Festivals and Religion

Question 1

What is Diwali

Answer 1

An important Hindu festival

Question 2

What is Ramadaan

Answer 2

A month in the Muslim calandar

Question 3

What is Eid-ul-Fitr

Answer 3

A Muslim festival

Question 4

What is the sacred book in Islam called?

Answer 4

Qu’ran

Question 5

What does Diwali or Deepawali mean?

Answer 5

“Row of lights”

Question 6

Throught the Dowali festival they put out rows of lamps and they believe the light drive out _______

Answer 6

darkness

Question 7

During the festival, Hindu’s try and make friends again with people they have ____________

Answer 7

quarrelled with

Question 8

During the festival they also have

Answer 8

singing and dancing

Question 9

What does adults not do between Ramadaan between dawn and sunset

Answer 9

Eat, they fast

Question 10

What is the name of their prophet?

Answer 10

Muhammed

Question 11

How did Muhammed break his fast?

Answer 11

With water and dates

Question 12

At the end of Ramadan they celegrate

Answer 12

Eid-ul-Fitr

Question 13

What does Eid mean?

Answer 13

Festival

Question 14

Who is the god of the Muslims?

Answer 14

Allah

Question 15

On Eid the Muslims visit friends and relatives and ______

Answer 15

wear their best clothing.

Question 16

The rich Muslims also give to the

Answer 16

poor

Question 17

Eight days after a Jewish boy is born, that happens?

Answer 17

They circumcised

Question 18

Who performs the religious ceremony when they circumcise a boy in Judaism?

Answer 18

mohel

Question 19

What do they also do at the circumised ceremony?

Answer 19

They give the boy a Hebrew name that will be used in his bar mitzvah, wedding and gravestone.

Question 20

What happens when a boy turns thirteen in Judaism?

Answer 20

bar mitzvah

Question 21

What does bar mitzvah mean?

Answer 21

son of the commndment

Question 22

On the Sabbath after his birthday of the Jewish boy, they

Answer 22

read from the scroll of the Torah in the synagogue for the first time.

Question 23

When a Jewish girl turns 12 she is considered?

Answer 23

bat mitzvah

Question 24

What does bat mitzvah mean?

Answer 24

daughter of the commandment

Question 25

What is the holy book in Judaism?

Answer 25

Torah

Question 26

What is the name of the Jewish New Year?

Answer 26

Rosh Hashanah

Question 27

Rosh Hashanah is the first day of the Ten Days of ___

Answer 27

atonement

Question 28

What does Jews do the night before Rosh Hashanah?

Answer 28

Go to the Synagogue and then have a meal with all their family. They eat sweet things at this meal as a sign that they hope the coming year will be sweet for them.

Question 29

What is one of the sweet foods they eat?

Answer 29

Apple dipped in honey is one of the foods they eat.

Question 30

Yom Kippur is the last day. What does the word mean?

Answer 30

Day of Atonement and it is a serious day.

Question 31

When it is Yom Kippur, Jews fast

Answer 31

from sunset the day before until after sunset on Yom Kippur.

Question 32

On Yom Kippur, what happens to the curtains in front of the Ark in the synagogue?

Answer 32

They are replaced with white material

Question 33

What is The Ark in Judaism?

Answer 33

The Ark is a special cupboard where the Torah, the Jewish holy book, is kept.

Question 34

The name of the priest in Judaism?

Answer 34

The rabbi

Question 35

What do they use the shofar for?

Answer 35

To call on God to be merciful, just and fair.

Question 36

At the end of Yom Kippur families get together to do what?

Answer 36

Break the base and eat a light meal together.

Question 37

Before two Muslim people get what must happen?

Answer 37

Their families talk about whether the marriage will be right for them. It is important that both families agree to the marriage.

Question 38

In which building does the Muslim wedding take place?

Answer 38

The Mosque

Question 39

What does the bridegroom hand over in the muslim wedding ceremony?

Answer 39

Hand over a gift wrapped in linen cloth, to the bide's farther and uncles. The marriage certificate is then signed. This ceremony is called Nikah and the ceremony is in Arabic

Question 40

After the ceremony what does the Muslim couple do?

Answer 40

Go to the bride's house she wears a beautiful dress. The groom give her a ring and they take photographs.

Question 41

What is a shofar?

Answer 41

A ram's horn