Pakistan Geography
What is the capital of Pakistan?
What is Islamabad?
What nationality is Malala?
What is Pakistani?
Who has been the most influential person in Malala’s education?
Who is her father?
What religion is the Taliban affiliated with?
What is Islam?
What award/prize did Malala win?
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
What part of Pakistan is SWAT Valley located in?
What is the northwest region?
How many siblings does Malala have?
What are two siblings (Khushal Yousafzai, Atal Yousafzai)?
Who is Malala's classmate that she is always in competition with?
Who is Moniba?
Who was the leader of the Taliban in SWAT Valley?
Who is Fazlullah?
What is the main city in Swat Valley?
What is Mingora?
What other region is SWAT Valley commonly compared to (related to scenery and climate)?
What is a mini Switzerland?
What year was Malala born?
What is 1997 (July 12, 1997)?
True or false: In high school Malala was ranked second in her class and Moniba was ranked first.
False: 1st - Malala, 2nd - Malka-e-Noor, 3rd - Moniba
What is the name of the media used to promote Taliban beliefs?
Who is Radio Mullah?
“I Am Malala” is a memoir. What is a memoir?
What is a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources?
Name 3 of the 4 countries that border Pakistan.
What are Afghanistan, India, China, Iran?
What event occurred in 2005 that devastated Swat Valley and provided an unfortunate avenue for the Taliban to rise to power?
What was an Earthquake (October 8, 2005 / 7.6 on the Richter scale)?
What is the name of the man who tried to close Malala’s father’s school (the first time)?
Who is Mufti/Maulana/Ghulamullahand? This man then started a campaign against her father to close his school.
Name 5 things the Taliban strictly prohibited.
What are: Movies, TV, music, smoking, dancing, public shopping, healthcare for women, education for women, bank accounts for women, etc.
Who co-authored “I Am Malala” with Malala?
Who is Christina Lamb?
Name the major body of water that borders Pakistan.
Malala described her parents by one as ‘the doer’ and one as ‘the talker.’ Which description is best suited for her mother and for her father?
Who are: The doer: her mother / The talker: her father?
What was the topic of Malala’s first public speech (written by her father)?
What is “If you want to do good, but do it in a bad way, that’s still bad. In the same way, if you choose a good method to do something bad it is still bad.”
What is the Taliban’s fundamental commitment to?
What is building an Islamist state in Afghanistan?
What is Wahhabism?
What is an extreme form of Sunni Islam that insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran?