Question: Why did Gaddafi's family have to leave Sabha?
Answer: he led a demonstration protesting Syria's secession from the United Arab Republic. During this they broke windows of a local hotel accused of serving alcohol.

Question: Gaddafi was an avid reader. Name three biographies that he read.
Answer: Abraham Lincoln, Sun Yat-sen, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Question: What political idealogy did Gaddafi not believe in?
Answer: factionalism

Question: While he was in secondary school, what sort of activism did Gaddafi support?
Answer: Arab nationalist activism

Question: Why did Gaddafi's family leave Sabha?
Answer: October 1961, he led a demonstration protesting Syria's secession from the United Arab Republic

Question: List several biographies that influenced Gaddafi.
Answer: Abraham Lincoln, Sun Yat-sen, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Question: Where sort of activism did Gaddafi promote while attending secondary school?
Answer: Arab nationalist activism

Question: What political ideology did Gaddafi reject when he attended Misrata Secondary School?
Answer: factionalism

Question: Where did Gaddafi travel to after he was kicked out of Sabha?
Answer: Misrata

Question: Along with the Ba'ath Party and Muslim Brotherhood, what group was notably banned in Misrata?
Answer: Arab Nationalist Movement

Question: In what month and year did Gaddafi protest against Syria leaving the United Arab Republic?
Answer: October 1961

Question: Of what nationality was Michel Aflaq?
Answer: Syrian

Question: Along with Lincoln and Ataturk, whose biography did Gaddafi read while in Misrata?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: What subject did Gaddafi briefly study before joining the military?
Answer: History at the University of Libya in Benghazi

Question: Why didn't Gaddafi learn to speak English?
Answer: Gaddafi, who viewed the British as imperialists

Question: Where did Gaddafi begin his military training?
Answer: at the Royal Military Academy

Question: How did Gaddafi view the influence of the military?
Answer: the only opportunity for upward social mobility for underprivileged Libyans, and Gaddafi recognised it as a potential instrument of political change

Question: What crime did the British trainers believe Gaddafi was involved in?
Answer: the assassination of the military academy's commander in 1963

Question: What subject did Gaddafi study at the University of LIbya?
Answer: History

Question: Why did Gaddafi drop out of college?
Answer: to join the military

Question: What rationale did Gaddafi use for joining the military?
Answer: Gaddafi recognised it as a potential instrument of political change

Question: What country trained Libya's military?
Answer: the British military

Question: What crime was Gaddafi suspected of being involved in during his time in the military?
Answer: the assassination of the military academy's commander in 1963

Question: Where did Gaddafi attend college for a time?
Answer: University of Libya

Question: During his time in college, what did Gaddafi study?
Answer: History

Question: After Gaddafi left the University of Libya, what institution did he attend?
Answer: Royal Military Academy, Benghazi

Question: While the Libyan monarchy existed, who trained the Libyan army?
Answer: British

Question: What did Gaddafi regard his British instructors as?
Answer: imperialists

Question: When Gaddafi traveled to London, did he attempt to blend into the English culture?
Answer: finding it difficult adjusting to the country's culture; asserting his Arab identity in London, he walked around Piccadilly wearing traditional Libyan robes

Question: How did Gaddafi feel about the British officers?
Answer: claiming British Army officers racially insulted him

Question: How did the Bovington signal course director view Gaddafi?
Answer: he thought him an "amusing officer, always cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious."

Question: How did Gaddafi view Libya when he returned from England?
Answer: he returned home "more confident and proud of our values, ideals and social character."

Question: How did the Bovington sign course director think of Gaddafi?
Answer: an "amusing officer, always cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious."

Question: When Gaddafi went to England, how did he respond to their culture?
Answer: finding it difficult adjusting to the country's culture; asserting his Arab identity in London, he walked around Piccadilly wearing traditional Libyan robes

Question: How did Gaddafi feel about the British Army officers?
Answer: Gaddafi disliked England, claiming British Army officers racially insulted him

Question: When Gaddafi returned to Libya, how did he view his country?
Answer: while he travelled to England believing it more advanced than Libya, he returned home "more confident and proud of our values, ideals and social character."

Question: What were Gaddafi's favorite hobbies in the military?
Answer: reading and playing football

Question: Along with reading, how did Gaddafi enjoy spending his free time?
Answer: playing football

Question: In what part of London did Gaddafi wear traditional Arab garb?
Answer: Piccadilly

Question: What language did Gaddafi have difficulty learning?
Answer: English

Question: Where did Gaddafi's signal course take place?
Answer: Bovington

Question: What mistreatment did Gaddafi say that British soldiers subjected him to?
Answer: racially insulted him

Question: What changes impressed Gaddafi in Egypt?
Answer: President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser argued for Arab nationalism; the rejection of Western colonialism, neo-colonialism, and Zionism

Question: What Egyptian leader impressed Gaddafi?
Answer: his hero, President Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question: What book instructed Gaddafi in how to stage a coup?
Answer: Nasser's book, Philosophy of the Revolution

Question: Name one event that occurred in the Arab world during Gaddafi 's childhood that influenced his life.
Answer: 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the short-lived existence of the United Arab Republic between 1958 and 1961

Question: What political ideology did Nasser implement?
Answer: transition from capitalism to socialism

Question: What was the nationality of a significant number of teachers in Sabha?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: When did the United Arab Republic end?
Answer: 1961

Question: What notable event occurred in 1952?
Answer: Egyptian Revolution

Question: From what city did Voice of the Arabs broadcast?
Answer: Cairo

Question: What political leader did Gaddafi greatly admire?
Answer: Nasser

Question: What was happening to Idris' government in the 1960s?
Answer: Idris' government was increasingly unpopular by the latter 1960s

Question: What industry greatly impacted the downfall of Idris's government?
Answer: the oil industry

Question: What sort of problems did the oil industry experience in Libya?
Answer: corruption and entrenched systems of patronage were widespread throughout the oil industry

Question: What did the Libyan workers do to show their support of Egypt?
Answer: Libyan workers shut down oil terminals in solidarity with Egypt

Question: Did the CIA confirm knowledge of Gaddafi's upcoming coup?:
Answer: they have since claimed ignorance, stating that they were monitoring Abdul Aziz Shalhi's Black Boots revolutionary group.

Question: What country won the Six-Day War?
Answer: Israel

Question: In what cities did protests against westerners flare up in 1967?
Answer: Tripoli and Benghazi

Question: On what country's behalf were the 1967 protests taking place?
Answer: Egypt

Question: In what year did the CIA begin to expect a military coup in Libya?
Answer: 1969

Question: What revolutionary organization was led by Abdul Aziz Shalhi?
Answer: Black Boots

Question: When Gaddafi staged his coup, did he need to use a great show of violence?
Answer: They met no serious resistance, and wielded little violence against the monarchists.