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What is the purpose of the Tijuana Cross-border Terminal?
give direct access to Tijuana International Airport
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How many passengers did San Diego Internatonal Airport serve in 2005?
17 million
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What two general aviation airports are operated by the San Diego Regional Airport Authority?
Montgomery Field (MYF) and Brown Field (SDM)
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What is the name given to the highly congested spot where Interstates 5 and 805 meet?
The Merge
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What tollway connects Otay Mesa with SR 54?
The South Bay Expressway
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Which terminal was expanded in the San Diego International Airport in 2013?
Terminal 2
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What type of special lanes were added to Interstate 15?
high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) "managed lanes"
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In 2007, what percentage of the roads in San Diego were considered acceptable?
37 percent
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Islamic World is another way to refer to what?
Muslim world
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When speaking of religion, what does Ummah refer to?
those who adhere to the teachings of Islam
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When speaking about culture, what does Ummah refer to?
Islamic civilization
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Community, or Nation are direct translations of what word in reference to Islam?
Ummah
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When did the Islamic Golden age start?
622
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What other age occurred at the same time as the Islamic Golden Age?
the Middle Ages
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There what is the latest year for the end of the Islamic Golden Age?
1492
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What years did Abbasid caliph Harun ar-Rashid reign?
786 to 809
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Where was the House of Wisdom held?
Baghdad
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What type of ceramic art was popular from the 8th to the 18th century in the art of Islam?
glazed ceramics
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Which ceramic glazing was developed by those potters which were Islamic?
Tin-opacified glazing
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Where would one find the earliest examples of opaque glazes in the Muslim world?
Basra
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Around when were the first opaque glazes developed?
8th century
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Where were stone-paste ceramics invented?
9th century Iraq
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What is the most widely known fictional work from the Islamic world?
One Thousand and One Nights
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Arabian nights was originally based upon what Persian work?
Hezār Afsān (Thousand Fables)
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In what century was One Thousand and One Nights completed?
14th century
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When did One Thousand and One Nights first get translated in the West?
18th century
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Who was the first westerner to translate One Thousand and One Nights?
Antoine Galland
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Layla and Majnun is an example of what kind of poetry?
Arabic poetry and Persian poetry
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Which era is Layla and Majnun from?
Umayyad era
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In what century does Layla and Majnun originate?
7th century
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What kind of story is told in Shahnameh?
a mythical and heroic retelling of Persian history
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Who wrote Shahnameh?
Ferdowsi
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What is another name for Ibn Tufail?
Abubacer
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What Arabic book is Ibn Tufail noted for writing?
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus)
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Who wrote Theologus Autodidactus?
Ibn al-Nafis
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What person wrote The Incoherence of the Philosophers?
Al-Ghazali
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Who was the main chracter of Philosophus Autodidactus?
Hayy
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What was the life span of Ibn al-Nafis?
1213–1288
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What type of book is Theologus Autodidactus the first type of?
science fiction
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What did Ibn al-Nafis use to explain the events in Theologus Autodidactus?
scientific knowledge
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Which year did a translation of Philosophus Autodidactus in Latin come to be?
1671
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Who first translated Philosophus Autodidactus into latin?
Edward Pococke the Younger
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Simon Ockley translated Philosophus Autodidactus into English, in what year did he do that?
1708
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Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
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What book is Robert Boyle believe to have written after being inspired by Philosophus Autodidactus?
The Aspiring Naturalist
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In what year was Kitab al-Miraj likely translated into Latin?
in 1264 or shortly before
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Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
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Which works by Shakespeare is believed to be inspired by The Moors?
Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello
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In what century is it believed that delegations of Moors began to influence western works by the likes of Shakespeare?
17th century
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What aspects from Islamic works did the Divine Comedy feature?
episodes about Bolgia from Arabic works on Islamic eschatology
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What was the life span of Ibn Sina?
980–1037
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How many books were said to have been written by Ibn Sina?
450
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What subjects did Ibn Sina mainly write about?
philosophy and medicine
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What medical book is Ibn Sina most noted for in European universities?
The Canon of Medicine
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What philosophical encyclopedia is Ibn Sina known for writing?
The Book of Healing
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Which philosopher from the Muslim world influenced modern philosophy?
Ibn Tufail
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Who wrote Hayy ibn Yaqdha?
Ibn Tufail
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In what year was Hayy ibn Yaqdha translated to the Latin language?
1671
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What kind of book is Hayy ibn Yaqdha?
philosophical novel
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Which philosopher of the Muslim world is considered an important author of work on evolution?
al-Jahiz
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Ibn al-Haytham can be known by another name, what is it?
Alhazen
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What type of work is Ibn al-Haytham known to have pioneered?
phenomenology and the philosophy of science
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Who is considered to have been the one that founded Illuminationist philosophy?
Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
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Which philosopher in the Muslim world championed inductive logic in their works?
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
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Ibn al-Haytham experimented with what around the year 1000?
optics
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Ibn al-Haytham wrote about his work around the year 1000, what was it?
Book of Optics
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Regarding the intromission theory of light, who showed the first proof?
Ibn al-Haytham
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Which Muslim scientist worked on trigonometry?
al-Khwarzimi
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Who is believed to have discovered decagonal quasicrystal geometry?
Medieval Muslim artists
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What work is Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn al-Faqih Ilyas known for writing?
Tashrih al-badan (Anatomy of the body)
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In what century did Tashrih al-badan come into being?
15th century
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Who theorized about pulmonary circulation?
Ibn al-Nafis
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Who wrote The Canon of Medicine?
Avicenna
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Who wrote Kitab al-Tasrif?
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
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What field did Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī contribute to?
astronomy
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What work is Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī known for as it regards to earth?
improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis
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What model did the work of Muslim World astronomers contribute to?
the Copernican heliocentric model
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Who created the astrolabe?
the Greeks
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Who is said to have mastered the astrolabe?
Islamic astronomers and engineers
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What was the windmill used for?
irrigation and farming
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which crops were brought to europe from the Muslim World?
almonds and citrus fruit
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Trading in the Indian ocean was mainly controlled by whom?
Arab merchants
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When did the Portuguese arrive in the Indian Ocean?
16th century
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Where was an important center of Indian Ocean trading in the 16th century?
Hormuz
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How early did people in the Muslim World start using watermills?
7th century
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At what point was the use of watermills common in the Muslim World?
9th century
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In what century had mills such as gristmills and sawmills dominate the Islamic world?
11th century
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Who invented crankshafts?
Muslim engineers
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Who was the inventor of water turbines?
Muslim engineers
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What percentage of the humans in the world are considered Muslim?
20%
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How many Muslims are believed to live on earth?
1,5 billion
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In how many nations are Muslims in the majority of people?
49
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How many languages are spoken by Muslims?
hundreds
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Which Muslim denominations are the most dominant?
Sunni and Shia
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What are the two main things differentiating Sunni and Shia?
how the life of the ummah ("faithful") should be governed, and the role of the imam
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Who is believed, among Sunnis, to be the political successor of the Prophet?
Abu Bakr
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Who was Abu Bakr?
father of the Prophet's favourite wife
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Who was Ali ibn Abi Talib?
husband of the Prophet's daughter Fatimah
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What is the literacy rate in Kuwait?
over 97%
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In 2015 it was reported that what percentage of the Muslim World was not literate?
37%
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