Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Daily Quiz, September 2014

Daily Quiz, September 30, 2014

What evangelist in Caesarea had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy?

a. Philip
b. Simon the Tanner
c. Cornelius
d. Silas

Daily Quiz, September 29, 2014

Which of the following angels are saints?

a. Michael
b. Raphael
c. Gabriel
d. Uriel
e. all of the above

Daily Quiz, September 28, 2014

Which biblical prophet believed that God asked him to marry a prostitute and then use their relationship as a metaphor for the relationship between God and Israel?

a. Ezekiel
b. Joel
c. Amos
d. Hosea

Daily Quiz, September 27, 2014

What biblical boy received biblical ink until the end of reading the Bible history, by falling out of a window?

a. Marcus
b. Junius
c. Eutychus 
d. Demeter

Daily Quiz, September 26, 2014

According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and his companion encountered the worshipers of which Greek goddess in Ephesus?

a. Artemis
b. Hera
c. Aphrodite
d. Athena

Daily Quiz, September 25, 2014

The organization established to foster relationship between Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Christians is called the Fellowship of St. Alban and 

a. St. Vladimir
b. St. Demetrius
c. St. Sergius
d. St. Herman of Alaska

Daily Quiz, September 24, 2014

Why did Apollos get baptized twice?

a. his first baptism was by a heretic
b. his first baptism was in a Greek temple
c. he was baptized by John the Baptist
d. St. Paul wanted to be sure he was baptized in the right way

Daily Quiz, September 23, 2014

What biblical "bad guy" got hoisted upon the gallows that he built for someone else?

a. King Saul
b. King Ahab
c. Queen Jezebel
d. Haman

Daily Quiz, September 22, 2014

The Feast of St. Matthew is on September 21, so why is it observed on September 22 in 2014?

a.  because September 21st fell on a Sunday
b.  only a Feast of Our Lord take a precedence over a Sunday
c.  it may be observed on the 21st as a Patronal feast of a church
d.  all of the above

September 21, 2014

Ahasuerus, Haman, Mordecai appear in what book of the Bible?

a. Daniel
b. Ezekiel
c. Isaiah
d. Esther

 Daily Quiz, September 20, 2014

A writing in Holy Scripture can be regarded as inspired and canonical even if it does not mention the name of God.  Which "book" in the canonical Scriptures for Christians and Jews does not mention the name of God and reports an originating event for the Feast of Purim?

a. Song of Solomon
b. Ruth
c. Esther
d. 1 Maccabees


Daily Quiz, September 19, 2014

Is the Pope Catholic? And is the Archbishop of Canterbury English or from the territories of the United Kingdom?  Well, not always.  Which Archbishop of Canterbury listed below was from Turkey?

a. Richard
b. Lanfranc
c. Theodore
d. Theobald

Daily Quiz, September 18, 2014

Edward Bouverie Pusey began a movement within the Church of England such that it was call Puseyism.  Which would not be a characteristic of a Puseyite?

a. Ritualism
b. Individualism
c. Private Confession
d. Real Presence 
e. Oxford Movement

Daily Quiz, September 17, 2014

Who are Dove, Cinnamon and Horn of Eyeshadow?

a. Moses' children
b. Job's pre-suffering daughters
c. Job's post-suffering daughters
d. Solomon's favorite wives


Daily Quiz, September 16, 2014

לִוְיָתָן is the Hebrew word transliterated into English as Leviathan.  Leviathan is

a. a sea monster
b. a whale in Melville
c. a large crocodile
d. a dragon
e. a symbol of Satan
f.  a Hobbesian metaphor for a political state
g. all of the above

Daily Quiz, September 15, 2014

The coiled snake around the staff in the symbol of medicine derives from

a. Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness
b. The Staff of Aesculapius of Greek mythology
c. The death of a snake in losing it skin and being renewed
d. The serpent in the Tree of the Garden of Eden

Daily Quiz, September 14, 2014

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!"  In what book of the Bible is this prophetic utterance?

a. Daniel
b. Psalms
c. Ezekiel
d. Revelation of St. John the Divine

Daily Quiz, September 13, 2014

From where did God speak to Job in his final address to him?

a. from heaven
b. from the mountain top
c. from the whirlwind
d. from a dark cave 

Daily Quiz, September 12, 2014

Geneva College in upstate New York had its name changed for perhaps the most formidable post-revolutionary war Episcopal Bishop.  Who was this Bishop?

a. Samuel Seabury
b. William White
c. John Henry Hobart
d. Benjamin Moore

Daily Quiz, September 11, 2014

According to the Gospel of John, who is first person to be told by Jesus that he is the resurrection and the life?

a. Mary Magdalene
b. John
c. Thomas
d. Martha of Bethany

Daily Quiz, September 10, 2014

What philosopher used the story of Abraham obeying God in setting out to sacrifice his son Isaac to coin the phrase, "teleological suspension the ethical" to illustrate an ironic relationship between "obedience of faith" and "ethics?"  

a.  David Hume, in "A Treatise of Human Nature"
b. Immanuel Kant, in "The Critique of Pure Reason"
c. Søren Kierkegaard, in "Fear and Trembling"
d. Voltaire, in "Candide"
e. Erasmus, in "In Praise of Folly"

Daily Quiz, September 9, 2014

When Paul and Barnabas healed a man in Lystra, what happened to them?

a. a mob thought that they were gods in human form
b. the priest of Zeus had them arrested
c. Paul was called Hermes
d. Barnabas was called Zeus
e. three of the above

Daily Quiz, September 8, 2014

In using hyperbole for "unlimited" forgiveness, how many times did Jesus say that Peter needed to forgive his brother?

a. seventy times seven
b. 490
c. 77
d. all of the above depending upon translation


Daily Quiz, September 7, 2014

In what Gospel can this quote of Jesus be found: "I am the good shepherd?"

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John


Daily Quiz, September 6, 2014

The Lambeth Conference is a meeting of all of the bishops of the Anglican Communion called by the Archbishop of Canterbury.  How often does this conference occur?

a.every 5 years
b.every 10 years 
c. ad hoc
d. every 7 years 

Daily Quiz, September 5, 2014

The aria, "I know that my Redeemer lives," from Handel's Oratorio is taken from which book in the Bible?

a. The Psalms
b. Isaiah
c. Ezekiel
d. Job

Daily Quiz, September 4, 2014

Which of the following was not a missionary travel companion of St. Paul?

a. Peter
b. Barnabas
c. Silas
d. Titus
e. Timothy
f.  Luke
e. Epaphras 

Daily Quiz, September 3, 2014

What is the context for the quote of Jesus, "where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them?"

a. the Last Supper
b. disagreement in the church
c. the blessing of children
d. healing of a lame man

Daily Quiz, September 2, 2014

Rhoda is known in the Acts of the Apostles for what?

a. she was the wife of John Mark
b. she was the servant girl who opened the door for Peter
c. she was a leader in one of the Pauline churches
d. she thought Peter was an angel

Daily Quiz, September 1, 2014


The Acts of the Apostles reports that the word "Christian" Χριστιανός  was first used to refer to the followers of Jesus in what city?

a. Jerusalem
b. Capernaum
c. Antioch
d. Caesarea Philippi 

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