Question: The anthology of the Greek world is intimately joined with what areas of the world ?
Answer: history of the Greek people is closely associated with the history of Greece, Cyprus, Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Black Sea.

Question: What has lead to the current situation of vast dispersion of the Greek people ?
Answer: a huge wave of migration to the United States, Australia, Canada and elsewhere created the modern Greek diaspora.

Question: After the 19th century about how much of the Greek population resided in little Asia ?
Answer: By the early 20th century, over half of the overall Greek-speaking population was settled in Asia Minor (now Turkey)

Question: Which angel is believed to have communicated the Quran to Muhammad?
Answer: Gabriel

Question: On which date did Muhammad begin receiving the Quran?
Answer: 22 December 609 CE

Question: In which year CE did Muhammad die?
Answer: 632

Question: What is the Arabic variant of Gabriel?
Answer: Jibril

Question: How many times is the word "Quran" used in the Quran?
Answer: 70

Question: Who first recorded Muhammad revelations?
Answer: companions of Muhammad

Question: Who first standardized the earliest versions of the Quran?
Answer: Caliph Uthman

Question: By what name is the first standardized version of the Quran known?
Answer: Uthman's codex

Question: In which language is the Quran spoken during prayer?
Answer: Arabic

Question: The Quran is used in the interpretation of which form of law?
Answer: sharia

Question: What accounts are form the basis of much of the accounts in the Quran?
Answer: Biblical scriptures

Question: Which religious text calls itself a book of guidance?
Answer: Quran

Question: From which Arabic verb might "Quran" be derived?
Answer: qaraʼa

Question: What Syriac word might be related to "Quran"?
Answer: qeryānā

Question: The words from which the name "Quran" might be described are related to which act?
Answer: reciting

Question: Which word do most Muslim scholars point to as the origin of the Quran's name?
Answer: qaraʼa

Question: Which term used in the Quran to indicate itself means "book"?
Answer: kitāb

Question: Which term does the Quran use to refer to itself as "scripture"?
Answer: sūrah

Question: What meaning does the Quran take when it calls itself hikmah?
Answer: wisdom

Question: What name does the Quran use for itself that means "revelation"?
Answer: waḥy

Question: Which term meaning "the mother book" does the Quran apply to itself?
Answer: umm al-kitāb

Question: What term is used in the Quran to indicate previous revelations?
Answer: mus'haf

Question: What is the Arabic term commonly used to refer to works like the Torah or the Gospels?
Answer: al-kitāb

Question: What is an English translation of huda?
Answer: the guide

Question: In which mountain cave did Mohammad experience his first revelation?
Answer: Cave of Hira

Question: Where did Mohammad move to found a separate Muslim community?
Answer: Medina

Question: Prisoners from which battle are thought to have helped Muslims learn to write?
Answer: Badr

Question: Vegetation from which tree served as an early recording medium for the Quran?
Answer: date palm

Question: When Muhammad dies, what had not yet been compiled as a book?
Answer: Quran

Question: What is the most common interpretation of the word "ummi" that the Quran applies to Muhammad?
Answer: illiterate

Question: Because Mohammed was "ummi," what would he not have known about that lent credence to his prophethood?
Answer: earlier sacred texts

Question: What term does the Quran use to describe Mohammad's lack of exposure to scripture?
Answer: ummi

Question: What skills would have made others more suspicious that Mohammad was not getting his revelations in the way he said?
Answer: writing and reading

Question: Which caliph decided to preserve the Quran as a single book after some of Muhammad's companions were killed in battle?
Answer: Abu Bakr

Question: Which scribe led the production of the first written Quran?
Answer: Zayd ibn Thabit

Question: In which year did Abu Bakr die?
Answer: 634

Question: Who took possession of the first Quran manuscript after Abu Bakr?
Answer: Hafsa bint Umar

Question: Which caliph ordered the Quran manuscript copied and standardized?
Answer: Uthman ibn Affan

Question: What is the term for recycled parchments used in ancient manuscripts?
Answer: palimpsests

Question: Before which year were the Sana'a manuscripts produced?
Answer: 671 AD

Question: What version of the Quran was the scriptio superior of the Sana'a manuscripts?
Answer: Uthmanic

Question: In which city was evidence of pre-Uthmanic Quranic writing discovered in 1972?
Answer: Sana'a, Yemen

Question: What script were the Birmingham Quran fragments written in?
Answer: Hijazi

Question: Which modern script descends from the script on the Birmingham Quran fragments?
Answer: Arabic

Question: What feature of the Birmingham Quran fragments' text make some doubt that it is older than other known versions of the Quran?
Answer: dots and chapter separators

Question: How many years old were the Quran fragments discovered in Birmingham in 2015?
Answer: 1370

Question: Which section of the Quran inspires some Muslims to ritually wash themselves before touching their copy?
Answer: 56:79

Question: What is done with the ashes of burned copies of the Quran?
Answer: buried or scattered over water

Question: In what state are copies of the Quran sometime wrapped in cloth and buried?
Answer: Worn-out

Question: Which are the safest places to inter an older copy of the Quran?
Answer: a mosque or a Muslim cemetery

Question: What term indicates that the contents of the Quran cannot be reproduced in speech?
Answer: I'jaz

Question: Until what day is the Quran believed to be in effect?
Answer: Day of Resurrection

Question: In which year did the Medieval Muslim scholar al-Baqillani die?
Answer: 1013

Question: Which Muslim scholar studied the Quran's inimitability until his death in 1078?
Answer: al-Jurjani

Question: What is a chapter of the Quran called?
Answer: sura

Question: How many suras are in the Quran?
Answer: 114

Question: What two city-related categories divide the Quran's suras?
Answer: Meccan or Medinan

Question: Which Arabic phrase opens almost all suras?
Answer: Bismillah

Question: What determines the order in which suras are placed in the Quran?
Answer: size

Question: What division of the Quran is used for a month-long reading?
Answer: juz'

Question: How many ajzā cover the entire Quran?
Answer: 30

Question: How many ahzab are in a juz'?
Answer: two

Question: What is the term for a subdivision of a hizb?
Answer: rubʻ al-ahzab

Question: What division is used for a week-long recital of the Quran?
Answer: manzil

Question: Quranic verses concerning which phenomena are thought by Muslims to authenticate its contents?
Answer: natural

Question: What types of events are related in the Quran in support of its moral teachings?
Answer: historical

Question: Historical narratives from whose time period are unique to the Quran among holy books?
Answer: Muhammad's

Question: What fraction of the Quran deals with eschatology?
Answer: one-third

Question: What general topic is eschatology about?
Answer: the final fate of the universe

Question: Which natural disaster features in Sura 22?
Answer: earthquake

Question: What topic do suras 44, 56, 75, and 101 have in common?
Answer: afterlife

Question: In what form does the Quran say God sends his messages to people?
Answer: signs and revelations

Question: Who intermediates between God and prophets?
Answer: Angels

Question: Which part of the Quran describes God's use of intermediaries between himself and his prophets?
Answer: 42:51

Question: Which humans are the messengers of God?
Answer: Prophets

Question: How does the Quran describe the similarity of messages God has delivered throughout human history?
Answer: identical