Islamic Trivia
This prophet built an ark to save believers and pairs of animals from a catastrophic flood.
Who is Nuh(Noah) AS?
This fundamental biological process allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to convert light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose.
What is Photosynthesis?
This is the largest ocean on Earth, covering more than 30% of the planet's surface.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
What is 5 cents?
This global pandemic, also known as the Black Death, devastated Europe in the mid-14th century and is estimated to have killed up to 60% of the population.
Who is Napoelon Bonaparte?
This prophet is mentioned by name more times in the Quran than anyone else.
Who is Prophet Musa AS?
Represented by the letter "c" in physics, this universal constant is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum
What is the Speed of Light?
This classic 1939 fantasy musical film features a girl named Dorothy trying to find her way home to Kansas.
What is the Wizard of Oz?
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
What is 5 minutes?
This maritime trade route, established during the Han Dynasty, connected China to the Mediterranean world for centuries
What is the Silk Road?
This is the only companion of the Prophet Muhammad whose name is explicitly mentioned in the text of the Quran.
Who is Zayd Ibn Haritha?
This French chemist and microbiologist disproved the theory of spontaneous generation and developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This German composer continued to write masterpieces, including his famous Ninth Symphony, despite losing his hearing.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
If you roll two standard six-sided dice, this is the exact probability of rolling a sum of 7.
What is 1/6?
This renowned intellectual center and library in Baghdad flourished during the Islamic Golden Age under Caliph Harun al-Rashid and his son al-Ma'mun, serving as the hub for the Translation Movement
What is the House of Wisdom (or Bayt al-Hikmah)?
This is the only Surah in the Quran that does not begin with the Bismillah
What is Surah At-Tawbah?
This French-Polish scientist is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields: Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911
Who is Marie Curie?
This is the deepest known point in the Earth's oceans, located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Challenger Deep?
If a clock strikes 6 times in 5 seconds, how many seconds will it take to strike 12 times?
What is 11 seconds?
This series of conflicts, fought between the Plantagenet rulers of England and the Valois rulers of France over the French throne, actually lasted for 116 years.
This critical military engagement in 625 CE, resulting in heavy Muslim losses, was fought near a mountain where archers famously abandoned their designated posts.
What is Battle of Uhud?
This invisible field protects Earth from harmful solar radiation and cosmic rays, and its interactions with solar winds create the famous Northern and Southern Lights.
What is Earth's Magnetic Field (or the Magnetosphere)?
This remote South Atlantic island, a British Overseas Territory, is famous for being the place of Napoleon Bonaparte's second exile and ultimate death in 1821.
What is Saint Helena?
A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many boys and girls are in the family?
What is 3 boys and 4 girls? (The girl has 3 brothers and 3 sisters. A brother has 2 brothers and 4 sisters, which is half).
In pre-Islamic Mecca, this leader from the Kinana branch successfully united the fractured factions of his tribe to wrestle control of the Kaaba away from the Banu Khuza'ah tribe, effectively establishing the political dominance of the Quraysh.
Who is Qusayy Ibn Kilab?