Statistics for World Religion's Major Denominations

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World Religion	Answer	Hint	% Correct
	Shi'a	Majority branch of Islam in Iran	97%
	Sunni	Islam's largest branch	97%
	Eastern Orthodox	Leader is the Patriarch of Constantinople	95%
	Modern Orthodox	Denomination represented by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel	92%
	Protestantism	Started with Martin Luther's 95 Theses	88%
Christianity	Catholicism	Contains Western and Eastern Churches, both led by Bishop of Rome	87%
	Reform	Judaism's most "liberal" denomination	53%
Judaism	Conservative	Neither the most liberal nor traditionalist denomination	43%
	Ultra-Orthodox	Most visible members are the the pious, self-isolating "Hasidim."	41%
	Theravada	Oldest denomination; most common in Southeast Asia	39%
Buddhism	Mahayana	Buddhism of China and Japan	35%
	Oriental Orthodox	Largest group is Egypt's Coptic Church	35%
	Church of the East	Also called Nestorian Christianity; 1st denomination to split off doctrinally	33%
Hinduism	Shaivism	Shiva is the primary deity.	30%
	Vajrayana	Tibetan Buddhism (sometimes considered a 2nd-order denomination)	19%
	Vaishnavism	Vishnu (in 1+ forms) is the primary deity.	18%
	Karaite	Only branch to reject "Oral Torah" tradition of Jewish law	10%
	Shaktism	Some aspect of the Mother Goddess is the primary deity.	9%
Islam	Kharijite	Primary branch in Oman	6%
	Smartism	Synthesis of traditions, allowing worship of any form of the divine (with a core 5 being primary)	5%