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Introduction To Religion Pointers 2
Introduction To Religion Pointers 2
Answer: China.
Answer: Philippi.
8) On which mountain did God give Moses the ‘Ten Commandments’?
10) What is the holy book of the ‘Zoroastrians or the Parsi people called?
11) Which philosophical doctrine believes that since the world is the creation
of divine law, it is man’s duty to accept his fate?
Answer: Stoicism.
12) What is the name of the Mountain that Noah’s Ark rest on after the flood?
Answer: Ararat.
13) What is the name of the theory that Gods of mythology were originally
heroic mortals?
Answer: Euhemerism.
14) Which religious movement was started by Theodor Herzl, aiming to
establish a Jewish State in Palestine?
Answer: Zionism.
Answer: Srinagar.
Answer: Java.
Answer: Sun.
Answer: Rajasthan.
Answer: Orissa.
21) The book of Islamic religion called:
Answer: About evolution. According to this system the whole universe has
evolved out of one cosmic energy.
24) In which religion do men take the last name ‘Singh’ and women ‘Kaur’?
Answer: Sikhism.
25) “Be ye lamps unto yourselves, betake yourself to no external refuge. Hold
fast to the truth as a lamp, hold fast as refuge to the truth”. Who said these
words?
27) What was Modern Sarnath, near Varanasi, called during Buddha’s time?
29) What, in the Christian church, occurs 49 days before Whitsunday and 40
days after Shrove Tuesday?
Answer: Easter.
30) In which religion adherents must visit Mecca at least once in a lifetime?
Answer: Islam.
32) Who was the first woman to be obtained in the Buddhist order?
Answer: Mahapajapati, Buddha’s maternal aunt and his mother’s sister who
had brought him up after his mother’s death.
Answer: Romans.
Answer: Islam.
38) In the Jewish religion what is the ‘Bar and bat mitzvah’?
39) The followers of which religion observe the Sabbath from sunset on Friday
to sunset on Saturday?
Answer: Judaism.
40) In which religion the Gods Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are worshipped?
Answer: Hinduism.
41) In Buddhism, what is the name for the attainment of perfect serenity,
achieved when all desires are eradicated?
Answer: Nirvana.
Answer: Abraham.
48) What Book of the Bible means “the Going Forth”?
Answer: Exodus.
49) Who has been Guru Nanak’s companion in his younger days?
Answer: Mardana, a Muslim rebec player and music composer, who helped
Nanak to organize Kirtans or community singing of devotional songs.