Quiz of the Day, December 2020

Quiz of the Day, December 31, 2020

Which is not a reason for the Magi being referred to as three kings?

a. the Gospel of Matthew

b. the three gifts

c. passages in the Hebrew Scriptures

d. a famous carol, "We Three Kings"

Quiz of the Day, December 30, 2020

For what saint would one make a pilgrimage to Canterbury for as Chaucer wrote about in the Canterbury Tales?

a. Lanfranc

b. Theodore of Tarsus

c. Augustine of Canterbury

d. Thomas a Becket

Quiz of the Day, December 29, 2020

In the event of the Holy Innocents, Herod parallels the role of what tyrant from Hebrew Scriptures?

a. Ahab

b. Darius

c. Haman

d. the Pharoah

Quiz of the Day, December 28, 2020

What identity of John the Evangelist, according to scholars is least likely?

a. Son of Zebedee

b. perhaps the Beloved Disciple of John's Gospel

c. a mentor for Polycarp

d. John the Divine, author of the book of Revelations

Quiz of the Day, December 27, 2020

Which Gospels do not have the infancy narratives?

a. John and Matthew

b. Luke and Mark

c. Matthew and Luke

d. Mark and John

Quiz of the Day, December 26, 2020

What Feast coincides with "Boxing Day?"

a. St. John the Evangelist

b. Holy Innocents

c. St. Thomas the Apostle

d. St. Stephen

Quiz of the Day, December 25, 2020

Which of the following is not associated with the Christmas Carol, "Joy to the World?"

a. Handel

b. Antioch

c. Purcell

d. Watt

Quiz of the Day, December 24, 2020

Where is utopia to be found?

a. Isaiah

b. Revelation

c. Ezekiel

d. Thomas More

Quiz of the Day, December 23, 2020

Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, was from what priestly order?

a. Zadok

b. Levi

c. Kohan

d. Abijah

e. Melchizedek

Quiz of the Day, December 22, 2020

What is the "lake of fire?"

a.  the place where Hades and Death will be thrown

b. the second death

c. part of the vision of John the Divine

d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, December 21, 2021

Which of the following is not true about Thomas, the disciple?

a. he was named Didymus

b. he was called the "twin"

c. he has become known as a famous doubter

d. he is believed to be an apostle to India

e. he has a Gospel with his name

f.  he is the patron saint of Teaneck, NJ

Quiz of the Day, December 20, 2020

Which of the following is not true about the first Temple?

a. God told David to build a Temple

b. Solomon built the Temple

c. the first Temple was in Shiloh

d. David could not build the Temple because he was a man of war, with blood on his hands

Quiz of the Day, December 19, 2020

In which Gospel can the four Canticles be found?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 18, 2020

Who is Jesus say John the Baptist was?

a. the one to prepare the way

b. a voice crying in the wilderness

c. Elijah

d. the refiner's fire

Quiz of the Day, December 17, 2020

Which of the following is not a book written by Dorothy Sayers?

a. A Wrinkle in Time

b. Lord Peter Wimsey

c. Whose Body?

d. Cloud of Witnesses

Quiz of the Day, December 16, 2020

What is the relation be the words parthenos and almah?

a. parthenos is the Greek word for virgin

b. almah is the Hebrew word for young woman

c. The Septuagint translates almah as parthenos

d. The Gospels use the parthenos meaning for Isaiah and not the almah meaning

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, December 15, 2020

In which town did the angel Gabriel encounter Mary?

a. Bethlehem

b. Capernaum

c. Nazareth

d. Bethany

Quiz of the Day, December 14, 2020

Of the following, who is not a Carmelite saint?

a. John of the Cross

b. Ignatius Loyola

c. Teresa of Avila

d. Therese of Lisieux

Quiz of the Day, December 13, 2020

In which Passion narrative does Jesus tell his followers to purchase a sword?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 12, 2020

Who is Juan Diego?

a. a 14th century Carmelite saint

b. recipient of the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe

c. recipient of the appearance of Our Lady of Fatima

d. Founder of a Californian Mission

Quiz of the Day, December 11, 2020

Which of the following is not true regarding Hanukkah?

a. it is the feast of the re-dedication of the Temple

b. the originating event happened during the time of Maccabees

c. the ritual involves lighting of the Menorah

d. you can read about it in canonical Hebrew Scriptures of the Jews

Quiz of the Day, December 10, 2020

The biblical land of Aram is in what modern day country?

a. Israel

b. Lebanon

c. Turkey

d. Jordan

e. Syria

Quiz of the Day, December 9, 2020

Who was drafted to be a bishop before he was even baptized?

a. Augustine of Hippo

b. Leo the Great

c. Ambrose

d. Gregory Nazianzus

Quiz of the Day, December 8, 2020

St. Nicholas of Myra is not the patron saint of

a. Greece

b. sailors

c. Christmas

d. children

e. repentant thieves

f. archers

g. prostitutes

h. students

i. merchants

j  brewers

Quiz of the Day, December 7, 2020

Why is the third Sunday in Advent different than the other Sundays?

a. it's called Rose Sunday

b. it's called gaudete Sunday

c. the third Advent Candle is rose or pink

d. the vestments can be rose on this Sunday

e. it is the equivalent of Laetare

f.  it symbolizes a lessening of penitential piety

g. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, December 6, 2020

Which Gospel indicates that John the Baptist and Jesus were related through their mothers?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 5, 2020

Where did the saint who morphed into Sinterclaus, Baba Noel, Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Chris Kringle and more, hail from?

a. Ephesus

b. Myra

c. Alexandria

d. Cappadocia

Quiz of the Day, December 4, 2020

What does the "widow's mite" refer to?

a. Jesus' comment on the sacrificial gift of a widow in the Temple

b. the poverty of a widow

c. the "mite box" giving method of the church

d. Peter's pence

Quiz of the Day, December 3, 2020

Which founder of the Jesuits was a missionary to India?

a. Ignatius Loyola

b. Peter Faber

c. Francis Xavier

d. Alfonso Salmeron

Quiz of the Day, December 2, 2020

What does Zion mean?

a. specific mount in Jerusalem

b. a poetic synonym for Jerusalem

c. a synecdoche for Israel

d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, December 1, 2020

Nicholas Ferrar is associated with Little Gidding; who memorialized Little Gidding in verse?

a. Charles Williams
b. J.R.R. Tolkien
c. G.K. Chesterton
d. T. S. Eliot