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Along with the United States, what country did Gaddafi believe to be imperialist?
Soviet Union
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What economic philosophy was associated with the West?
capitalism
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Gaddafi's written work on Third International Theory consisted of how many volumes?
three
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When was the last volume of Gaddafi's work on Third International Theory published?
1979
[ "Muammar_Gaddafi\n\nGaddafi summarized Third International Theory in three short volumes published between 1975 and 1979, collectively known as The Green Book. Volume one was devoted to the issue of democracy, outlining the flaws of representative systems in favour of direct, participatory GPCs. The second dealt wi...
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What was the title given to Gaddafi's Third International Theory writings?
The Green Book
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What volume of The Green Book discussed democracy?
one
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What political philosophy was discussed in the second volume of The Green Book?
socialism
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In what year was the Office for the Security of the Revolution founded?
1975
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In what year did student protests occur in Benghazi?
1976
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How many senior officers were expelled fro the army in 1975?
200
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How many students were executed in January of 1977?
two
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Who criticized the political execution of students and military officers that occurred in January 1977?
Amnesty International
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Whose rise to the presidency of Egypt led to the decline in relations between Egypt and Libya?
Sadat
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What nation's military destroyed Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114?
Israeli
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Why did Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 accidentally fly into Israel's airspace?
sandstorm
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What city was the destination of RMS Queen Elizabeth 2?
Haifa
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Jews from what nation chartered the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2?
American
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Who was allied with Egypt during the Yom Kippur War?
Syria
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Who was the president of Sudan in 1975?
Gaafar Nimeiry
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What revolutionary group sought to overthrow the president of Sudan?
Sudan People's Liberation Army
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Prior to the Libyan invasion, what country was the Aouzou Strip a part of?
Chad
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What element did the Aouzou Strip possess a great deal of?
uranium
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What country formed a political union with Libya in 1974?
Tunisia
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What was the name of the abortive political union between Tunisia and Libya in 1974?
Arab Islamic Republic
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Who was the president of Tunisia in 1974?
Habib Bourguiba
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With what country did Libya conclude the Hassi Messaoud defense agreement?
Algeria
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Against what government was the Hassi Messaoud defense agreement directed against?
Moroccan
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What was the name of the state founded in Libya on March 2, 1977?
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
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How many Basic People's Congresses existed in the Jamahiriya?
187
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What body did the members elected by the Basic People's Congresses attend?
General People's Congress
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How often did the General People's Congress occur?
annual
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What was the official name of Libya prior to the establishment of the Jamahiriya?
Libyan Arab Republic
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What was the GPC accused of being vis-à-vis Gaddafi?
a rubber stamp
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What policy did Gaddafi propose that the GPC was against?
primary schools to be abolished
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What type of education did Gaddafi prefer to primary schools?
home schooling
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What was a policy that Gaddafi instituted without support from the GPC?
allow women into the armed forces
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What book did the Jamahiriya look to for legal advice?
Qur'an
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What tenet of sharia did Gaddafi believe was incompatible with socialism?
protection of private property
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What relationship led the Soviets to invite Gaddafi to Moscow?
commercial
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What did conservative Muslim clerics accuse Gaddafi of?
shirk
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Who won a border war with Libya?
Egypt
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In what year did Gaddafi resign from his position in the GPC?
1978
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Prior to his resignation, what office did Gaddafi occupy in the GPC?
Secretary-General
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After Gaddafi stepped down from the GPC, what title did he take?
Leader of the Revolution
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What authority did Gaddafi have over the Libyan armed forces?
commander-in-chief
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In September of 1978, what bureaucracy did Gaddafi speak out against?
public sector
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What "dictatorship" did Gaddafi attack in September of 1978?
private sector
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After People's Committees expropriated companies, what did they turn them into?
worker cooperatives
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How many companies were taken over by People's Committees?
several hundred
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On what date did the GPC separate the revolution from the government?
2 March 1979,
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Who was the leader of the Revolutionary Committees?
Mohammad Maghgoub
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What was the English name of the magazine published by the Revolutionary Committees?
The Green March
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How often was al-Zahf al-Akhdar published?
weekly
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What bodies represented the revolution after the separation of government and revolution?
Revolutionary Committees
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Where did land redistribution begin in 1979?
Jefara plain
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When did the Jefara plain land redistribution end?
1981
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What was the maximum amount of money a person could have in their bank account without having it expropriated in 1980?
1000 dinar
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As a result of the 1981 laws putting the government in control of commerce, what began to thrive?
black market
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What took the place of private businesses in 1981?
state supermarkets
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What tribe did Gaddafi belong to?
Qaddadfa
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What Libyan government official allegedly plotted to kill Gaddafi in 1978?
head of military intelligence
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In 1981, what Libyan opposition group was founded?
National Front for the Salvation of Libya
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Who founded the NFSL?
Mohammed Magariaf
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What group notably murdered Libyan diplomats?
al-Borkan,
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What list did the United States add Libya to in 1979?
State Sponsors of Terrorism
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In what Libyan city was the United States embassy burned in 1979?
Tripoli
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What event prompted the burning of the US embassy in Libya?
Iran hostage crisis
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How much money did Syria owe to the Soviets as of 1980?
£1 billion
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What country's military was attacking Uganda in 1979?
Tanzanian
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How much money did Libya earn from oil in 1986?
$5.4 billion
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What was another name for the Great Man-Made River?
Gaddafi's Pet Project
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In what country did FROLINAT operate?
Chad
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In what year did the Libyan military pull out of Chad at the behest of the OAU?
1981
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Who was the ruler of Morocco in 1984?
Hassan II
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In what years did Gaddafi visit the Soviet Union?
1981 and 1985
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What did Reagan wrongly believe Libya to be?
a puppet regime of the Soviet Union
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As a result of American hostility, what military alliance did Libya say it would join?
Warsaw Pact
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What Libyan aircraft were shot down by the United States in 1981?
Su-22
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What was the occupation of Yvonne Fletcher?
policewoman
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About how many Libyans died in Operation El Dorado Canyon?
100
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What terrorist attack did the United States claim Libya supported?
1986 Berlin discotheque bombing
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How many Americans died in the Berlin disco bombing of 1986?
two
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What country did the CIA believe Reagan should attack instead of Libya?
Syria
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What was the name of Gaddafi's daughter who may not have existed?
Hanna
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In what year did the "Revolution within a Revolution" begin?
1987
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In what year was the Ministry for Mass Mobilization and Revolutionary Leadership created?
1988
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How many articles were contained in the Great Green Charter on Human Rights in the Era of the Masses?
27
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Who won the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 1989?
Nelson Mandela
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What was Mandela's nationality?
South African
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What bodies were intended to be replaced by the popular militia created in 1988?
army and police
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What chemical weapon did Libya start making in 1987?
mustard gas
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Where did Libya manufacture mustard gas?
Rabta
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Where did an abortive coup occur in 1993?
Misrata
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Where did a Muslim insurgency take place in 1995?
Benghazi
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Along with Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, who was a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union?
Mauritania
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How many people not on Pan Am Flight 103 were killed by its destruction?
11
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Along with Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, who was suspected of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103?
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
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What 1992 UN Resolution imposed sanctions on Libya for its refusal to hand over the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing suspects?
748
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What was the value of the economic losses experienced by Libya as a result of Resolution 748?
$900 million
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What organization did Libya join in 1999?
Community of Sahel-Saharan States
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