I am Malala

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Uddyana

"garden"

Gulkada

"place of flowers"

Butkara

"place of the Buddhist statues"

How many monasteries were along the banks of the River Swat, according to Chinese explorers

1,400

How many miles away from the capital is Swat?

100

What century did Islam come to the Swat valley?

11th

How old was Ziauddin when he entered the public speaking contest?

13

What century did the ancestors of the Yousafzai come to Swat?

16th

What year did the Yousafzai choose their first king?

1917

What yeas was Miangul Abdul Wadood recognized as the head of state and installed as wali?

1926

When did the British give India independence?

1947

How many years younger is Kushal?

2

When did the Buddhists arrive in Swat?

2nd century

What year did Alexander the Great come into the valley?

327 BC

How many sisters did Ziauddin have?

5

How long did the journey from Swat to Islambad take?

5 hours over the Malakand Pass

How long did Buddhist kings rule the valley of Swat?

500 years

How many years younger is Atal?

7

Most Swat families have how many children?

7 or 8

What did Malala call her father?

Aba

Names of two boys who lived on Malala's street similar in age to Kushal and Atal

Babar and Basit

How do Malala and the other Pashtuns know Miangul Abdul Wadood as?

Badshah Sahib

Where did Ziauddin and his family live when he was young?

Barkana

First female prime minister in Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto

What did Malala call her mother?

Bhabi

What did Malala call Usman Ali?

Bhai Jan

Where did Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb study?

British school in Peshawar

Bhai Jan

Brother

What was Gulkada called previously?

Butkara

When Swat was a princely state, it was one of three with what neighboring lands?

Chitral and Dir

What is one of the peaks of the Malakand Pass called?

Churchill's Picket

Gun used to kill Malala

Colt. 45

Name of family clan

Dalokhel Yousafzai

Name of Ziauddin's mother's cousin who carried Ziauddin to see Lewano Pir

Fazli Hakim

Where was Malala's house in Mingora?

Gulkada

What road was Malala shot on?

Haji Baba road

Name of Mountains

Hindu Kush

Name of hair transplant place

Humayun's Hair Transplant Institute

Where had Ziauddin's father study?

India

Capital of Pakistan

Islambad

What did Malala's dad call her?

Jani Mun

Name of Malala's father's cousin who came to celebrate Malala's birth

Jehan Sher Khan Yousafzai

What did Alexander the Great try to catch as a symbol of his power?

Jupiter

Where did the ancestors of the Yousafzai come from?

Kabul

What was the name of yet another girl shot with Malala?

Kainat Riaz

Where are the Yousafzai originally from?

Kandahar

What was Ziauddin known as in the family?

Khaista Dada

Pashtun leader who campaigned for independence

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

What province is Swat a part of?

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or KPK

Who was Malala's mother's ladla?

Kushal

Who is Kushal and Kushal school named after?

Kushal Khan Khattack

Name of Malala's school

Kushal School

What do some of Malala's cousins call her?

Lachi

Name of holy man that saw Ziauddin for stutter

Lewano Pir

What do the British call Mullah Saidullah?

Mad Fakir

Who was Malala named after?

Malalai of Maiwand

Name of Tor Pekai's father

Malik Janser Khan

Name of Malala's competitor at school

Malka-e-noor

Stream that loops through Mingora

Marghazar stream

Who did the Yousafzai choose as their first king?

Miangul Abdul Wadood

Biggest town of Swat valley and where Malala lived

Mingora

Founder of Pakistan

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Highest mountain in Swat and its shape

Mount Elum- pyramid

Khaista Dada

Pashto for beautiful

Lachi

Pashto for cardamon

Where did the ancestors of the Yousafzai flee to?

Peshawar

What did Malala's mother call her?

Pisho

the sayings of the Prophet

Quaran and Hadith

name of poet who wrote the poem about Malala's name

Rahmat Shah Sayel of Peshawar

Name of Ziauddin's father

Rohul Amin

Name of Ziauddin's much older brother

Saeed Ramzan

Name of girl who lived on Malala's street

Safina

Name of Malala's friend who was also shot with her?

Shazia Razman

Finance minister of the first ruler of Swat

Sher Mohammad Khan

Whose tomb did they stop by when the bus stopped and Malala was shot?

Sher Mohammad Khan

How did Islam come to the Swat valley?

Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni invaded from Afghanistan and became the ruler of Swat when it was a Buddhist kingdom

Malala's mother's name

Tor Pekai

What day was Malala shot?

Tuesday October 9 2012

What was Swat called in Olden times?

Uddyana

What does Malala call Ziauddin's brother Saeed Ramzan?

Uncle Khan dada

What did the wali collect when Swat first joined Pakistan?

Usher

Driver of Malala's bus

Usman Ali

Who was one of the British that Mullah Saidullah and his followers battled?

Winston Churchill

Name of Malala's dad's friend who was shot in the face in August on the way to prayers

Zahid Khan

Name of Malala's father

Ziauddin

Swat was once a what?

a princely state

Who was Malalai of Maiwand the daughter of?

a shepher in Maiwand

Maiwand

a small town on the dusty plains west of Kandahar

What did Miangul Abdul Wadood do in 1949?

abdicated in favor of his elder son, Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb

What do the people in Pakistan call English people?

angrezan

ladla

apple of her eye

Bhabi

brother's wife

Where was Kainat Riaz shot?

bullet grazed her upper right arm

Pisho

cat

What was Malala's house in Mingora made of?

concrete

tarbur

cousin or enemy

gur

dark molasses made from sugar cane

What time of day was Malala born?

dawn

What did the British do when they gave India independence?

divided it- Swat went with newly created Pakistan

What did Miangul Abdul Haq Jehanzeb do in the 1950s?

ended the system where people paid taxes to the khans

Order of identity for Malala

first a Swati, then Pashtun, and then Pakistani

Where did Ziauddin's father teach theology?

government high school in Shahpur

Where was Alexander the Great headed from and to when he stopped in the valley?

he was headed from Afghanistan to the Indus

What did the ancestors of the Yousafzai do in Kabul?

helped a Timurid emperor win back his throne after his own tribe removed him

Rohul Amin

honest spirit- holy name of the Angel Gabriel

Nang

honor

Where did the bullet enter and leave Malala?

left eye socket out under left shoulder

Where did the bullet hit Shazia Razman?

left hand and left shoulder

Most important value of Pashtuns

nang- honor

Where did Malala's parents come from?

neighboring villages in a remote valley in the upper Swat called Shangla

How many stories was Malala's house in Mingora?

one

Code of conduct for Pashtuns

pashtunwali

What kind of tree was in Malala's yard in Mingora?

plum

Tor Pekai

raven tresses

Wali

ruler

What did Miangul Abdul Wadood do as wali?

set up first telephone system, built the first primary school, and ended the west system

What did Janser Khan's mother do for him when he was locked up?

she walked forty miles alone over mountains to appeal to a powerful cousin

What does Swat have that is the first in Pakistan?

ski resort

Jani Mun

soulmate in Persian

Usher

tax of 10 percent on income

What do people often call Swat?

the Switzerland of the East

Where did the Queen of England stay when she visited Pakistan?

the White Palace

Malalai of Maiwand

the greatest heroine of Afganishtan- she inspired the Afghan army to defeat the British in 1880 in one of the biggest battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War

What did the Afghans do to celebrate their victory against the British army when Malalai of Maiwand inspired them?

the last Afghan kind build a Maiwand victory monument in the center of Kabul

What was the White Palace built from?

the same marble as the Taj Mahal by our king, the first wali, or ruler, of Swat

What happened in 1969?

the wali gave up power and Swat became park of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, which eventually changed its name to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

What did the Yousafzai do when they claimed Swat?

they kicked all other tribes about and divided up land among male members under system called Wesh

Policy of government when Swat joined Pakistan

they used the Pakistani rupee but the government of Pakistan could only intervene on foreign policy

jirga

tribal assembly

Why was Janser Khan locked up when he was 9?

tribal feud with another family

tapae

two line poems

How was Malalai of Maiwand killed?

under fire

Malakand Pass

vast bowl of mountains where long ago Malala's ancestors led by a preacher called Mullah Saidullah battled British forces among the craggy peaks

Kushal Khan Khattack

warrior and poet


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