Islam and Muslims
This Arabic word means peace or submission?
What is Islam?
The fastest man in history(by to 100m time)
Who is Usain Bolt?
Macalester offers free lessons of this instrument
What is the bagpipe?
How many Senators represent the DC area in Congress?
What is zero?
The informal name given to the Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry.
What is Bollywood?
The second Pillar of Islam
What is Salah?
The name of the Minnesota women's soccer club
What is Minnesota Aurora FC ?
Which of these people did not attend Macalester?
Kofi Annan, Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis
Who is Michael Dukakis?
He went to Swarthmore College
The number of seats in the US house of representatives
What is 435
The singer-songwriter of "Wild World" who changed his name to Yusuf Islam
Who is Cat Stevens (or Steve Adams or Steven Demetre Georgiou)?
The number of Muslims who have been elected to the United States Congress
What is 4?
(Keith Ellison, André Carson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib)
This Muslim majority country became the first to reach the semifinals in the World Cup?
What is Turkey?
They made the semifinals and won the third place game at the 2002 world cup.
The name of the oldest building on Macalester campus
What is Old Main?
This political analyst correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states in the Obama Romney election
Who is Nate Silver?
This Muslim stand up comedian recently came out with a special titled The King's Jester
Who is Hasan Minhaj?
Which of these is not a Muslim majority country?
Egypt, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Albania or Ivory Coast
What is the Ivory Coast
Only 42.9% of Ivory Coast is Muslim compared to 90% in Egypt, 67% in Lebanon, 97% in Azerbaijan and 58% in Albania
Source: CIA World Factbook
A famous Muslim who was picked first in the 1984 NBA Draft. He was picked 2 spots ahead of Michael Jordan
Who is Hakeem Olajuwon?
Macalester’s first Black graduate Catharine Lealtad, Class of 1915, earned a double major in these two subjects?
What is Chemistry and History?
What did Executive Order 13769 do?
This was the original travel ban during the Trump administration it banned people from seven majority-Muslim countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) for 90 days
Part of this song made by the Cameroonian makossa group the Golden Sounds was used for a hit Shakira song
What is Zamina mina (Zangaléwa)?
(It became the chorus of Waka Waka)
The number of times the word Day (Al-Yahom) appears in the Quran?
What is 365?
In baseball if a fielder throws their glove at the ball the batter is awarded this base hit
What is triple?
The least popular first Major among the Mac class of 2021?
What is Latin American Studies,
Chinese Language and Literature, or Art History, Criticism and Conservation. They all had only 1 graduate
The house rules package passed by the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress reversed a ban on these items in the hall of the house
What is religious headwear?
This Pakistani animated television series created by Haroon features a superheroine who wears a burka as a disguise to conceal her identity while fighting villains.
What is Burka Avenger?