Religion stuff

Question 1

What book of the bible begins with “He called” and provides the Hebrew name

Answer 1

Leviticus

Question 2

What god contains a crescent moon on his head

Answer 2

Shiva

Question 3

What religions important texts include the Perfection of Wisdom and the Basket of Discipline

Answer 3

Buddhism

Question 4

What figure attaches torches to the tails of foxes to burn the fields of his enemies

Answer 4

Samson

Question 5

What hindu god rides on a bird known as a hamsa

Answer 5

Brahma

Question 6

Who is the hindu god of knowledge

Answer 6

Saraswati

Question 7

Who founded Sikhism

Answer 7

Guru Nanak

Question 8

What school of Buddhism uses the concept of three baskets

Answer 8

Theravada

Question 9

What branch of a larger religion creates cakes which are fed to bird after religious services

Answer 9

Tibetan Buddhism

Question 10

What are the weeks outside of advent, christmas, lent, and eastertide called in Catholicism

Answer 10

Ordinary time

Question 11

What is the building in Mecca called that muslims touch or kiss during tawaf

Answer 11

Ka’aba

Question 12

What religion is split up into sky-clad and white-clad sects

Answer 12

Jainism

Question 13

What man did God turn the bitter waters of Marah sweet for

Answer 13

Moses

Question 14

What religion recognizes a group of 7 happiness deities including the fisherman god Ebisu

Answer 14

Shinto

Question 15

What text consists of 1028 recitations called sukta which are divided into ten books called Mandalas

Answer 15

Rig Veda

Question 16

What man’s best known oration compared God to a man holding a loathsome insect or spider over a fire

Answer 16

Jonathon Edwards

Question 17

What collection includes the Vinaya and the Abhidhamma

Answer 17

Tripitaka

Question 18

What religion is the Tripitaka used for

Answer 18

Theravada Buddhism

Question 19

What type of work in the Tripitaka consists of the buddhas sermons

Answer 19

Sutras

Question 20

What is the Indian festival of lights called

Answer 20

Diwali

Question 21

What religion is Diwali a major holiday for

Answer 21

Hinduism

Question 22

What hindu goddess is the wife of vishnu

Answer 22

Lakshmi

Question 23

What man ordered 12 stones to be placed at Gilgal and then held a mass circumcision using flint knives

Answer 23

Joshua

Question 24

What particles Higgs variety is responsible for mass

Answer 24

Boson

Question 25

What leader of the shakers received a revelation that led them to move to the US

Answer 25

Mother Ann Lee

Question 26

What shaker song was adapted by Aaron Copland into the 7th section of Appalachian Spring

Answer 26

Simple Gifts

Question 27

What government assumed the slogan of Work, Family, Fatherland

Answer 27

Vichy France

Question 28

Who is the consort of Shiva

Answer 28

Parvati

Question 29

Who is the Hindu god with an elephant head that is called the remover of obstacles

Answer 29

Ganesh

Question 30

What hindu goddess decapitated Raktabija and caught the falling blood on her tounge

Answer 30

Kali

Question 31

What concept can be reached by the elimination of dukkah and is described by the first of the four noble truths

Answer 31

Nirvana

Question 32

What religion was led by The Custodians after the death of a former leader

Answer 32

Baha’i

Question 33

What saint wrote Spiritual Exercises and founded the Jesuits

Answer 33

Ignatius

Question 34

What text has many sections which begin with mysterious letters such as ALM

Answer 34

Quran

Question 35

What mountain did Noah’s Ark land on

Answer 35

Arrorat

Question 36

What mountain did Elijah live on and names a catholic religious order

Answer 36

Mount Carmel

Question 37

What Christian holiday celebrates the day the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles

Answer 37

Pentecost

Question 38

What period begins on Ash Wednesday

Answer 38

Lent

Question 39

What type of building that broke from tradition by having 6 towers is named for the color of ceramic tiles that were arranged into tulip designs by a potter from Iznik

Answer 39

Mosque

Question 40

What town in northern Italy hosted a 16th century exumenical council to oppost Martin Luther

Answer 40

Trent

Question 41

What Latin translation of the Bible by Saint Jerome was the official Bible of the catholic church until 1979

Answer 41

The Vulgate

Question 42

What religion promotes asha as an antidote to the evil god Ahriman

Answer 42

Zoroastrianism

Question 43

Who is the creator deity of Zoroastrianism and is the counterpart to Ahriman

Answer 43

Ahura Mazda

Question 44

What event is known as Frashokereti in Zoroastrianism

Answer 44

Apocalypse

Question 45

What man inspired Jonathon Edwards and who’s tour of colonies took him from New York to South Carolina on horseback

Answer 45

George Whitefield

Question 46

What type of hoof do animals need to be considered Kosher

Answer 46

cloven hoof

Question 47

What 2 books are Jewish laws generally drawn from

Answer 47

Leviticus and Deuteronomy

Question 48

What Jewish holiday commemorates the destruction of the first and second temples

Answer 48

Tisha B’Av

Question 49

What book’s passages are traditionally read during Tisha B’Av

Answer 49

Lamentations

Question 50

What major prophet between Isaiah and Ezekiel wrote Lamentations

Answer 50

Jeremiah

Question 51

What Chinese term meaning inaction denotes a state of harmonius engagement with the world

Answer 51

weu wei

Question 52

What Chinese philospohy uses wu wei and was founded by Shang Yang

Answer 52

Legalism

Question 53

What god won his wife by killing a companion that was disguised as a whale

Answer 53

Shiva