Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Daily Quiz, September 2015

Daily Quiz, September 30, 2015

St. Jerome is know for what translation of the Bible?

a. Septuagint
b. Codex Amiatinus
c. The Vulgate
d. Hexapla


Daily Quiz, September 29, 2015

Why is Michael and not Gabriel or Raphael regarded to be the most important angel, so much so that we have a Michaelmas Feast Day, and not Gabrielmas or Raphaelmas days?

a. Michael helped St. George defeat the dragon
b. Michael defeated the dragon in the heavenly battle
c. Gabriel delivered messages and was not a warrior angel
d. Raphael inspired and delivered messages to artists

Daily Quiz, September 28, 2015

Which Christian mystic wrote "The Ladder of Perfection?"

a. Margery Kempe
b. Thomas Traherne
c. Walter Hilton
d. Richard Rolle

Daily Quiz, September 27, 2015

Why is Israel sometimes an ambiguous designation in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. sometimes it includes the tribe of Judah
b. sometimes it refers to the separated northern kingdom
c. sometimes it refers to Jacob
d. a, b, c
e. a and b

Daily Quiz, September 26, 2015

What was unique about Athaliah?

a. he was king of both Israel and Judah
b. she was queen of Judah for six years
c. he was the son of Jezebel
d. she killed Joash

Daily Quiz, September 25, 2015

Jehu killed the kings of what two "countries?"

a. Edom and Israel
b. Aram and Judah
c. Edom and Aram
d. Judah and Israel

Daily Quiz, September 24, 2015

Which phrase best expresses "lex talionis?"

a. possession in 9/10 of the law
b  to whom much is given much is required
c. do unto others as you would have them do unto you
d. eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth

Daily Quiz, September 23, 2015

What "water" miracle did the prophet Elisha perform?

a. he walked on water
b. he struck water with his cloak and it divided like the Red Sea did for Moses
c. he floated an axe head to the surface of the water with a stick
d. a, b, and c
e. b and c


Daily Quiz, September 22, 2015 

What was the name of the Aramean General who came to Elisha the prophet to cure his leprosy?

a. Gehazi
b. Naaman
c. Shalmaneser I
d. Shalmaneser II


Daily Quiz, September 21, 2015

Since the Gospel of Matthew does not come with an original title page, how has it been concluded that the author of this Gospel was Matthew?

a. by scholarly reading between the lines of internal evidence
b. by church tradition of designating it based upon reports of Papias and Eusebius
c. by assuming that Matthew is Levi
d. by revelation of the church councils which accepted it into the canon

Daily Quiz, September 20, 2015

What prophet resuscitated a child back to life with procedures which included mouth to mouth resuscitation?

a. Elijah
b. Elisha
c. Jeremiah
d. Ezekiel

Daily Quiz, September 19, 2015

What was the symbol of the prophetic office which Elijah left for Elisha when he departed for heaven in the chariots of fire?

a. staff
b. mantle
c. scroll
d. hat

Daily Quiz, September 18, 2015

Which of the following might apply to the mid 19th Century theologian Edward Bouverie Pusey?

a. High Churchman
b. Tractarian
c. leader  of the Oxford Movement
d. all of the above

 Daily Quiz, September 17, 2015

What is the "lingua ignota?"

a. speaking in tongues
b. a language invented by Hildegard of Bingen
c. the title of a book by HIldegard of Bingen
d. "unknown language"
e. b and d

Daily Quiz, September 16, 2015

What is the prophet Micaiah known for?

a. giving favorable prophecies for the King of Israel
b. giving unfavorable prophecies for the King of Israel
c. agreeing with the gathering of 400 prophets for Israel to go to war
d. for being seized by the King of Israel and thrown into a cistern

Daily Quiz, September 15, 2015

Who was Naboth the Jezreelite?

a. a man who own a vineyard adjacent to King Ahab's Palace
b. a man falsely accused by Jezebel
c. a man who was put to death in order to take his inherited property
d. a man whose property rights challenged "eminent" domain
e. all of the above

Daily Quiz, September 14, 2015

The feast of the Holy Cross on September 14 received this date because of what event?

a. an older calendar has Good Friday on this date
b. it is a six month reminder of Good Friday
c. Constantine's mother Helena dedicated the church erected on Golgotha on this date
d. it is the date of the found of the Order of the Holy Cross


Daily Quiz, September 13, 2015

What was Elisha doing when Elijah called him to be his successor?

a. watching sheep
b. plowing a field with donkeys
c. plowing a field with oxen
d. sitting in his tent


Daily Quiz, September 12, 2015

From which king of Israel did the prophet Elijah flee into the wilderness for fear of his life?

a. Joash
b. Ahab
c. Jezebel
d. Jeroboam

Daily Quiz, September 11, 205

What notable event took place on Mount Carmel?

a. the call of Elisha
b. the showdown between Elijah and the prophets of Baal
c. forty days of miraculous rain
d. the revelation of the lost book of Elijah

Daily Quiz, September 10, 2015

Who was the wife of King Ahab?

a. Bathsheba
b. Michal
c. Jezebel
d. Abigail

Daily Quiz, September 9, 2015

What bird fed Elijah bread and meat when he was on a wilderness journey?

a. quail
b. dove
c. pigeon
d. raven


 Daily Quiz, September 8, 2015

Which of the following is not true of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard?

a. he punned about his name meaning cemetery
b. he was a stinging critic of Hegel
c. he is called the Father of Existentialism
d. he wrote about his crush on Regine Olsen
e. his stages of life philosophy included the aesthetic, the ethical and the religious
f. he wrote his most famous works under pseudonyms
h.he called the dilemma of Abraham being asked to sacrifice his son, the teleological suspension of the ethical
i. he married Regine Olsen


  
Daily Quiz, September 7, 2015

Who were Jeroboam and Rehoboam?

a. brothers, sons of Boam
b. sons of King Solomon
c. contemporary kings of the divided kingdoms of Israel
d. sons of David

Daily Quiz, September 6, 2015

In the divided kingdom of Israel which two tribes remained in the "southern" kingdom?

a. Levi and Judah
b. Judah and Reuben
c. Benjamin and Levi
d. Judah and Benjamin
e. Judah and Gad

Daily Quiz, September 5, 2015

Which of the following is not true about Albert Schweitzer?

a. medical missionary
b. theologian
c. organist
d. pianist
e. Nobel Prize winner
f. Gospel scholar who believed Jesus was mainly a wisdom teacher
h. Gospel scholar who believed Jesus was mainly an end of the world apocalyptic prophet


Daily Quiz, September 4, 2015

The prophet Ahijah was known for what?

a. predicting the division of the country of Israel 
b. announcing the rise of Jeraboam as the king of the Northern 10 tribes of Israel
c. announcing that a servant of Solomon and not a son would be king of Israel
d. all of the above

Daily Quiz, September 3, 2015

Who were Astarte, Milcom, Chemosh, and Molech?

a. the names of the foreign wives of Solomon
b. the names of the architect and builders of Solomon's Temple
c. the names of the foreign deities of Solomon's wives
d. the names of the generals of Solomon's armies
e. the men who accompanied the Queen of Sheba on her visit to Solomon

 Daily Quiz, September 2, 2015 

The tongue sets the world on fire, cannot be tamed, is full of deadly poison,  and is set on fire by hell.  Where are such words written about the tongue?

a. Proverbs
b. Jeremiah
c. James
d. Ecclesiastes

Daily Quiz, September 1, 2015

In which Gospel does the rooster crow twice instead of thrice to confirm the predication of Jesus about Peter's denial?

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

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