Libya Quiz

Question: What is Omar al-Mukhtar famous for?

Answer: Mukhtar was executed by the Italians in 1931, but remains a national hero.

Question: What did Muammar Qaddafi call his philosophy of government, which combined elements of socialism, nationalism, and direct democracy?

Answer: The Third Universal Theory, intended by Qaddafi as an alternative to capitalism and communism, is laid out in his three-part handbook The Green Book.

Question: Which of the following religious movements was founded in Cyrenaica in the mid-19th century?

Answer: The Sanusiyyah movement was founded by Sayyid Muhammad bin Ali al-Sanusi near Banghazi in 1842.

Question: Which of the following is an Arabic neologism generally understood to mean "state of the masses"?

Answer: The term, meant the signify Muammar Qaddafi’s vision for a stateless society run by the people, was first used in 1977.

Question: Which of the following is an informal name for the 1987 conflict in which Libyan troops were defeated by a highly mobile Chadian force?

Answer: Chadian troops used the superior mobility of their Toyota pickup trucks fitted with machine guns and anti-tank weapons to defeat a much more heavily armed Libyan force.

Question: Which of the following is not one of the traditional regions that comprise modern Libya?

Answer: Kabylie is a region in Algeria.

Question: When were significant oil reserves discovered in Libya?

Answer: Libya began exporting crude oil in 1961.

Question: What was the name of the autonomous dynasty that ruled Libya in the 18th century?

Answer: Ahmad Karamanli, an Ottoman cavalry officer, overthrew the Ottoman governor of Tripoli in 1711, and established a dynasty that ruled untill 1835.