Muslim History
What month of the year was the conquest of Makkah?
Ramadan, year 8 A.H.
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A Sponge
What substance are nails made of?
Keratin
What do you call the funeral prayer?
Salat-al-Janazaa
What is the purpose of baking powder in a recipe?
Baking powder is a leavening agent that helps batters and doughs rise.
What was the capital city for the majority of the Orthodox / Rightly Guided Caliphate?
Madinah
How many of each species did Musa (PBUH) take on the ark with him?
None, Musa (PBUH) wasn't on the ark Nuh (PBUH) was.
What is the human body’s biggest organ?
The Skin
What is the number of rewards for offering salah at the haram (Ka'ba)?
100,000
What does corn starch do in a recipe?
Cornstarch thickens sauces and dessert fillings.
Which Caliphate ruled during Islam's Golden Age (9th-13th Centuries C.E.)?
Abbasid Caliphate, ruling from the capital of Baghdad. The sciences, mathematics, philosophy, medicine and geography had many advances.
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A Teapot
How many bones are in the human body?
206
Originally, how many times a day salah was initially ordained by Allah?
50 times
What is the best fix if your rice is too wet?
Uncover the pot
Who is the "father of modern optics"?
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen).
Born in Basra, Iraq in 965 CE, Ibn-Al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and then passes to one's eyes and that vision occurs in the brain and not the eyes. He was also an early proponent of the concept that a hypothesis must be proved by experiments based on confirmable procedures or mathematical evidence—hence understanding the scientific method five centuries before Renaissance scientists.
If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Glass, all greenhouses are made of glass.
Where are red blood corpuscles formed?
The bones
Red cells, formed in bone marrow, are the most numerous kind of blood cells. Each drop of blood contains about 300 million of them
When can the obligatory Friday prayer be substituted with Duhr prayer?
when you are just by yourself
What does it mean when you “mince” something?
Chop something into small pieces
Which Muslim philosopher and scholar was a key contributor and inspiration for the rise of the European Renaissance?
Averroes (Abū l-Walīd, Muḥammad ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rushd), 1126-1198 C.E. He was born in Cordoba, Andalusia and later was a judge and court physician in Marrakesh, Morocco. His works included topics on Islamic Theology, Jurisprudence & Law, Medicine, Philosophy, Astronomy, Physics, Psychology, and commentaries on Aristotle.
I have an eye but am blind, a sea, but no water; a bee, but no honey; Tea but no coffee; and a why, but no answer. What am I?
The alphabet
How many miles of blood vessels are in your body?
100,000 miles
Blood vessels -- arteries, veins, and capillaries -- are hollow tubes that carry blood throughout your body. If you took them out and laid them end-to-end, you could circle the Earth four times!
In what scenario would you have made tashahud 4 times in a single prayer and your prayer is considered valid?
when you join the imam while he is sitting for the 1st tashahud for magrib prayer
1st time - with imam when you first join the salah
2nd time - with Imam after he finishes the jamaa prayer
3rd time - after you finish your second rukat
4th time - at the end of you prayer
Can you name the cooking process wherein the food substance, usually a vegetable or fruit, is plunged into boiling water, removed after a brief, timed interval, and finally plunged into iced water or placed under cold running water (shocking or refreshing) to halt the cooking
Blanching
Blanching helps loosen skins for peeling (as in the case of peaches and tomatoes), gets items partially cooked before being added to a dish, sets a bright green color and keeps pretty vegetables from turning gray (asparagus, greens, peas, green beans), leeches out bitterness (as with kale, collard greens, and dandelion greens), and prepares some vegetables for freezing.