One Thousand Questions and Answers on Jewels of Knowledge and Trivia

About the Book

The following are questions on important subjects intended to help people use their memory in order to retrieve information on subjects they know such as History, Geography, Religion, Science and more trivia and curiosity questions will also be included. This project will be divided into ten chapters with 100 questions for each chapter. The questions represent the first part of the book. The second part of the book includes the answers. Unlike in the Jeopardy Show, which is designed for a new champions, this project is for everyone. No one is required to gamble or play for money. No one is required to ‘pull hair’ in order to find answers which may not always be so important or indispensible for everyone in real life. It is intended to entertain and to enrich knowledge. Some questions may pertain to one or more subjects or chapters. For example, questions on the Patriarch Abraham, could be found in the chapter on ancient history as well as in the chapter on the Bible. Questions on quotes may pertain to ancient history and scriptures as well as in contemporary writers/scientists. The questions and statements given here are of public domain and are not questions or statements uniquely or specifically made by any educational institution. However, credit is given when due. The answers will be given at the end of the book, so people can use their memory and knowledge before they look for the answer. The author has consulted and researched dozens of books and hundreds of internet sources as written in his bibliography. Some of the answers may be found in books he had previously published, namely ‘The Bible, The Power of the Word (and in between the lines)’; The Qur’an and Biblical Origins’; ‘One Family, Four Cultures and Four Continents’; ‘Whose God is it Anyway?’; ‘Love and Romance in the Bible.’ Those books can be viewed at the following sites: www.amazon.com, www.asherauthor.com, www.xlibris.com and www.lulu.com (click on author’s name) The purpose of this work is to have people enjoy daily a few moments of fun. The contents are not in any chronological order. This is not a fiction or drama book that needs to be finished at the end of the day. This will not only be fun to test one’s knowledge, but also an excellent tool to sharpen and refresh the mind on different fields of knowledge. In sum, is it important to state that rediscovering old and new facts and data can lead to a certain happiness and personal satisfaction. Knowledge on diverse subjects can help in achieving better self-confidence and self-expression and, overall, a better quality of life for all people. This project has something for everyone. The questions and answers will undoubtedly satisfy readers of all walks of life and of most age groups. Facts, data and world events become so complex that this project. Finally, this project has been inspired by personal experience as it is explained at the end of this book under the title ‘References and Bibliography’.

About the Author

Mr. Elkayam is a product of several cultures. Having lived in four different continents (as described in his previous book: One Family, Our Cultures, Four Continents’ he became curious about world events and he never contented himself on just the local or national news. Mr. Elkayam is a graduate of the French Political Science Institute (Strasbourg), and of Towson State University. He was also educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also attended the Sorbonne in France. Mr. Elkayam is also a Bible scholar and author on 3 books on the Bible. While residing in North Africa, The Middle East, Europe and Northern America Mr. Elkayam has followed events on at least ten (10) wars and each war carried its own descriptive vocabulary. For example, the war for Moroccan Independence in the mid of 1950’s taught us about the existence of the Istiqlal (a nationalistic group opposing the occupying French). The Six-Day War (1967) in the Middle East lasted exactly six days as its name calls for. The Gulf War and Deserts Storm remind us of The Battle on Iraq (1990 and 1991). Mr. Elkayam has been a resident of the US since the end of 1967. As such, he developed another way of looking at the rest of the world from an American perspective. Knowledge of facts and ideas took place in a gradual way and over dozens of years. It did not happen overnight. The author’s inspiration to write this project comes for the above mentioned sources and situations as well as from a daily dose of following up on current events heard on national news media (ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, C-SPAN, FOX) and on conservative as well as liberal talk shows. The author’s political view remains neutral no matter the source or the affiliation of the news or the magazines. It only concentrates on facts and knowledge. Mr. Elkayam writes, ‘My goal has always been to acquire knowledge regardless of the source or the affiliation…’ Being a veteran of two armies (Israel and the US) gave Mr. Elkayam the opportunity to view the world from two different perspectives. Mr. Elkayam goes on saying that, ‘what is important and pertaining to this project is that, by reading, I follow up on the latest innovations and past historical highlights, none of which is unimportant for the reader.’