Ramadan fun facts
During this month, the Quran’s revelation began.
What is Ramadan?
The word “Hizmet” means this.
A) Leadership
B) Selfless service
C) Charity tax
D) Brotherhood
What is selfless service?
Marquette University is located in this Wisconsin city.
What is Milwaukee?
Milwaukee is in this U.S. region: Midwest, Northeast, South, or West.
What is the Midwest?
This drink is traditionally served in small cups and often read for fortune afterward.
What is Turkish coffee?
This nightly prayer, unique to Ramadan, is performed after ‘Isha.
What is Taraweeh?
This Turkish scholar, also known as Hocaefendi, inspired the Hizmet movement.
Who is Fethullah Gülen?
Marquette’s sports teams are known by this nickname.
A) Badgers
B) Golden Eagles
C) Panthers
D) Fighting Irish
What are the Golden Eagles?
The famous lake bordering Milwaukee is this Great Lake.
What is Lake Michigan?
This Turkish dessert is made of thin layers of pastry and soaked in syrup.
What is baklava?
This night, believed to be better than 1,000 months, occurs in the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
What is Laylat al-Qadr?
Two of the main focus areas of Hizmet are education and this type of global assistance during disasters.
A) Political campaigning
B) Humanitarian relief / humanitarian aid
C) Military training
D) Sports development
What is humanitarian relief?
Marquette is a private university affiliated with this Catholic religious order.
A) Benedictines
B) Franciscans
C) Jesuits
D) Dominicans
What is the Jesuit order?
This U.S. state is nicknamed “America’s Dairyland.”
What is Wisconsin?
This city is the capital of Turkey.
What is Ankara?
Many Muslims traditionally break their fast first with these two items, following Prophetic practice.
What are Dates and Water?
Hizmet promotes this between different religious and cultural groups to build peace.
A) Competition
B) Isolation
C) Interfaith dialogue
D) Nationalism
What is interfaith dialogue?
Marquette’s school colors are these two.
A) Red & White
B) Blue & Gold
C) Green & Yellow
D) Black & Silver
What are blue and gold?
Milwaukee’s NBA team is called this.
A) Milwaukee Bulls
B) Milwaukee Packers
C) Milwaukee Bucks
D) Milwaukee Brewers
Who are the Milwaukee Bucks?
This large covered market in Istanbul is one of the oldest and biggest in the world.
What is the Grand Bazaar?
This is the celebration that comes right after Ramadan. (full name)
What is Eid al-Fitr?
Name one core value of Hizmet such as respect for human rights, empowerment of women, or this principle involving diversity.
A) Respect for diversity and pluralism
B) Wealth accumulation
C) Strict hierarchy
D) Avoiding civic engagement
What is respect for diversity and pluralism?
Marquette University was founded in this century.
A) 1600s
B) 1700s
C) 1800s
D) 1900s
What is the 1800s?
This famous museum in Milwaukee is known for its white “wings” that open and close (the Quadracci Pavilion).
A) Milwaukee Public Museum
B) Milwaukee Art Museum
C) Harley-Davidson Museum
D) Discovery World
What is the Milwaukee Art Museum?
Turkey’s national holiday on October 29 celebrates this.
A) Victory Day
B) Republic Day
C) Children’s Day
D) Youth & Sports Day
What is Republic Day?