Question: What did Obama say the US is at war with, in 2009?
Answer: a far-reaching network of violence and hatred

Question: What was the "Global War on Terror" officially renamed to in March 2009?
Answer: Overseas Contingency Operation

Question: What term did Obama want the government to stop using?
Answer: war on terror

Question: Who said in 2012 that the fight would change from military to law enforcement?
Answer: Jeh Johnson

Question: What was the  "Overseas Contingency Operations" renamed to in 2010?
Answer: Countering Violent Extremism

Question: Who said the 'war on terrorism' is 'an entire language of discourse'?
Answer: Richard Jackson

Question: Who said that 9/11 drew a line between 'the civil and the savage'?
Answer: John Ashcroft

Question: What did the Bush administration describe as parasitical?
Answer: terrorists

Question: What did the Bush administration describe as heroic?
Answer: Americans

Question: Which war gave birth to al-Qaeda?
Answer: the Soviet war in Afghanistan

Question: When did the Soviets leave Afghanistan?
Answer: February 1989

Question: Which countries supported Afghan islamists against the Soviets?
Answer: United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China

Question: Who did Osama bin Laden volunteer to help fight in the 80s?
Answer: Soviets

Question: Which group later became al-Qaeda?
Answer: World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

Question: When did al-Qaeda attack the US embassy in Kenya?
Answer: 7 August 1998

Question: How many people were killed when al-Qaeda attacked US embassies in 1998?
Answer: 224

Question: How many Americans were killed when al-Qaeda attacked US embassies in 1998?
Answer: 12

Question: What operation did Bill Clinton start to retaliate for the 1998 embassy attacks?
Answer: Operation Infinite Reach

Question: How much of Sudan's medicines were produced by a pharmaceutical plant Clinton's operation bombed?
Answer: around 50%

Question: How many planes were hijacked on 9/11?
Answer: four

Question: Which al-Qaeda cell were the 9/11 hijackers members of?
Answer: Hamburg

Question: Where were the 9/11 planes originally going?
Answer: California

Question: How many al-Qaeda operatives hijacked planes on 9/11?
Answer: 19

Question: How soon after planes crashed into them did the WTC towers collapse?
Answer: within two hours

Question: What law was signed on Sep 14, 2001?
Answer: Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists

Question: Who did the AUMF authorize the US military attacking?
Answer: those responsible for the attacks on 11 September 2001

Question: What law did Congress refer to as a basic for the AUMF?
Answer: section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution

Question: When was the War Powers Resolution passed?
Answer: 1973

Question: When did the US invade Afghanistan?
Answer: October 2001

Question: Who helped the US invade Afghanistan?
Answer: UK and coalition allies

Question: What was the goal of the US invading Afghanistan?
Answer: oust the Taliban regime

Question: When did the US begin airstrikes on Afghanistan?
Answer: 7 October 2001

Question: Where did bin Laden escape to in Dec 2001?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: Where did the Taliban regroup in 2002?
Answer: western Pakistan

Question: In what parts of Afghanistan did the Taliban attack Coalition forces in 2002?
Answer: southern and eastern

Question: What operation began in Feb 2010?
Answer: Operation Moshtarak

Question: Where did Operation Moshtarak take place?
Answer: southern Afghanistan

Question: When did Afghanistan sign a security agreement with the US?
Answer: September 2014

Question: Where did the USSOC Pacific deploy to in Jan 2002?
Answer: Philippines

Question: What was the goal of the 2002 Philippines deployment?
Answer: combating Filipino Islamist groups

Question: What was the main Filipino Islamist group being attacked?
Answer: Abu Sayyaf

Question: What humanitarian effort followed the 2002 military operation in the Philippines?
Answer: Operation Smiles

Question: What did Operation Smiles do for the Philippines?
Answer: provide medical care and services to the region of Basilan

Question: How many people were killed by US Special Forces on Sep 14, 2009?
Answer: two

Question: Where was the Sep 14, 2009 action?
Answer: near the Somali village of Baarawe

Question: What country's ships did some witnesses say were involved in the Baarawe attack?
Answer: French

Question: What Somali group is affiliated with al-Qaeda?
Answer: Al-Shabaab

Question: What nationality was Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan?
Answer: Kenyan

Question: When did a Mali conflict begin?
Answer: January 2012

Question: What group were the Mali radicals affiliated with?
Answer: al-Qaeda

Question: When did France provide troops in Mali?
Answer: January 2013

Question: What did France call its Mali operation?
Answer: Operation Serval

Question: What was Operation Serval's goal?
Answer: dislodging the al-Qaeda affiliated groups from northern Mali

Question: When did the first Gulf War begin?
Answer: 1991

Question: How did the first Gulf War end?
Answer: ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended)

Question: Who did the US try to protect in Iraq after the first Gulf War?
Answer: Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population

Question: Which region of Iraq do the Kurds live in?
Answer: northern

Question: Which region of Iraq do the Shi'a live in?
Answer: southern

Question: When was the first ground attack in the post-9/11 Iraq war?
Answer: 21 March 2003

Question: Which nationalities worked together in the Battle of Umm Qasr?
Answer: British, American and Polish

Question: When did the US capture Baghdad?
Answer: April 2003

Question: When did Bush say 'major combat operations' were complete in Iraq?
Answer: 1 May 2003

Question: What regime were Hussein loyalists part of?
Answer: Ba'ath

Question: Which civil war did the Iraq branch of Al Qaeda begin fighting in?
Answer: Syrian

Question: With support from Syrians, what did the Iraq branch of Al Qaeda rename themselves to?
Answer: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL)

Question: What part of Iraq did ISIS invade?
Answer: western

Question: Who denounced ISIS?
Answer: Al Qaeda's core organization

Question: What relationship do Al Qaeda and ISIS now have?
Answer: competition

Question: When did Obama launch airstrikes on ISIS?
Answer: 10 August 2014

Question: What law did Obama cite on Sep 9, 2014?
Answer: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists

Question: When did Obama make a speech about ISIS on TV?
Answer: 10 September 2014

Question: Which countries worked together to bomb ISIS on Sep 21-22, 2014?
Answer: the United States, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and Qatar

Question: Where were the Sep 21-22 airstrikes?
Answer: Syria

Question: Which Pakistan president supported the US attacking the Taliban?
Answer: Pervez Musharraf

Question: How many Pakistan airbases did Musharraf let the US use?
Answer: three

Question: What was the name of the US's Afghanistan operation?
Answer: Operation Enduring Freedom

Question: Who was the US Secretary of State in 2001?
Answer: Colin Powell

Question: Who said he had 'war-gamed' the US?
Answer: Musharraf

Question: When did Musharraf give an anti-Islamism speech?
Answer: 12 January 2002

Question: What did Musharraf say he'd combat?
Answer: Islamic extremism and lawlessness within Pakistan

Question: What did Musharraf ban?
Answer: militant organizations

Question: What did Musharraf say his ban wasn't influenced by?
Answer: foreign influence

Question: When did Musharraf arrest Maulana Masood Azhar?
Answer: 2002

Question: What group did Maulana Masood Azhar lead?
Answer: Jaish-e-Mohammed

Question: What group did Hafiz Muhammad Saeed lead?
Answer: Lashkar-e-Taiba

Question: What nationality is Zayn al-Abidn Muhammed Hasayn Abu Zubaydah?
Answer: Saudi