Sunday, June 30, 2019

Quiz of the Day, June 2019

Quiz of the Day, June 30, 2019

The word messiah comes from what?

a. shepherd taking care of sheep
b. the warrior king David
c. pouring oil on the head
d. Handel's oratorio

Quiz of the Day, June 29, 2019

Which of the following are not feast days in the Episcopal Church?

a. Feast of St. Peter
b. Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul
c. Feast of the Confession of St. Peter
d. Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul
e. Feast of St. Paul
d. c and d
e. a and e

Quiz of the Day, June 28, 2019

Why did Saul initially seek Samuel for his services?

a. to offer prayers for his sick father
b. to adjudicate a dispute with his neighbor, since Samuel was a judge
c. to get help finding his lost donkeys, since Samuel was a seer
d. to pay his tithe to the shrine

Quiz of the Day, June 27, 2019

What was the most serious warning that Samuel warned about when the people of Israel clamored to have a king?

a. a king would protect with a standing army
b. a king would draft your sons into the army
c. a king would be a kleptocrat
d. a king would demand a court with dancers and musicians

Quiz of the Day, June 26, 2019

Who set the stone which was named "Ebenezer?"

a. Dickens
b. David
c. Samuel
d. Samson

Quiz of the Day, June 25, 2019

Who wrote the "African American National Anthem," "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"

a. James Weldon Johnson
b. Frederick Douglass
c. Rosamond Johnson
d. all of the above
e. a and c

Quiz of the Day, June 24, 2019

In the contrast of miraculous birth or marvelous birth, which of the following stands out as uniquely different?

a. Moses
b. Isaac
c. Samuel
d. John the Baptist
e. Jesus

Quiz of the Day, June 23, 2019

Why is Ichabod not a happy name?

a. it means darkness
b. it was the name of a fated warrior
c. it was the name of a headless man who received a pumpkin as a head
d. it means the glory has departed from Israel

Quiz of the Day, June 22, 2019

Who is Ananias in the Acts of the Apostles?

a. the man who lied
b. the man who received Saul into the fellowship of the followers of Jesus
c. the man was married to Sapphira
d. the man who came to immediate death for lying
e. a,c, and d
f.  a-d, because there are two Ananias' in Acts of the Apostles

Quiz of the Day, June 21, 2019

Deborah, Eli, Gideon, Samuel, Samson and Ehud share what title?

a.  priest
b.  high priest
c.  judge
d.  commander
e.  scribe

Quiz of the Day, June 20, 2019

Which composer wrote a score, "Fantasia on a Theme from Thomas Tallis?"

a. Purcell
b. Clarke
c. Elgar
d. Vaughan Williams
e. Handel
f.  Holst

Quiz of the Day, June 19, 2019

What are the names of the two corrupt sons of the priest Eli?

a. Korah
b. Hophni
c. Shimeon
d. Phineas
e. a and c
f. b and d
g. c and d


Quiz of the Day, June 18, 2019

Eli was a mentor for whom?

a. David
b. Samuel
c. Elkanah
d. Hannah

Quiz of the Day, June 17, 2019

Samson and Samuel lived under the vow of the nazirite. Which of the following is not included in that vow?

a. marriage
b. uncut hair
c. no wine
d. no intoxicants

Quiz of Day, June 16, 2019

Which of the following was not a result of the Council of Nicaea?

a. universal agreement about the Trinity throughout the church
b. excommunication of more than half of the Christians in the world
c. the cursing (anathamatizing) of all persons who believed differently from the Nicaean official pronouncements
d. the production of what has come to be called the Nicene Creed

Quiz of the Day, June 15, 2019

Who of the following Anglicans, made "Mysticism" an acceptable designation for spiritual experience?

a. Julian of Norwich
b. Margery Kempe
c. Evelyn Underhill
d. C.S. Lewis

Quiz of the Day, June 14, 2019

Of the Cappadocian Fathers, who is called "the Great?"

a. Gregory of Nyssa
b. Basil of Caeserea
c. Gregory of Nazianzus
d. Peter of Sebaste

Quiz of the Day, June 13, 2019

Which English apologist wrote the Father Brown mystery stories?

a. C.S. Lewis
b. Charles William
c. Malcolm Muggeridge
d. G.K. Chesterton
e. J.R.R.Tolkien
f.  T.S. Eliot

Quiz of the Day, June 12, 2019

Who was Enmegahbowh?

a. Constantine's favorite Bishop
b. First recognized Native American Episcopal priest
c. An Apache deacon in the 19th century
d. a Huron priest

Quiz of the Day, June 11, 2019

Barnabas was a missionary companion of

a. Paul only
b. Paul and Silas
c. Paul and John Mark
d. John Mark only

Quiz of the Day, June 10, 2019

Which of the following feast is to be observed near Pentecost?

a. Conversion of Paul
b. Confession of Peter
c. First Book of Common Prayer
d. Cyril and Methodius

Quiz of the Day, June 9, 2019

The seven-fold gifts of the Spirit are found listed where in the Bible?

a. Psalms
b. 1 Corinthians
c. Isaiah
d. Romans


Quiz of the Day,  June 8, 2019

Which Gospel includes the account of the raising of Lazarus from the dead?

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

Quiz of the Day, June 7, 2019

Which of the following is true about the account of the event of Pentecost?

a. Gentiles in Jerusalem heard the Gospel in their own language
b. Jews, who had come to Jerusalem,  who had been born in the diaspora heard the Gospel in the language of their diaspora locations
c. the languages were unknown languages of angels
d. there were actual burning tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples which seared their hair

Quiz of the Day, June 6, 2019

The parable of the Good Samaritan is about

a. neighboring
b. hypocrisy
c. sins of the priests
d. xenophobia

Quiz of the Day, June 5, 2019

Which saint converted pagans by chopping down their sacred oak tree in defiance of their chief god?

a. Wilfrid
b. Cyril
c. Methodius
d. Boniface

Quiz of the Day, June 4, 2019

Which modern day Pope appeared on the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church before he was "sainted" by the Vatican?

a. John Paul II
b. Pious XII
c. Paul VI
d. John XXIII

Quiz of the Day, June 3, 2019

The Day of Pentecost provides a connection with portions of the Hebrew Scripture except one of the following:

a. Joel's predication of the pouring out of God's Spirit on all flesh
b. the tower of Babel
c. the Psalm's "let all the people praise Thee"
d. Noah's Ark

Quiz of the Day, June 2, 2019

In what book of the Bible are the words "I am the Alpha and the Omega," heard to be uttered?

a. Jude
b. Revelations
c. Acts of the Apostles
d. Hebrews

Quiz of the Day, June 1, 2019


With his notion of the "logos" what could claim about Plato?

a. he influence the Hebrew Scriptures
b. he was an "unknowing Christian"
c. he predicted the Christ event
d. he provided the foundation for the New Testament writings

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