Quiz of the Day, September 2019

Quiz of the Day, September 30, 2019

Which of following angels is not included in the canonical books of the Bible?

A. Gabriel
B. Uriel
C. Raphael
D. Michael

Quiz of the Day, September 29, 2019

In the causality answers of the Hebrew Scriptures, why did the people of Israel get carried away into captivity and the temple destroyed?

A. The strength of the invading armies of Assyria
B. The strength of the Babylonian armies
C. The failure of the people of Israel to keep the commandments
D. The strength of the Persian armies

Quiz of the Day, September 28, 2019

Of the following, whom might be considered a queen of Israel?

A. Jezebel
B. Athaliah
C. Deborah
D. Bathsheba

Quiz of the Day, September 27, 2019

What did Jesus warn about regarding prayer before he introduced the “Our Father?”

A. Prayer as empty phrases
B. Prayer as the Gentiles pray
C. Prayer as volume of words
D. All of the above

Quiz of the Day, September 26, 2019

Who anointed Jehu as king of Israel?

A. Elijah
B. Elisha
C. Samuel
D. A protege prophet of Elisha

Quiz of the Day, September 25, 2019

“Turn the other cheek,” is found where?

A. In the New Testament
B. In the Gospel of Matthew
C. In the Sermon on the Mount
D. All of the above

Quiz of the Day, September 24, 2019

Whose servant was Gehazi?

A. Elijah’s
B. Abraham’s
C. Elisha’s
D. David’s

Quiz of the Day, September 23, 2019

Which of the following is not true of Naaman?

A. He was an Assyrian general healed of leprosy by Elisha’s ministry
B. He is referred to by Jesus in the Gospel
C. He is not mentioned in the New Testament
D. He is a symbol of “foreigners” or Gentiles having access to God’s healing grace

Quiz of the Day, September 22, 2019

Which of the following did not occur in the days after Saul was converted?

A. He went blind
B. He received his sight
C. He preached in the Damascus synagogues
D. He fell off a horse
E. He escaped the city being lowered in a basket 

Quiz of the Day, September 21, 2019

The Book of Job might be called a “theodicy.”  What is a theodicy?

A. a document about the suffering caused by God
B. The defense of God as creator
C. The defense of divine intervention
D. The justification of belief in God in spite of problem evil and innocent suffering

Quiz of the Day, September 20, 2019

Who was called the “Tishbite?”

A. Jeremiah
B. Amos
C. Micah
D. Elijah

Quiz of the Day, September 19, 2019

Dag Hammarskjold was

A. Post-humous Nobel Peace Prize Winner
B. A UN Secretary-General
C. Put on the Episcopal Calendar of Saints
D. Swedish
E. All of the Above

Quiz of the Day, September 18, 2019

The Jehoshaphat of the phrase “jumpin’ Jehoshaphat” is who?

A. A king of Israel
B. A book of the Apocrypha
C. A king of Judah
D. An Assyrian king

Quiz of the Day, September 17, 2019

Who had 26 divine visitations and wrote a book about them?

A. Julian of Norwich
B. Teresa of Avila
C. Madame Guynn
D. Hildegard

Quiz of the Day, September 16, 2019

What did Chloe report to St. Paul?

A. Progress in the Corinthian church
B. Quarreling in the Corinthian church
C. The success of the ministry of Apollos
D. The departure of Barnabas

Quiz of the Day, September 15, 2019

Which of the following might be call the Gameliel principle?

A. If you snooze you lose
B. If something endures, it is a sign of God’s will
C. God helps those who help themselves
D. Good things come to those who wait

Quiz of the Day, September 14, 2019

Whom of the following is most responsible for the Feast of the Holy Cross?

a. Monica
b. St. Paul
c. Helena
d. Athanasius

Quiz of the Day, September 13, 2019

Of the following, whom has a collect in his name in Morning Prayer?

a. St.Basil
b. Thomas Cranmer
c. Richard Hooker
d. St.John Chrysostom



Quiz of the Day, September 12, 2019

How many prophets of Baal and Asherah did the prophet Elijah challenge to a "holy duel" on Mount Carmel?

a. 100
b. 500
c. 400
d. 800

Quiz of the Day, September 11, 2019

Which prophet had to "deal" with King Ahab?

a. Elisha
b. Elijah
c. Hosea
d. Isaiah

Quiz of the Day, September 10, 2019

What Melville character had the same name as the husband of Jezebel?

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

Quiz of the Day, September 9, 2019

Lois was the grandmother of whom?

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

Quiz of the Day, September 8, 2019

Who set up shrines in Bethel and Dan to replace Jerusalem for the people in Northern Israel?

a. Solomon
b. Rehoboam
c. Jeroboam
d. Ahab

Quiz of the Day, September 7, 2019

Which of the following is not true regarding Rehoboam?

a. he succeeded his father Solomon as King
b. he was the brother of Jeroboam, the king of the northern kingdom
c. Israel  separated from Judah during his reign
d. some Israelites resided within the territory of Judah in his reign

Quiz of the Day, September 6, 2019

What happened to Jeroboam, a servant of King Solomon?

a. he became the next king of Israel
b. he became the king of Judah
c. he became the king of Jerusalem
d. he became the high priest of the temple

Quiz of the Day, September 5, 2019

Which biblical person is reported to have had as wives seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines?

a. David
b. Samson
c. Ahab
d. Solomon
e. Cyrus
f.  Xerxes

Quiz of the Day, September 4, 2019

Who of the following did not regard Jesus of Nazareth to be primarily an apocalyptic prophet preaching an imminent end of the world?

a. E.P. Sanders
b. Albert Schweitzer
c. Bart Ehrman
d. Scholars of the Jesus Seminar
e. Alan Segal

Quiz of the Day, September 3, 2019

Which of the following proposed that faith without works is dead?

a. Paul's Epistle to the Romans
b. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
c. The Epistle of James
d. The Book of Revelation

Quiz of the Day, September 2, 2019

Who of the following is not listed in Paul's letter to Philemon?

a. Paul
b. Titus
c. Timothy
d. Onesimus
e. Archippus
f.  Apphia
g. Philemon

Quiz of the Day, September 1, 2019

Which temple was the temple of Solomon?

a. the first
b. the second
c. the third
d. the last