the lid

Answer: glass case

Answer: a glass case


Question: Which month is the first in the year Parliament takes a two week vacation?

Answer: April

Answer: April

Answer: April


Question: Where do plenary meetings take place?

Answer: debating chamber

Answer: debating chamber

Answer: Wednesday afternoons


Question: Who are debates and meetings open to?

Answer: the public

Answer: the public.

Answer: public


Question: How much does it cost to gain entry to a parliament meeting?

Answer: free

Answer: free

Answer: free


Question: What contains a nearly verbatim of parliamentary debates?

Answer: the Official Report

Answer: the Official Report

Answer: the Official Report


Question: What day of the week does the Time for Reflection take place?

Answer: Wednesdays

Answer: Wednesdays

Answer: Wednesdays


Question: How long might a speaker address the members during the Time of Reflection?

Answer: up to four minutes

Answer: up to four minutes

Answer: up to four minutes


Question: Who decides who gets to address the members of Parliament to share their thoughts on issues of faith?

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: the Presiding Officer


Question: Because speakers are drawn from across Scotland, what do the represent the balance of?

Answer: religious beliefs

Answer: religious beliefs

Answer: the balance of religious beliefs


Question: What can faith groups ask the Presiding Officer to do for them?

Answer: nominate speakers

Answer: nominate speakers

Answer: nominate speakers


Question: Who decides who gets to speak in the chamber debates?

Answer: The Presiding Officer

Answer: Presiding Officer

Answer: The Presiding Officer


Question: What is also decided by the Presiding Officer?

Answer: amount of time for which they are allowed to speak

Answer: amount of time for which they are allowed to speak

Answer: the amount of time for which they are allowed to speak


Question: What does the Presiding Officer try to achieve a balance of between speakers?

Answer: different viewpoints

Answer: different viewpoints and political parties

Answer: a balance between different viewpoints and political parties


Question: What members typically open debates?

Answer: ministers or party leaders

Answer: ministers or party leaders

Answer: ministers or party leaders


Question: What language other than English has the Scottish Parliament had meetings in?

Answer: Gaelic

Answer: Gaelic

Answer: Scots, Gaelic, or any other language with the agreement of the Presiding Officer


Question: What time do the MSPs normally decide on the motions and amendments from that day?

Answer: 5 pm

Answer: 5 pm

Answer: 5 pm


Question: What is heralded by the sounding of the division bell?

Answer: "Decision Time"

Answer: Decision Time

Answer: "Decision Time"


Question: What do MSPs who are not in the chamber when the division bell rings return to do?

Answer: vote

Answer: vote

Answer: vote


Question: How do members vote when there is a division?

Answer: electronic consoles on their desks

Answer: electronic consoles

Answer: electronic consoles on their desks


Question: How long does it take to know the outcome of a division?

Answer: seconds

Answer: seconds

Answer: seconds


Question: What can often be predicted beforehand?

Answer: votes

Answer: outcome of most votes

Answer: outcome


Question: Who normally instructs members how to vote?

Answer: political parties

Answer: political parties

Answer: political parties


Question: Who has the task of ensuring party members vote according to the party line?

Answer: whips

Answer: whips

Answer: whips


Question: What type of issues are members typically allowed to vote as they please?

Answer: moral

Answer: moral

Answer: moral issues


Question: What happens if a member doesn't vote the party line?

Answer: deselected as official party candidates during future elections

Answer: deselected as official party candidates

Answer: deselected as official party candidates during future elections


Question: When is the Members Debate held?

Answer: Immediately after Decision Time

Answer: Immediately after Decision Time

Answer: Immediately after Decision Time


Question: Why are debates on proposed motions by an MSP conducted?

Answer: not a Scottish minister

Answer: may be of interest to a particular area such as a member's own constituency

Answer: issues which may be of interest to a particular area such as a member's own constituency


Question: How long does the Members Debate last?

Answer: 45 minutes

Answer: 45 minutes

Answer: 45 minutes


Question: Who contributes to Members Business in addition to the proposer?

Answer: other members

Answer: other members

Answer: other members


Question: What does the minister who was the catalyst of the Members Business do by speaking after everyone else?

Answer: winds up

Answer: winds up

Answer: "winds up" the debate


Question: Where is much of the work of the Scottish Parliament done?

Answer: committee

Answer: committee

Answer: in committee


Question: What are committees in the Scottish Parliament compared to other systems?

Answer: stronger

Answer: stronger

Answer: stronger in the Scottish Parliament than in other parliamentary systems


Question: What is one avenue being compensated for by having committees serve such a large role?

Answer: no revising chamber

Answer: no revising chamber

Answer: take evidence from witnesses, conduct inquiries and scrutinise legislation


Question: Taking evidence from witnesses is one of committees' what?

Answer: principal role

Answer: principal role

Answer: principal role


Question: Where might committees meet outside of Parliament?

Answer: other locations throughout Scotland

Answer: other locations throughout Scotland

Answer: other locations throughout Scotland


Question: Who are committees comprised of?

Answer: a small number of MSPs

Answer: a small number of MSPs

Answer: a small number of MSPs


Question: What do the membership of the committees reflect?

Answer: balance of parties

Answer: balance of parties across Parliament

Answer: the balance of parties across Parliament


Question: Different committees have what set out in different ways?

Answer: functions

Answer: their functions

Answer: their functions


Question: What type of committee is set down under the SP's standing orders?

Answer: Mandatory

Answer: Mandatory

Answer: Mandatory Committees


Question: What session is the Scottish Parliament in?

Answer: fourth

Answer: fourth

Answer: the fourth Session


Question: When are subject committees established?

Answer: beginning of each parliamentary session

Answer: beginning of each parliamentary session

Answer: at the beginning of each parliamentary session


Question: How many ministries of the Scottish government does a committee typically correspond to?

Answer: one

Answer: one (or more

Answer: one (or more) of the departments (or ministries) of the Scottish Government


Question: Economy, Energy and Tourism is one of the what?

Answer: current Subject Committees

Answer: Subject Committees

Answer: Subject Committees


Question: What is the Scottish Parliament currently in the fourth of?

Answer: Session

Answer: Session

Answer: Session


Question: What is set up to scrutinize private bills submitted by party outsiders?

Answer: type of committee

Answer: committee

Answer: committee


Question: What topic do private bills typically have?

Answer: large-scale development projects

Answer: large-scale development projects

Answer: large-scale development projects


Question: Who decides how land or property is allowed to be used?

Answer: Scottish Government.

Answer: Committees

Answer: Private Bill Committees


Question: What kind of committee considered legislation on the development of the Edinburgh Tram Network?

Answer: Private Bill

Answer: Private Bill

Answer: Private Bill Committees


Question: What act sets forth the functions of the Scottish Parliament?

Answer: Scotland Act 1998

Answer: The Scotland Act 1998

Answer: The Scotland Act 1998


Question: Who gave her royal assent to the Scotland Act of 1998?

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II


Question: What does the Scotland Act of 2012 extend?

Answer: devolved competencies

Answer: devolved competencies

Answer: the devolved competencies


Question: What body constitutes the supreme legislature of Scotland?

Answer: Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster

Answer: Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster

Answer: the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster


Question: Who has the role of holding the Scottish Government to account?

Answer: Scottish Parliament

Answer: Parliament

Answer: the Parliament


Question: Where are reserved matters stated in the Scotland Act?

Answer: Schedule 5

Answer: Schedule 5

Answer: Schedule 5


Question: If a matter is not specifically reserved, who is it devolved to?

Answer: Scottish Parliament

Answer: Scottish Parliament

Answer: the Scottish Parliament


Question: Why do police and fire services fall under the purview of the Scottish Parliament?

Answer: automatically devolved

Answer: not specifically reserved

Answer: All matters that are not specifically reserved are automatically devolved to the Scottish Parliament


Question: How much can the SP alter income tax in Scotland?

Answer: up to 3 pence in the pound

Answer: up to 3 pence in the pound

Answer: up to 3 pence in the pound


Question: Setting speed limits was one of the further devolutions which was conferred by what act?

Answer: 2012 Act

Answer: 2012 Act

Answer: The 2012 Act


Question: What is the name of matters outside the legislative ability of the Scottish Parliament?

Answer: Reserved

Answer: Reserved

Answer: Reserved matters


Question: Issues dealt with at Westminster are not ones who is able to deal with?

Answer: Scottish Parliament

Answer: The Scottish Parliament

Answer: The Scottish Parliament


Question: Where are issues like abortion and drug policy legislated on?

Answer: Westminster

Answer: Westminster

Answer: Westminster


Question: Most aspects of transport safety is a subject dealt with by whom?

Answer: UK Government ministers

Answer: UK Government ministers

Answer: Westminster


Question: What may be presented to Parliament in various ways?

Answer: Bills

Answer: Bills

Answer: Bills


Question: Who may introduce new laws or amendments to laws already on the books as a bill?

Answer: the Scottish Government

Answer: Scottish Government

Answer: the Scottish Government


Question: An MSP may introduce a bill as what?

Answer: a private member

Answer: a private member

Answer: private member


Question: Who may also submit private bills to Parliament?

Answer: an outside proposer

Answer: an outside proposer

Answer: an outside proposer


Question: How do bills pass through Parliament?

Answer: in a number of stages

Answer: a number of stages

Answer: in a number of stages


Question: What is stage 1 in the life of a bill?

Answer: introductory

Answer: introductory

Answer: introductory stage of the bill


Question: What are presented to parliament in addition to the bill itself?

Answer: accompanying documents

Answer: accompanying documents

Answer: accompanying documents – Explanatory Notes


Question: What do statements from the PO and member in charge of the bill also indicate?

Answer: whether the bill is within the legislative competence of the Parliament

Answer: whether the bill is within the legislative competence of the Parliament

Answer: whether the bill is within the legislative competence of the Parliament


Question: Where are bills typically gestated in Stage 1?

Answer: in the relevant committee or committees

Answer: committee

Answer: the whole Parliament


Question: If Parliament agrees in a vote to the general principle of a bill, what does it then proceed to?

Answer: Stage 2

Answer: Stage 2

Answer: Stage 2


Question: What is the final stage of a bill in the Scottish Parliament?

Answer: Stage 3

Answer: Stage 3

Answer: Stage 3


Question: How many parts does the consideration of a bill in Stage 3 have?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: What vote on a bill takes place in Stage 3?

Answer: final

Answer: final

Answer: final vote


Question: What type of amendments might members opposed to a bill put on the table?

Answer: wrecking

Answer: wrecking

Answer: "wrecking amendments"


Question: When do members proceed to vote on whether they agree to the principles of the final bill?

Answer: Decision Time

Answer: Decision Time

Answer: After a general debate on the final form of the bill


Question: Who does the Presiding Officer submit the final bill to?

Answer: the Monarch

Answer: Monarch

Answer: the Monarch


Question: Why is the final bill passed to the Monarch?

Answer: royal assent

Answer: royal assent

Answer: royal assent


Question: What is the minimum amount of time before a bill can go into law?

Answer: a 4-week period

Answer: a 4-week period

Answer: 4-week period


Question: Who is a bill referred to for a ruling on whether it's within the powers of the Parliament?

Answer: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Answer: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Answer: the Supreme Court


Question: What does the template for bills passed by the Scottish Parliament include?

Answer: [Date]

Answer: [Date]

Answer: "The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on [Date] and received royal assent on [Date]".


Question: What party forms the Scottish Parliament?

Answer: hold the majority of seats

Answer: hold the majority of seats

Answer: The party, or parties, that hold the majority of seats in the Parliament


Question: Who is eligible to toss their name in the hat to be First Minister?

Answer: Any member

Answer: Any member

Answer: Any member


Question: Who is elected at the beginning of each term?

Answer: First Minister

Answer: First Minister

Answer: a First Minister


Question: Other than Scotland's Chief Law Officer, from whence are most ministers drawn from amongst?

Answer: elected MSPs

Answer: the elected MSPs

Answer: amongst the elected MSPs


Question: Who makes formal appointment or dismissal decisions?

Answer: the Sovereign

Answer: the Sovereign

Answer: the Sovereign


Question: What day of the week are general elections held?

Answer: Thursday

Answer: Thursday

Answer: Thursday


Question: What month, every four years, are the ordinary general elections held on?

Answer: May

Answer: May

Answer: May


Question: Who may change the date by up to a month, on the proposal of the PO?

Answer: the Monarch

Answer: Monarch

Answer: the Monarch


Question: If an extraordinary election is held within less than six months before the date of an ordinary election, what does it do to the ordinary election?

Answer: supplant it.

Answer: supplant it

Answer: reverts to the first Thursday in May, a multiple of four years after 1999


Question: How many days does the Parliament have to nominate a First Minister after a General Election?

Answer: 28

Answer: 28

Answer: 28 days


Question: What enables the Scottish Parliament to scrutinize the government?

Answer: Several procedures

Answer: Several procedures

Answer: Several procedures


Question: Who can question statements the First Minister or members of the cabinet make?

Answer: MSPs

Answer: leaders of the opposition parties and other MSPs

Answer: MSPs


Question: What does the First Minister deliver at the beginning of each parliamentary year?

Answer: legislative programme for the forthcoming year

Answer: a statement

Answer: a statement to the chamber setting out the Government's legislative programme for the forthcoming year


Question: What do the leaders of the opposition parties and other MSPs question the First Minister about?

Answer: issues related to the substance of the statement

Answer: issues

Answer: issues related to the substance of the statement


Question: What is set aside for question periods in the debating chamber?

Answer: Parliamentary time

Answer: Parliamentary time

Answer: Parliamentary time


Question: On what day does a General Question Time take place?

Answer: Thursday

Answer: Thursday

Answer: Thursday


Question: Who may members direct questions towards during General Question Time?

Answer: any member of the Scottish Government

Answer: any member of the Scottish Government

Answer: ministers in departments that are selected for questioning that sitting day


Question: What may members question the First Minister about directly during First Minister's Question Time?

Answer: issues under their jurisdiction

Answer: issues under their jurisdiction

Answer: the First Minister


Question: How many general questions are available to opposition leaders?

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four


Question: What is the number of Constituency MSPs?

Answer: 73

Answer: 73

Answer: 73


Question: When was there a reduction in the number of Scottish MPs?

Answer: 2005

Answer: 2005

Answer: 2005


Question: How many members can voters choose to represent the constituency?

Answer: one

Answer: one

Answer: one


Question: Why do the island archipelagos comprise a smaller number of electors?

Answer: dispersed population and distance

Answer: dispersed population and distance

Answer: their dispersed population and distance from the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh


Question: What is the current number of electors currently in a Scottish Parliament constituency?

Answer: 55,000

Answer: 55,000

Answer: 55,000


Question: How are the total numbers of seats allocated to parties?

Answer: proportionally to the number of votes received

Answer: proportionally to the number of votes received

Answer: proportionally to the number of votes received in the second vote of the ballot using the d'Hondt method


Question: What method is used for tallying votes in the second vote of the ballot?

Answer: the d'Hondt method

Answer: d'Hondt

Answer: the d'Hondt method


Question: The party awarded a seat is the one with the highest what?

Answer: quotient

Answer: quotient

Answer: quotient


Question: What set is a seat added to after being allocated?

Answer: constituency seats

Answer: constituency

Answer: second


Question: How is the process of allocating seats repeated until all available seats have been determined?

Answer: iteratively

Answer: iteratively

Answer: iteratively


Question: What does being an MSP share with the House of Commons?

Answer: a number of qualifications

Answer: a number of qualifications

Answer: qualifications


Question: When was the British Nationality Act passed?

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981


Question: How old most a person be to apply to be an MSP?

Answer: over the age of 18

Answer: over the age of 18

Answer: 18


Question: Members of which organizations are disqualified from sitting in the SP as elected MSPs?

Answer: police and the armed forces

Answer: police and the armed forces

Answer: the police and the armed forces


Question: What act sets the term for judging the boundaries of sanity to which individuals wishing to sit on the SP must adhere?

Answer: Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

Answer: Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

Answer: Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003


Question: When the election produced an SNP majority government, what was it the first occurrence of?

Answer: a party has commanded a parliamentary majority

Answer: a parliamentary majority

Answer: a party has commanded a parliamentary majority


Question: Who did the SNP obtain 16 seats from?

Answer: Labour

Answer: Labour

Answer: Labour


Question: By how much did Labour lead Lain Gray retain East Lothian?

Answer: 151 votes

Answer: 151 votes

Answer: 151 votes


Question: How many seats did the SNP take from the Liberal Democrats?

Answer: eight

Answer: eight

Answer: eight


Question: What did the result of the SNP majority allow a referendum be held on?

Answer: Scottish independence

Answer: Scottish independence

Answer: Scottish independence


Question: The loss of Edinburgh Pentlands really disappointed whom the most?

Answer: the Conservatives

Answer: Conservatives

Answer: Conservatives


Question: What was the seat of former party leader David McLetchie?

Answer: Edinburgh Pentlands

Answer: Edinburgh Pentlands

Answer: former party leader


Question: What net loss did the Conservatives suffer?

Answer: five seats

Answer: five seats

Answer: five seats


Question: Who announced she would step down as leader of the Conservatives?

Answer: Annabel Goldie

Answer: Annabel Goldie

Answer: Annabel Goldie


Question: Who congratulated the SNP while vowing to campaign against their referendum?

Answer: Cameron

Answer: Cameron

Answer: Cameron


Question: What consequence of establishing the Scottish Parliament applies to Scottish MPs sitting in the UK House of Commons?

Answer: able to vote on domestic legislation that applies only to England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Answer: able to vote on domestic legislation that applies only to England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Answer: procedural consequence


Question: What are MPs unable to vote upon?

Answer: domestic legislation of the Scottish Parliament

Answer: domestic legislation of the Scottish Parliament.

Answer: domestic legislation of the Scottish Parliament


Question: What phenomenon has led to criticism?

Answer: West Lothian question

Answer: West Lothian question

Answer: the West Lothian question


Question: What party had a victory in the 2015 UK election?

Answer: the Conservative

Answer: Conservative

Answer: Conservative


Question: MPs representing English constituencies can only veto laws affecting which country?

Answer: England

Answer: England

Answer: England


Question: What is an Islamic revival movement?

Answer: Islamism

Answer: Islamism

Answer: Islamism


Question: What aspects of life does Islamism seek to integrate itself into?

Answer: all spheres of life.

Answer: all spheres of life

Answer: all spheres


Question: What goal does Islamism have when it comes to society and government?

Answer: reordering

Answer: reordering of government and society in accordance with the Shari'a

Answer: reordering


Question: What have the two different Islamist movements been described as oscillating between?

Answer: poles

Answer: two poles

Answer: poles


Question: One strategy of Islamization is to seize power by what methods?

Answer: revolution or invasion

Answer: revolution or invasion

Answer: revolution


Question: What process do moderate and reformist Islamists work within the boundaries of?

Answer: democratic

Answer: democratic process

Answer: democratic


Question: Where does Hamas originate?

Answer: Palestine

Answer: Palestine

Answer: Palestine


Question: What is the goal of Islamist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas?

Answer: abolish the state of Israel

Answer: abolish the state of Israel

Answer: abolish the state of Israel


Question: What do radical Islamist organizations reject entirely?

Answer: democracy

Answer: democracy

Answer: democracy


Question: On what basis do the radical Islamist organizations conduct their attacks?

Answer: religious

Answer: religious

Answer: religious


Question: What exists between fundamentalist Islamism and reformist Islamism?

Answer: major division

Answer: major division

Answer: division


Question: What did Olivier Roy state underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century?

Answer: Sunni pan-Islamism

Answer: Sunni pan-Islamism

Answer: Sunni pan-Islamism


Question: What did the Salafi movement put emphasis on?

Answer: sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions,

Answer: sharia

Answer: sharia


Question: What has Islamism been increasingly interdependent with following the Arab Spring?

Answer: democracy

Answer: democracy

Answer: democracy


Question: Why do Islamists need democratic elections?

Answer: to maintain their legitimacy

Answer: to maintain their legitimacy

Answer: to maintain their legitimacy


Question: What type of role that Islamism seeks makes it a somewhat controversial concept?

Answer: political

Answer: political

Answer: political


Question: What do supporters of Islamism believe their views reflect?

Answer: Islam

Answer: Islam

Answer: Islam


Question: The idea that Islam can be apolitical isn't able to be embraced by whom?

Answer: its supporters

Answer: Scholars and observers

Answer: Islamism


Question: What does the inability to separate Islam from Islamism lead many in the West to support?

Answer: illiberal Islamic regimes

Answer: illiberal Islamic regimes

Answer: illiberal Islamic regimes


Question: What do progressive moderates of Islam seek to separate?

Answer: religion from politics

Answer: religion from politics

Answer: religion from politics


Question: What term do Islamists think should be applied to them?

Answer: Muslims

Answer: Muslims


Question: What does a writer for the International Crisis Group think the concept of political Islam is a creation of?

Answer: Americans

Answer: Americans

Answer: Americans


Question: What was apolitical Islam?

Answer: a historical fluke

Answer: political Islam

Answer: historical fluke


Question: When was the heyday of secular Arab nationalism?

Answer: between 1945 and 1970

Answer: between 1945 and 1970

Answer: between 1945 and 1970


Question: What, rather than Islamism, requires explanation?

Answer: non-political Islam

Answer: quietist/non-political Islam

Answer: quietist/non-political Islam


Question: What did some of the Islamist groups supported by the West later become to be seen as?

Answer: dangerous enemies

Answer: dangerous enemies

Answer: dangerous enemies


Question: When did Western governments support fledgling Islamists?

Answer: During the 1970s

Answer: the 1970s

Answer: 1970s


Question: What did the non-Afghan veterans returning home have in addition to their prestige?

Answer: considerable impact

Answer: experience, ideology, and weapons

Answer: experience, ideology, and weapons


Question: Who did the US provide aid to, to fight against the Soviet Union?

Answer: the mujahideen Muslim Afghanistan

Answer: mujahideen

Answer: mujahideen Muslim Afghanistan


Question: Western governments considered Islamists to be the lesser of two evils when compared to whom?

Answer: leftist/communist/nationalist insurgents/opposition

Answer: leftist/communist/nationalist insurgents/opposition

Answer: communist


Question: What did the non-Afghan veterans returning home have in addition to their prestige?

Answer: considerable impact

Answer: experience, ideology, and weapons

Answer: experience, ideology, and weapons


Question: Who is the President of Egypt?

Answer: Anwar Sadat

Answer: Anwar Sadat

Answer: Anwar Sadat


Question: What relationship with Israel is Sadat for?

Answer: peace

Answer: peace


Question: What was Sadat seeking by releasing Islamists from prison?

Answer: political support

Answer: making peace with Israel

Answer: political support


Question: When did the so called gentlemen's agreement between Sadat and the Islamists break down?

Answer: 1975

Answer: 1975

Answer: 1975


Question: How was Sadat rewarded by the Islamists for his attempts to bring Egypt into modern times and civilization?

Answer: assassinated

Answer: Islamists came to completely dominate university student unions

Answer: assassinated


Question: What type of interpretation of Islam does Salafism promote?

Answer: conservative

Answer: strict, conservative

Answer: strict, conservative


Question: What does Salafism in its harshest form encourage its followers to view the religion of others with?

Answer: hate

Answer: hate them for their religion

Answer: hate them for their religion


Question: Salafism posits that democracy is responsible for what type of horrible events of the 20th century?

Answer: wars

Answer: horrible wars

Answer: all the horrible wars


Question: Conservative Islam classifies Muslims who follow Shia interpretation as what?

Answer: infidels

Answer: infidels

Answer: infidels


Question: What interpretation of Islam is, for many of the adherents, the "gold standard" of their religion?

Answer: Saudi

Answer: the Saudi-interpretation

Answer: Saudi


Question: What type of movement is the Muslim Brotherhood?

Answer: Islamist

Answer: Islamist

Answer: Islamist


Question: The Muslim Brotherhood's competence compares well against what type of local governments?

Answer: incompetent, inefficient, or neglectful

Answer: incompetent, inefficient, or neglectful governments

Answer: incompetent, inefficient, or neglectful


Question: What type of assistance to out of town students is the Muslim Brotherhood known for?

Answer: housing

Answer: shelters, educational assistance, free or low cost medical clinics, housing assistance

Answer: shelters, educational assistance, free or low cost medical clinics, housing assistance


Question: What are incompetent government's commitment to social justice limited to?

Answer: rhetoric

Answer: rhetoric

Answer: rhetoric


Question: Why has the Muslim Brotherhood facilitated inexpensive mass marriage ceremonies?

Answer: avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands

Answer: to avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands

Answer: avoid prohibitively costly dowry demands


Question: What was Iqbal studying in England and Germany?

Answer: law and philosophy

Answer: law and philosophy

Answer: law and philosophy


Question: What organization did Iqbal join in London?

Answer: the All India Muslim League

Answer: All India Muslim League

Answer: All India Muslim League


Question: Who was Iqbal a critic of?

Answer: the mainstream Indian nationalist and secularist Indian National Congress

Answer: mainstream Indian nationalist and secularist Indian National Congress

Answer: mainstream Indian nationalist and secularist Indian National Congress


Question: What year did Iqbal return to Lahore?

Answer: 1908

Answer: 1908

Answer: 1908


Question: What book was Iqbal's seven English lectures published as?

Answer: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Answer: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Answer: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam


Question: What did Iqbal fear would weaken the spiritual foundations of Islam and Muslim society?

Answer: secularism and secular nationalism

Answer: secularism and secular nationalism

Answer: secularism


Question: Iqbal worried that India's mostly Hindu population would do what to Muslim heritage and culture?

Answer: crowd out

Answer: crowd out Muslim heritage

Answer: crowd out


Question: When Iqbal promoted ideas of greater Islamic political unity, what did he encourage ending?

Answer: nationalist differences

Answer: nationalist differences

Answer: nationalist differences


Question: When was Iqbal elected president of the Muslim League?

Answer: 1930

Answer: 1930

Answer: 1930


Question: What did Iqbal's Allahabad address inspire?

Answer: Pakistan movement

Answer: the Pakistan movement

Answer: Pakistan movement


Question: Who was an important figure in the twentieth-century Islamic revival in India?

Answer: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi

Answer: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi

Answer: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi


Question: Maududi was trained as a lawyer, but chose what professional for himself instead?

Answer: journalism

Answer: journalism

Answer: journalism


Question: When did Maududi found the Jamaat-e-Islami party?

Answer: 1941

Answer: 1941

Answer: 1941


Question: Where did Maududi exert the most impact?

Answer: through his writing

Answer: writing

Answer: writing


Question: Where did Maududi's books place Islam?

Answer: in a modern context

Answer: a modern context

Answer: modern context


Question: Who was an important early figure in the Islamic revival in India?

Answer: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi

Answer: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi

Answer: Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi


Question: Though trained as a lawyer, what profession did Maududi pursue instead?

Answer: journalism

Answer: journalism

Answer: journalism


Question: Where did Maududi exert the most impact?

Answer: through his writing

Answer: writing

Answer: writing


Question: Where did Maududi's books place Islam?

Answer: a modern context

Answer: a modern context

Answer: modern context


Question: What did Maududi believe Muslim society could not be Islamic in the absence of?

Answer: Sharia

Answer: Sharia

Answer: Sharia


Question: Maududi believed that Islam needed what to be established?

Answer: an Islamic state

Answer: an Islamic state

Answer: an Islamic state


Question: What is the English translation of tawhid?

Answer: unity of God

Answer: unity of God

Answer: unity of God


Question: What type of revolution did Maududi advocate?

Answer: gradual

Answer: Islamic revolution

Answer: gradual


Question: By what method did Maududi want to change the hearts and minds of individuals?

Answer: an educational process

Answer: an educational process or da'wah

Answer: educational process or da'wah


Question: When was the Muslim Brotherhood founded?

Answer: 1928

Answer: 1928

Answer: 1928


Question: Where was the Muslim Brotherhood founded?

Answer: Ismailiyah, Egypt

Answer: Ismailiyah, Egypt

Answer: Egypt


Question: Who founded the Muslim Brotherhood?

Answer: Hassan al Banna

Answer: Hassan al Banna

Answer: Hassan al Banna


Question: The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood specifies what as being their constitution?

Answer: the Qur'an

Answer: the Qur'an

Answer: Qur'an


Question: What influence did Al Banna wish to eliminate from the Muslim world?

Answer: imperialist

Answer: imperialist influence

Answer: imperialist


Question: Some elements of the Brotherhood directed what action against the government?

Answer: violence

Answer: violence

Answer: violence


Question: When was Al-Banna assassinated?

Answer: 1949

Answer: 1949

Answer: 1949


Question: Who was Al-Banna's assassination a retaliation for the prior assassination of?

Answer: Egypt's premier Mahmud Fami Naqrashi

Answer: Mahmud Fami Naqrashi

Answer: Mahmud Fami Naqrashi


Question: When was the Brotherhood first banned in Egypt?

Answer: 1948

Answer: 1948

Answer: 1948


Question: What Egyptian president jailed thousands of members of the Brotherhood?

Answer: Gamal Abdul Nasser

Answer: Gamal Abdul Nasser

Answer: Gamal Abdul Nasser


Question: What status has the Brotherhood obtained in the Islamic world?

Answer: one of the most influential movements

Answer: one of the most influential movements

Answer: one of the most influential


Question: What percentage of seats did political parties identifying as Islamist win in the Egyptian parliamentary election of 2011-2012?

Answer: 75% of the total seats

Answer: 75%

Answer: 75%


Question: For many years, what was the Brotherhood described as?

Answer: "semi-legal"

Answer: semi-legal

Answer: semi-legal


Question: The Brotherhood was the only opposition group in Egypt able to do what during elections?

Answer: field candidates

Answer: field candidates

Answer: field candidates


Question: Who was the first democratically elected president of Egypt?

Answer: Mohamed Morsi

Answer: Mohamed Morsi

Answer: Mohamed Morsi


Question: What was the defeat of the Arab troops at the hand of the Israeli troops during the Six-Day War?

Answer: quick and decisive

Answer: quick and decisive defeat

Answer: quick and decisive


Question: The defeat of the Arab troops in the Six-Day War constituted what for the Arab Muslim world?

Answer: a pivotal event

Answer: a pivotal event in the Arab Muslim world

Answer: pivotal event


Question: Secular Arab nationalism was blamed for both the defeat of Arab troops as well as what type of stagnation?

Answer: economic

Answer: economic stagnation

Answer: economic


Question: What happened to the credibility of secular politics as a result of the Six-Day War?

Answer: A steep and steady decline

Answer: A steep and steady decline

Answer: steep and steady decline


Question: What gained ground when Arab nationalism suffered?

Answer: anti-democratic Islamist movements

Answer: anti-democratic Islamist movements inspired by Maududi and Sayyid Qutb

Answer: anti-democratic Islamist movements


Question: Mohammad Iqbal was what type of father to the State of Pakistan?

Answer: ideological

Answer: ideological

Answer: ideological


Question: Who was the ideologue of the Iranian Revolution?

Answer: Ali Shariati

Answer: Ali Shariati

Answer: Ali Shariati


Question: Where does Khomeini's beliefs fall as compared to Mawdudi and Qutb?

Answer: somewhere between

Answer: between

Answer: somewhere between


Question: Who was it essential to Islam to imitate?

Answer: the Prophet Mohammad

Answer: Prophet Mohammad and his successors

Answer: Prophet Mohammad


Question: What long term agenda was the acts of plundering Muslim lands by the West?

Answer: conspiracy

Answer: Westernizing Muslims

Answer: conspiracy


Question: What Republic has maintained its control of Iran?

Answer: Islamic

Answer: The Islamic Republic

Answer: Islamic


Question: Iran has assisted what type of groups in Iraq?

Answer: Shia terrorist

Answer: Shia terrorist groups

Answer: Shia terrorist


Question: What type of sanctions has the US directed at Iran?

Answer: economic

Answer: economic

Answer: economic


Question: When did the Iranian government enjoy something of a resurgence?

Answer: During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

Answer: the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

Answer: 2006


Question: Who stated he wanted Israel to vanish?

Answer: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Answer: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Answer: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


Question: Who deployed its army into Afghanistan in 1979?

Answer: the Soviet Union

Answer: the Soviet Union

Answer: Soviet Union


Question: What was the Soviet Union trying to suppress with its army?

Answer: an Islamic rebellion

Answer: an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime

Answer: Islamic rebellion


Question: What did the conflict galvanize Muslims around the world to do?

Answer: send aid and sometimes to go themselves to fight for their faith

Answer: send aid and sometimes to go themselves to fight for their faith

Answer: send aid and sometimes to go themselves to fight for their faith


Question: How effective was the military use of the "Afghan Arabs"?

Answer: marginal

Answer: marginal

Answer: marginal


Question: How many Muslims came from around the world to fight in Afghanistan?

Answer: 16,000 to 35,000

Answer: 16,000 to 35,000

Answer: 16,000 to 35,000


Question: What did the Gulf War inadvertently do in the early 1990s?

Answer: worked to radicalize the Islamist movement

Answer: radicalize the Islamist movement

Answer: radicalize the Islamist movement


Question: Whose occupation of Kuwait did the US military personal seek to put an end to?

Answer: Saddam Hussein

Answer: Saddam Hussein's

Answer: Saddam Hussein's


Question: Up until 1990, Saudi Arabia played an important role in restraining what groups?

Answer: Islamist

Answer: Islamist

Answer: Islamist


Question: What monarchy did western troops protect?

Answer: Saudi

Answer: Saudi

Answer: Saudi


Question: Whose puppet did Islamists accuse the Saudi regime of being?

Answer: the west

Answer: the west

Answer: the west


Question: Who did the attacks resonate most with?

Answer: conservative Muslims

Answer: Muslims

Answer: conservative Muslims


Question: What did Saudi Arabia try to repress to compensate for its loss of stature?

Answer: domestic Islamists

Answer: domestic Islamists

Answer: domestic Islamists


Question: Where did American troops remain stationed after Saddam's defeat?

Answer: in the kingdom

Answer: in the kingdom

Answer: the kingdom


Question: Where did a bloody civil war break out?

Answer: Algeria

Answer: Algeria

Answer: Algeria


Question: Who masterminded many terror attacks?

Answer: Osama bin Laden

Answer: Osama bin Laden

Answer: Osama bin Laden


Question: Whose ideas became increasingly radical during his imprisonment?

Answer: Qutb's

Answer: Qutb

Answer: Qutb's


Question: When was Qutb executed?

Answer: 1966

Answer: 1966

Answer: 1966


Question: What organization was led by Hasan al-Hudaybi?

Answer: the Brotherhood

Answer: the Brotherhood

Answer: Brotherhood


Question: What movements pursued a more radical direction?

Answer: Fringe or splinter

Answer: Fringe or splinter movements

Answer: Fringe


Question: When had the Brotherhood renounced violence as a means of achieving its goals?

Answer: By the 1970s

Answer: the 1970s

Answer: 1970s


Question: Who took up the path of violence?

Answer: Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization

Answer: the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization

Answer: Egyptian Islamic Jihad


Question: When did the Egyptian Islamic Jihad assassinate Anwar Sadat?

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981

Answer: 1981


Question: Which leaders did the Islamic extremists attack?

Answer: apostate

Answer: "apostate" leaders of Muslim states,

Answer: apostate


Question: What sin were the leaders the extremists attacked guilty of?

Answer: promoted Western/foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies

Answer: held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western/foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies

Answer: secular leanings


Question: Who wrote a pamphlet outlining the radical ideas of the extremists?

Answer: Muhammad Abd al-Salaam Farag

Answer: Muhammad Abd al-Salaam Farag

Answer: Muhammad Abd al-Salaam Farag


Question: What did al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya use to get its way?

Answer: violence

Answer: violence

Answer: violence


Question: Over 100 Egyptian police were victims of what group's campaign of terror?

Answer: al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya

Answer: al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya

Answer: Islamic Group


Question: When did Jamaa Islamiya renounce violence?

Answer: in 2003

Answer: 2003

Answer: 2003


Question: How did the Islamic Group's campaign to overthrow the government turn out?

Answer: unsuccessful

Answer: unsuccessful

Answer: unsuccessful


Question: Who has the Islamic Liberation Party attempted to assassinate?

Answer: political figures

Answer: political figures

Answer: political figures


Question: Until 1987, what stance did the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine take towards Israel?

Answer: quiescent

Answer: quiescent

Answer: quiescent


Question: What organization is devoted to Jihad against Israel?

Answer: HAMAS

Answer: HAMAS

Answer: HAMAS


Question: What did the Hamas charter uncompromisingly encourage?

Answer: destruction of Israel

Answer: the destruction of Israel

Answer: destruction of Israel


Question: The Brotherhood's members are against consuming what beverage?

Answer: alcohol

Answer: alcohol

Answer: alcohol


Question: Where does HAMAS want to establish an Islamic state?

Answer: Palestine

Answer: Palestine

Answer: Palestine


Question: What organization has continued to be a major disruptive force in Palestine?

Answer: Hamas

Answer: Hamas

Answer: Hamas


Question: How many people did Hamas kill between 2000 to 2007?

Answer: 542

Answer: 542

Answer: 542


Question: What did Hamas win in the January 2006 legislative election?

Answer: majority of the seats,

Answer: the majority of the seats

Answer: majority of the seats


Question: When did Hamas drive the PLO out of Gaza?

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007


Question: What have Muslims praised Hamas for doing?

Answer: driving Israel out of the Gaza Strip

Answer: driving Israel out of the Gaza Strip

Answer: driving Israel out of the Gaza Strip


Question: What type of regime ruled over Sudan for many years?

Answer: Islamist

Answer: Islamist

Answer: Islamist


Question: Who was the leader of the Islamist regime in Sudan?

Answer: Hassan al-Turabi

Answer: Hassan al-Turabi

Answer: Hassan al-Turabi


Question: What organization did General Gaafar al-Nimeiry invite members of to serve in his government?

Answer: National Islamic Front

Answer: National Islamic Front

Answer: National Islamic Front


Question: How did Turabi build a strong economic base?

Answer: money from foreign Islamist banking systems

Answer: with money from foreign Islamist banking systems

Answer: money from foreign Islamist banking systems