Question: Who said something about tyranny?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Who was elected president of the GNC?
Answer: Mohammed Magariaf

Question: Who was initially named prime minister by the GNC?
Answer: Mustafa A.G. Abushagur

Question: Why did Mustafa A.G. Abushagur not become prime minister?
Answer: failed to gain congressional approval

Question: Who did the GNC eventually make prime minister?
Answer: Ali Zeidan

Question: What official name did the GNC give to Libya?
Answer: State of Libya

Question: What is the official name of Cypus?
Answer: Republic of Cyprus

Question: Where is Cyprus located?
Answer: Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Question: What countries are nearby Cyprus?
Answer: Syria and Turkey

Question: What is Cyprus' affiliation with the European Union?
Answer: member state

Question: Is Cyprus an island country or land-locked country? 
Answer: island country

Question: What does Cyprus rank in terms of size in the Mediterranean? 
Answer: third largest

Question: Which country is north of Cyprus?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What is the date of the earliest known human activity on Cyprus?
Answer: 10th millennium BC

Question: What is Cyprus home to of?
Answer: the oldest water wells in the world

Question: Who was Cyprus settled by in 2nd millennium BC?
Answer: Mycenaean Greeks

Question: What empires have occupied Cyprus?
Answer: empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians

Question: When did Ottoman rule occur in Cyprus?
Answer: between 1571 and 1878

Question: When was Cyprus placed under British administration?
Answer: 1878

Question: What year was Cyprus annexed by Britain?
Answer: 1914

Question: What year was Cyprus granted independence?
Answer: 1960

Question: What year did the intercommunal violence between Greek and Cypriots occur?
Answer: 1963

Question: How many Turkish Cypriots were displaced due to the 11 year violence in 1963? 
Answer: 25,000

Question: The Republic of Cyprus does not have de jure sovereignty over what two British territories? 
Answer: Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Question: How many parts is the Republic of Cyprus partitioned into?
Answer: two main parts

Question: How much area of the island does the Republic control?
Answer: 59%

Question: The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is only recognized by what country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What does the international community consider the northern part of Cyprus?
Answer: territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces

Question: During what Age did Cyprus experience two waves of Greek settlement?
Answer: late Bronze Age

Question: Who did the first wave of Greek settlement consist of?
Answer: Mycenaean Greek traders

Question: What year did Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus begin visiting Cyprus?
Answer: 1400 BC

Question: Cyprus is the birthplace of what two Greek mythological figures?
Answer: Aphrodite and Adonis

Question: Cyprus is home to which Greek mythological figures?
Answer: King Cinyras, Teucer and Pygmalion

Question: In what year did James II die?
Answer: 1473

Question: Who assumed control of the island after the death of James II?
Answer: Republic of Venice

Question: In what year did Venice formally annex the kingdom of Cyprus?
Answer: 1489

Question: Which empire frequently raided Cyprus during Venetian rule?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: In what year did the Ottomans destroy Limassol?
Answer: 1539

Question: In what year did Cyprus face a full-scale Ottoman assault?
Answer: 1570

Question: Ottoman forces massacred which types of people?
Answer: Greek and Armenian Christian inhabitants

Question: Turkish peasants and craftsman were brought to the island from where?
Answer: Anatolia

Question: What system did the Ottomans abolish in favor of the millet system?
Answer: feudal system

Question: Who was invested as the leader of the Greek Cypriot population?
Answer: head of the Church of Cyprus

Question: Who was the Church of Cyprus hoping to end encroachments of?
Answer: Roman Catholic Church

Question: How many years did Cyprus face of economic decline?
Answer: 250 years

Question: How many Muslims made up the island's population in 1777-78?
Answer: 47,000

Question: How many Christians made up the island's population in 1777-78?
Answer: 37,000

Question: What was the population of the island in 1872?
Answer: 144,000

Question: In 1872 the island contained how many Muslims?
Answer: 44,000

Question: In 1872 the island contained how many Christians?
Answer: 100,000

Question: What year did the Greek war of independence break out?
Answer: 1821

Question: How many Greek Cypriots were arrested and executed by the Ottoman governor of Cyprus?
Answer: 486

Question: Who was modern Greece's first president?
Answer: Ioannis Kapodistrias

Question: What did Ioannis Kapodistrias call for?
Answer: union of Cyprus with Greece

Question: The island of Cyprus serves as a key military base to what western country?
Answer: Britain

Question: What years was the Famagusta harbour completed?
Answer: 1906

Question: Cyprus was a naval outpost which overlooked what canal?
Answer: Suez Canal

Question: Which side did the Ottoman Empire join in World War 1?
Answer: Central Powers

Question: The Megali Idea was actively pursued by whom?
Answer: Cypriot Orthodox Church

Question: Historically, the idea of enosis was part of which other idea?
Answer: Megali Idea

Question: What guerrilla organization was founded by religious officials and military officers?
Answer: Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston or National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA).

Question: In what year decade did the pursuit of enosis become a part of national Greek policy?
Answer: 1950s

Question: Who viewed themselves as a distinct ethnic group of the island of Cyprus?
Answer: Turkish Cypriots

Question: Initially Turkish Cypriots favoured the continued rule of what Western power?
Answer: British

Question: What percentage of the population did Turkish Cypriots make up?
Answer: 20%

Question: What slogan was frequently used in Turkish Cypriot protests?
Answer: "Partition or Death"

Question: In what year did the Church of Cyprus organize a referendum?
Answer: 1950

Question: In 1946, the Greeks made up what percent of Cyprus' population?
Answer: 80.2%

Question: In what year was the EOKA organization founded?
Answer: 1955

Question: What is the name of the policy that the British adopted?
Answer: "divide and rule"

Question: Which countries were part of the Zurich and London Agreement?
Answer: United Kingdom, Greece and Turkey

Question: What was Cyprus' total population when it gained independence?
Answer: 573,566

Question: What is the date that Cyrpus attained independence?
Answer: 16 August 1960

Question: What was the percentage of Greeks in the Cyprus population?
Answer: (77.1%

Question: What was the percentage of Turks in the Cyprus population?
Answer: 18.2%

Question: National militants had the support of what two countries?
Answer: Greece and Turkey

Question: What was the goal of the Akritas plan?
Answer: reforming the constitution in favour of Greek Cypriots

Question: Which president called for constitutional changes?
Answer: President Archbishop Makarios

Question: Who rejected the constitutional changes proposed by President Archbishop Makarios?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In December of what year did intercommunal violence erupt?
Answer: 1963

Question: The violence beginning in 1963 resulted in the deaths of many Turks?
Answer: 364

Question: How many Turkish Cypriots were displaced due to the violence?
Answer: 25,000-30,

Question: Turkish Cypriots were prevented from doing what?
Answer: travelling and entering government buildings

Question: Who tried to invade Cyprus in 1964?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Which US President prevented Turkey from invading Cyprus?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Question: What policy could not be abandoned in 1964?
Answer: enosis

Question: How many troops did Greece send to Cyprus?
Answer: 10,000