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ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS JEOPARDY
Religion Jeopardy
Final Category
Muhammad
Geography
Early Arabia
Islam
Misc.
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The prophet of Islam
Answer
Who is Muhammad
10 Points
The angel who delivered the
message from God according to
Islamic tradition and beliefs.
Answer
Who is Gabriel?
20 Points
Muhammad’s job as a teenager
and young adult
Answer
What is a caravan leader?
30 Points
City Muhammad traveled to
after leaving Mecca and what it
was renamed as.
Answer
Yathrib and Medinah
40 Points
What Muhammad did when he
returned to Mecca.
Answer
What is rid the Kaaba of idols?
50 Points
Locate Constantinople on the
map.
Answer
10 Points
Surprise!
If you get the correct answer, the
point value for this question will
be doubled.
Locate North Africa and the
Kingdom of the Franks
Answer
20 Points
Locate Arabia and Persia
Answer
30 Points
Correctly label the water
Answer
40 Points
Correctly label Jerusalem,
Mecca, Medinah, Baghdad,
Damascus
Answer
50 Points
Green area fed by underground
water found in the middle of a
desert
Answer
What is an oasis?
10 Points
Desert herders that traveled
from oasis to oasis.
Answer
What are bedouins?
20 Points
A group of traveling merchants
and animals
Answer
What is a caravan?
30 Points
The head of an early Arab tribe
Answer
What is a sheikh?
40 Points
How did geography create a
need for ghazu?
Answer
The lack of resources due to the
desert geography forced early
Arabs to conduct raids (ghazu)
against others.
Bonus Question:
This must be answered for 30 of the 50 points
How did this change after the
introduction of Islam?
50 Points
The holy writing of Islam
Answer
What is the Quran?
10 Points
The Muslim place of worship.
Answer
What is a mosque?
20 Points
Describe the pillar of fasting
Answer
When Muslims fast during the
daylight hours during the holy
month of Ramadan.
30 Points
Two branches of Islam and why
they split.
Answer
Sunni and Shiite
Explain the difference in who
they supported as leader after
Muhammad.
40 Points
The two major empires that
lost territory because of Islam.
Answer
What is the Byzantine Empire
and the Persian Empire?
50 Points
Khadijah
Answer
Who is Muhammad’s wife?
10 Points
3 Types of Islamic art
Answer
What is organic, calligraphic,
and geometric?
20 Points
One example of an
achievement in math or science
that is still with us today.
Answer
Answers may vary
30 Points
How did the split of Islam into
two groups influence the
modern world?
Answer
Conflicts and repression
40 Points
What was the original form of
the holy writing of Islam and
how was it influenced by
geography.
Answer
Oral/ recitaiton
Can’t carry stuff
Way of life for nomadic peoples
50 Points
Final Category:
Social Studies
Vocabulary
The parts of the earth
diametrically opposite —usually
used in plural —often used of
Australia and New Zealand as
contrasted to the western
hemisphere
Answer
What are antipodes?
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