Question: What portable game systems have SNES emulators?
Answer: Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, the Gizmondo, the Dingoo and the GP2X by GamePark Holdings

Question: Which publication said Nintendo's best console ever was the SNES?
Answer: GameTrailers

Question: Where did GameTrailers rank the SNES among all consoles?
Answer: second-best

Question: Which writer said the SNES was the best console ever from any company?
Answer: Don Reisinger

Question: Who said the SNES was "simply the most timeless system ever created"?
Answer: GamingExcellence

Question: Where did IGN rank the SNES?
Answer: fourth best

Question: Some scholars contest that there was only one what?
Answer: substrate language

Question: Who do some scholars think the Sumerian language originally belonged to?
Answer: hunter and fisher peoples

Question: Where did the original Sumerians live?
Answer: marshland

Question: What culture did the peoples who would be called Sumerian have a part in?
Answer: Arabian bifacial

Question: When were the earliest historical records of Sumer?
Answer: 26th century BC

Question: How long was there native Sumerian rule during the Third Dynasty of Ur?
Answer: about a century

Question: When was the Third Dynasty of Ur?
Answer: approximately 2100-2000 BC

Question: What language was in use in the Neo-Sumerian Empire?
Answer: Akkadian

Question: What is considered to be the world's first city?
Answer: Eridu

Question: How many cultures may have fused together in Eridu?
Answer: three

Question: What is the common name given to the non-Semitic dwellers of Mesopotamia by the Akkadians?
Answer: Sumerian

Question: What did the Sumerians refer to themselves as in their language?
Answer: "the black-headed people"

Question: How did the Sumerians refer to their land?
Answer: "place of the noble lords"

Question: Shumer, an Akkadian word, could reference what type of name?
Answer: geographical

Question: What compass point of Mesopotamia did the Hebrew Shinar refer to?
Answer: southern

Question: During what periods did the Sumerican city-states rise to power?
Answer: prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk

Question: What is obscure until the Early Dynastic III period around the 23rd century BC?
Answer: Sumerian written history

Question: What was developed that has allowed archaeologists to read contemporary records and inscriptions?
Answer: syllabary writing system

Question: When does Classical Sumer end?
Answer: rise of the Akkadian Empire

Question: What cut short the Sumerian Renaissance in the 21st century BC?
Answer: Semitic Amorite invasions

Question: Fine quality painted pottery is a distinctive style of what period in Sumerian history?
Answer: Ubaid

Question: Where could the pottery be found spread throughout?
Answer: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf

Question: During the Ubaid, where was the first settlement in southern Mesopotamia established?
Answer: Eridu

Question: What type of agriculture did the farmers settling at Eridu bring with them?
Answer: irrigation

Question: Who was the chief god of Eridu?
Answer: Enki

Question: How were trade goods transported in southern Mesopotamia?
Answer: transported along the canals and rivers

Question: What facilitated the rise of Sumerian cities?
Answer: trade goods

Question: How many people lived in the cities?
Answer: over 10,000

Question: During which period did Sumerian cities begin using slave labor?
Answer: Uruk

Question: What have been found as far east as central Iran?
Answer: Artifacts

Question: What is an "ensi"?
Answer: priest-king

Question: What type of leadership did Sumerian cities during the Uruk period probably have?
Answer: theocratic

Question: Who assisted the ensi?
Answer: a council of elders

Question: What was the most urbanized city in the world at the time?
Answer: Uruk

Question: Over how many people lived in Uruk?
Answer: 50,000

Question: Who is the earliest king that is authenticated by actual physical evidence and not just legend?
Answer: Enmebaragesi

Question: What dynasty was Etana the 13th king of?
Answer: Kish

Question: What is the name of the earliest dynastic Sumerian king?
Answer: Etana

Question: What is the period of Enmebaragesi's reign associated with?
Answer: increased war

Question: Where is Enmebaragesi's name mentioned?
Answer: Gilgamesh epic

Question: What city-state was the rival of Lagash?
Answer: Umma

Question: What did Eannatum annex?
Answer: practically all of Sumer

Question: What is one of the first empires known in history?
Answer: Eannatum of Lagash,

Question: What did Eannatum use to keep the people of the time in line?
Answer: terror

Question: What happened to Eannatum's empire after his death?
Answer: collapsed

Question: Where is the Semetic Akkadian language first found?
Answer: proper names of the kings of Kish

Question: Where is the Semetic Akkadian language found preserved after 2800 BC?
Answer: king lists

Question: During whose rule was the use of Old Akkadian at its peak?
Answer: Sargon the Great

Question: What language did scribes use over Akkadian?
Answer: Sumerian

Question: How long did Akkadian and Sumerian coexist as spoken languages?
Answer: about one thousand years

Question: Which dynasty of Ur was the last great Sumerian renaissance?
Answer: 3rd

Question: Who guided Ur during the last gasp of power?
Answer: Ur-Nammu and Shulgi

Question: Even during the 3rd dynasty, what was happening to the racial makeup of the region?
Answer: more Semitic than Sumerian

Question: What was there an influx of waves of coming into Sumerian lands?
Answer: Amorites

Question: How long did the Babylonians and Assyrians continue to teach the Sumerian language in their schools?
Answer: for as long as cuneiform was utilized.

Question: What effect was rising salinity having on the agricultural productivity of the Sumerian lands?
Answer: compromised

Question: The salinity of what in the region was long recognized as a major problem?
Answer: Soil

Question: Poorly drained irrigated soils in an arid climate with a good deal of evaporation is responsible for leaving what?
Answer: dissolved salts

Question: What did cultivation shift from to salt-tolerant barley during the Ur III phase?
Answer: wheat

Question: How much did the population of the region decline due to the decrease in crop productivity? 
Answer: by nearly three fifths

Question: Who were a non-Semitic caucasoid people?
Answer: The Sumerians

Question: What influences did the Sumerian language seem to retain?
Answer: earlier inhabitants

Question: What do archaeological records clearly show about the Sumerian culture?
Answer: uninterrupted cultural continuity

Question: When were settlements started in southern Mesopotamia?
Answer: early Ubaid period

Question: Why were the lands in the region the Sumerian people settled fertile?
Answer: silt deposited by the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers

Question: Where do some archaeologists speculate Sumerians originally moved from?
Answer: the north

Question: What had the Sumerians perfected before coming south?
Answer: irrigation agriculture

Question: Who were the first to practice a primitive form of irrigation agriculture?
Answer: the Samarra

Question: How many levels of pre-Ubaid pottery were excavated by the French in the 1980s?
Answer: eight

Question: What did the temple-centered social organization of the farming peoples allow them to mobilize?
Answer: labor

Question: How were women protected in Sumerian society?
Answer: law

Question: What gender dominated Sumerian culture?
Answer: male

Question: Whose code reveals a bit about the societal structure through Sumerian law?
Answer: Ur-Nammu

Question: Who was at the top of the power pyramid in Sumerian society?
Answer: the lu-gal

Question: How many strata existed in Sumerian society?
Answer: two

Question: What were the most important discoveries for archaeologists from Sumer?
Answer: tablets written in cuneiform