SAHABA
What major incident does the Surah Tawbah refer to?
The battle of Tabuk
Arguably the second-most popular in the world after soccer, what lucky sport has defensive positions named gully, silly mid-off, and deep mid wicket?
Cricket
Gustatory cells are primarily found on what sensory organ of the body?
Tongue
Wielded by ancient Roman foot soldiers (as well as Maximus in the movie Gladiator), what type of weapon is a gladius?
Sword
In 2003, Nike purchased a footwear company that was founded almost 100 years prior in Massachusetts. This acquired company dominated the "court shoe" market for decades and pivoted to military boot manufacturing during WWII. What is this brand, which owns the Jack Purcell and Star Chevron trademarks?
Converse
When Aisha ra asked the Prophet pbuh about his worst day what did he respond with?
The Day of Taif
What sports legend's autobiography, published in 1975, was titled "The Greatest: My Own Story?"
Muhammad Ali
What is the heaviest organ in the human body?
The liver
About 2,000 years before the Egyptians started using it, the Chinchorro people of Chile came up with which process for preserving their dead?
Mummification
Cola, cherry, licorice, apricot, and cardamom are five of the 23 flavors famously advertised to be present in every can of what drink?
Dr Pepper
Who was the first Sahaba to recite Quran in Public around the Kabah?
Abdullahi Ibn Masood
Outside what sports venue would you find “Rise Up,” the world’s largest freestanding sculpture of a bird?
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons
The total amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by human activity is better known by what two-word term which originated from a concept conceived by environmentalists William E. Rees and Dr. Mathis Wackernagel during the 1990s?
Carbon footprint
Providing its name (and its image for the logo) to a modern piece of modern language learning software, what ancient stone slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, and is now the most visited item on display in the British Museum?
The Rosetta Stone
Crash is a video game character who is a genetically mutated type of what marsupial?
Bandicoot
What was the name of Umar Ibn Khattabs beloved brother who accepted Islam before him and died a shaheed before him? What battle did he die in ?
Zayd Ibn Khattab
Battle of Yamama
The Musketeers, who play in the NCAA's Big East Conference, are the sports teams of what private university located in Cincinnati?
Xavier University
Earth is the densest planet in the solar system. Which of the giant planets of the solar system is its least dense planet?
Saturn
Who was Vice President of the United States when Lincoln was assassinated? Full name, please. He later became the first President impeached.
Andrew Johnson
In geometry, what S-adjective describes a triangle whose three sides all have different lengths?
Scalene
The Prophet pbuh said this Sahaba was his brother. They grew up together and were best friends but this Sahaba became an enemy when the Prophet invited him to Islam. He remained an opponent up until the conquest of Makkah. Who was this sahaba?
Sufyaan Ibn Harith
The Prophet pbuh was hesitant to accept him at first because of the amount of hurt he caused but the Prophet pbuh accepted him and in the battle of Hunain during the chaos he didnt leave the Prophets side and the Prophet pbuh made dua for him. In Medina he was the first one in the masjid and the last one to leave.
La Masia de Can Planes is an "academy" in southwestern Europe that serves as both educational facilities and sporting grounds for promising youth talent in a specific sport. What sports TEAM is the owner and operator of this academy?
FC Barcelona
Ohm's law of electricity, expressed as "V = IR," states that voltage is directly proportional to current, represented by I, and what quantity represented by the letter R?
Resistance
Now buried under the ground west of the Junípero Serra Museum, what was the first permanent European structure built in what would become California? Construction began in 1769 by soldiers and priests from Mexico (then called New Spain).
The Presidio
What battery-powered board game has pieces called “bread basket,” “spare ribs,” “water on the knee,” and “funny bone"?
Operation