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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Baptised Sikhs are meant to wear or adorn 5 items that all start with what first letter?	K	75%
What is the Jewish New Year?	Rosh Hashanah	75%
What is the Jewish Day of Atonement	Yom Kippur	75%
Who is the Hindu destroyer God?	Shiva	50%
Who is the Hindu creator God?	Brahma	38%
What is the more prominent name associated with Siddhartha Gautama?	Buddha	38%
A vial of oil that miraculously was able to burn for eight days instead of one informs which holiday’s lighting of the menorah?	Chanukkah	38%
Which Hindu God of wisdom has an elephant’s head?	Ganesha	38%
The main foodstuff eaten during the above is meant to be a cookie resembling the ear of which Biblical character?	Haman	38%
Which declaration opens the service held on the Day of Atonement?	Kol Nidre	38%
Which holiday commemorates Moses’ parting of the Red Sea and the Israelites leaving Egyptian servitude?	Passover	38%
Heliopolis was the cult center for which Egyptian sun God?	Ra	38%
Who is considered the successor to Mohammed in the Shia denomination?	Ali ibn Abi Talib	25%
Which jackal-headed God was the God of the underworld and funerary practices?	Anubis	25%
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?	Bhagavad Gita	25%
Which day marks the end of the month of Ramadan?	Eid al-Fitr	25%
What object did Anubis weigh the hearts of the dead against before sending them to the afterlife?	Feather	25%
What pillar refers to a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca?	Hajj	25%
Which God tricked an opponent by painting his wooden boat to look like stone? This sky God is represented by the wedjat eye.	Horus	25%
Which wife of the God of the dead put him back together and learned the sun God's secret name?	Isis	25%
What is the ceremonial dagger worn by Sikhs?	Kirpan	25%
Which group of brothers led the revolt against Antiochus and the Seleucid Empire that is commemorated by the above?	Maccabee	25%
Which towers are attached to mosques to project the Muslim calls to prayer each day?	Minarets	25%
Which Egyptian God of the dead was cut into 14 pieces and scattered across the desert?	Osiris	25%
Adorning costumes is a custom associated with which Jewish holiday, commemorating Esther saving the Jews from the Achaemenid Empire?	Purim	25%
Which seventh avatar of the protector God is the namesake of another Hindu epic?	Rama	25%
Who was the wife of the above?	Sita	25%
Which sect of Islam believes that Abu Bakr is considered the first caliph in light of Mohammed choosing no successor?	Sunni	25%
The Qu’ran is divided into 114 chapters known as what?	Surah	25%
The Atharva and Rig are some of which set of four oldest Hindu scriptures?	Veda	25%
Who is the Hindu protector God?	Vishnu	25%
The hijrah, Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina, took place in which year CE?	622	13%
Which sky God is at the center of the Zoroastrian faith?	Ahura Mazda	13%
Who hid in a cave after the God of storms threw a dead pony at her loom?	Amaterasu	13%
Which religion is represented by a nine-pointed star?	Baha'i	13%
What is the name of the Creator God in Haitian Voodoo? His name comes from the French for “Good God”.	Bondye	13%
Which Pali word translates to “suffering” and names the first of the above teachings?	Dukkha	13%
Which youngest daughter of Muhammad married Ali and names a Shi’i dynasty in Egypt?	Fatima	13%
The act of respect for parents and ancestors is given what name in Confucian thought?	Filial Piety	13%
Which fundamental set of teachings were provided by Buddha’s first sermon?	Four Noble Truths	13%
Twelve of which spiritual teachers are central to the Sikh faith?	Guru	13%
Which founder of Sikhism was considered the first guru?	Guru Nanak	13%
Which Israeli city is the location of the above?	Haifa	13%
Which country is seen as the origin place and home to the syncretic religion Vodou?	Haiti	13%
What word refers to the ceremonial bracelets worn by Sikhs?	Kara	13%
What word refers to unshorn hair in Sikhism?	Kesh	13%
Which eighth avatar of the protector God served as Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata?	Krishna	13%
Who is purported to have written the above?	Lao Tzu	13%
Which of Buddhism's main two branches advocates remaining within the cycle of samsara?	Mahayana	13%
Which “second sage” of Confucianism argued that humans are innately good by describing reactions to a boy falling down a well?	Mencius	13%
What name is given to Indian Zoroastrians, given the religion’s Persian origins?	Parsee	13%
Who is the Aztec creator God?	Quetzalcoatl	13%
Which Raksasha king of Lanka is slain by the husband of the above after capturing the above?	Ravana	13%
Appreciating the good qualities of a virtuous human is central to which concept in Confucianism?	Ren	13%
What pillar refers to the obligatory ritual prayer performed in Islam?	Salah	13%
Which God of chaos assists the sun God in battling Apophis, and was responsible for cutting up the above?	Set	13%
What pillar of Islam refers to the declaration of faith?	Shahada	13%
“The Classic Way and its Power” is a common English translated title of which work, the central text of Taoism?	Tao te Ching	13%
What is the second surah of the Qu’ran, and at 286 verses, is the longest?	The Cow	13%
Which other main branch of Buddhism advocates escaping the cycle of samsara?	Theravada	13%
What term describes all of the above three?	Trimurti	13%
Which conservative branch of Islam is prominently practiced in Saudi Arabia, developed by a theologian affiliated with Muhammad ibn Saud?	Wahhabism	13%
Which Neopagan religion is known for pentagrams and meeting in covens?	Wicca	13%
Fountains at the front of a mosque may allow attendees to participate in what form of washing?	Wudu	13%
What school of Tibetan Buddhism does the Dalai Lama ascribe to?	Yellow Hat	13%
What pillar refers to giving charity?	Zakat	13%
What word meaning “nonviolence” is found as a central tenet in Jainism?	Ahimsa	0%
Which work is also titled The Sayings of Confucius?	Analects	0%
The dualism of Zoroastrianism arises from Ahura Mazda’s conflict with which evil counterpart?	Angra Mainyu	0%
Which giant serpent sought to swallow the above through his nightly journey to the underworld?	Apep	0%
What is the central text of the Zoroastrian faith?	Avesta	0%
What is the name of the founder of the Baha’i faith?	Baháʼu'lláh	0%
Which husband of Maman Brigitte is the ruler of the dead, often seen with a tuxedo, cigar, and white skull-like makeup?	Baron Samedi	0%
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.	Butterfly	0%
Sekhmet and Bastet are known for having the head of which animal?	Cat	0%
Queen Medb and the armies of Connaught were defeated by the aforementioned hero in which battle?	Cattle Raid of Cooley	0%
Gae Bulg was a barbed spear wielded by which Irish hero, whose name came from his killing of a guard dog?	Cu Chulainn	0%
Name either of Jainism's main sects?	Digambara and Śvētāmbara	0%
What is the Egyptian land of the dead called?	Duat	0%
Magga, the final of these teachings is also known as what concept, the way towards the release from the above?	Eight Fold Path	0%
Which father of Oisin, a fair-haired hunter, was the leader of the Fianna mercenaries?	Fionn mac Cumhaill	0%
What are the places of worship in Zoroastrian faith called?	Fire Temple	0%
The Spring and Autumn Annals and the divination text I Ching are part of what core group of Confucian texts?	Five Classics	0%
What are the names of the places of worship in the Sikh faith?	Gurdwara	0%
Hunahpu and Xbalanque are characters from Mayan myth known by what name?	Hero Twins	0%
Which Aztec God of the sun is represented by a hummingbird and was born from his mother Coatlicue via a ball of feathers?	Huītzilōpōchtli	0%
Which God of the sun is the pre-eminent God in the Inca empire?	Inti	0%
What word refers to the ceremonial undergarments worn by Sikhs?	Kachhera	0%
What are the spirits in Shinto myth known as?	Kami	0%
What word refers to the ceremonial comb used by Sikhs?	Kangha	0%
Inari, spirit of rice, had which nine-tailed fox spirits as messengers?	Kitsune	0%
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”?	Koan	0%
What is the name of the war between the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata?	Kurukshetra	0%
Which Goddess of wealth and prosperity is the wife of the protector God?	Lakshmi	0%
What name is given to the Vodou spirits in the above country?	Loa	0%
Which Goddess of truth and justice provided the feather to weigh against?	Ma'at	0%
Tsukuyomi is a Shinto God of what?	Moon	0%
What is the name of the person responsible for salat in the above tower?	Muezzin	0%
Which sister of the above assisted in putting the God of the dead back together?	Nephthys	0%
Which spirit acts as an intermediary between humanity and Bondye?	Papa Legba	0%
Which text contains the history and mythology of the K’iche people, including the Mayan creation myth?	Popol Vuh	0%
The above accidentally attains enlightenment after cooking and burning himself on the oil of which animal “of Knowledge”?	Salmon	0%
Which text was written by Anton LaVey in 1969?	Satanic Bible	0%
What pillar refers to fasting?	Sawm	0%
The rising sun is represented by Khepri, a form of the the sun God assumes that takes the shape of which animal?	Scarab	0%
The above is a feathered type of what animal?	Serpent	0%
Which fertility God has the head of a crocodile?	Sobek	0%
Which Shinto God of storms and seas is a brother of Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu?	Susanoo	0%
Which brother of the creator God destroyed the first world in the form of a jaguar, and is the Aztec God of darkness?	Tezcatlipoca	0%
Which God of knowledge and magic had the head of an ibis?	Thoth	0%
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.	Tirthankara	0%
Which Aztec rain God was provided human sacrifices in devotion to him?	Tlaloc	0%
What type of gates are found at the entrances to Shinto shrines, meant for the above to travel through?	Torii	0%
Also known as dakhmas, the Zoroastrian dead are brought to which specific buildings to then be eaten by vultures?	Towers of Silence	0%
A cycle of legends and sagas, including those of the above, is named after which Irish region?	Ulster	0%
What is the name of the supreme ruling body of the above?	Universal House of Justice	0%
Which set of 108 texts discuss the idea of the Brahman, or ultimate reality, while acting as commentaries on the above?	Upanishad	0%
What idea is prominent throughout the the previously stated text, translating to "inaction" or “effortless action”?	Wu Wei	0%
A ball game takes place in which location, the Mayan underworld where its lords challenged the above?	Xibalba	0%

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