Religon 1:Islam
Religion 2:Judaism
Religion
3:Christianity
Extreme Vocabulary (Triple the points! Triple the losses. )
Regular Vocabulary
100
Name three places that are holy to the religion of Islam.
Answers: Jerusalem, Mecca, Medina
100
Name two holy places of Judaism.
Answer: Jerusalem, Israel
100
Name two holy places of Christianity
Answer: Jerusalem, Bethlehem
100
What is a "hajj"?
The journey to the Muslim's holy city, Mecca.
100
What is a ziggurat?
Huge temples built to honor the gods.
200
Who was the founder of Islam?
The prophet Mohammad.
200
Who was the founder of Judaism?
Abraham
200
Who was the founder of Christianity?
Jesus Christ
200
Who are the two groups of the Muslim faith? Which one is bigger?
Answer 1: Sunni and Shi'i. Answer 2: The Sunni's are larger.
200
What are the Gospels?
The first few books of the bible's new testament.
300
What is the holy book of Islam? (Bonus: What day of the week is holy to Muslims?)
Answer: Koran (Answer: Friday)
300
What is the holly book of Judaism? (Bonus: What day of the week is holy to Jews.)
Answer: Torah (Answer: Sabbath, or Friday night to Saturday night)
300
What is the holy book of Christianity? (Bonus: What day of the week is sacred to Christians.)
Answer: The Bible (Answer: Sunday)
300
What is "Zionism"?
A movement that developed among the Jews in Europe to let them have their own "state" for Jews only. They could settle it and govern it themselves.
300
What were the crusades?
The battles that were fought between Muslims and Christians over the "holy land", Israel.
400
What is the symbol of Islam?
A crescent and a star.
400
What is the symbol of Judaism?
The star of David
400
What are the holy symbols of Christianity?
The cross that Jesus died on and a fish.
400
This is a two-part question: (Question 1: What is an "exotic river"? Question 2: What is "alluvial soil"?)
Answers: (An exotic river is a river that starts in a wet place and moves to a drier place.) (When a river overflows, it creates a fine soil called alluvial soil.)
400
What is cuneiform?
A form of pictograph writing used by Sumerians.
500
What are the five pillars of Islam?
Answer:Declaration of Faith, praying five times per day, give to the poor, fast during Ramadan, Go to Mecca at least once in their lifetimes.
500
This is a two part question: (Question 1: What are the Holy times of the Jews?) (Question 2: What are the Jews Location of World Concentration)
Answers: (Answer 1: Hanukkah, Youm Kippur, Rosh Hassanah.) (Answer 2: Middle East)
500
This is a two part question: (Question 1: What are some of the holy times for Christians?) (Question 2:What are the Locations of World concentration?)
(Answer 1: Xmas, Easter) (Answer 2:Worldwide, but North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia.)
500
(This is the hardest question of the entire Jeopardy section. Are you ready?) This is a quad-part question that is worth 1,500 points.Answer any of these wrong,and you lose the 1,500 points. Good luck. The questions are: (What is a wadi? What is an oasis? What is a "mixed economy"? What is calligraphy?)
Answers: (A wadi is a dry riverbed. An oasis is a spot in the desert that has more drinkable water than usual.A mixed economy is an economy with a mixed amount of free enterprise and control from the government. Calligraphy is a form of writing that is beautiful and is used for decoration in Muslim Mosques.)
500
What does the word "domesticate" mean?
To turn a "wild" creature/plant into something useful to us. To take away their "wildness". To tame.
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