Quiz of the Day, August 2023

Quiz of the Day, August 31, 2023

What King suggested the surgical bisection of an infant to solve a dispute?

a. Ahab

b. Saul

c. David

d. Solomon

Quiz of the Day, August 30, 2023

Before David died, who was crowned king of Israel before Solomon?

a. Absalom

b. Jonathan

c. Mephibosheth

d. Adonijah

Quiz of the Day, August 29, 2023

In which Gospel is it mentioned that Salome requested the head of John the Baptist?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke 

d. John

e. none, Josephus is not a Gospel

Quiz of the Day, August 28, 2023

Which transliteration of Greek words is the word for life that Jesus asked his followers to lose or die to?

a. bios

b. zoe

c. psuche

d. sarks

Quiz of the Day, August 27, 2023

Which of the following was not cited as a sin of David?

a. taking census of the people

b. murder

c. adultery

d. dancing naked before the people

Quiz of the Day, August 26, 2023

The occupation of Puah and Shiphrah was what?

a. midwives

b. prophetess

c. judges

d. seers

Quiz of the Day, August 25, 2023

Bernice was

a. a convert from Antioch

b. a fellow minister with St. Paul

c. the wife of Agrippa

d. a leader in the church at Corinth

Quiz of the Day, August 24, 2023

In talking to whom did Jesus refer to himself as perhaps a ladder from heaven on which angels were ascending and descending?

a. John the Baptist

b. Philip

c. Nathanael

d. Peter

Quiz of the Day, August 23, 2023

How did Absalom die?

a. of old age

b. he accidentally hung himself by his long hair caught in a tree

c. three spears to the heart

d. an arrow struck him in battle

Quiz of the Day, August 22, 2023

Who raised the child Moses?

a. Pharaoh's daughter

b. Moses' mother

c. Moses' sister

d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 21, 2023

What would be implied if the forces of David killed more than twenty thousand of the forces of "Israel" rallied by Absalom's revolt?

a. the coup attempt was significant

b. writers perhaps exaggerated numbers

c. the reign of David has been over-romanticized as being a "perfect" model

d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 20, 2023

Of the following, who was not known in the Bible for their hair?

a. Cain

b Esau

c. Samson

d. Absalom

e. Those under the nazirite vow

Quiz of the Day, August 19, 2023

How did St. Paul avoid being flogged and stoned?

a. the intervention of angels

b. proclaiming his Roman citizenship

c. escaping on a ship

d. converting his enemies

Quiz of the Day, August 18, 2023

St. Paul was born in

a. Caesarea

b. Tarsus

c. Jerusalem

d. Corinth

Quiz of the Day, August 17, 2023

How many attempted coups were attempted against King David?

a. one

b. two

c. three

d. four

Quiz of the Day,  August 16, 2023

What person grew hair weighing 200 shekels in one year?

a. David

b. Saul

c. Samson

d. Absalom

Quiz of the August 15, 2023

In the story of Israel, what person was most response for Israelites becoming inhabitants of Egypt?

a. Jacob

b. Joseph

c. Reuben

d. the Pharaoh

Quiz of the Day, August 14, 2023

To whom did Jesus say, "It's not fair to take children's food and throw it to the dogs under the table?"

a. his disciples

b. a Canaanite woman who wanted her daughter healed

c. the Samaritan woman at the well

d. the Samaritan leper

Quiz of the Day, August 13, 2023

Who was the only daughter of King David?

a. Ruth

b. Tamar

c. Michal

d. Gomer

Quiz of the Day, August 12, 2023

What biblical person is known for falling asleep during a sermon and seeming to die, giving new meaning to "that was a killer sermon?"

a. Peter in the Garden of Gethsemane

b. Eutychus

c. bridesmaid in a parable of Jesus

d. Ananias

Quiz of the Day, August 11, 2023

Who confronted King David regarding his actions to take Bathsheba as his consort?

a. Samuel

b. Jonathan

c. Nathan

d. Michal

e. Abigail

Quiz of the Day, August 10, 2023

Leonard Cohen's song, Hallelujah, perhaps references which two biblical women?

a. Eve and Bathsheba

b. Abigail and Bathsheba

c. Bathsheba and Delilah

d. Jezebel and Delilah

Quiz of the Day, August 9, 2023

Which of the following in not true about Edith Stein?

a. she was Jewish

b. she converted to Christianity

c. she died in Auschwitz

d. she's on the Episcopal calendar of saints

e. she belong to a Third Order of Benedictines

Quiz of the Day, August 8, 2023

The Order of Preachers, O.P., derived from which saint?

a. Thomas Aquinas

b. Bernard Clairvaux

c. Benedict

d. Dominic

e. Francis of Assisi

Quiz of the Day, August 7, 2023

For Elijah, which of the following was an "act" of God?

a. fire

b. wind storm

c. earthquake

d. sheer silence

Quiz of the Day, August 6, 2023

How long was Moses on Mount Sinai to receive the Law?

a. 40 days and nights

b. 7 days and night

c. 80 days and nights, forty for each set of tablets

d. We don't know exactly how long he was there for the second set of tablets

Quiz of the Day, August 5, 2023

Where is the Areopogus?

a. Greece

b. Athens

c. Mars Hill

d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 4, 2023

Where was King David's investiture?

a. Bethlehem

b. Mount Zion in Jerusalem

c. Shrine a Shiloh

d. Hebron

Quiz of the Day, August 3, 2023

Mephibosheth was an heir of what king of Israel?

a. Solomon

b. David

c. Saul

d. Ahah

Quiz of the Day, August 2, 2023

Which the following does not have a shining presence in the biblical accounts?

a. The Lord

b. Jesus

c. Moses

d. the wise person

e. Lucifer

f.  Angels

g. Ezekiel

Quiz of the Day, August 1, 2023

Which of David's wives was taken away from him and later returned?

a. Bathsheba

b. Michal

c. Abigail

d. Maacah

e. Haggith

f.  Abital

h. Eglah