2. 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

3. 500 400 300 200 100 EconomicSocialPoliticalReligionPhysical Geography

4. Categories What Mountain range separates South Asia from the rest of Asia? Physical Geography 100 Points

5. Categories Physical Geography 100 Points Himalayan Mountains

6. Categories Physical Geography 200 Points Name the three great rivers of South Asia

7. Categories Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra Physical Geography 200 Points

8. Categories Physical Geography 300 Points What do you call soils that have been deposited by flowing water? (This makes excellent farm land.)

9. Categories Physical Geography 300 Points Alluvial Plains or Alluvial Soils

10. 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

11. Categories Storm surge. Physical Geography 400 Points

12. Categories What is a broadened seaward end of a river called? Physical Geography 500 Points

13. Categories Estuary Physical Geography 500 Points

14. Categories Name the two religions that began in South Asia. Religion 100 Points

15. Categories Religion 100 Points Hinduism, Buddhism

16. Categories Religion 200 Points Who founded Buddhism?

17. Categories Siddhartha Gautama Religion 200 Points

18. 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?

19. Categories Religion 300 Points Reincarnation

20. 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

21. Categories Karma Religion 400 Points

22. Categories What word refers to one’s path in life? Religion 500 Points

23. Categories Dharma Religion 500 Points

24. Categories What type of government does India have? Political 100 Points

25. Categories Political 100 Points Democracy

26. 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.

27. Categories Mohandas Gandhi Political 200 Points

28. Categories Political 300 Points What two countries are in a violent conflict over land in the Northwestern part of the region?

29. Categories Political 300 Points India and Pakistan

30. Categories What is the name of the land being fought over by India and Pakistan in Northwestern South Asia? Political 400 Points

31. Categories Kasmir Political 400 Points

32. Categories What do you call the era when Great Britain controlled India as a colony? Political 500 Points

33. Categories Raj Political 500 Points

34. Categories What river is considered the Great river of South Asia? Social 100 Points

35. Categories Social 100 Points Ganges River

36. Categories Social 200 Points What religion are most Indians?

37. Categories Hindu Social 200 Points

38. 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?

39. Categories Social 300 Points Cycle of Poverty

40. Categories What can help break the “cycle of poverty”? Social 400 Points

41. Categories Education Social 400 Points

42. Categories What does it mean to be illiterate? Social 500 Points

43. Categories To not be able to read or write. Social 500 Points

44. Categories What type of economic activity do most people in South Asia take part in? Economic 100 Points

45. Categories Economic 100 Points Agriculture

46. 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?

47. Categories Subsistence Farming Economic 200 Points

48. Categories Economic 300 Points What phrase refers to food, clothing and shelter?

49. Categories Economic 300 Points Basic necessities.

50. 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

51. Categories Land Reform Economic 400 Points

52. Categories What term refers to an individual who creates a new business? Economic 500 Points

53. Categories Entrepreneur Economic 500 Points

54. Categories South Asia Is A Land of Contrasts!!

55. Categories The Daily Double