Matters Of Religion Trivia Quiz

Answer: shahadah

The jihad is often too narrowly understood as the famous 'holy war'. It is in the first place the striving to actively realize God's Will in history. The shar'iah or Islamic law is rooted in divine revelation (the Qur'an) but also in the Sunna (= example or model behaviour of the Prophet). It implies a belief in the divinely ordained nature and mission of the Muslim community.

Answer: hajj

The hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca every Muslim should make 'provided one can afford it' and 'provided a person has enough provisions to leave for his family in his absence'.

Zakat is an obligatory tax required of Muslims. The word means purification, which indicates that such a payment makes the rest of one's wealth religiously and legally pure.

Answer: Shi'ites

Sunnites: the followers of the Sunnah (example) of Muhammad. They are the largest subgroup among Muslims. The Shi'ites viewed Muhammad's devotion to his family and his wish that they succeed him through Ali, as an essential of Islam. Ishmailites: followers of Ismael, the son of the sixth imam Jafar ibn Muhammad.

A minority group within the Shi'ite group - Alids: the lineal descendants of Ali.

Answer: it has a stepped base

3 horizontal bars: papal cross: one cross + 4 smaller ones = Jerusalem cross; circle as eternity symbol = Celtic tradition.

Answer: Levi

Levi: there is no tribe named after Levi, but his descendants became the priests or Levites. They earned this role by slaughtering the idolators of the Golden Calf. Dan: tribe named after a son Jacob had with Rachel's maidservant Bilah. Benjamin: tribe named after one of the two sons Jacob had with Rachel.

The other son, Joseph, had no tribe named after him, but his sons Manasseh and Ephraim each became the ancestor of a tribe. Gad: settled on land east of the Jordan river. It later became one of the Ten Lost Tribes.

Answer: on left arm

Maniple = narrow silk band worn over left forearm with ends hanging down on each side.

Answer: Shiva

Ganesha is the elephant-headed Hindu God who is the son of Shiva and Parvati. Krishna is worshiped as the 8th avatar or incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. Shiva is one of the three members of the Hindu Trinity. He is 'destroyer' and 'restorer' at the same time. Arjuna: one of the five Pandava brothers in the 'Great Epic of the Baratha dynasty'.

Answer: a wolf

You dont have to be a saint to tame a magpie. St Francis talked to the birds but there is no mention of there being hawks among his audience. Gubbio is a town north east of Perugia.

Answer: Joseph of Arimathea

Joseph of Arimathea is the secret disciple of Jesus whose body he buried in his own tomb. He is supposed to have been a virtuous and rich member of the council in Jerusalem.

Lazarus: from Eleazar 'God has helped'. Brother of Martha and Mary. Lived at Bethany.

James, son of Zebedee, elder brother of St. John. Called the Great because he was one of the inner circle within the group of apostles, and to be distinguished from James the Lesser. He and St John were called the Sons of Thunder because of their zeal. Was beheaded by order of King Herod Agrippa I. According to Spanish tradition, his body was taken to Santiago de Compostela.

Simon of Cyrene: he is the one who was picked by the authorities to help Jesus bear the cross, as shown in the Fifth Station of the Way of the Cross.

Answer: 5

Penta is Greek for five. The first five books of the Old Testament are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. They are the nucleus of the Jewish Torah.