Sunday Quiz – 13th August 2023 Round 1: Hindu Mythology/Religion 10 questions about the mythology or religion of Hinduism. None What large body of religious texts originating in ancient India constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism? Who is the most referred to deity in the Rigveda, with powers similar to other Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, Taranis, Zeus, and Thor? In Vaishnavism which of the great trinity is the presiding deity of Rajas (passion, creation)? In Vaishnavism which of the great trinity is the presiding deity of Tamas (darkness, destruction)? What is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology, often considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes? A consort of lord Varaha who is an avatar of lord Vishnu, which Hindu goddess is the personification of the earth? Also the abode of Yama, the god of Death, what is the Hindu equivalent of Hell, where sinners are tormented after death? Dissimilar to the concept of the Abrahamic Heaven, what is the celestial abode of the devas in Hinduism? What name is an epithet of Vishnu, also used for his avatars such as Krishna, and can be translated as "protector of cows"? Often depicted riding a chariot harnessed by horses and sharing similarities with the gods Helios and Apollo, Surya is the god of what? Round 2: 10 Most Spoken Languages (by total speakers) Identify the 10 most spoken languages in the world (by total speakers). None A Germanic language branch with ~1.452 billion speakers, what language is also the third most spoken native language? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian A Sinitic language branch with ~1.118 billion speakers, what language is spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian An Indo-Aryan language branch with ~602.2 million speakers, what language serves as the lingua franca of the region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian A Romance language branch with ~548.3 million speakers, what language evolved from everyday Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian A Romance language branch with ~274.1 million speakers, what language has numerous creole languages based on it? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian A Semitic language branch with ~274.0 million speakers, what is a pluricentric standard language which is the official language of 26 states and 1 disputed territory? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian An Indo-Aryan language branch with ~272.7 million speakers, what language is the second-most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian A Balto-Slavic branch with ~258.2 million speakers, what language is the most spoken native language in Europe, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian A Romance language branch with ~257.7 million speakers, what language is the official language of Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and more? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian An Indo-Aryan language branch with ~231.3 million speakers, what language is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan? Please select your answer French Hindi Modern Standard Arabic Spanish Bengali Mandarin English Portuguese Urdu Russian Round 3: Picture Round - Computer Game Characters Name the 10 characters who feature in popular computer games. None Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Who is this computer game character? Round 4: Literature - Fictional Places 10 questions about fictional places that exist in literature. None There are two main countries in William Goldman's The Princess Bride, one of them is called Guilder, what is the other? Informally known as Dune, what is the desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert? In The Lord of the Rings what name is given to the greatest realm of Men, a kingdom in the west of Middle-earth during the Third age? What is the name of the land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift? On which fictional island featured in the works of J. M. Barrie do Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, the Lost Boys live? In the novel The Hunger Games, what nation has risen from the ashes of a post-apocalyptic North America? In the Wonderful World of Oz where would you be heading if you took the yellow brick road? The biggest city in Discworld, which fictional city-state features prominently in Terry Pratchett's fantasy novels? Building customised planets to order, what is one of the wealthiest in the galaxy in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? In A Game of Thrones, what is the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, located in the crownlands on the east coast of Westeros? Round 5: General Knowledge 10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection. None What would you call an eminent composer, conductor, or teacher of music? What decade was the Rubik’s Cube invented? Please select your answer 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s What TV show does the phrase "jumping the shark "come from? Which world famous business was initially called "Cadabra, inc"? Which artist coined the phrase "fifteen minutes of fame"? What tea is named after a UK prime minister from the 1830's? What would you call the act of making a mark on a body by burning? What is a general term for referring to low back pain, the two are often used interchangeably? What was the sitcom that featured Judd Hirsch, Andy Kaufman, Tony Danza and Danny Devito? What film by Christopher Nolan follows a man named Leonard who is trying to piece together his memories after a traumatic event? Time's up
