Religion General Knowledge

What is the Jewish New Year?

What is the Jewish Day of Atonement

Which declaration opens the service held on the Day of Atonement?

A vial of oil that miraculously was able to burn for eight days instead of one informs which holiday’s lighting of the menorah?

Which group of brothers led the revolt against Antiochus and the Seleucid Empire that is commemorated by the above?

Which holiday commemorates Moses’ parting of the Red Sea and the Israelites leaving Egyptian servitude?

Adorning costumes is a custom associated with which Jewish holiday, commemorating Esther saving the Jews from the Achaemenid Empire?

The main foodstuff eaten during the above is meant to be a cookie resembling the ear of which Biblical character?

The Qu’ran is divided into 114 chapters known as what?

What is the second surah of the Qu’ran, and at 286 verses, is the longest?

What pillar of Islam refers to the declaration of faith?

What pillar refers to giving charity?

What pillar refers to a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca?

What pillar refers to the obligatory ritual prayer performed in Islam?

What pillar refers to fasting?

Which sect of Islam believes that Abu Bakr is considered the first caliph in light of Mohammed choosing no successor?

Who is considered the successor to Mohammed in the Shia denomination?

Which conservative branch of Islam is prominently practiced in Saudi Arabia, developed by a theologian affiliated with Muhammad ibn Saud?

Which day marks the end of the month of Ramadan?

Which towers are attached to mosques to project the Muslim calls to prayer each day?

What is the name of the person responsible for salat in the above tower?

Fountains at the front of a mosque may allow attendees to participate in what form of washing?

The hijrah, Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina, took place in which year CE?

Which youngest daughter of Muhammad married Ali and names a Shi’i dynasty in Egypt?

Who is the Hindu creator God?

Who is the Hindu destroyer God?

Who is the Hindu protector God?

What term describes all of the above three?

Which eighth avatar of the protector God served as Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata?

What is the name of the war between the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata?

Which Hindu God of wisdom has an elephant’s head?

Which Goddess of wealth and prosperity is the wife of the protector God?

Which seventh avatar of the protector God is the namesake of another Hindu epic?

Who was the wife of the above?

Which Raksasha king of Lanka is slain by the husband of the above after capturing the above?

Which section of the Mahabharata, a dialogue between Arjuna and the eighth avatar of the protector God, translates to the “Song of God” and was quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer?

The Atharva and Rig are some of which set of four oldest Hindu scriptures?

Which set of 108 texts discuss the idea of the Brahman, or ultimate reality, while acting as commentaries on the above?

What is the more prominent name associated with Siddhartha Gautama?

Which of Buddhism's main two branches advocates remaining within the cycle of samsara?

Which other main branch of Buddhism advocates escaping the cycle of samsara?

What school of Tibetan Buddhism does the Dalai Lama ascribe to?

Which fundamental set of teachings were provided by Buddha’s first sermon?

Which Pali word translates to “suffering” and names the first of the above teachings?

Magga, the final of these teachings is also known as what concept, the way towards the release from the above?

The Blue Cliff Record is a work containing which paradoxical statements contemplated by Buddhists, such as “what is the sound of a one-handed clap”?

Name either of Jainism's main sects?

Rishabhanatha and Mahavira are examples of what type of spiritual figure in Jainism? 24 of these teachers were said to exist and establish the canonical teachings of the religion.

What word meaning “nonviolence” is found as a central tenet in Jainism?

Twelve of which spiritual teachers are central to the Sikh faith?

Which founder of Sikhism was considered the first guru?

Baptised Sikhs are meant to wear or adorn 5 items that all start with what first letter?

What is the ceremonial dagger worn by Sikhs?

What word refers to unshorn hair in Sikhism?

What word refers to the ceremonial bracelets worn by Sikhs?

What word refers to the ceremonial undergarments worn by Sikhs?

What word refers to the ceremonial comb used by Sikhs?

What are the names of the places of worship in the Sikh faith?

Which sky God is at the center of the Zoroastrian faith?

The dualism of Zoroastrianism arises from Ahura Mazda’s conflict with which evil counterpart?

What are the places of worship in Zoroastrian faith called?

What is the central text of the Zoroastrian faith?

Also known as dakhmas, the Zoroastrian dead are brought to which specific buildings to then be eaten by vultures?

What name is given to Indian Zoroastrians, given the religion’s Persian origins?

“The Classic Way and its Power” is a common English translated title of which work, the central text of Taoism?

Who is purported to have written the above?

What idea is prominent throughout the the previously stated text, translating to "inaction" or “effortless action”?

In another Taoist text, Zhuangzi wonders if he is a man dreaming about becoming this animal or if he is this animal dreaming of becoming a man.

Which work is also titled The Sayings of Confucius?

The Spring and Autumn Annals and the divination text I Ching are part of what core group of Confucian texts?

The act of respect for parents and ancestors is given what name in Confucian thought?

Which “second sage” of Confucianism argued that humans are innately good by describing reactions to a boy falling down a well?

Appreciating the good qualities of a virtuous human is central to which concept in Confucianism?

Which religion is represented by a nine-pointed star?

What is the name of the supreme ruling body of the above?

Which Israeli city is the location of the above?

What is the name of the founder of the Baha’i faith?

What are the spirits in Shinto myth known as?

What type of gates are found at the entrances to Shinto shrines, meant for the above to travel through?

Tsukuyomi is a Shinto God of what?

Which Shinto God of storms and seas is a brother of Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu?

Inari, spirit of rice, had which nine-tailed fox spirits as messengers?

Who hid in a cave after the God of storms threw a dead pony at her loom?

Which country is seen as the origin place and home to the syncretic religion Vodou?

What name is given to the Vodou spirits in the above country?

What is the name of the Creator God in Haitian Voodoo? His name comes from the French for “Good God”.

Which spirit acts as an intermediary between humanity and Bondye?

Which husband of Maman Brigitte is the ruler of the dead, often seen with a tuxedo, cigar, and white skull-like makeup?

Which Neopagan religion is known for pentagrams and meeting in covens?

Which text was written by Anton LaVey in 1969?

Who is the Aztec creator God?

The above is a feathered type of what animal?

Which brother of the creator God destroyed the first world in the form of a jaguar, and is the Aztec God of darkness?

Which Aztec God of the sun is represented by a hummingbird and was born from his mother Coatlicue via a ball of feathers?

Which Aztec rain God was provided human sacrifices in devotion to him?

Which text contains the history and mythology of the K’iche people, including the Mayan creation myth?

Hunahpu and Xbalanque are characters from Mayan myth known by what name?

A ball game takes place in which location, the Mayan underworld where its lords challenged the above?

Which God of the sun is the pre-eminent God in the Inca empire?

Heliopolis was the cult center for which Egyptian sun God?

Which giant serpent sought to swallow the above through his nightly journey to the underworld?

The rising sun is represented by Khepri, a form of the the sun God assumes that takes the shape of which animal?

Which God tricked an opponent by painting his wooden boat to look like stone? This sky God is represented by the wedjat eye.

Which Egyptian God of the dead was cut into 14 pieces and scattered across the desert?

Which God of chaos assists the sun God in battling Apophis, and was responsible for cutting up the above?

Which wife of the God of the dead put him back together and learned the sun God's secret name?

Which sister of the above assisted in putting the God of the dead back together?

Sekhmet and Bastet are known for having the head of which animal?

Which God of knowledge and magic had the head of an ibis?

Which fertility God has the head of a crocodile?

Which jackal-headed God was the God of the underworld and funerary practices?

What object did Anubis weigh the hearts of the dead against before sending them to the afterlife?

Which Goddess of truth and justice provided the feather to weigh against?

What is the Egyptian land of the dead called?

Which father of Oisin, a fair-haired hunter, was the leader of the Fianna mercenaries?

The above accidentally attains enlightenment after cooking and burning himself on the oil of which animal “of Knowledge”?

Gae Bulg was a barbed spear wielded by which Irish hero, whose name came from his killing of a guard dog?

A cycle of legends and sagas, including those of the above, is named after which Irish region?

Queen Medb and the armies of Connaught were defeated by the aforementioned hero in which battle?