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  1. Richard Armitage is best known as:
    1. A famous actor
    2. Secretary of the Treasury
    3. Deputy Secretary of State
    4. United States Ambassador to the U.N.
    5. Richard Gere's cousin

  2. Colonel Ilan Ramon, an astronaut recently killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster, was from which of the following countries?
    1. Lebanon
    2. Turkey
    3. Russia
    4. Israel

  3. The International Space Station crew in space during the Columbia disaster are comprised of which three individuals:
    1. Vladimir Putin, Don Pettit, Boris Chetok
    2. Sergei Gorbunov, Sean O'Keefe, David Shayler
    3. Mikhail Soyuz, Yasser Arafat, Dan Goldin
    4. Ken Bowersox, Don Pettit, Nicolai Budarin

  4. On February 2, 2003, ("Groundhog Day"), the following animal saw his shadow, signaling six more weeks of winter in North America:
    1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
    2. Pascagoula Sam
    3. Punxsutawney Phil
    4. Slippery Saddam

  5. The foreign minister of Turkey is:
    1. Yitzhak Rabin
    2. Bashir Arafat
    3. Tariq Aziz
    4. Yasar Yakis

  6. Which of the following are unmanned spy planes which may be used in the second Gulf War?
    1. Apache, Pave Low, Patriot
    2. AWACS, Kitty Hawk, Blackhawk
    3. JDAM, Tornado, Harrier
    4. Global Hawk, Predator, Shadow 200

  7. Which of the following is the Iraqi secret intelligence agency?
    1. Mossad
    2. Intifadah
    3. Hamas
    4. MI5
    5. Mukhabarat

  8. The following person visited Syria in 2002, reputedly to discuss sanctuary for his cousin, Saddam Hussein:
    1. Abid Hamid Mahmud
    2. Tariq Aziz
    3. Ali Hassan al-Majid
    4. Amir al-Sa'adi

  9. Tawakalna, Nebuchadnezzar, and Madinah are:
    1. Holy cities in Saudi Arabia
    2. Long-range missiles possessed by Iraq
    3. Important cultural sites in Iraq
    4. Elite divisions of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard

  10. The term "WMD" is a military acronym meaning:
    1. Women Men Dislike
    2. War Means Destruction
    3. Weapons Marines Desire
    4. Weapons of Mass Destruction

  11. Residents of Baghdad are called:
    1. Baghdites
    2. Baghdads
    3. Baghdikes
    4. Baghdadis

  12. The most loyal troops surrounding Saddam Hussein belong to this military unit:
    1. Saddamites
    2. Tikriti
    3. Wahhabis
    4. Fedayin

  13. In June 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed this nuclear reactor site in Iraq:
    1. Muthanna
    2. Tikrit
    3. Basra
    4. Osiraq

  14. The Negev desert is located in which of the following countries:
    1. Turkey
    2. Syria
    3. Saudi Arabia
    4. Israel

  15. This elite U.S. military unit was deployed to the Persian Gulf on February 6th, 2003:
    1. 4th U.S. Army Infantry Division
    2. 82nd Airborne
    3. U.S. Marines
    4. 101st Airborne Division

  16. The following person, an important adviser to President Bush, visited Turkey in February, 2003 as Special Envoy:
    1. Donald Rumsfeld
    2. Amir al-Sa'adi
    3. Abdullah Gul
    4. Zalmay Khalilzad

  17. The towns of Fallujah, Taji, Salman Pak, and Daura are suspected sites for which of the following?
    1. Nuclear facilities
    2. Chemical warfare development
    3. Figs and prunes
    4. Biological warfare agents

  18. In ancient times, the region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in modern-day Iraq, was known as:
    1. Syria
    2. Baghdad
    3. Mesopotamia
    4. Babylonia
    5. Assyria

  19. The term "jihad" refers to:
    1. A struggle against starvation
    2. A war to gain territory
    3. A nuclear holocaust
    4. A religious war against nonbelievers

  20. Name the alleged member of Al Qaeda said by U.S. intelligence agencies to be harbored in Iraq by Saddam Hussein:
    1. Osama bin Laden
    2. Abu Mussab Zarqawi
    3. Ayman al-Zawahiri
    4. Abu Nidal


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