Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Quiz of the Day, July 2019

Quiz of the Day, July 31, 2019

Which of the following is not true regarding Ignatius Loyola?

a. He was a soldier and fought in war with France
b. his conversion involved a vision of Madonna and Child
c. He was the sole founder of the Society of Jesus, the "Jesuits"
d. His order was crucial in the Counter-Reformation

Quiz of the Day, July 30, 2019

What is William Wilberforce best known for?

a. being a member of Parliament
b. being an Evangelical Anglican
c. being against the slave trade
d. his relationship with John Bunyan

Quiz of the Day, July 29, 2019

Who did Herod think that Jesus was?

a. Elijah
b. Moses
c. The Messiah
d. John the Baptist raised from the dead

Quiz of the Day, July 28, 2019

About whom did David sing, "your love was wonderful, surpassing the love of women?"

a. Absalom
b. Jonathan
c. Bathsheba
d. God

Quiz of the Day, July 27, 2019

In which Gospel does Jesus and the disciple not cast out demons?

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

Quiz of the Day, July 26, 2019

Where is the information on the parents of the Virgin Mary found?

a. Apocryphal Gospel of Anne and Joachim
b. Matthew
c. Luke
d. The Protoevangelium of James

Quiz of the Day, July 25, 2019

Who is the patron saint of Spain?

a. Santiago
b. James, son of Zebedee
c. James, the Greater
d. One of the "sons of thunder,"
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 24, 2019

Which of the following are true about Abigail and Bathsheba?

a. They were wives of David
b. They married David after their first spouses died 
c. They both bore children for David
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 23, 2019

Who was the husband of Abigail?

a. David
b. Jethro
c. Moses
d. Nabal
e. a and d

Quiz of the Day, July 22, 3019

The word maudlin meaning weepy pity derives from what saint?

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

Quiz of the of the Day, July 21, 2019

Who took communion on the moon?

a. Armstrong
b. Bean
c. Conrad
d. Aldrin

Quiz of the Day, July 20, 2019

What Episcopal saint is associated with women's undergarments?

a. Harriet Tubman
b. Amelia Bloomer
c. Sojourner Truth
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Quiz of the Day, July 19, 2019

What did David receive from the priest Abimelech?

a. the holy bread of the Presence
b. the budding rod of Moses
c. the sword of Jonathan
d. the sword of Goliath
e. b and c
f. a and d

Quiz of the Day, July 18, 2019

Jonathan, son of Saul,

a. was to be a king of Israel
b. was the best friend of David
c. warned David to flee his father Saul
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 17, 2019

If George Washington might be called the political "father" of our country, who might be called the "father" of the Episcopal Church?

a. Bishop Samuel Seabury
b. Bishop Samuel Provoost
c. Bishop William White
d. Bishop Philander Chase

Quiz of the Day, July 16, 2019

What musical instrument did David play?

a. harp, according to the King James' translation
b. lyre, actually
c. psaltery, according to King James' translation
d. nevel
e. all of the above


Quiz of the Day, July 15, 2019

In what city is it said that the followers of Jesus were first called "Christians?"

a. Jerusalem
b. Rome
c. Antioch
d. Corinth

Quiz of the Day, July 14, 2019

Jesus said which of the following?

a. I, Christ am the fulfillment of the law
b. Love is the fulfillment of the law
c. not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 
d. without the law there is no sin

Quiz of the Day, July 13, 2019

How did David kill Goliath?

a. bow and arrow
b. sling shot
c. decapitation with a sword
d. spear

Quiz of the Day, July 12, 2019

What does the Gospel of Mark begin with?

a. In the beginning was the Word
b. the birth of Jesus narrative
c. the genealogy of Jesus
d. John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, July 11, 2019

Who is the "Father" of Western monasticism?

a. Dominic
b. Francis
c. Benedict
d. Anthony

Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2019

Who said, "Mortals look on outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart?"

a. Samuel to Jesse
b. the Lord to Samuel
c. Jesse to David
d. David to Goliath

Quiz of the Day, July 9, 2019

Joseph of Arimathea is the obvious patron saint for what profession?

a. jailers
b. lawyers
c. morticians
d. soldiers

Quiz of the Day, July 8, 2019

Why was Saul rejected by God as a worthy king of Israel?

a. David was preferred
b. Jonathan was an unworthy successor
c. Saul disobeyed the Lord
d. Saul spared and used some of the spoils of war
e. c and d

Quiz of the Day, July 7, 2019

Why was Saul going to kill his son Jonathan?

a. because he took David's side
b. because Jonathan inadvertently violated Saul's food ban
c. because he began a coup
d. Saul was jealous of Jonathan's prowess in battle

Quiz of the Day, July 6, 2019

Jan Hus was associated with which of the following views of the Holy Eucharist?

a. transubstantiation
b. consubstantiation
c. receptionism
d. symbolic presence
e. spiritual presence

Quiz of the Day, July 5, 2019

Where is it written about beating "swords into plowshares?"

a. Isaiah
b. Joel
c. Micah
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 4, 2019

The Fourth of July, Independence Day

a. is a feast day on the Episcopal liturgical calendar
b. whose collect was opposed by the first Presiding Bishop because of too many "Tory" clergy
c. did not become a Major Feast until the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 3, 2019

What ended the rule of Judges in Israel?

a. the sins of the sons of Eli
b. the death of Samuel
c. the failure of the sons of Samuel
d. the replace of the rule by judges with rule by king

Quiz of the Day, July 2, 2019

What is the sin of "simony?"

a. derived from Simon Magus
b. means the selling of offices (positions) of the church
c. originated from a story in the Acts of the Apostles
d. involved Simon being jealous for the gifts of the evangelist Philip, Peter & John
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 1, 2019

Of the following, who was present at the stoning of St. Stephen?

a. Peter
b. Saul of Tarsus
c. Philip
d. Cornelius

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