Quiz of the Day, February 2024

Quiz of the Day, February 29, 2024

In the parable of the sower, the seed did not fall

a. on a path

b. on rocky ground

c. on good soil

d. among thorns

e. among weeds

Quiz of the Day, February 28, 2024

According to the words of Jesus, the kingdom of God was communicated in parables because

a. it was a secret

b. the indirect method of communication was effective

c. uneducated people only understand stories

d. story telling was the prime mode of educating people in the time of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, February 27, 2024

Of the following, who delivered a man over to Satan?

a. Peter

b. Barnabas

c. Paul

d. Simon Magus

Quiz of the Day, February 26, 2024

Which two heads of the 12 tribes of Israel were not sons of Jacob and had Egyptian lineage?

a. Reuben and Asher

b. Ephraim and Judah

c. Benjamin and Manasseh

d. Ephraim and Manasseh

Quiz of the Day, February 25, 2024

Of the following, who had a dream about fat cows and skinny cows?

a. Daniel

b. Nebuchadnezzar

c. Joseph

d. Pharaoh

Quiz of the Day, February 24, 2024

A citation from what book in the Hebrew Scriptures was given for replacing Judas Iscariot with Matthias?

a. Isaiah

b. Job

c. Psalms

d. 2 Samuel

Quiz of the Day, February 23, 2024

Of the following, who was not a biblical dreamer?

a. Pharaoh

b. Joseph of Nazareth

c. Joseph son of Jacob

d. Jacob

e. David

f. Solomon

g.Nebuchadnezzar 

Quiz of the Day, February 22, 2024

Joseph was not

a. overseer of an Egyptian household

b. a prisoner who oversaw the rest of the prisoner

c. an Egyptian minister who over saw the commerce of Egypt

d. the overseer of the synagogue in Egypt

Quiz of the Day, February 21, 2024

Who sold Joseph to slave traders going to Egypt?

a. his brothers

b. the Ishmaelites

c. the Midianites

d. the Ammonites

Quiz of the Day, February 20, 2024

The Gospel of Mark begins with

a. the genealogy of Jesus through Mary

b. the genealogy of Jesus through Joseph

c. the birth of Jesus

d. the baptism of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, February 19, 2024

Of the following, who did not not do any shepherding?

a. Joseph

b. Abel

c. David

d. Solomon

e. Moses

Quiz of the Day, February 18, 2024

Which of the Gospels does not have an account of the temptation of Jesus?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, February 17, 2024

Janani Luwam was 

a. Ugandan

b. an Archbishop

c. a martyr

d. killed because of Idi Amin cruel reign

e. all the above

Quiz of the Day, February 16, 2024

From Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday, the number of days is

a. 40

b. 42

c. 44

d. 46

e. 47

Quiz of the Day, February 15, 2024

Jesus did not tell a parable about

a. a tax collector

b. a Pharisee

c. a leper

d. a Samaritan

e. a refiner

Quiz of the Day, February 14, 2024

To have been shriven on Shrove Tuesday means what?

a. to eat pancakes

b. to celebrate Mardi Gras

c. to perform significant act of penitence

d. to confess and receive absolution

Quiz of the Day, February 13, 2024

Where is it written, "Surely I am too stupid to be a human?"

a. Wisdom of Ben Sirach

b. Proverbs

c. Job

d. Psalms

Quiz of the Day, February 12, 2024

Which woman of the following does not have a "song" in the Bible?

a. Mary

b. Miriam

c. Deborah

d. Hannah

e. Ruth

Quiz of the Day, February 11, 2024

The New Testament Greek word for transfiguration sounds more like what word in English?

a. change

b. alteration

c. metamorphosis

d. transformation

Quiz of the Day, February 10, 2024

Jesus met a woman of Samaria at a well.  Which of the following is not true about the well?

a. named after Jacob

b. was in Sychar

c. was in Shechem

d. it was on land given by Jacob to Benjamin

Quiz of the Day, February 9, 2024

When did the "Jacob's ladder" dream occur?

a. When Jacob was trying to escape Esau

b. When Jacob slept at Beth-el

c. When Jacob was on his way to Laban's household

d. all the above

Quiz of the Day, February 8, 2024

Who in the Bible is know as a "hairy man?"

a. Samson

b. Esau

c. Cain

d. Saul

Quiz of the Day, February 7, 2024

Of of the following, which were not twins?

a. Cain and Abel

b. Jacob and Esau

c. Thomas and twin sibling

d. Peraz and Zerah

Quiz of the Day, February 6, 2024

Which pericope in John's Gospel is regarded by scholars to be a late textual addition?

a. woman taken in adultery

b. changing water to wine

c. raising of Lazarus

d. doubting Thomas

Quiz of the Day, February 5, 2024

What biblical figure was named "Red?"

a. Joseph

b. Ruben

c. Esau

d. Ephraim

Quiz of the Day, February 4, 2024

Who is the apostle to the Scandinavians? 

a. Olaf

b. Boniface

c. Anskar

d. Wilfrid

Quiz of the Day, February 3, 2024

Of the following, which is not the wife of a biblical patriarch?

a. Sarah

b. Ruth

c. Rebekah

d. Rachel

e. Leah

Quiz of the Day, February 2, 2024

Which of the following does not happen liturgically on February 2nd?

a. the commemoration of the Presentation

b. Candlemas

c. the blessing of beeswax

d. the Naming of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, February 1, 2024

What Irish saint has a 1500 anniversary today?

a. Brendan

b. Columba

c. Patrick

d. Brigid