Hinduism
Buddhism
Geography
Symbols
Concepts
100

The name for religions with multiple deities.

What is Polytheism?

100

The first of the Four Noble Truths.

What is "life involves suffering?"

100

The mountain range that separates India from the rest of Asia.

What are the Himalayas?

100

A symbol that originally meant peace, later stolen by Adolf Hitler.

What is the Swastika?

100

Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism all believe this happens after we die.

What is Samsara (reincarnation)?

200

The balancing power of actions and consequences.

What is Karma?

200

Suffering comes from this.

What is desire?

200

The region of ancient India that grew the first cotton.

Where is the Indus Valley Region?

200

The sacred sound of the universe

What is "Om?"

200

The name for the concept of the self or soul

What is the Atman?

300

The name of the Festival of Light and the main deity celebrated on its third day.

What is Diwali and who is Lakshmi?

300

The state when you stop reincarnating and rejoin the oneness of the universe.

What is Nirvana? (or enlightenment)

300

The name of the territory that Ashoka the Great went to war against.

Where is Kalinga?

300

The most important symbol in Buddhism

What is the Dharma wheel?

300

What Namaste means (it comes from the idea of Brahmin or oneness).

What is "the divine in me recognizes and is the same as the divine in you?"

400

The four books of The Vedas

What are the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Athar? 

400

The role of Buddha before his enlightenment and his original name.

Who is the prince, Siddhartha Gautama?

400

The name of the 16 "Great Kingdoms" of India

What are the Mahajanapadas?

400

What the three prongs of Shiva's trishul (or trident) represent.

What is the body, mind, and soul?

400

Holi festival comes from a story about the love between these two figures.

Who are Krishna (Deity) and Radha (human)?

500

The number of followers of Hinduism today.

What is 1.2 billion?

500

The symbol that represents the infinite good fortune of Dharma's teachings.

What is the Treasure Vase?

500

The modern countries that make up Ancient India (name at least four of the seven).

What are India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives?

500

The names of the seven Chakras in the body.

What are the Crown, Third Eye, Throat, Heart, Solar Plexus, Sacral, and Root Chakras?

500

The process of one's family finding them a spouse and the celebration they have when they stop looking for one.

What are arranged marriages, and what is Roka?