Category 1: Abrahamic Religions
Abrahamic Religions
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
This piece of territory is one of the most fought-over areas between Israelis and Palestinians.
What is the West Bank or the Gaza Strip?
The U.S. launched this 1991 military operation to push Iraq out of Kuwait.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
Muslims follow these five key practices, including prayer, fasting, and charity.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
This is the subject Mr. Taege teaches.
Social Studies
This religion is the oldest of the three and is the foundation for the other two.
What is Judaism?
This coastal territory is controlled by Hamas and frequently involved in conflict with Israel.
What is the Gaza Strip?
This war began in 2003 based partly on the belief that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
What is the Iraq War / Operation Iraqi Freedom?
This term refers to strict, literal interpretations of religious texts.
What is religious fundamentalism?
Mr. Taege went to this High School.
What is Freedom?
Muslims believe this man was the final prophet of God.
Who is Muhammad?
This proposed solution would create two independent nations—one Israeli and one Palestinian.
What is the two-state solution?
He was the longtime dictator of Iraq removed from power by the U.S. in 2003.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This legal system is based on the teachings of the Quran and Islamic tradition.
What is Sharia Law?
What is Mr. Taege's favorite movie?
What is Interstellar?
Christians believe salvation comes through this person, who is viewed as the Son of God.
Who is Jesus Christ?
This movement supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in the region that is now Israel.
What is Zionism?
This foreign policy stated that the U.S. could launch preventive wars to protect itself from terrorism.
What is the Bush Doctrine?
A government ruled by religious leaders is called this.
What is a theocracy?
Mr. Taege's favorite cookie?
What is Snickerdoodle?
Christianity has Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox branches. Islam’s major split is between these two groups.
What are Sunni and Shiite?
This ethnic group lives across Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran and has long sought an independent nation-state.
Who are the Kurds?
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 because this terrorist group planned the 9/11 attacks from there.
What is Al Qaeda?
Extremist groups misuse this religion to justify violence, even though the vast majority of followers reject it.
What is Islam Extremism?
What is Mr. Taege's current TV show that he is watching?
What is Grey's anatomy?