Arab American Heritage Month

Which U.S. president declared April National Arab American Heritage Month to recognize the 3.7 million Arab Americans that exemplify “so much of what our country stands for: hard work, resilience, compassion, and generosity"?

• President Obama in 2008

• President Trump in 2016

• President Biden in 2021

• President Bush in 2001

1. Nearly _____ Americans can trace their heritage to an Arab country. 

• 1 million

• 2 million

• 3 million

• 4 million

The Arab World consists of _______ in the Middle East and North Africa.

• 10 countries

• 15 countries

• 22 countries

• 12 countries

Apple CEO Steve Jobs hired Arab American inventor_______ who became known as “the father of the iPod." He went on to oversee the first 18 iterations of the device before Jobs gave him his next assignment: to create a mobile phone with many of the same features as the iPod.

• Anthony “Tony” Fadell

• Ronald "Ron" Wayne

• Steve Wozniak

• John Sculley

At the age of 70, Abbas ibn Firnas made the world's first-ever flying machine from silk and eagle feathers and jumped from a mountain while strapped into it. The machine floated into the sky and successfully stayed there for all of ten minutes, before making a crash landing. He was the prototype that inspired the flying machines to follow. What year did he create this flying machine?

• 857 AD (9th century)

• 1900 (20th century)

• 1857 (19th century)

• 1457 (15th century)

If you have ever had to go to the hospital, you have the very first hospital to thank for that. The first hospital was the Ahmad Ibn Tulun Hospital founded in 872 AD in _____. By the way, it was entirely free to use.

• Cairo, Egypt

• • Amman, Jordan

• • Baghdad, Iraq

• • Doha, Qatar

The oldest operating university is also the world's FIRST university, thanks to Fatima Al-Fihri (800–880 A.D.), the daughter of a rich merchant. It is called the University of al-Qarawiyyin (or Karueein) and was created in 859 AD in Fez (which is now _______).

• Morocco

• Kuwait

• Syria

• Somalia

Select any of these essential inventions that you think came from the Arab world.

• Soap

• Toothbrush & Toothpaste

• Anesthesia and Surgical Instruments

• The pen

• Banks and Checks

Coffee first popped up in 9th century Ethiopia, when an Arab goat-herder named Khalid (or Kaldi) observed his goats chewing on some seeds and getting unnaturally excited. He began boiling the seeds, which gave a fragrant dark brown liquid. Coffee was first brewed in ______ around the 9th century.

• Yemen

• the United States

• Greece

• Egypt

True or False: Roughly three-quarters of the Arab-American population is Christian, and one-fourth is Muslim.

• True

• False