World Religions Jeopardy

Five major faiths plus their texts and sacred places, arranged for a comparative religion classroom. Duplicating the board is free; phones handle buzz-ins.

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Judaism

$200
This spring festival commemorates the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt and features a ritual meal called a seder.
What is Passover?
$400
This weekly day of rest, observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening, is considered holy in Jewish tradition.
What is Shabbat?
$600
This most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, devoted to fasting, prayer, and atonement, falls in early autumn.
What is Yom Kippur?
$800
This body of Jewish oral law and rabbinic commentary, compiled over centuries, complements the study of the Torah.
What is the Talmud?
$1,000
This coming-of-age ceremony marks a Jewish boy's or girl's assumption of religious responsibility, typically around age thirteen.
What is a bar or bat mitzvah?

Christianity

$200
This holiday commemorates the birth of Jesus.
What is Christmas?
$400
This holiday commemorates the resurrection of Jesus and follows the season of Lent.
What is Easter?
$600
This ritual, using water to symbolize spiritual cleansing and initiation into the faith, is practiced across nearly all Christian denominations.
What is baptism?
$800
This 16th-century movement, sparked by figures like Martin Luther, led to the formation of Protestant churches separate from the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
$1,000
This central Christian doctrine holds that God exists as three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in one being.
What is the Trinity?

Islam

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This profession of faith, declaring that there is no god but God and Muhammad is his messenger, is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam.
What is the Shahada?
$400
This month of the Islamic calendar is observed with daily fasting from dawn to sunset.
What is Ramadan?
$600
This pilgrimage to Mecca, required at least once in a lifetime for Muslims who are able, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
What is the Hajj?
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This split within Islam, originating over the question of Muhammad's rightful successor, produced the religion's two main branches.
What is the Sunni-Shia split?
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This practice of ritual prayer, performed five times daily facing Mecca, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
What is Salat?

Hinduism

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This concept refers to the cycle of death and rebirth that souls undergo across many lifetimes in Hindu belief.
What is samsara?
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This law of moral cause and effect holds that actions in this life or a past life shape a soul's future circumstances.
What is karma?
$600
This ultimate goal in Hindu thought is liberation from the cycle of rebirth.
What is moksha?
$800
This major Hindu festival, known as the festival of lights, celebrates the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
What is Diwali?
$1,000
This Hindu deity, often depicted with an elephant head, is worshipped as the remover of obstacles.
Who is Ganesha?

Buddhism

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This title, meaning the awakened one, refers to Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism.
What is the Buddha?
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These four truths, taught by the Buddha, identify suffering, its cause, its end, and the path to end it.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
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This eight-part path, taught by the Buddha as the way to end suffering, includes right speech, right action, and right mindfulness.
What is the Eightfold Path?
$800
This state of liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth is the ultimate goal in Buddhist practice.
What is nirvana?
$1,000
This practice of focused mental training, central to Buddhist practice, cultivates awareness and insight.
What is meditation?

Sacred Texts and Places

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This holiest city in Judaism and Christianity, and the third-holiest in Islam, is home to the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock.
What is Jerusalem?
$400
This collection of Hindu sacred texts, composed in ancient Sanskrit, is considered among the oldest religious scriptures still in use.
What are the Vedas?
$600
This Hindu scripture, part of a larger epic, presents a dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and devotion.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
$800
This collection of Buddhist scriptures, written in the Pali language, preserves some of the earliest recorded teachings attributed to the Buddha.
What is the Pali Canon?
$1,000
This Christian and Jewish scripture is organized into the Hebrew Bible and, for Christians, an additional New Testament.
What is the Bible?

Final Jeopardy — Names and Meanings

Its name means the recitation in Arabic, and its 114 chapters are called surahs.

What is the Quran?

How to run this board

Comparative religion courses ask students to hold five traditions in mind at once without flattening any of them. This board keeps the traditions in separate columns, one each for Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, with a sixth on sacred texts and places that crosses all five.

It fits a high school world cultures unit or a college survey section. Project the board and let table groups buzz in from a shared phone.

Set the tone before the first clue: answers describe what traditions teach and practice, and the game never asks anyone to rank them.

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