World Religions
Middle School Curriculum
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100

This religion's central ideology is that Jesus died for our sins.

What is Christianity?

100

A literary technique where a comparison is made without "like" or "as" between two different objects. 

What is a metaphor?

100

This paint cannot be painted over and is generally less transparent than watercolor.

What is acrylic paint?

100

This cake is actually made from a red type of chocolate.

What is red velvet cake?

100

These primates resembling smaller King Kongs are famous for beating their chests.

What are gorillas?

200

This religion has five pillars: Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage.

What is Islam?

200

The angle between two perpendicular lines.

What is a right angle?

200

This technique attempts to show the whole perspective of an object without perspective or shading.

What is Cubism?

200

This cake is gluten-free and uses egg foams.

What is a flourless cake?

200

These burrowing rodents destroy farms and can be confused for groundhogs.

What are gophers?

300

Monks of this transtheist (beyond theist or atheist) Indian religion are primarily lacto-vegetarian and take vows of nonviolence, truth, not stealing, chastity, and non-possessiveness.

What is Jainism?

300

This disputed area's annexation essentially started the Mexican-American War.

What is Texas?

300

This is a mural on plaster.

What is a fresco?

300

This cake was traditionally made with a 1:1:1:1 ratio of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.

What is a pound cake?

300

This desert, the 6th largest in the world, is located in Mongolia.

What is the Gobi Desert?

400

This 19th-century religion teaches unity of God, religion, and humanity.

What is the Bahá'í Faith?

400

A pair of chromosomes, of which there are 23 in the human body.

What are homologous chromosomes?

400

This sculpture technique involves sculpted pieces stuck to a solid, flat background.

What is a relief?

400

This cake is made by putting fruit in a cake pan, then batter on top.

What is upside-down cake?

400

This spiritual music is at the root of many popular music genres, such as country, R&B, and soul.

What is gospel music?

500

This obscure joke religion was a satire of creationists attempting to offer an alternative to evolution with intelligent design, also known as Pastafarianism.

What is the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

500

The musical distance between a C and a G.

What is a perfect fifth?

500

This cultural and art movement involves heavy inspiration from arts of antiquity.

What is neoclassicism?

500

This sponge cake is notable for having baking powder/baking soda and oil.

What is chiffon cake?

500

A food-lover, glutton, or perhaps a connoisseur.

What is a gourmand?

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