Islam
The year of the Prophet’s migration (Hijra) in the Gregorian calendar
What is 622 CE?
This ancient Sri Lankan kingdom was renowned for its rock fortress, Sigiriya.
What is the Kingdom of Kandy?
European capital city located on the Tiber River.
What is Rome?
What is the speed limit for all massless particles.
What is the speed of light?
The biggest mammal on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This 8th–13th-century caliphate based in Baghdad sparked a Golden Age
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
He became the first Prime Minister of independent Ceylon in 1947.
Who is D. S. Senanayake?
Largest landlocked country on the globe.
What is Kazakhstan?
Chemical compound with formula NaCl, crucial for life.
What is salt?
Called the ‘powerhouse’ of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
He compiled ‘al-Muwatta,’ one of the earliest works of law and hadith.
Who is Imam Malik?
After Anuradhapura, the kingdom’s capital shifted here in the 11th century.
What is Polonnaruwa?
The world’s biggest island that’s not a continent.
What is Greenland?
A solution with a pH value below 7 is considered this.
What is acidic?
Ancient alloy of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
Islamic concept meaning consensus of scholars on a religious ruling
What is Ijma?
‘Sandakada pahana,’ or moonstone carvings, are iconic relics of this ancient capital.
What is Anuradhapura?
Mesopotamia lay between these two major rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Who famously tested gravity by dropping objects off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The First modern Olympic Games took place in this city, in 1896.
What is Athens?
This 14th-century Persian polymath wrote "The Revival of the Religious Sciences".
Who is Al-Ghazali
Ancient Greek name for Sri Lanka.
What is Taprobane?
Largest enclosed inland water body on Earth, though called a sea.
What is the Caspian Sea?
Term for the genetic blueprint discovered in 1953 by Watson and Crick.
What is DNA?
Rock formed when magma or lava cools.
What is igneous rock?