Quiz of the Day, November 2023

Quiz of the Day, November 30, 2023

Who was Simon Peter's brother?

a. James

b. Philip

c. Andrew

d. Thaddaeus

Quiz of the Day, November 29, 2023

Apocalyptic can mean

a. things eschatological

b. referring to the Book of Revelations

c. end of the world

d. an unveiling

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, November 28, 2023

What has America given to the Episcopal calendar of saints?

a. a president saint

b. a senator saint

c. a governor saint

d. king and queen saints

Quiz of the Day, November 27, 2023

What does the Matthean exception refer to?

a. alternate beatitude to Luke

b. alternate Lord's Prayer to Luke

c. divorce permission

d. circumcision

Quiz of the Day, November 26, 2023

The Feast of Christ the King is

a. the Last Sunday after Pentecost

b. the Last Sunday after the Epiphany

c. the First Sunday of Advent

d. the Sunday closest to January 1st

Quiz of the Day, November 25, 2023

The prophet Ezekiel wrote that a shepherd would be set up to feed a future people of Israel.  Who was this promised shepherd?

a. Moses

b. Joshua

c. the Messiah

d. David

Quiz of the Day, November 24, 2023

What did the Maccabees do with the desecrated Temple altar?

a. had the priests do a purification ritual

b. tear it down and build a new one

c. place a menorah on it

d. removed the altar stones from Jerusalem

Quiz of the Day, November 23, 2023

What biblical record to we have of Jesus receiving money?

a. from over turned tables in the Temple

b. from Zacchaeus

c. from the mouth of a fish

d. from Judas the treasurer

Quiz of the Day, November 22, 2023

Of the following, who wrote science fiction?

a. G.K. Chesterton

b. Charles Williams

c. C.S. Lewis

d. Evelyn Underhill

Quiz of the Day, November 21, 2023

The metaphor of Alpha and Omega is used for one seated upon the throne in which biblical book?

a. Psalms

b. Isaiah

c. Daniel

d. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 20, 2023

Which nations are organized by Satan for the great battle in the visionary book of Revelation?

a. Assyria and Persia

b. Elam and Medes

c. Greece and Egypt

d. Gog and Magog

Quiz of the Day, November 19, 2023

Who died with a tent peg driven into his skull?

a. Saul

b. Goliath

c. Sisera

d. Ahab

Quiz of the Day, November 18, 2023

The surname of Judah Maccabee means what?

a. the sword

b. the hammer

c. the light

d. the faithful

Quiz of the Day, November 17, 2023

Which of the following books does not refer to the desolating sacrilege?

a. Maccabees

b. Daniel

c. Jude

d. Matthew

e. Mark

Quiz of the Day, November 16, 2023

The great foe of the Maccabees was

a. Alexander the Great

b. Ptolemy

c. Antiochus Epiphanes

d. Darius

Quiz of the Day, November 15, 2023

How many times does the story of the feeding of the multitude appear in the four canonical Gospels?

a. 3 times

b. 4 times

c. 5 times

d. 6 times

Quiz of the Day, November 14, 2023

Of the following, who is the only female judge of Israel?

a. Ruth

b. Rahab

c  Deborah

d. Judith

e. Miriam

Quiz of the Day, November 13, 2023

In which of the following books does Babylon stand as a symbol rather than an actual city?

a. Daniel

b. Ezekiel

c. Jeremiah

d. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 12, 2023

Ezra rebuked the men of Judah

a. for not building the walls

b. for not refurbishing the Temple

c. for marrying foreign women

d. for compromising with Sanballat and Tobiah

Quiz of the Day, November 11, 2023

What patron saint of soldiers day of commemoration is on Veterans' Day?

a. Joan of Arc

b. St. Martin of Tours

c. St. Ignatius Loyola

c. St. George

Quiz of the Day, November 10, 2023

What pope is associated with Attila the Hun?

a. Leo the Great

b. Gregory the Great

c. Boniface I

d. Innocent I

Quiz of the Day, November 9, 2023

The king of Persia gave to whom, power beyond the Great River?

a. Nehemiah

b. Zerubbabel

c. Ezra

d. Sanballat

Quiz of the Day, November 8, 2023

What might be called the gateway to the Land of Promise for Joshua and the people of Israel?

a. Mt. Nebo

b. the Red Sea

c. the Jordan River

d. the Dead Sea

Quiz of the Day, November 7, 2023

Nehemiah dedicated

a. the first Temple

b. the second Temple

c. the third Temple

d. the Shiloh Shrine

Quiz of the Day, November 6, 2023

Sanballat accused Nehemiah of wanting to be what?

a. a king of Judah

b. a spy of the Persian

c. a conspirator with the Arabs

d. a spy with the Egyptians

Quiz of the Day, November 5, 2023

The biblical Eutychus is known for what?

a. sleeping during a sermon

b. falling out of a window during a sermon

c. taken for dead during a sermon

d. revived to life after a sermon

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, November 4, 2023

Haman, Tobiah, and Sanballat might be regarded as

a. infamous persons/foes for the Jews

b. helpful people

c. persons who were call God-fearers

d. escapees from Jericho

Quiz of the Day, November 3, 2023

What king sent Nehemiah back to Judah to rebuild the city and Temple?

a. Cyrus

b. Darius

c. Xerxes

d. Artaxerxes 

Quiz of the Day, November 2, 2023

What was the prophet Nehemiah's job in Susa?

a. sommelier secret service for Darius

b. chief counselor to Darius

c. chief rabbi of the Susa synagogue

d. translator for Darius

Quiz of the Day, November 1, 2023

Which writing before the New Testament makes reference to the Son of God placing crowns on the heads of an immortal throng?

a. Psalms

b. Ezekiel

c. Isaiah

d. 2 Esdras