Saturday, February 28, 2015

Daily Quiz, February 1, 2015

Daily Quiz, February 28, 2015 

The Samaritans were a people who had a holy book.  What do we call it?

a. The Samaritan Torah
b. The Ugaritic Scroll
c. The Mishneh 
d. The Gerizim Scrolls


 Daily Quiz, February 27, 2015

In Anglicanism what poet, hymn-writer is known for being the quintessential parish priest or parson?

a. John Donne
b. George Herbert
c. Jeremy Taylor
d. William Law

Daily Quiz, February 26, 2015

Who was the Pharisee who was told he had to be "born again" and as a literalist wondered how he could get back into his mother's womb?

a. Joseph
b. Nicodemus
c. Levi
d. Lazarus

Daily Quiz, February 25, 2015

Why were there two sets of of "Ten Commandments?"

a. Moses, angered by the sight of the Golden Calf, destroyed the first set
b. two were needed, one in the tabernacle and one outside
c. they were written in two different languages
d. one was a "lighter" version to travel in the ark of the covenant

Daily Quiz, February 24, 2015 

According to Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, what was the criteria for choosing the person to replace Judas Iscariot?

a. he had to know the Scriptures
b. he had to be from Israel
c. he had to have walked with Jesus from his baptism to his Ascension
d. he had to know the other eleven disciples

Daily Quiz, February 23, 2015

Church traditions from Irenaeus asserts that Polycarp was a disciple of what apostle?

a. James, son of Zebedee
b. John, son of Zebedee
c. Peter
d. Thomas


Daily Quiz, February 22, 2015

Which of the following would be apt definition for Satan or the Devil?

a. the adversary
b. the accuser 
c. the liar
d. the trickster
e. all of the above


Daily Quiz, February 21, 2015

College and University Roman Catholic religious centers for students have often been named after what famous convert from Anglicanism?

a. G.K. Chesterton
b. Dorothy Day
c. John Henry Newman
d. Thomas Merton

Daily Quiz, February 20, 2015

Which of the following is not true of the famous African American abolitionist?

a. he was an escaped slave who was "redeemed" by friends later in his career
b. he criticized Abraham Lincoln for being late to support emancipation
c. he praised Abraham Lincoln as the greatest president
d. he was against African Americans serving in the Union armies
e. he was the first American American vice presidential candidate

Daily Quiz, February 19, 2015

Which of the following in the Bible does not have the number 40 associated with it?

a. temptation of Jesus
b. number of days and nights of rain in the Flood
c. number of years of wandering in the wilderness
d. age of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when they got married
e. number of days that Elijah fasted on Mount Horeb

Daily Quiz, February 18. 2015

Aside from the freedom to fast from anything at anytime how many fast days can be found in the Book of Common Prayer?

a. 54
b. 2
c. 12
d. 7


Daily Quiz, February 17, 2015

Janani Luwum was an archbishop and a modern day martyr from what country?

a. Nigeria
b. The Sudan
c. Uganda
d. Chad

Daily Quiz, February 16, 2015

Why is Shrove Tuesday associated with the eating of Pancakes?

a. French Crepes became Pancakes in the U.K.
b. Pancakes was a way of using up the rich foods of milk, eggs and sugar before Lent
c. It was ordered by an Archbishop whose brother sold pancakes
d. It was the food of peasant and easy to make

Daily Quiz, February 15, 2015 

Which of the following is not a Lenten custom?

a. refraining from the use of "Alleluia"
b. using purple as the liturgical color
c. fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday
d. saying the Great Litany
e. replacing "Alleluia" with "Gloria in excelsis"

Daily Quiz, February 14, 2015

What saints have "bumped" the legendary St. Valentine from his popular calendar date in the Episcopal calendar of saints, aka, "Holy Women, Holy Men?"

a. Lydia and Dorcas
b. Peter and Paul
c. Cyril and Methodius
d. Ridley and Latimer 

Daily Quiz, February 13, 2015 

Who was the first African American ordained as an Episcopal priest?

a. Absalom Jones
b. Richard Allen
c. Alexander Crummell
d. Samuel Eli Cornish

Daily Quiz, February 12, 2015

Of the four canonical Gospels, which Gospel uses the phrase "kingdom of heaven" instead of "kingdom of God?"

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


Daily Quiz, February 11, 2015

What famous American hymn writer has a day on the Episcopal calendar of saints, but who does not have a hymn included in the 1982 hymnal of the Episcopal Church?

a. Calvin Hampton
b. Charles Winfred Douglas
c. Franny Crosby
d. James Weldon Johnson

Daily Quiz, February 10, 2015

Eunice and Lois were the mother and grandmother of what young evangelist?

a. Titus
b. Timothy
c.  Onesimus
d.  John Mark

Daily Quiz, February 9, 2015

Who are the people/persons in biblical literature who are reported to have "shining faces?"

a. The Lord God
b. Jesus
c. Moses
d. Wise persons
e. all of the above


Daily Quiz, February 8, 2015

Who wrote, "I have become all things to all people.....?"

a. St. Peter
b. The Psalmist
c. St. Luke
d. St. Paul

Daily Quiz, February 7, 2015

Who was the first Gentile convert to the message of Christ?

a. Probably can't know; Gospels imply that Greeks and foreign magi came to see Jesus
b. first recorded post-resurrection convert is Cornelius the centurion
c. the Samaritan woman at the well
d. Philemon

Daily Quiz, February 6, 2015

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are listed in the letter to the Galatians as what?

a. Theological virtues
b. Cardinal virtues
c. Fruits of the Spirit
d. Christ-like behaviors


Daily Quiz, February 5, 2015

Who founded the first Baptist Church in America, later left it to be a Seeker and who  posthumously arrived to be on the Episcopal Calendar of Saints, aka, "Holy Women, Holy Men?"

a. Jonathan Edwards
b. Adoniram Judson
c. Roger Williams
d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Quiz,  February 4, 2015

Which of the following resisted the evangelizing efforts of St. Anskar?

a. Huns
b. Vandals
c. Goths
d. Vikings

Daily Quiz, February 3, 2015

Anskar was a missionary bishop to northern Europe and the Archbishop of what locale?

a. Stockholm
b. Oslo
c. Copenhagen
d. Hamburg-Bremen

Daily Quiz, February 2, 2015

Which canticle of the church derives from the event of the Presentation of Jesus?

a. Magnificat 
b. Venite
c. Nunc Dimittis
d. Dignus es

Daily Quiz, February 1, 2015 

Where would one find "Super Bowls" in the Bible?

a. Tabernacle utensils
b. The Last Supper
c. Seven Bowls of Wrath in Revelations
d. The Story of Gideon

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