2. Hinduism Jeopardy 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 ABCDE Final Jeopardy

3. Question Answer A-100 ANSWER: The Universal Spirit; the unifying oneness of the universe QUESTION: What is Brahman?

4. Question Answer A-200 ANSWER: The soul; a spark of Brahman QUESTION: What is atman?

5. Question Answer A-300 ANSWER: Enlightenment; The goal of Hindu life QUESTION: What is moksha?

6. Question Answer A-400 ANSWER: The material world; impermanent & illusory QUESTION: What is maya?

7. Question Answer A-500 ANSWER: The cycle of birth & rebirth; reincarnation QUESTION: What is samsara?

8. Question Answer ANSWER: Mohenjo-Daro QUESTION: Where was the Great Bath located? B-100

9. Question Answer B-200 ANSWER: A place ideally located for the development of a new civilization. QUESTION: What is a Cradle of Civilization?

10. Question Answer B-300 ANSWER: The Aryans QUESTION: Who were the successors to the Indus Valley Civilization?

11. Question Answer B-400 ANSWER: The Vedas QUESTION: What are the most sacred scriptures of Hinduism?

12. Question Answer B-500 ANSWER: Sanskrit QUESTION: In what language are the Vedas written?

13. Question Answer C-100 ANSWER: Vishnu’s avatar and charioteer to Arjuna QUESTION: Who is Krishna?

14. Question Answer C-200 ANSWER: He learns a very important lesson about dharma from his charioteer. QUESTION: Who is Arjuna?

15. Question Answer C-300 ANSWER: The human form of a god or goddess. QUESTION: What is an avatar?

16. Question Answer 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?

17. Question Answer C-500 ANSWER: I am considered the creator god. QUESTION: Who is Brahma?

18. Question Answer D-100 ANSWER: Laws that describe duties based on age, gender, and “color”. QUESTION: What are the Laws of Manu?

19. Question Answer D-200 ANSWER: I am the primordial man and the varnas emerged from my body parts. QUESTION: Who is Purusha?

20. Question Answer 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?

21. Question Answer D-400 ANSWER: We are the fighting and ruling caste. QUESTION: Who are the Kshatriyas?

22. Question Answer D-500 ANSWER: We emerged from Purusha’s stomach and are merchants, businessmen, or landowners. QUESTION: Who are the Vaishyas?

23. Question Answer E-100 ANSWER: We support the entire caste system by providing manual labor. QUESTION: Who are the shudras?

24. Question Answer 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?

25. Question Answer E-300 ANSWER: We are more spiritually evolved than the shudras and, therefore, can study the Vedas. QUESTION: What are the twice-born castes?

26. Question Answer E-400 ANSWER: The real name of Hinduism, meaning the eternal truth. QUESTION: What is Sanatana Dharma?

27. Question Answer E-500 ANSWER: Student, Householder, Forest Dweller, Sannyasin. QUESTION: What are the Four Stages of Life?

28. Question Answer 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?