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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| An aid to the faithful since the 13th century, one standard version has parts arranged in groups of 1, 3 or 10

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the rosary

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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1875 she wrote, “Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe”

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Mary Baker Eddy

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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A Mennonite leader who was pro-foot washing & anti-beard trimming gave his name to this group

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the Amish

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| “Autobiography of a Yogi” was a popular book by this religion’s first missionary to settle in the U.S.

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Hindu

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| As part of Catholic Baptism, this word doesn’t mean to go to the gym but to get rid of demons

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exorcise

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The church founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 was formally called the Church of Christ, this

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Scientist

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| To some Muslims, this cubical structure in Mecca was built by Adam & refurbished by Abraham

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the Kaaba

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$2500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| At a deer park, Buddha taught the path of this many parts, part of the 4 Noble Truths

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eight (eightfold accepted)

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| One meaning of this word is any member of Christ’s church, as in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ones

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a saint

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Christmas in December 25; this holiday around the same time starts on Kislev 25 on the Jewish calendar

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Hanukkah

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In this religion, Sufism is mystical practice aiming at direct personal experience of God

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Islam

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This religion of more than 850 million people evolved from Vedism

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Hinduism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Pope Benedict XVI’s first of these was titled “Deus caritas est”, “God is love”

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an encyclical

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Talmud says “when” this “goes in, secrets are revealed” & on the Sabbath, Kiddush is said over a cup of it

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wine

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In this Asian religion, a lohan is not an actress but a holy person, & monasteries have images of lohans

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Buddhism

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Southern Convention of this denomination split from the Yankees in 1845

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the Baptists

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$3000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This 13th century Italian theologian was born in Roccasecca near the town of Aquino

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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$2000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Jainism, with 4 1/2 million adherents, was founded in this country by Mahavira, “the Great Hero”

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India

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| People of this religion call Christians & Jews, their fellow monotheists, Ahl al-Kitab, “People of the Book”

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Muslims (the Islams accepted)

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Prague, Czech Republic.</a>) I’m in Prague at one of these Jewish houses of worship; completed in the 1200s, it’s the oldest working one in Europe

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a synagogue

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Begin this act, part of penance, by saying, “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned”–then spill the beans

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confession

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$1600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Zen, a branch of this Asian religion, aims for satori, or enlightenment

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Buddhism

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$2000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| You’ll find the word “angel” in this movement that stresses the Gospels & personal salvation

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Evangelism

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Considered to be the words of God himself, the Koran is the holy book of this religion

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Islam

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| More than 80% of India’s people practice this religion

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Hinduism

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Latter-Day Saints is the more correct term for members of this church

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the Mormon Church

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$1600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| For more than 400 years, the chief monk of Tibetan Buddhism has gone by this title

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the Dalai Lama

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$2000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| While there are 3 orders of Franciscans, all follow the ideals of the founder, St. Francis of this city

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Assisi

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| LDS is an abbreviation for laus deo semper, “praise to God always”, & for this term for a religious group

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Latter-Day Saints

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It can be any person who’s reached Nirvana, or a specific one of the 6th century B.C.

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buddha

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Thomas Coke & Francis Asbury, the 1st Methodist superintendents in America, soon took this other religious title

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bishop

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$3600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A homophone of a weapon, it’s the list of books making up scripture

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canon

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$2000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The founder of this religion in the 500s B.C. was known as Jina; an anagram of Jina gave us its present name

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Jainism

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The 3 branches of original Protestantism were Zwinglianism, Calvinism & this “ism”

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Lutheranism

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The slanted bar on <a>the Orthodox Cross</a> may refer to these criminals flanking Jesus–one went to heaven and one didn’t

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the two thieves

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This sternly conservative Islamic movement named for an 18th century cleric is based in Arabia

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Wahhabism

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1987 Hialeah, FL banned this religion’s animal sacrifices; in 1993 the Supreme Court overturned the ban

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Santeria

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| After initiation as a Sikh, males add this 5-letter word meaning lion to their names

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Singh

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Archaeological digs in 1996 indicate that Buddha was born in this country, about 145 miles SW of Katmandu

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Nepal

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the Roman Catholic Church, several parishes in an area form this territorial district headed by a bishop

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diocese

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This -ism named for Protestant reformer John is associated with the values of thrift & labor

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Calvinism

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$1600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| To avoid persecution by a tribe called the Quraysh, Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city

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Medina

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$2000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This Jewish festival is also called the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths

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Sukkot

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This archangel was the messenger between God & Muhammad

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Gabriel

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Unification Church was founded in this country in 1954

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(South) Korea

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the front of the Temple de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain) The facade named this, the word for Jesus’ suffering & death, has sober design elements like columns that look like bones

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the Passion Facade

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Tenrikyo sect associated with this religion puts Japan at the center of the universe

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Shintoism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| 1 of the 5 symbols worn by members of this Punjab-centered religion is the kirpan, a sword

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Sikhism

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Koran was revealed to him beginning one night on Mount Hira in 610

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Mohammed

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Greco-Russian Church is another name for this family of Christian churches in eastern Europe

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Orthodox churches

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Want to officiate at a friend’s wedding? You can get ordained online in 3 minutes with this church abbreviated ULC

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Universal Life Church

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the novel “Shogun”, it’s defined as “Fate immutably fixed because of deeds done in a previous life”

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karma

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Judaism, “sitting” this 7-day mourning period is often done on low chairs or on the floor

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shiva

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A symbol of Judaism, the Magen David is a star of this many points

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6

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Biblically speaking, they’re also called the Decalogue

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The Ten Commandments

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Quakers is the popular name for members of the Religious Society of these

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Friends

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The name of this religion means “the way of the gods” in both Chinese & Japanese

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Shinto

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This book of the Bible was named for a prophet & son of Hilkiah the priest, not a bullfrog

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Jeremiah

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the Roman Catholic Church fasting during Lent need only occur on Ash Wednesday & this day

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Good Friday

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The untouchables were those who existed outside India’s 4 main groups of castes in this religion

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Hinduism

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This political & religious movement began in Jamaica in the 1920s

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Rastafarianism

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$1600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| After WWII the state form of this Asian religion was abolished; the sectarian form was unaffected

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Shintoism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This Christian religious minority group of Egypt once spoke Greek but now speaks Arabic in everyday life

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Copts

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The A.M.E. in A.M.E. Church stands for African Methodist this

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Episcopal

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Less than 20% of all Muslims are Shi’ites or of other groups; the rest belong to this branch

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Sunni

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Founded by & named for a Persian prophet, this religion flourished during Persia’s Achaemenian empire

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Zoroastrianism

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$1600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Traditionally, in Judaism a ram’s horn called this is blown at the end of Yom Kippur

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shofar

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$4000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates revealed to him by an angel named this

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Moroni

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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Among the 854 people the Russian Orthodox Church canonized in 2000 was this czar who was buried in St. Petersburg in 1998

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Nicholas II

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Each year about 1 million Hindu pilgrims journey to Varanasi, India to wash away their sins in this holy river

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the Ganges

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Biblical book bearing her name begins by saying it took place “in the days when the judges ruled”

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Ruth

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This holy book whose name means “recitation” is divided into 114 chapters called suras

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The Koran

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1549 this Spanish priest established Christianity in Japan

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St. Francis Xavier

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| From the Latin for “soul”, it’s the belief that natural objects like trees have souls too

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animism

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| “Mendicant” religious orders made their money the hard way, they did this to earn it

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Beg

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Old traditions of the Jewish holiday Lag Ba-Omer include bonfires & 3-year-old boys getting this cut for the first time

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Hair

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The “Oxford Dict. of World Religions” calls it “the reverse side of blessing” (Mom didn’t like it either)

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Cursing

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Sawm, the fourth pillar of Islam, is this & it’s done at times for a whole month

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Fasting

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$900 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Rastafarians have roots in 2 places: Ethiopia & this island

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Jamaica

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Shi’ite branch of this religion believes that its leadership was willed to Muhammad by his son-in-law Ali

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Islam

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Its most sacred books are Kojiki, or “Record of Ancient Events”, & Nihongi, or “Chronicle of Japan”

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Shinto

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Unlike Luke, Acts specifies that this event took place 40 days after Jesus’ resurrection

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Ascension

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In this Chinese religion, the Jade Emperor rules the Earth & the Empress of Heaven rules heaven

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Taoism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the classic Hindu trinity, this divinity is the creator of the universe

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Brahma

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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A 1999 study concluded that this 13-foot-long, 3-foot-wide holy relic dates back to pre-8th century Jerusalem

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Shroud of Turin

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| On Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the month of Av, Jews observe the destruction of the first & second of these

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Temples

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Legend says he spent 98 days beneath a large bo tree, 49 to solve the riddle of suffering & 49 more to meditate

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Buddha

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Among the 6 schools of philosophy of this religion are nyaya & yoga

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Hinduism

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Japanese once worshiped their emperor as a descendant of Amaterasu Omikami. the top goddess in this religion

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Shinto

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The sister of Moses & Aaron, she was the first woman given the title of prophetess

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Miriam

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The town near Jerusalem where Jesus was born

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Bethlehem

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Term for the chief religious leader of a synagogue

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Rabbi

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This religious leader went home to Poland for a 13-day visit in June 1999

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Pope John Paul II

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the holy book of Islam

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Koran

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Mormons are also known as “Latter-Day” these

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Saints

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In this religion, prayer time is announced from a minaret by a muezzin, or crier

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Islam

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Founded in Boston in 1879, this church maintains “reading rooms” across the country open to the public

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Christian Science

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s said that this founder of Methodism traveled 225,000 miles on horseback to preach the gospel

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John Wesley

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Around 1154 the Carmelite religious order was founded on Mount Carmel in what is now this country

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Israel

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Mahayana, the liberal branch of this religion, is practiced mainly in Korea, Taiwan & Japan

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Buddhism

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Some images of this “Enlightened One” show a top-knot which symbolizes his supreme wisdom

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Buddha

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The beliefs of this religion appear in books like the “Lao-Tzu” & the “Chuang-Tzu”

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Taoism

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Jesus said unto him, “Thou Art” this name, “And upon this rock I will build my church”

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Peter

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the highest caste among the Hindus

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Brahmans

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| From the Latin for “brother” comes this term for some mendicant monks; Tuck was one

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Friars

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Zoroastrianism, water & a liquid called haoma are sacrificed in the presence of this substance

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Fire

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Between February 11 & July 16, 1858, the Virgin Mary made a reported 18 appearances at this site

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Lourdes

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Theravada school considers itself the closest to the original form of this religion

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Buddhism

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Hindu trinity is Brahma, Vishnu & this god

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Shiva

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This German’s attacks on the Roman Catholic church began the Reformation

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Martin Luther

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This symbol of Judaism consists of 2 overlaid triangles

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the Star of David

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$1500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Dec. 1945 the supreme commander of the Allied Powers in Japan disestablished this religion

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Shinto

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Hymns in the Avesta are the only record, in his own words, of what this Persian prophet believed

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Zoroaster

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Hindus believe that all gods are part of this one universal spirit

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Brahman

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Falasha Jews of Ethiopia claim descent from King Solomon & this woman

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Sheba

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Deseret News is one of several publications owned by this church

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Mormons (LDS)

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The name of this Christian sacrament is from the Greek for “to dip”

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Baptism

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Tradition says this central shrine of Islam, located in Mecca, was built by Abraham & Ishmael

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Kaaba

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| With more than 60 million members worldwide, it’s the largest Protestant denomination

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Lutheranism

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This common name for the Society of Friends may come from the saying “Tremble at the word of the Lord”

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Quakers

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Muslims in Uzbekistan are reclaiming these buildings that were put to secular use by the Soviets

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Mosques

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Mahayanists label other schools of this religion “Hinayana” or “lesser vehicle”

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Buddhism

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$1200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Guadalupe, where Juan Diego twice saw the Virgin Mary in 1531, is now a part of this world capital

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Mexico City

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Bhagavad-Gita records a dialogue between a warrior named Arjuna & this avatar of Vishnu

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Krishna

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| His letter to the Thessalonians, written about 51 A.D., is considered the earliest New Testament writing

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Paul

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The name of this Japanese religion means “The way of the gods”

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Shinto

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| During this Jewish holiday, it is customary to greet neighbors with “May You Be Inscribed for a Good Year”

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Rosh Hashanah

128
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Golden Temple in Amritsar, India is the holiest shrine in this religion

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Sikhism

129
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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Written in 1517, the 62nd of these is “The true treasure of the church is the holy gospel of… God”

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the 95 Theses

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This common Catholic prayer to Mary, the mother of Jesus, is often set to music

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Hail Mary (or Ave Maria)

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Hinduism the ashes of the dead are cast into this river to insure safe passage from this life

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Ganges

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This term used to designate all monks in Tibetan Buddhism means “superior one”

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Lama

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| One symbol of this Japanese religion is the Torii, a large gate traditionally made of wood

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Shinto

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| On May 1, 1738, he & some friends began a “little society” that prefigured later Methodist societies

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John Wesley

135
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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Santeria, which combines Catholicism & African ritual, this apostle once named Simon is called Oggun

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Peter

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Quaker gatherings for either business or worship are called these

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Meetings

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the 1500s this German movement claimed all people, not just Catholic priests, had access to divinity

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Protestant Reformation

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the 500s B.C. this religion claimed all people, not just Brahman priests, had access to divinity

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Buddhism

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This term for the Christian belief that denies the trinity lent its name to a denomination

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Unitarianism

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The first translation of this book printed in America was John Eliot’s 1661-63 Algonquian one

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the Bible

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In October 1996 the Pope told scientists this theory was sound if they accept it as God’s work

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evolution

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| On June 14, 1992 this world leader returned to the Russian Orthodox church after years as an athiest

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Boris Yeltsin

143
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Persian poet Rumi was a Sufi, a member of the mystic sect of this religion

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Islam

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This “Tao Te Ching” author attracted many admirers, including a young Confucius

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Lao-Tzu

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| With over 8 million members, it’s by far the largest Adventist group

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Seventh-day Adventists

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The ultimate goal in Buddhism is to attain this state of perfect blessedness

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Nirvana

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the church founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon

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The Unification Church

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| From the Greek for “not knowing”, it’s the belief that God’s existence cannot be proved

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Agnosticism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This religion centered in India’s Punjab state combines elements of Hinduism & Islam

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Sikhism

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Though a teacher & not divine, temples in China have been erected to this man also called K’ung Fu-Tzu

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Confucius

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A shrine of the Bab, a forerunner of the Baha’i, is in Haifa in this country

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Israel

152
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1533 Thomas Cranmer became the first nonpapist archbishop of this see

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Canterbury

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| One of the precepts of this nirvana-seeking group is to avoid intoxicating drinks, as they may cause stupidity

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Buddhists

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Ramayana is one of the great epics of this religion

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Hinduism

155
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1759 Portugal banned the Jesuit order of this Christian church

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Roman Catholic Church

156
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The son of a copper miner, he initiated the Protestant Reformation

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Martin Luther

157
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| 2 of the forms of this Eastern religion are Theravada & Mahayana

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Buddhism

158
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This religion’s chief god, the Jade Emperor, was officially sanctioned around 1000 A.D.

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Taoism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The main religion on the island of Bali is a mixture of local religious rites & this major religion

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Hinduism

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the religion of most of Guatemala’s people

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Roman Catholic

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Practiced by the Soto sect, Zazen is a type of seated meditation in the Zen form of this religion

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Buddhism

162
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Compiled in 712, the Kojiki, “Records of Ancient Matters”, is one of this religion’s oldest texts

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Shinto

163
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Granth Sahib is the holy book of this religion known for its golden temple in Amritsar

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Sikhism

164
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This major Hindu god known for his avatars has a lucky curl of hair, called the Srivatsa, on his chest

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Vishnu

165
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Also called the “Our Father”, it begins “Our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”

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The Lord’s Prayer

166
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Traditionally, a minyan of 10 male adults is needed to conduct public prayer in this religion

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Judaism

167
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the more common name for the religious Society of Friends

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Quakers

168
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Hinduism the greatest of all mantras is this sacred syllable

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Om

169
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$3000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This religious group held its 100th annual meeting in Boston in 1995

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Christian Science

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Muslims worship the same god as Jews & Christians but usually call him by this name

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Allah

171
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This synagogue ceremony marking manhood dates to the Middle Ages

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Bar Mitzvah

172
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Catholicism it’s the place of purification for the dead who still bear some trace of sin

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Purgatory

173
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$1300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Meaning “act”, it’s the term in Hinduism for acts done in one life that have repercussions in the next

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Karma

174
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Lun Yu or “Analects” is the most reliable source on the life & teachings of this Chinese sage

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Confucius

175
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Used in the Roman Catholic Church, it’s a circle of 50 beads attached to a crucifix

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Rosary

176
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the 18th century, this ancient Japanese religion was revived through the writings of Mabuchi & others

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Shinto

177
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1649 George Fox, leader of this movement, was jailed for interrupting a minister

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Quakers

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| With over 1 billion followers, it’s the largest non-Christian religion

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Islam

179
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| These oldest Hindu scriptures existed for centuries before they were written down

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Vedas

180
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The first reform temple of this religion opened in Hamburg, Germany in 1818

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Judaism

181
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Around 67 A.D. St. Linus succeeded this man as Pope

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Peter

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The standard text of this holy book was formed during the reign of Caliph Uthman, 644-656

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The Koran

183
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s estimated this founder of Methodism preached over 40,000 sermons

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John Wesley

184
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Parsis, followers of this Persian religion, can be found today living in Bombay

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Zoroastrianism

185
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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, is in this city

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Jerusalem

186
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The man with this title is the immediate spiritual father to a Benedictine monastery

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Abbot

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the number of books in the Torah

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5

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Mandir Mahotsav, which opened in England in August of 1995, is this religion’s largest temple outside India

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Hinduism

189
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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Bodhi tree, a type of Indian fig tree, is sacred to followers of this religion

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Buddhism

190
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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The title of this leader of a Jewish congregation means “my master” in Hebrew

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rabbi

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This apostle who denied he knew Jesus 3 times is sometimes called the “Apostle to the Jews”

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Peter

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Divided into 114 suras or chapters, this Islamic book is the earliest known work in Arabic prose

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the Koran

193
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In about 500 B.C., this philosopher was appointed minister of justice in the Chinese state of Lu

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Confucius

194
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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto is an important shrine of the zen form of this religion

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Buddhism

195
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Artists depict Shiva, a major deity of this religion, wearing a garland of skulls around his neck

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Hinduism

196
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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the religion of about 85% of the people of Bangladesh

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Muslim (or Islam)

197
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Followers of this religion believe Moroni was the last of the Nephite prophet- historians

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Mormon

198
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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| 2 curved swords, a dagger & a circle make up the symbol of this religion founded in India

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Sikhism

199
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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| On Dec. 19, 1894 2 books were formally ordained as the impersonal pastor of this denomination

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Christian Scientist

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In January of 1377, Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy back to this city

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Rome

201
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1642 this spiritual leader became the ruler of Tibet

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Dalai Lama

202
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| His name is a contraction of Arabic for “The God”; The Koran says he is eternal & omnipotent

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Allah

203
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Bodhisattvas are personifications of the virtues of this founder of a religion

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Buddha

204
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The horseradish on the plate for this Jewish holiday symbolizes the bitterness of slavery in Egypt

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Passover

205
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In this religion the supreme sin of shirk, polytheism or the denial of Allah’s unity, is unforgivable

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Islam

206
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The new fire ceremony was performed every 52 years by this Mexican civilization

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Aztecs

207
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1995 a 6-year-old boy in this Chinese-occupied region was identified as the reincarnated Panchen Lama

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Tibet

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Rituals in this popular religion of Haiti are led by a houngan, a priest, or a mambo, a priestess

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Voodoo

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In the Rig veda this major Hindu deity is called Rudra & is addressed in just 3 hymns

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Shiva

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1995 Gordon B. Hinckley was ordained as the 15th president of this Utah-based church

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The state form of this religion was disestablished in Japan after World War II

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Shinto

212
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| One of the Five Pillars, or primary duties of Islam, is to fast during this month

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Ramadan

213
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$1400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Trimurti, or trinity of Hindu gods, consists of Brahma, Shiva & this one

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Vishnu

214
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The first American consecrated a bishop in St. Peter’s Basilica; he became archbishop of New York in 1939

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Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Amritsar, the religious center of the Sikhs, is located in this country’s Punjab state

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India

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A Benedictine monk named Augustine became England’s first Archbishop of this c. 600

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Canterbury

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The name of Durga, a fierce & beautiful goddess of this religion, is Sanskrit for “the inaccessible”

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Hindu

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Poland’s patron saint is St. Stanislaus of this city, the former capital of Poland

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Krakow

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s the religion of nearly all the Malays in Malaysia

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Islam

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This group’s corporate bodies are the Watchtower Bible & Tract Societies of PA & NY

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Jehovah’s Witnesses

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This collection of Jewish religious & civil law has two parts: the mishna & the gammara

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The Talmud

222
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The beliefs of this Chinese religion appear in the books “Lao-Tzu” & “Chwang-Tzu”

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Taoism

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The goal of this form of Buddhism is to attain satori, a state of spiritual enlightenment

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Zen

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Founded by a Persian prophet, its beliefs are contained in a sacred book called the Avesta

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Zoroastrianism

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Each person elected to this highest Catholic office gets a new ring designed just for him

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pope

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A hajji is a Muslim who’s made a pilgrimage to this city

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Mecca

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Artists often depict Durga, a goddess of this Indian religion, riding a lion or a tiger

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Hinduism

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Members of this ancient Celtic order served as judges as well as priests

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Druids

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The archbishop of Uppsala is the presiding bishop of the church of this country

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Sweden

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| American colony that was a “holy experiment” for the Society of Friends or Quakers

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Pennsylvania

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| 1 of the 2 gospels in which a version of the Lord’s Prayer appears

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Luke (or Matthew)

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This Christian church is headed by the patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt

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the Coptic Christian Church

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Judaism it’s the collective term for Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur

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the High Holy Days

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A religious retreat or commune in India; Gandhi had one at Wardha

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an ashram

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The angel Moroni told him about the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated

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Joseph Smith

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Officially, any practicing Roman Catholic male can be elected to this high office

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Pope

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Dating from 1763, the oldest synagogue in the U.S. is in this resort town in Rhode Island

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Newport

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$1100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| John Calvin’s followers in England were “Puritans”; his followers in France were called this

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Huguenots

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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| House of worship in which prayer is led by an imam

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Mosque

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The most conservative of the 3 major branches of Judaism is not conservative, but this

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Orthodox

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Members of this religion commonly touch their foreheads to the ground to acknowledge God’s majesty

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Islam

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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The Deseret News is the daily paper published by this church

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

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Q

$2500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The 3 great traditional religions of China

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Buddhism, Confucianism & Taoism

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Brown & the University of Chicago were both established by members of this Protestant denomination

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Baptists

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| To Moslems, the adhan is a call to this

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Prayer

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Synagogues are built so that the wall holding the ark of the Torah scrolls faces toward this city

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Jerusalem

247
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This order of Catholic priests was originally called the Company of Jesus

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Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

248
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| At Cana, Jesus performed his 1st miracle doing this

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Changing Water into Wine

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Zoroaster a.k.a. Zarathustra was a great prophet who taught monotheism in this land

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Persia

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Though Hindus disapprove of killing animals, they regard the slaying of these animals as the worst offense

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Cows

251
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Mormons regard both of these books as the word of God

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The Bible & The Book of Mormon

252
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In most Orthodox synagogues they are separated; in Conservative & Reform they are not

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The Sexes

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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Muslim law allows a man to have up to 4 of these if he can support & care for each equally

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Wives

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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In March 1989, 35 archbishops from this country met with the Pope to discuss their flock of 53 million

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United States

255
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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A recent N.Y. Times-CBS poll indicates a majority of U.S. Catholic priests would like to do this

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marry

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Religion whose Bible begins with the Book of Genesis & ends with II Chronicles

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Judaism

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The American Quakers’ General Conference headquarters is in this city

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Philadelphia

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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The United Church is this large country’s largest protestant denomination

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Canada

259
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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Common in Africa, it’s not the worship of animals but of spirits

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animism

260
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$None ||| Category: RELIGION ||| On Jan. 1, 1977, in Indianapolis, Mrs. J. Means became 1st woman legally ordained a priest by this church

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the Episcopal Church

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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In October of 1986, South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church denounced this

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apartheid

262
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The president of this Arab country must be a Maronite Christian

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Lebanon

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$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| English spellings of the names of all seven archangels of Judeo-Christian tradition end with these two letters

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E-L

264
Q

$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| At first, Jim Bakker claimed that this Louisiana-based Pentecostal preacher wanted to take over the PTL

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Jimmy Swaggart

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Q

$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| On May 9, 1969, it was declared that 200 Catholic saints would lose these

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Feast Days

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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Believers in this Haitian religion say “loa” spirits possess them & ride them like horses

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Voodoo

267
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The early Christians called all believers this, even those not canonized

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saints

268
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| The 3 major branches of American Judaism

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Orthodox, Conservative, & Reform

269
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| For a Buddhist, this blessed state ends the cycle of death & rebirth

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Nirvana

270
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This word comes from the Hebrew word meaning “the annointed one”

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messiah

271
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Few of this country’s people are Buddhists, though Buddha spent most of his life there

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India

272
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Both Martin Luther King Sr. & Jr. were pastors of this Atlanta church

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Ebenezer Baptist Church

273
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| President Polk’s middle name indicates he was a descendant of this Scottish religious reformer

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John Knox

274
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$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1915, the Religious Society of Friends tried to make this company change its name

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Quaker Oats

275
Q

$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In Judaism, the Sabbath begins and ends with this astronomical event

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sunset

276
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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| A hit in 1953, this song of faith made No. 3 on the charts when Elvis released in in 1965

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Crying in the Chapel

277
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| India’s Taj Mahal is associated with this religion

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Muslim (Islam)

278
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$500 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Denomination founded by a group of Oxford University students led by John Wesley

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Methodism

279
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| 100 years ago the now-dead philosopher Nietzsche claimed this being was dead

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God

280
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Baby Fae heart transplant occurred in a hospital run by this denomination

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Seventh-Day Adventists

281
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Though Shi’ites have been getting the headlines, most Muslims belong to this sect

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Sunnis

282
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1965, Pope Paul VI formally exonerated this group of blame for the death of Jesus

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the Jews

283
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| It’s what the P.T.L. in TV’s “P.T.L. Club” stands for

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Praise the Lord (or People that Love)

284
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$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Well-known nickname of Siddhartha Gautama

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Buddha

285
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$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| North American Protestant group featured in the movie “Witness”

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the Amish

286
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Prayer taken from salutation of Gabriel, it’s now said as commonly as the Lord’s Prayer

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the Hail Mary (or Ave Maria)

287
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$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| In 1978, this pope reigned for only 34 days

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Pope John Paul I

288
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$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Colonial Maryland was founded as haven for members of this church

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the (Roman) Catholic Church

289
Q

$100 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Country that is home to Parsis & Sikhs

A

India

290
Q

$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| More common name for The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society

A

Jehovah’s Witnesses

291
Q

$300 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Some 3 million pilgrims visit this small French town annually

A

Lourdes

292
Q

$200 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| He was the doubter among the Apostles

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(St.) Thomas

293
Q

$400 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Continent with the largest Jewish population

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North America

294
Q

$600 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| Color of smoke signifying election of new Pope

A

white

295
Q

$800 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This Buddhist sect seeks truth through concepts like “the sound of one hand clapping”

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Zen

296
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$1000 ||| Category: RELIGION ||| This word for the Mohammedan religion means “submission to the will of God”

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Islam

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