"Besides India, what other country is predominately Hindu?"
Mauritius is also a candidate as around half its population profess to be hindus. Not as high as India and Nepal, but still a potential answer to this question.
I'm not really sure what you meant when you said that Hinduism is the largest religion in Guyana, but according to statistics there Christianity makes up 66% of population, and Hinduism makes up 24,9%. And I think Mauritius should be taken as an answer.
I think they were splitting up all the sects of Christianity. No one church in Guyana has more membership than Hinduism, although according to Wikipedia Pentecostalism comes very close. But yeah, Christianity as a whole is definitely more popular than Hinduism.
I read this too quickly, and thought it said "No church has more membership than Hinduism, although Wikipedia Pentacostalism comes close." I know some pub trivia members who more or less treat Wikipedia as a religious text.
Damnation, I could not remember Rastafari....I was using a Jamaican accent, pretending to smoke a spliff, trying to sing reggae and nothing made me remember. My dog is through with me. Scared him to death--he could not figure out what I wanted. I am going to have to study Vikings--I never know any of that stuff ever. They never taught any religions back when I was in school unless you went out of your way in college..not even much mythology. I have learned Zoroastrianism, Janism and Hinduism (and Catholocism for that matter) from TV, then looking them up. And have known Buddhists and Jewish people. But never met a Viking or an ancient Greek.
I've noticed that on these quizzes, they treat Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism as religions. I learned them as belief systems, as none of them worshipped a god.
Dictionaries do a good job of capturing the usage and definition of words like "religion" and those are certainly religions--belief in a god not required.
A papal conclave is a *meeting* of the College of Cardinals, but the group of people themselves is the College of Cardinals. Therefore, the answer should not be changed or expanded.
Ironically enough the word Hinduism/Hindus comes from Indus I believe, but it might just be sindhu which is Sanskrit for river and is therefore not referring to a particular river, I'm not totally sure
This is an issue where the site is actually big on inaccuracy. It's been brought up on many quizzes, and even on this particular quiz there were previously a number of comments about this. But they apparently have been purged. Quizmaster actually did change the wording of that church's name from when this quiz was first posted....to the current odd word jumble. Quizmaster has some kind of hangup on this and just can't stomach using that church's official name. Quizmaster will reject calls to correct the name, purge comments pointing out the absurdity of the justifications given, and ultimately change the name to an even more bizarre "wrong" name, but never use the actual name.
They're very close in the stats (at this time a little less than two-thirds), but it doesn't surprise me for English speakers. There's no real reason other than trivia curiosity to even know who Odin was supposed to be, whereas Anglicanism/Episcopalianism is a thriving current religion; in fact the state religion of a major country. I'd imagine almost every citizen of the UK who would want to take a trivia quiz would know this as they are still subjects of the head of their state church.
In addition, the power struggle between the crown and the papacy is one of the defining struggles of an enormous swath of history, especially of English-speaking people, and Henry's breaking with the church is not just an event of religious significance but of enormous historical import. Among English speakers who've retained almost anything they learned about the history of the middle ages, Henry's break with the church would be right up there with the Conquest and Crusades.
Zoroastrianism did not originate in "Persia"/Fars, which is in southwestern Iran. It likely originated somewhere in northeastern Iran, Afghanistan, or Central Asia.
Mauritius is also a candidate as around half its population profess to be hindus. Not as high as India and Nepal, but still a potential answer to this question.
Nepal is obviously the answer though.
In addition, the power struggle between the crown and the papacy is one of the defining struggles of an enormous swath of history, especially of English-speaking people, and Henry's breaking with the church is not just an event of religious significance but of enormous historical import. Among English speakers who've retained almost anything they learned about the history of the middle ages, Henry's break with the church would be right up there with the Conquest and Crusades.