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Hinduism Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
A-100
• ANSWER: The Universal Spirit; the
unifying oneness of the universe
• QUESTION: What is Brahman?
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A-200
• ANSWER: The soul; a spark of
Brahman
• QUESTION: What is atman?
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A-300
• ANSWER: Enlightenment; The goal of
Hindu life
• QUESTION: What is moksha?
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A-400
• ANSWER: The material world;
impermanent & illusory
• QUESTION: What is maya?
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A-500
• ANSWER: The cycle of birth & rebirth;
reincarnation
• QUESTION: What is samsara?
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B-100
• ANSWER: Mohenjo-Daro
• QUESTION: Where was the Great Bath
located?
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B-200
• ANSWER: A place ideally located for the
development of a new civilization.
• QUESTION: What is a Cradle of
Civilization?
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B-300
• ANSWER: The Aryans
• QUESTION: Who were the successors to
the Indus Valley Civilization?
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B-400
• ANSWER: The Vedas
• QUESTION: What are the most sacred
scriptures of Hinduism?
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B-500
• ANSWER: Sanskrit
• QUESTION: In what language are the
Vedas written?
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C-100
• ANSWER: Vishnu’s avatar and
charioteer to Arjuna
• QUESTION: Who is Krishna?
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C-200
• ANSWER: He learns a very important
lesson about dharma from his charioteer.
• QUESTION: Who is Arjuna?
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C-300
• ANSWER: The human form of a god or
goddess.
• QUESTION: What is an avatar?
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C-400
• ANSWER: I illustrate the concept of
dualism because I am the creator and
destroyer and the god of life and death.
• QUESTION: Who is Shiva?
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C-500
• ANSWER: I am considered the creator
god.
• QUESTION: Who is Brahma?
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D-100
• ANSWER: Laws that describe duties
based on age, gender, and “color”.
• QUESTION: What are the Laws of
Manu?
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D-200
• ANSWER: I am the primordial man and
the varnas emerged from my body parts.
• QUESTION: Who is Purusha?
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D-300
• ANSWER: We are of the highest caste
and our role in society is to perform
rituals and to teach.
• QUESTION: Who are Brahmins?
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D-400
• ANSWER: We are the fighting and
ruling caste.
• QUESTION: Who are the Kshatriyas?
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D-500
• ANSWER: We emerged from Purusha’s
stomach and are merchants,
businessmen, or landowners.
• QUESTION: Who are the Vaishyas?
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E-100
• ANSWER: We support the entire caste
system by providing manual labor.
• QUESTION: Who are the shudras?
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E-200
• ANSWER: We perform such impure
tasks that we are outside the caste system
and cannot come in contact members of
other castes lest they become
contaminated.
• QUESTION: Who are the untouchables?
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E-300
• ANSWER: We are more spiritually
evolved than the shudras and, therefore,
can study the Vedas.
• QUESTION: What are the twice-born
castes?
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E-400
• ANSWER: The real name of Hinduism,
meaning the eternal truth.
• QUESTION: What is Sanatana
Dharma?
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E-500
• ANSWER: Student, Householder, Forest
Dweller, Sannyasin.
• QUESTION: What are the Four Stages
of Life?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: By explaining the
unexplainable (Brahman, atman, maya,
samsara, moksha) and by providing a
code of ethics (Laws of Manu).
• QUESTION: How does Hinduism as a
belief system provide order in Hindu
society?
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