Quiz of the Day, January 2022

Quiz of the Day, January 31, 2022

In the words of Jesus about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, his inference pertained to what cause?

a. the sexual practices

b. the persecution of Lot

c. the inhospitality to God and God's messengers

d. the hostility to Abraham

Quiz of the Day, January 30, 2022

Why did Abraham bargain with God in prayer?

a. he wanted a daughter and a son from God

b. he didn't want God to destroy Sodom

c. he wanted God to save Ishmael

d. he wanted to teach his nephew Lot a lesson

Quiz of the Day, January 29, 2022

What does the name Isaac mean?

a. God's promised son

b. son of the covenant

c. laughter

d. we doubted God

Quiz of the Day, January 28, 2022

Who was the most prolific writer of what is called "Scholasticism?"

a. Albert Magnus

b. Anselm

c. Abelard

d. Thomas Aquinas

Quiz of the Day, January 27, 2022

In the biblical story, the rite of circumcision began with whom?

a. Adam

b. Seth

c. Noah

d. Shem

e. Abraham

f. Moses

Quiz of the Day, January 26, 2022

Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, who became the second wife of Abram, was from where?

a. Arabia

b. Egypt

c. Ur of the Chaldees

d. Canaan

Quiz of the Day, January 25, 2022

Of the following, which is something that we're not certain about regarding St. Paul?

a. he was from Tarsus

b. he was a Pharisee

c. he was a rabbi

d. he was a tentmaker

e. he persecuted the followers of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, January 24, 2022

Who was  the king/priest model for Jesus according to the Epistle to the Hebrews?

a. Aaron the High Priest

b. David

c. Samuel

d. Melchizedek, King of Salem

 Quiz of the Day, January 23, 2022

Of the following, who was not related to Abraham?

a. Isaac

b. Ishmael

c. Lot

d. Eliezer

Quiz of the Day, January 22, 2022

How did Abram introduce Sarai to the Pharaoh?

a. as the Queen of Ur of the Chaldees

b. as his second wife

c. as his daughter

d. as his sister

Quiz of the Day, January 21, 2022

Who was Terah?

a. the father of Abram

b. the father of Lot

c. the father of Sarai

d. the father of Jesse

Quiz of the Day, January 20, 2022

What might be called the biblical "ziggurat?"

a. Zion

b the holy Temple

c. the tower of Babel

d. Mt. Sinai

Quiz of the Day, January 19, 2022

According to biblical genealogy, how was Israel and Canaan related?

a. through Abraham

b. through Jacob

c. through the sons of Noah

d. through Obed

Quiz of the Day, January 18, 2022

What was the results of the confession of Peter about Jesus as the Christ?

a. he did not understand his confession

b. his confession was not by human insights

c. he was rebuked by Jesus for his "Satanic" understanding

d. he was praised by Jesus for his confession

e. he was told the church would be build on him and his confession

f.  all of the above

Quiz of the Day, January 17, 2022

How did Noah know that the Flood waters were subsiding?

a. he saw the mountain tops

b. he noticed that the ark was going down

c. he sent a dove who brought back an olive leaf

d. God told him

Quiz of the Day, January 16, 2022

The number forty is not associated with

a. the duration of the rain for the great Flood

b. the number of years Israel wandered in the wilderness

c. the number of days that Jesus fasted

d. the number of days of writing of the Revelation of John the Divine

e. the number of days that Moses was on Mt. Sinai

Quiz of the Day, January 15, 2022

The term Semite derives from

a. the name of the third son of Adam

b. the name of a son of Noah

c. the name of a tribe of Israel

d. the name of a city in Israel

Quiz of the Day, January 14, 2022

What were giant hybrid humanoid beings called in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. angels

b. Samsons

c. nazirites

d. Nephilim

Quiz of the Day, January 13, 2022

Who said, " Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

a. Philip

b. Samaritan woman at the well

c. Nathaniel

d. Nicodemus

Quiz of the Day, January 12, 2022

Who are biblical first three sons?

a. Cain, Abel, and Lamech

b. Cain, Abel, and Enos

c. Cain, Abel, and Shem

d. Cain, Able, and Seth

Quiz of the Day, January 11, 2022

What animal did God put in perpetual enmity with women?

a. pigs

b. Leviathans

c. snakes

d. rats

Quiz of the Day, January 10, 2022

Which of the following archbishops of Canterbury was not martyred?

a. William Laud

b. Thomas Cranmer

c. Alphege

d. Thomas Becket

e. Augustine of Canterbury

Quiz of the Day, January 9, 2022

Which of the following is not "preferred" day for baptism in the Episcopal Church?

a. First Sunday after the Epiphany

b. Pentecost

c. Christmas

d. Easter Vigil

e. All Saints'

Quiz of the Day, January 8, 2022

What does Christ the Pantokrator mean?

a. the almighty ruler

b. the all and in all

c. the icon of God

d. the Suffering Redeemer

Quiz of the Day, January 7, 2022

Why do Orthodox churches have different dates for Christmas?

a. use of a lunar calendar

b. use of the Julian calendar

c. use of the Gregorian calendar

d. because of the ancient division with the Western Church

Quiz of the Day, January 6, 2022

Which of the following is true about the wise men?

a. they visited the baby Jesus at the stable

b. the Gospel of Matthew calls them "kings"

c. they visited Jesus in Bethlehem

d. the Gospel of Matthew states that there were three of them

Quiz of the Day, January 5, 2022

To whom did Jesus say, "I am resurrection and life?"

a. Mary of Bethany

b. Lazarus

c. Mary Magdalene

d. Martha

e. the 12 disciples

Quiz of the Quiz of the Day, January 4, 2022

Of the following who was not a convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism?

a. G.K. Chesterton

b. Cardinal Newman

c. Elizabeth Seton

d. Thomas Merton

e. C. S. Lewis

Quiz of the Day, January 3, 2021

Which prophet had a theophany which included wind, earthquake, fire, and silence in sequence?

a. Moses

b. Ezekiel

c. Jeremiah

d. Elijah

Quiz of the Day, January 2, 2021

Another name for the Feast of the Holy Name is

a. Purification

b. Dedication of Jesus

c. Circumcision

d. Sacrifice

Quiz of the Day, January 1, 2022

Where is it written that "death will be no more?"

a. Genesis

b. Psalms

c. Isaiah

d. Revelations