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Places to Go in a Handbasket Trivia Quiz

Where are you going and what are you doing in this handbasket? This magic basket will allow us to take a tour of ten different religious concepts of Hell. Don't worry! Your basket is well insulated against fire, ice and utter annihilation.

A multiple-choice quiz by kscleaves. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
kscleaves

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
313,608

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Your basket begins its journey in a kind of foyer where souls are purified. As you wait for a few months, you become aware of your many misdeeds throughout your life and are filled with a sense of shame. You hear the place referred to as Gehinnom.

You are being punished according to which religion? Hint

Islam

Baha'i

Judaism

Taoism

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Question 2 of 10

2. Your basket floats down to land before a large scale and a tribunal of 42 immortal judges. Your heart is weighed on the plates of the scale, with a feather on the other side. Your heart sinks! Your soul is thrown to the devourers.

You have offended the gods of which ancient culture? Hint

Mesopotamia

Rome

India

Egypt

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Question 3 of 10

3. You peek over the rim of your basket and peer into the outer darkness. There are very few souls here, only the most wicked. You can recognize Cain from the Bible, but you are mostly surrounded by demons and devils.

You have found yourself in which religion's "outer darkness"? Hint

Roman Catholic

Jehovah's Witness

Christian Scientist

Mormon/Latter-Day Saints

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Question 4 of 10

4. Your basket floats down rivers of blood, pus and scorpions. You arrive at a cave in Guatemala. You are at the doorstep of the infamous Xibalba, ruled by demons! Houses full of jaguars, knives and snakes await within. The demons seek to trick and humiliate you.

Which ancient culture told stories of the dreadful Xibalba? Hint

Egypt

Swahili

Inca

Maya

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Question 5 of 10

5. Your little basket is delivered by the stork and you find yourself reborn into a world of great suffering called Naraka. You burn in the fires of Avici or freeze in the blizzards of Arbuda for predetermined periods of time until your karmic debt is repaid.

Which faith would subject you to such punishment? Hint

Buddhism

Confucianism

Shintoism

Jainism

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Question 6 of 10

6. It's time to take the basket very far back in time. Here in the pit of Tartarus you see Ixion chained to his wheel, Sisyphus pushing his boulder and Tantalus trying in vain to reach a dangling branch of food.

You are now in the hell of which ancient culture? Hint

Celtic

Babylonian

Greek

Roman

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Question 7 of 10

7. Your basket arrives in a place called Jahannam. You see a tree covered in thorny fruit, and the souls around you eat the fruit even though it hurts them. At the bottommost pit of Jahannam you see those who were hypocrites during their life, pretending to believe in one god when they truly believed in many.

You are now in the hell of which faith? Hint

Scientology

Sikhism

Judaism

Islam

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Question 8 of 10

8. In contrast to the terrors that have come before, your basket now comes to rest in complete stillness. No torment, no torture, no fire and brimstone. You simply lie in a grave, unconscious, for millennia on end. Suddenly, the hand of Jesus throws your basket into the eternal fire!

Which Protestant religion would subject you to such abrupt agony? Hint

Seventh Day Adventist

Methodist

Baptist

Calvinist

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Question 9 of 10

9. Your trusty handbasket lands gently on the edge of Limbo, staring down into nine circles of Hell. You see Satan himself bound in ice at the very bottom in the pit of Cocytus. Virgil once guided Dante through this same horrible place.

This view of hell was the product of which region and era of Christianity? Hint

Romantic French Naturalism

Eastern Medieval Orthodoxy

Western Medieval Catholicism

Renaissance German Protestantism

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Question 10 of 10

10. The last stop on your journey is a somewhat ambiguous place. You are not sure where you have wound up, but you are in some sort of defined place of punishment.

You must be visiting the hell of which religion? Hint

Wicca

None of the above

Satanism

Confucianism

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Your basket begins its journey in a kind of foyer where souls are purified. As you wait for a few months, you become aware of your many misdeeds throughout your life and are filled with a sense of shame. You hear the place referred to as Gehinnom. You are being punished according to which religion?

Answer: Judaism

According to the Kabbalah, the soul will spend less than 11 months in Gehinnom, becoming purified for entry into heaven. Gehinnom is a Hebrew nickname for "Gei ben Hinnom" (The Valley of Hinnom), or Gehenna in Yiddish.

2. Your basket floats down to land before a large scale and a tribunal of 42 immortal judges. Your heart is weighed on the plates of the scale, with a feather on the other side. Your heart sinks! Your soul is thrown to the devourers. You have offended the gods of which ancient culture?

Answer: Egypt

The feather belonged to Maat, goddess of truth and justice. Egyptians following the cult of Osiris believed that all of your actions were carried in your heart, and that a heavy heart at death signified a lifetime of transgression against the rules of Maat.

3. You peek over the rim of your basket and peer into the outer darkness. There are very few souls here, only the most wicked. You can recognize Cain from the Bible, but you are mostly surrounded by demons and devils. You have found yourself in which religion's "outer darkness"?

Answer: Mormon/Latter-Day Saints

The majority of transgressing souls in the Church of Latter Day Saints are subject to torment and pain, but eventually are permitted into one of the three kingdoms of heaven. Only the worst offenders are consigned to the the outer darkness and eternally barred from entry into heaven.

4. Your basket floats down rivers of blood, pus and scorpions. You arrive at a cave in Guatemala. You are at the doorstep of the infamous Xibalba, ruled by demons! Houses full of jaguars, knives and snakes await within. The demons seek to trick and humiliate you. Which ancient culture told stories of the dreadful Xibalba?

Answer: Maya

According to Mayan legend, the mythical Xibalbans filled their land with traps and trials for their visitors. They originally were said to subsist on human sacrifices, but the stories were told of how wily Mayan heroes turned the tables and tricked the Xibalbans into accepting lesser sacrifices instead.

Answer: Buddhism

There are many Narakas - eight hot ones and eight cold ones. The specific sentences assigned to souls burning or freezing in a Naraka can be in excess of three quintillion years! The Hindu faith also describes a version of hell as Naraka, but interprets it in a very different way.

Answer: Greek

According to the Greeks, all souls went to Hades after death but only the evil were punished in the pit of Tartarus.

Answer: Islam

The structure of Jahannam is similar to that of the Christian hell, with many tiers for different types of offenses. The name comes from the same word root as Gehenna in Judaism.

8. In contrast to the terrors that have come before, your basket now comes to rest in complete stillness. No torment, no torture, no fire and brimstone. You simply lie in a grave, unconscious, for millennia on end. Suddenly, the hand of Jesus throws your basket into the eternal fire! Which Protestant religion would subject you to such abrupt agony?

Answer: Seventh Day Adventist

Seventh Day Adventism advocates the belief in a soul sleep after death, lasting until the return of Jesus for final judgment.

9. Your trusty handbasket lands gently on the edge of Limbo, staring down into nine circles of Hell. You see Satan himself bound in ice at the very bottom in the pit of Cocytus. Virgil once guided Dante through this same horrible place. This view of hell was the product of which region and era of Christianity?

Answer: Western Medieval Catholicism

Dante's "Inferno", part of the "Divine Comedy", was written in the 1300's. It is one of the more well known fantastical descriptions of hell. Dante populated his hell with well-known figures from the classical era along with famous ne'er-do-wells of his own time.

Answer: None of the above

Wicca (in general) places little focus on an afterlife of any kind, emphasizing instead the current life. Confucianism likewise focuses on the behavior of the living rather than the afterlife. Satanism, while recognizing the symbolic importance of hell in modern culture, does not subscribe to a belief in a physical place called hell.

Source: Author kscleaves

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