A lighthearted and fun way to increase our knowledge about Baha’i topics. The answer to each question is in a write-up available at one of the Baha’i Multimedia Resources sites. Clicking on the 'Answer' link will take you to the desire article.


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Humanity

These two entities are symbolically referred to as the two “wings” by which humanity can “fly”. Can you identify them?  -->Answer

Jesus

Knowing that Christ was born of Mary, how do you explain His statement in the Gospel that “I am come from heaven”?  -->Answer

The Mystery of God

The “unique title of "Sirru'llah" (the Mystery of God)” which Baha’u’llah conferred upon ‘Abdu’l-Baha can be understood in light of this explanation by the beloved Guardian.  -->Answer  

Rooms in the Shrine of the Bab

The exterior doors to the eight rooms surrounding the central room of the Shrine of the Bab were named by ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi after certain eminent believers -- three of whom were Hands of the Cause. Can you name them?  -->Answer

Manifestation of God and God

What symbolic representation can one use to show the relationship between the Manifestation of God and God?  -->Answer

A criteria by Baha'u'llah

Under what condition does Baha’u’llah allow a person to “adorn himself with the ornaments of the earth, to wear its apparels, or partake of the benefits it can bestow…”  -->Answer

Story of creation in Genesis

Referring to Genesis in the Old Testament and the story of creation, how does ‘Abdu’l-Baha refute a literal interpretation of the story of creation?  -->Answer

Western believers in Iran

How far back can you estimate there were some Western believers in Iran?  -->Answer

Baha’u’llah’s "last outstanding Tablet”

This Tablet is referred to by the beloved Guardian as Baha’u’llah’s "last outstanding Tablet”  -->Answer  

The “Charter of Bahá'u'lláh's New World Order”

This document is referred to by the Guardian as the “Charter of Bahá'u'lláh's New World Order”  -->Answer  

Prayer for Spiritual Assembly

In what year did the beloved Guardian introduce the Baha’i world to the well known prayer from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addressed to the members of the Spiritual Assembly in which the Master says: "Whenever ye enter the council-chamber, recite this prayer with a heart throbbing with the love of God and a tongue purified from all but His remembrance, that the All-powerful may graciously aid you to achieve supreme victory.”  -->Answer 

The first Baha'i in Western world

He is designated by the Guardian as “the first to embrace the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh in the Western world …”  -->Answer

An attribute of the Creator

Baha’u’llah indicates in one of His Tablets that today, as a result of His Revelation:
o “Every creature hath been endowed with all the potentialities it can carry”;
o “Every tree hath been endowed with the choicest fruits”;
o “every ocean enriched with the most luminous gems”; and that
o “Man, himself, hath been invested with the gifts of understanding and knowledge.”
He explains that these changes are all due to this attribute of the Creator which symbolically is interacting with the entire planet. What is this attribute and what is its symbolic representation?  -->Answer 

Add the missing word

In encouraging us to “acquire the sciences and arts”, ‘Abdu’l-Baha warns us that “If learning be not a means of access” to the Manifestation of God, then it “is nothing but evident _______.”  Can you fill in the blank.  -->Answer

When it's better not to have a religion

Under what circumstances does ‘Abdu’l-Baha indicate, in one of His talks, that it would be better not to have a religion and that “an irreligious man (would be) better than one who professe(d) it”.  --> Answer

An attribute of the Creator

According to the Teachings of Christ (Matthew 5:44), the fact that God "sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust", should reminds us of this attribute of the Creator. -->Answer