Friday, March 31, 2017

Quiz of the Day, March 2017

Quiz of the Day, March 31, 2017

Which of the following are not lines from John Donne?

a. No man is an island
b. ..for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
c. any man's death diminishes me...
d. Death be not proud
e. This is the way the world ends Not with a whimper but a bang

Quiz of the Day, March 30, 2017

Whom of the following would qualify as being resurrected as opposed to resuscitated in the biblical record?

a. widow's son by Elijah
b. Dorcas
c. centurion son by Jesus
d. Lazarus by Jesus
e. child revived by Elisha
f. Jairus' daughter
g. Jesus
h. Eutychus
I. son of the widow of Nain
j. a dead prophet who body touched the bones of Elisha

Quiz of the Day, March 29, 2017

John Keble is credited with beginning which of the following:

a. Oxford Movement
b. Tractarian Movement
c. Anglo-Catholic Revival
d. all of the above


Quiz of the Day, March 28, 2017

Whom of the following woman received the confession of Jesus that he was resurrection and life?

a. Mary Magdalene
b. Mary of Bethany
c. Martha of Bethany
d. The Virgin Mary

Quiz of the Day, March 27, 2017

The account of the brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany being called back to life from his tomb is found where in the Bible?

a. Matthew, Mark and Luke
b. Luke and John
c. Mark, because it is the earliest Gospel
d. John

Quiz of the Day, March 26, 2017

What is Fourth Sunday of Lent called in the Church of England?

a. Mothers' Day
b. Mothering Sunday
c. Pink Sunday
d. Rose Sunday

Quiz of the Day, March 25, 2017

What Feast is also known as Lady Day?

a. Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary
b. Feast of the Annunciation
c. Feast of our Lady of Lourdes
d. Feast of the Visitation


Quiz of the Day, March 24, 2017

Archbishop Oscar Romero was a martyr from what country?

a. Mexico
b. Honduras
c. Cuba
d. El Salvador
e. Panama


Quiz of the Day, March 23, 2017

Which Gregory was the apostle to Armenia?

a. Gregory the Great
b. Gregory of Nyssa
c. Gregory the Illuminator
d. Gregory of Nazianzus
e. Gregory Palamas

Quiz of the Day, March 22, 2017

Bishop James DeKoven was associated with which of the following controversies?

a. reunion of the church after the Civil War
b. ritualism
c. lay presidency
d. pacifism

Quiz of the Day, March 21, 2017

Which of the following is not true about Thomas Cranmer?

a. dispensed with clerical celibacy and got married
b. appointed Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII
c. gave papers of annulment for King Henry VIII's marriage
d. Martyred in the reign of Queen Mary I
e. translated the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English
f. was the chief wordsmith of the first Book of Common Prayer

Quiz of the Day, March 20, 2017

Which of the following is not true about Joseph, the spouse of the Virgin Mary?

a. he was from the house/lineage of King David
b. he was a carpenter by trade
c. he is referred to as the Guardian of Jesus
d. his feast was set according to the date of the spring equinox

Quiz of the Day, March 19, 2017

Mikvah is what?

a. refers to the Jordan River
b. a transition rite for occupation in Judaism
c. a bath for immersion of Jewish converts
d. the water of the Rock struck by Moses

Quiz of the Day, March 18, 2017

In which Gospel are all the following metaphors for Jesus?  Light, Lamb of God, Word, Vine, Gate, Way, Truth, Life, The Resurrection, Good Shepherd.

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


Quiz of the Day, March 17, 2017

Which of the following does not pertain to "St. Patrick's Breastplate?"

a. a poem/prayer attributed to St. Patrick
b. aka Lorica of St. Patrick
c. "I bind unto myself" hymn in the Episcopal hymnal
d. the armor St. Patrick wore to defeat a pagan king
e. a prayer for protection by invoking God in all of God's attributes

Quiz of the Day, March 16, 2017

Which of the following is not true about St. Patrick?

a. Native Irish
b. Native English
c. Slave
d. Captured by pirates

Quiz of the Day, March 15, 2017

Who died on the Ides of March?

a. St. Stephen
b. Julius Caesar
c. Judas Iscariot
d. Simon Peter

Quiz of the Day, March 14, 2017

Samaritan comes from "Shamarim," meaning the keepers, guardians or watchers of what?

a. the messiah
b. the Torah
c. the ark of the covenant
d. the Temple on Gerizim

Quiz of the Day, March 13, 2017

Which of the following is not found in the discourse of Jesus with the Samaritan woman at the well?

a. living water
b. field white with harvest
c. Jacob's well
d. living bread
e. God is spirit

Quiz of the Day, March 12, 2017

Why does Abram and Abraham refer to the same person in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. Abram means noble father
b. Abraham means father of many
c. Abram was his name when he was childless
d. Abraham was his name when he had sons
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, March 11, 2017

What is the liturgical wear for Jews who were instructed to bind God's law on their hands and fix them on their foreheads?

a.Tallit
b. tefillin
c. gartel
d. kippah
e. phylactery
f.  all of the above
g. b and e

Quiz of the Day, March 10, 2017

Whom of the following was not a Cappadocian Father?

a. Basil the Great
b. Gregory of Nyssa
c. Macrina
d. Gregory of Nazianzus

Quiz of the Day, March 9, 2017

Why were there two sets of the 10 commandments written on stone tablets?

a. one for the ark and one for public display
b. one for the temple and one for the shrine in Shiloh
c. Moses, in anger about the golden calf, broke the first tablet
d. one copy was on earth, the other in heaven


Quiz of the Day, March 8, 2017

In which Gospel(s) does Jesus invite his followers to eat his flesh and drink his blood?

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, March 7, 2017

Where were Perpetua, Felicity, Revocatus, Secundus and Saturnius martyred in 202?

a. Alexandria
b. Timbuktu
c. Carthage
d. Rome

Quiz of the Day, March 6, 2017

The phrase "born again" derives from a dialogical discourse of Jesus with whom?

a. Peter
b. Thomas
c. Nicodemus
d. Mary of Bethany

Quiz of the Day, March 5, 2017

Which of the following is not a biblical name or agent of the evil one?

a. Satan
b. the Devil
c. the Anti-Christ
d. Mephistopheles
e. Lucifer
f. the Beast
g. the false prophet


Quiz of the Day, March 4, 2017

Which of the following is not true of Paul Cuffee?

a. He was a Shinnecock Indian
b. He is on the Episcopal Calendar of saints
c. He was an Episcopal priest
d. He was a Presbyterian minister


Quiz of the Day, March 3, 2017

How did the Methodists receive their name?

a. John and Charles Wesley conceived it
b. Oxford students branded the Wesley's "holy club" as a group of Methodists referring to their rule of life
c. John Wesley conceived of it when at the Oglethorpe colony in Georgia
d. It came from the Quaker friends of the Wesleys

Quiz of the Day, March 2, 2017

A responsorial prayer is called what?

a. Kyrie
b. Intercession
c. Litany
d. Antiphon


Quiz of the Day, March 1, 2017

How many Fasts are prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer for the church year?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

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