Saturday, August 31, 2024

Quiz of the Day, August 2024

Quiz of the Day, August 31, 2024

What saint is associate with the holy island of Lindisfarne?

a. Chad
b. Columba
c. Hilda
d. Aidan

Quiz of the Day, August 30, 2024

Which Epistle exhorts to be doers of the word and not hearers only?

a. 1 John
b. James
c. 1 Peter
d. 2 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, August 29, 2024

Of the following, who wrote the best known autobiography?

a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Augustine of Hippo
c. Augustine of Canterbury
d. Benedict of Nursia
e. John Chrysostom

Quiz of the Day, August 28, 2024

Of the following, who is not a woman in St. Augustine's life?

a. Monica
b. Justina
c. Una
d. Tacita
e. Helena

Quiz of the Day, August 27, 2024

Of the following, who is not one of Job's "friends?"

a. Eliphaz
b. Shuhite
c. Bildad
d. Zophar


Quiz of the Day, August 26, 2024

The "Song of Songs" is not

a. an erotic love poem 
b. a book which does not mention God's name
c. usually interpreted by Christians as a metaphor for one's relationship with God
d. about King Solomon and his lover

Quiz of the Day, August 25, 2024

The threefold cry, "Holy, Holy, Holy," is found where in the Bible?

a. Exodus and Revelation
b. Ezekiel and Revelation
c. Isaiah and Revelation
d. Psalms and Revelation 

Quiz of the Day, August 24, 2024

Nathaniel might also be 

a. Thaddaeus
b. Alphaeus
c. Bartholomew
d. John Mark

Quiz of the Day, August 23, 2024

Of the following, which does not apply to a theology of Eucharistic presence?

a. transubstantiation
b. consubstanitiation
c. receptionism
d. symbolic presence
e. spiritual presence
f.  verbalism

Quiz of the Day, August 22, 2024

In the Job story prologue, who does God discuss the fate of Job's life with?

a. Baal
b. Beelzebub
c. Astarte
d. Satan

Quiz of the Day, August 21, 2024

In which Gospel does Philip figure most prominent?

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

Quiz of the Day, August 20, 2024

What medieval preacher is known for his sermons on the Song of Songs?

a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Albert Magnus
c. Bernard of Clairvaux
d. Dominic

Quiz of the Day, August 19, 2024

What is not true about Micah in the Bible?

a. he was a prophet who wrote about love, justice, and mercy
b. there are two Micahs in the Bible
c. he made a silver idol and contracted a Levite to be a priest in his shrine
d. Samson was his father

Quiz of the Day, August 18, 2024

Why was Samson's uncut hair his strength?

a. he was superstitious
b. having a marvelous birth his was committed to the vow of the nazarite
c. he fought lions with long manes which became his "trademark"
d. long hair and strength is part of Hebrew mythology

Quiz of the Day, August 17, 2024

What woman's name became synonymous with "temptress" because of her association with Samson?

a. Bathsheba
b. Rahab
c. Gomer
d. Delilah
e. Jezebel

Quiz of the Day, August 16, 2024

Of the following, which was not a feat of Samson?

a. slaughtering a 1000 with the jawbone of an ass
b. killing a lion with his bare hands
c. floating an axe on a river
d. pulling down a building on himself and 3000 others

Quiz of the Day, August 15, 2024

August 15th is the Feast of Mary because it coincides with

a. Mary's birthdate
b. Mary immaculate conception date
c. Mary's commanding her son to deal with the wine shortage at a wedding feast
d. traditional date for celebrating the Assumption of Mary into heaven

Quiz of the Day, August 14, 2024

Of the following, who did not have a "marvelous" birth story?

a. John the Baptist
b. Isaac
c. Samuel
d. Samson
e. David

Quiz of the Day, August 13, 2024

Who built the first Temple in Jerusalem?

a. the king of Phoenicia
b. David
c. Saul
d. Solomon

Quiz of the Day, August 12, 2024

Who was the mother of Solomon?

a. Abigail
b. Bathsheba
c. Ahinoam
d. Michal
e. Abital
f. Eglah

Quiz of the Day, August 11, 2024

Who made a vow to the Lord that ended in the inadvertent sacrificing of his daughter's life?

a. Jacob
b. Absalom
c. Jephthah
d. Gideon

Quiz of the Day, August 10, 2024

How did Abimelech die?

a. in a battle in Thebez
b. a woman dropped a millstone on his head
c. his armor bearer stabbed him
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 9, 2024

According to John's Gospel, where did Jesus do his first "sign?"

a. on the Jordan River
b. Sychar
c. Cana
d. Capernaum

Quiz of the Day, August 8, 2024

What saint is the founder of the Order of Preachers?

a. John Wesley
b. Aguinas
c. Benedict
d. Dominic

Quiz of the Day, August 7, 2024

Bread of Life and Living Waters are metaphors found in which Gospel?

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

Quiz of the Day, August 6, 2024 (Feast of the Transfiguration)

Which Gospel proclaims Christ as the Light of the World, but does not have an account of the Transfiguration?

a. Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

Quiz of the Day, August 5, 2024

What person used the amount of dew on a woolen fleece to discern the communication of God?

a. David
b. Saul
c. Gideon
d. Isaiah
e. Amos

Quiz of the Day, August 4, 2024

Gideon was from which tribe of Israel?

a. Ephraim
b. Judah
c. Benjamin
d. Manasseh

Quiz of the Day, August 3, 2024

A hymn of Deborah includes extolling

a. Jael
b. a woman who was married to Heber
c. a woman who drove a tent peg through the head of a man
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 2, 2024

How did Nathan confront David about his sin?

a. through Bathsheba, the woman he forced himself on
b. through a parable
c. with the phrase "thus says the Lord"
d. through his son Absalom

Quiz of the Day, August 1, 2024

Manna, a transliteration from Hebrew, means literally

a. heavenly bread
b. food of angels
c. "What is it?"
d. coriander wafer

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