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Every week, Pathshala teachers will provide quiz to the students. You can review this week's quiz, submit answer to this week's quiz, and review past quiz information with correct answer and students who answered it correctly.

 

 

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Quiz Date Quiz Question/Answer Students w/ Correct Answers
     
Sept. 16th 2001 

Q. Identify a Tirthankar such that if you change one letter of that Tirthankar's name, you will get another Tirthankar's name.

 

A. The Tirthankar's name is Naminath (21st Tirthankar). By changing letter "a" to "e", we get another Tirthankar "Neminath" (22nd Tirthankar).

- Sahil Jain 

- Alka Mehta 

- Yasmin Straka 

- Neerav Kothari 

- Meera Gosalia 

- Shebani Shah 

- Ami Joshi 

- Nikita Mehta

Sept. 23rd 2001

Q. Take a word from one of the most important Prayers we do in Pathshala. Reverse that word and what you get is a country's name. What's that word?

 

A. The word is "Namo". If you reverse it, you get "Oman", a country's name.

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Sept. 30th 2001

Q. Take a Tirthankar's name. Remove 2 letters from the front and 2 letters from the back. What's left is another Tirthankar's name. Who are those Tirthankars?

 

A. "Dharma" nath (15th Tirthankar). Take front 2 letters (Dh) away and take 2 letters away from the back "ma". What's left is "Ar" nath (18th Tirthankar)

 

Oct 7th 2001

Q. Identify a Pathshala kid's name with 5 letters. Reverse the name. Take the middle letter and replace it with the letter which is 2 letters back. What you get is one of world's main religion. What is that kid's name and what's the religion?

 

For example, take the word "Kirit". Reverse it and it becomes "Tirik". Take the middle letter "r". Go back 2 letters, which is "p". Replace "r" with "p" and the word becomes "Tipik", which ofcourse is incorrect as it is not one of the religions. What's the correct name?

 

A. The Pathshala kid's name is "Mansi". Reverse the name "Isnam". The middle letter is "n". Go back 2 letters and you get letter "l". Replace "n" with "l". The word becomes "Islam" which is one of world's main religion.

- Ami Joshi

- Rahul Joshi

- Alka Mehta

- Nikita Mehta

- Paras Mehta

- Meera Gosalia

- Mansi Shah

- Harsh Shah

- Shebani Shah

- Jinesh & Jainy

Oct 14th 2001

Q. Identify a Tirthankar whose cousin is a God in another religion. Who is the Tirthankar and who is his cousin?

 

A. The Tirthankar's name is Neminath and his cousin is Lord Krishna

- Alka, Nikita, & Paras

- Shibani

Oct 21st 2001

Q. Find a 7 letter country, the first letter is a vowel (a, e, i, o, u). Remove last 3 letters from that country's name. Reverse the remaining 4 letters. What you get is an important Jainism word. What is the country name and what's the Jainism word?

 

A. The country's name is URUGUAY and the important Jainism word is GURU.

For example, remove last 3 letters from URUGUAY and you end up with URUG. Reverese it and you get GURU.

- Mansi

- Shebani

- Alka, Nikita, & Paras

Oct 28th 2001

Q. Find 2 Tirthankar's names without the "nath" and "swami" at the end (the puzzle is called a doublet) in the following sentence: I am glad I do not have to work harder than ants.

For example, in the sentence Gosh it almost bit me contains one of the Tirthankar's names such as Shital ("sh" from Gosh "it" and "al" from almost)

 

A. I am glad I do not have to work harder than ants.

The 2 Tirtankar names hidden in the sentence were Adi (nath) and Anant (nath).

 

- Shebani

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