General Trivia
The hardest natural substance on Earth
What is Diamond?
Two countries that border Afghanistan.
What is: Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China?
Two European countries that are completely landlocked by Italy.
What is San Marino and Vatican City?
The monthly cost to sponsor an orphan with Islamic Relief.
What is $90 a month? ($1080 the entire year).
Year Islamic relief was founded (answer can be given to nearest 4 years).
What is 1984?
Accept: 1980-1988
The name of the first artificial satellite launched into space, in 1957?
What is Sputnik 1?
The ancient trade network that Afghanistan was a key region on in connecting China to the Mediterranean?
What is the Silk Road?
Country that has the most time zones in the world
What is France?
The year Charity Week was founded.
Three key areas of humanitarian aid that Islamic Relief provides outside of water and orphan sponsorship.
What is: Food security, health care, education, shelter, refugee assistance, livelihood?
In computing, what “HTTP” stands for.
What is: Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
The city in Afghanistan that was a major center of Buddhism and once housed the tallest standing Buddha statues in the world before they were destroyed in 2001.
What is Bamyan?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win in two different sciences.
Who is Marie Curie?
The exact number of countries that the IR Orphan Sponsorship program operates to reach orphans globally.
What is 25?
Islamic Relief’s original flagship project when it first started. (Original purpose)
What is Delivering emergency humanitarian aid in Sudan?
The empire that built Machu Picchu
What is the Inca Empire?
The mountain range that runs through central Afghanistan and is sometimes called the "Backbone of Asia".
What is The Hindu Kush?
What does UNRWA - the agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees - stands for.
What is United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East?
The amount that Charity Week raised internationally last year.
What is $4.4 Million CDN?
A recent example of a large-scale aid delivered by Islamic Relief in Gaza in 2025 (name two items & amounts).
What is:
Accept:
~71 million ready-to-eat meals (or “ready-to-eat meals”)
282,327 parcels of fresh vegetables
Over 110,000 individuals daily receiving clean drinking water
2,274,000 medical items distributed
28,210 food parcels handed out
The ancient writing system that the Rosetta Stone was key in deciphering.
What is Egyptian Hieroglyphs?
The name of the traditional Afghan hat, made of wool and worn by men, that became famous during the Soviet-Afghan War
What is the Pakol?
A major European conflict, ended by The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ended and is considered the start of the modern state system.
What is the The Thirty Years’ War?
The type of leadership that encapsulates this year’s Charity Week theme?
What is Servant Leadership?
One of Islamic Relief’s sustainable water projects in Pakistan, including the type of technology that was used, and the number of people benefitted under that project.
What is A solar-powered water pump project: uses solar water pumps and troughs so livestock can drink too; community maintenance training; over 15,100 people benefit?