RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY QUIZ

RAHIL SUR3rd Year EEE#Session 412.7.15

RULES+10 ON DIRECT

+10/-5 ON POUNCE

+5 PASS

1)ID THE LOCATION AND ALSO GIVE THE FUNDA

ANSWERTHE LOCATION IS ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO WHERE SWAMI VIVEKANANDA GAVE HIS FAMOUS SPEECH IN THE WORLD PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS. THE SPEECH IS WRITTEN ON THE STAIRCASE

2) X-ism is a philosophical, ethical or religious tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the X. The term X means "way", "path" or "principle", and can also be found in Chinese philosophies. It is practised in countries like China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

Its theology is not dependent on the existence of an anthropomorphic godlike figurehead (even though some communities do worship Laozi as the attributed founder of the philosophical doctrine), and has more affinities with pantheistic traditions given its philosophical emphasis on the formlessness of the X. 

The YING-YANG symbol is derived from the prinicples of X-ism and is considered a symbol of this religion.

Name the religion

ANSWER

TAOISM

3) In Norse mythology, X is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr,Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. X is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory.

The third instalment of The Marvel Thor series is named THOR X, releasing on July 2017

Name X

ANSWER

4) Other names for him include;Atanu(one without a body), Ragavrinta (stalk of passion), Kandarpa (inflamer even of a god), Manmatha(churner of hearts), Manasija {he who is born of mind},  Madana (intoxicating)

It has a sugarcane bow and a floral arrow. A parrot is its mount. Name this Hindu God

ANSWER

KAMDEVA

5) The blind king Dhritarashtra had taken his wife Gandhari's entire family as prisoners, and treated them very badly. Obviously, the family was not pleased with this treatment. King Subala (Gandhari's father) decided that everyone would sacrifice their share of food to strengthen one chosen member who will be the reason for Dhritarashtra's downfall. X, the youngest and smartest of the lot was chosen for this task. 

Eventually, King Subala, bends the knee of X to make a permanent mark of the injustice. Considered a man of dharma, his family is allowed to live.In some stories, X carves from the bones of his dead parents dice that will never lose him a game. X's father's soul is said to have entered the dice and it would roll to whatever number X wanted.

X was the main mastermind of the Kurukshetra War

Name X

ANSWER

SHAKUNI

6) X is described as young, beautiful, fair; two-armed and having in his hands a club and a lotus. He rides his chariot across the sky every night, pulled by ten white horses or an antelope. He is connected with dew, and as such, is one of the gods of fertility. As Soma, he presides over Somvar or Monday.

X, set out to marry the twenty-seven daughters of Daksha. Daksha allowed this on the condition that the he should not favour any daughter over the others. X failed to do this, and Daksha placed a curse on him that took away his beauty. As a penance, X prayed to Lord Shiva to remove the curse. However Lord Shiva said he could not remove the curse completely, but said whenever X lost his beauty he would gradually gain it and the cycle would go on.

Name the Hindu god

ANSWER CHANDRA(MOON). This is the reason the phenomenon of Waxing and Waning of Moon takes place.

7) The X temple, located in New Delhi, India, is a Bahá‘i House of Worship completed in 1986. Notable for its flowerlike shape, it serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent and has become a prominent attraction in the city. The Temple has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.

Like all other Bahá'í Houses of Worship, it is open to all, regardless of religion, or any other distinction, as emphasized in Bahá'í texts.

The architect was an Iranian, who now lives in Canada, named Fariborz Sahba. He was approached in 1976 to design it and later oversaw its construction. The structural design was undertaken by the UK firm Flint and Neill The construction company was ECC Construction Group of Larsen & Toubro Limited.

Name this famous temple X

ANSWER

LOTUS TEMPLE

8) X is an Islamic religious movement founded in Detroit, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930.Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity. Critics have labeled the organization as being black supremacist and antisemitic, and is tracked as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

One of its most famous leaders was Malcolm X who was instrumental in making Muhammad Ali a part of it.

Name this religious movement in US

ANSWER

9) In 1578, Sonam Gyatso had been invited to Mongolia and had converted Altan Khan, King of the Tümed Mongols to Buddhism along with his tribe (the first Mongol tribe to be so converted), the King conferred the title X on him, X being the Mongolian translation of his name ‘Gyatso’, which means ‘sea’ or ‘ocean’. Within 50 years nearly all Mongolians had become Buddhist, including tens of thousands of monks, almost all followers of the Gelug school

Name the title bestowed on Sonam Gyatso

ANSWER

DALAI LAMA

10)The lion on a recumbent elephant motif is a very popular theme of decoration in Orissa art and excellent examples of this are available at Konark. It is believed that the pattern of “the lion vanquishing the elephant” symbolizes “the conquest of spiritual power over worldly power”; to another scholar it was the “symbol of ignorance conquered by knowledge” It is also believed that these “possibly are allegories of the Sun’s (lion’s) triumph over the rain (elephant)”.But famously it is also argued that the motif represents victory of X over Y, the lion being fancifully taken to be the symbol of the former and the elephant of the latterName X and Y

ANSWER

X- HINDUISM

Y- BUDDHISM

PAINTINGS

Following slides we have 5 paintings depicting Hindu Mythological Scenes. You just have to name the subject or the event. +10 for each correct answer and also points for identifying the theme

1)+50

ANSWER

BHISHMA PRATIGYA

2)

+40

ANSWER

SHANTANU STOPPING GANGA FROM DROWNING OF THEIR EIGTH CHILD

3)

+30

ANSWER

SHAKUNTALA

4)

+20

ANSWER

RAM CONQUERS VARUNA

5)

+10

ANSWER

RAVAN ATTACKING JATAYU

ANSWER

RAJA RAVI VARMA

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