Question: What sort of meat is sold in Somali businesses in Minneapolis?
Answer: halal

Question: In what Middle Eastern country is there a notable Somali population?
Answer: the United Arab Emirates

Question: What is another name for the city center of Dubai?
Answer: Deira

Question: People of what nationality export more products from Dubai than Somalis?
Answer: Iranians

Question: What is the name of an airline owned by Dubai-based Somalis?
Answer: Star African Air

Question: How many Dubai-based airlines are owned by Somalis?
Answer: three

Question: Near what city in Sudan do many Somalis reside?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: In what geographical portion of Sudan do some Somalis live?
Answer: north

Question: Along with businesspeople, what sort of Somalis live in Sudan?
Answer: students

Question: In what Somali enclave in Kenya have Somalis invested over $1.5 billion?
Answer: Eastleigh

Question: In what province of South Africa do Somalis congregate?
Answer: Western Cape

Question: What language family does the Somali language belong to?
Answer: Afro-Asiatic

Question: What branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family does the Somali language belong to?
Answer: Cushitic

Question: Along with Saho, what language is closely related to Somali?
Answer: Afar

Question: Among the Cushitic languages, which is the most well-documented?
Answer: Somali

Question: Before what year did studies on the Somali language exist?
Answer: 1900

Question: About how many people in Somalia speak Somali?
Answer: 7.78 million

Question: In millions, about how many global Somali speakers are there?
Answer: 12.65

Question: Along with Greater Somalia ethnic Somalis, who speaks Somali?
Answer: the Somali diaspora

Question: Along with Northern and Maay, what is the third main group of Somali dialects?
Answer: Benaadir

Question: What dialect is Standard Somali based on?
Answer: Northern Somali

Question: What is another name for Benaadir?
Answer: Coastal Somali

Question: What dialect is spoken on Mogadishu?
Answer: Benaadir

Question: In what geographic part of Somalia do the Rahanweyn live?
Answer: southern

Question: What is the most frequently used writing script for the Somali language?
Answer: the Somali alphabet

Question: Who introduced the Somali alphabet?
Answer: Mohamed Siad Barre

Question: In what month and year was the Somali alphabet introduced?
Answer: October 1972

Question: Who created the Somali alphabet?
Answer: Shire Jama Ahmed

Question: Who invented the Osmanya script?
Answer: Osman Yusuf Kenadid

Question: Other than Somali, what is an official language of Somalia?
Answer: Arabic

Question: To what language family does Arabic belong?
Answer: Afro-Asiatic

Question: In what neighboring country is Arabic also an official language?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: What organization do both Djibouti and Somalia belong to?
Answer: the Arab League

Question: For how long has Somalia had connections to the Arab world?
Answer: centuries

Question: Civilizations from what geographic part of Africa influenced Somali culture?
Answer: Northeast

Question: Civilizations from what geographic part of Asia influenced Somali culture?
Answer: Southeast

Question: What Asian country notable influenced Somali culture?
Answer: India

Question: Along with Northeast Africa, Southeast Asia and India, what locale had a significant influence on Somali culture?
Answer: the Arabian Peninsula

Question: Somali food contains influences from what region?
Answer: Southeast Asian

Question: Along with textiles, wood carving and pottery, what ancient cultural activity still dominates Somalia today?
Answer: monumental architecture

Question: Who called Somalia a "Nation of Bards"?
Answer: Margaret Laurence

Question: Of what nationality is the person who called Somalia a "Nation of Bards"?
Answer: Canadian

Question: What is the profession of the individual who referred to Somalia as a "Nation of Bards"?
Answer: novelist

Question: What is a notable game that is played in Somalia?
Answer: Shax

Question: Along with sport, games, literature, dress and festivals, what is a notable Somali cultural tradition?
Answer: martial arts

Question: What scale is used by most Somali songs?
Answer: pentatonic

Question: How many notes are in a hepatonic scale?
Answer: seven

Question: What is an exaple of a hepatonic scale?
Answer: the major scale

Question: Along with Arabia and Ethiopia, what land has songs that sound similar to those of Somalia?
Answer: Sudan

Question: What does midho mean in English?
Answer: lyricists

Question: In what decade were the first Somali feature films made?
Answer: 1960s

Question: In what year was the SFA founded?
Answer: 1975

Question: Who was the representative of the Somali Film Agency in Rome?
Answer: Ali Said Hassan

Question: What are riwaaydo?
Answer: popular musicals

Question: What was the name of Said Salah Ahmed's first feature?
Answer: The Somali Darwish

Question: What is a notable characteristic of Somali art?
Answer: aniconism

Question: Along with wood carving, architecture and pottery, what is a notable Somali artistic tradition?
Answer: music

Question: In what geographic region of Somalia are ancient rock paintings located?
Answer: northern

Question: What animals are depicted on the Mogadishan canopies?
Answer: birds

Question: In what area of Somalia can one find the tombs decorated with plants?
Answer: southern

Question: What do Somali women wear on their feet during Eid?
Answer: henna

Question: Along with triangular shapes, what are common henna designs in Somalia?
Answer: flower motifs

Question: What do Somali women traditionally put around their eyes?
Answer: kohl

Question: From what ancient region did kuul application come?
Answer: Land of Punt

Question: What activity is often held before Somali weddings?
Answer: Henna parties

Question: What sport do Somalis most enjoy?
Answer: Football

Question: What is the name of the Somali national football team?
Answer: Ocean Stars

Question: In what year did the Ocean Stars first compete in the Olympics?
Answer: 1972

Question: Along with Liban Abdi, Ayub Daud and Abdisalam Ibrahim, who is a notable Somali football player?
Answer: Mohammed Ahamed Jama

Question: Along with the Somalia Cup, what is an important Somali football competition?
Answer: the Somalia League

Question: When did the 1981 FIBA African Championship take place?
Answer: 15–23 December 1981

Question: Who hosted the 1981 FIBA African Championship?
Answer: Somalia

Question: In what city did the 1981 FIBA African Championship take place?
Answer: Mogadishu

Question: For what nation did Hussein Ahmed Salah compete?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: Who did Mohammed Ahmed compete for in the Olympics?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who came in fourth in the 2013 Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup?
Answer: Mohamed Deq Abdulle

Question: What medal did Faisal Jeylani Aweys win in the 2013 Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup?
Answer: silver

Question: Where did the 2013 Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup take place?
Answer: Tongeren

Question: Along with Thai Boxing, in what has Mohamed Jama won a European title?
Answer: K1

Question: What is a koofiyad?
Answer: an embroidered fez

Question: What do Somali men wear when they aren't wearing Western clothing?
Answer: the macawis

Question: Where is the macawis worn?
Answer: around the waist

Question: What piece of clothing is the macawis similar to?
Answer: sarong

Question: Aside from the koofiyad, what do Somali men wear on their head?
Answer: turban

Question: What is the jellabiya?
Answer: a long white garment

Question: Along with jellabiyad, what is the jellabiya called in Somali?
Answer: qamiis

Question: In what region do men commonly wear the jellabiya?
Answer: the Arab world

Question: What is the regular garment of Somali women?
Answer: the guntiino

Question: What is the guntiino normally made from?
Answer: alandi