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Created by Lynne Crandall University of Michigan Revised by Mark Kondrak CLA Language Center University of Minnesota South Asia Jeopardy Game Questions by M. Eubanks
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Created by Lynne CrandallUniversity of Michigan
Revised by Mark KondrakCLA Language Center
University of Minnesota
South Asia Jeopardy GameQuestions by M. Eubanks
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EconomicSocialPoliticalReligionPhysical Geography
Categories
What Mountain range separates South
Asia from the rest of Asia?
Physical Geography 100 Points
Categories
Physical Geography 100 Points
Himalayan Mountains
Categories
Physical Geography 200 Points
Name the three great rivers of South
Asia
Categories
Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra
Physical Geography 200 Points
Categories
Physical Geography 300 Points
What do you call soils that have been
deposited by flowing water?
(This makes excellent farm land.)
Categories
Physical Geography 300 Points
Alluvial Plains or Alluvial Soils
Categories
What do you call high water that
swamps low-lying areas and is usually
the result of violent weather patterns?
Physical Geography 400 Points
Categories
Storm surge.
Physical Geography 400 Points
Categories
What is a broadened seaward end of a
river called?
Physical Geography 500 Points
Categories
Estuary
Physical Geography 500 Points
Categories
Name the two religions that began in
South Asia.
Religion 100 Points
Categories
Religion 100 Points
Hinduism, Buddhism
Categories
Religion 200 Points
Who founded Buddhism?
Categories
Siddhartha Gautama
Religion 200 Points
Categories
Religion 300 Points
What word, relating to both Hinduism
and Buddhism, refers to one’s soul
being reborn over and over across
many lifetimes?
Categories
Religion 300 Points
Reincarnation
Categories
What term refers to the events of one’s
next life being based on one’s
behavior in a previous life?
Religion 400 Points
Categories
Karma
Religion 400 Points
Categories
What word refers to one’s path in life?
Religion 500 Points
Categories
Dharma
Religion 500 Points
Categories
What type of government does India
have?
Political 100 Points
Categories
Political 100 Points
Democracy
Categories
Political 200 Points
What individual gave up a life of
wealth and power to, through non-
violent protest, bring about India’s
independence from Great Britain.
Categories
Mohandas Gandhi
Political 200 Points
Categories
Political 300 Points
What two countries are in a violent
conflict over land in the Northwestern
part of the region?
Categories
Political 300 Points
India and Pakistan
Categories
What is the name of the land being
fought over by India and Pakistan in
Northwestern South Asia?
Political 400 Points
Categories
Kasmir
Political 400 Points
Categories
What do you call the era when Great
Britain controlled India as a colony?
Political 500 Points
Categories
Raj
Political 500 Points
Categories
What river is considered the Great
river of South Asia?
Social 100 Points
Categories
Social 100 Points
Ganges River
Categories
Social 200 Points
What religion are most Indians?
Categories
Hindu
Social 200 Points
Categories
Social 300 Points
What phrase refers to the issue where
multiple generations of families are
poor, and poor children grow up to be
poor adults due to lack of education
and other resources?
Categories
Social 300 Points
Cycle of Poverty
Categories
What can help break the “cycle of
poverty”?
Social 400 Points
Categories
Education
Social 400 Points
Categories
What does it mean to be illiterate?
Social 500 Points
Categories
To not be able to read or write.
Social 500 Points
Categories
What type of economic activity do
most people in South Asia take part
in?
Economic 100 Points
Categories
Economic 100 Points
Agriculture
Categories
Economic 200 Points
What type of agriculture means that
families grow only enough food to live
on with little left over to sell for
profit?
Categories
Subsistence Farming
Economic 200 Points
Categories
Economic 300 Points
What phrase refers to food, clothing
and shelter?
Categories
Economic 300 Points
Basic necessities.
Categories
What phrase refers to the attempt to
redistribute land from the wealthy to
the less wealthy to help them make a
better living?
Economic 400 Points
Categories
Land Reform
Economic 400 Points
Categories
What term refers to an individual who creates a new
business?
Economic 500 Points
Categories
Entrepreneur
Economic 500 Points
Categories
South Asia Is A Land of Contrasts!!
Categories
The Daily Double
