Quiz of the Day, December 2024

Quiz of the Day, December 31, 2024

Which of the following pericopes are not in all manuscripts of John's Gospel?

a. I am the Vine

b. The Good Shepherd

c. The woman taken in adultery

d. The Raising of Lazarus

Quiz of the Day, December 30, 2024

According to the Revelation of St. John the Divine, what color is the hair of the one like the Son of Man?

a. golden

b. bright yellow as the sun

c. white as wool

d. black as bitumen

Quiz of the Day, December 29, 2024

In what Gospel is the primordial Jesus called Word who is God?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 28, 2024

What feature of the infancy narratives does not present Jesus like Moses?

a. the holy Innocents

b. flight to Egypt

c. the Magi

d. humble place of birth

e. the angels appearing to the shepherds

Quiz of the Day, December 27, 2024

The "disciple whom Jesus loved" is assumed to be?

a. Mary Magdalene

b. Lazarus

c. John

d. Peter

Quiz of the Day, December 26, 2024

Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus were

a. the first martyrs

b. companions of Paul

c. deacons

d. early Gentile converts

Quiz of the Day, December 25, 2024

Which Gospels have the infancy narratives of Christmas?

a. Matthew and Mark

b. Mark and Luke

c. Luke and John

d. Mark and John

e. Matthew and Luke

Quiz of the Day, December 24, 2024

What aphrodisiac was involved in the family birth efforts of Jacob, Rachel, and Leah?

a. figs

b. leeks

c. mandrakes

d. pomegranates

Quiz of the Day, December 23, 2024

The Phos Hilaron

a. is a hymn for evening prayer

b. is a hymn for Easter morning

c. is a hymn for Good Friday evening

d. is a hymn for morning prayer, Maundy Thursday

Quiz of the Day, December 22, 2024

Of the follow, who is not responsible for wording in the famous prayer, Ave Maria?

a. Gabriel in Luke

b. Elizabeth in Luke

c. Pope Leo I

d. Pope Pius V

e. Pope Urban IV

f.  Petrus Canisius

Quiz of the Day, December 21, 2024

St. Thomas the apostle did not

a. have a namesake Gospel

b. have the name of Didymus

c. did not become the apostle to India

d. did not become known as a doubter

e. have a feast day determined by the solstice

Quiz of the Day, December 20, 2024

Katharina von Bora was not

a. a Cistercian nun

b. a Reform leader

c. married to Martin Luther

d. a convent escapist

e. Swiss

Quiz of the Day, December 19, 2024

The Angel Gabriel did not appear to

a. Moses

b. Mary

c. Daniel

d. Zechariah

Quiz of the Day, December 18, 2024

The seven-fold gifts of the Spirit as originally stated resided upon whom?

a. the shoot arise from the stump of Jesse

b. Jesus

c. each baptized person

d. David

Quiz of the Day, December 17, 2024

What English Christian humanist wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey stories?

a. Madeleine L'Engle

b. Dorothy Sayers

c. G.K. Chesterton

d. Charles Williams

Quiz of the Day, December 16, 2024

Of the following, which was not an architect of any existing church buildings?

a. Richard Upjohn

b. Ralph Adams Cram

c. Christopher Wren

d. Frank Lloyd Wright

e. Frank Gehry

Quiz of the Day, December 15, 2024

The gaudete theme, "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice," is found where?

a. Psalms

b. Philippians

c. Galatians

d. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, December 14, 2024

The Carmelite Order gets its name from a mountain made famous by what prophet?

a. Isaiah

b. Elisha

c. Ezekiel

d. Elijah

Quiz of the Day, December 13, 2024

What saint wears a crown of lighted candles?

a. Mary

b. Lucy

c. Brigitte

d. Pepetua

Quiz of the Day, December 12, 2024

Gaudete  is

a. Christmas carol

b. Rose Sunday

c. Latin word for rejoice

d. all the above

Quiz of the Day, December 11, 2024

About whom did Jesus say, "the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he?"

a. Judas

b. Herod

c. John the Baptist

d. Pontius Pilate

Quiz of the Day, December 10, 2024

Repentance in New Testament Greek means most literally

a. getting better

b. amendment

c. improvement

d. after mind

Quiz of the Day, December 9, 2024

What biblical preacher referred to his audience as a "brood of vipers?"

a. Paul

b. Jesus

c. Elijah

d. John the Baptist

e. Stephen

Quiz of the Day, December 8, 2024

Which of the following High Priests are not mentioned in the New Testament?

a.Simon ben Camithus, 17–18
b.Joseph ben Caiaphas, 18–36 (son-in-law of the high priest Ananus ben Seth)
c.Jonathan ben Ananus, 36–37
d.Theophilus ben Ananus, 37–41

e. a and d

f. a and c

g. d

Quiz of the Day, December 7, 2024

What saint was baptized, confirmed, ordained a deacon, priest, and bishop in one day?

a. Augustine of Hippo

b. Athanasius

c. Ambrose

d. Pope Leo I

Quiz of the Day, December 6, 2024

Santa Claus derives from

a. Nicholas of Myra

b. Sinter Klaus of the Netherlands

c. Nicholas of Sion

d. Nicholas of Tolintino

Quiz of the Day, December 5, 2024

Which Gospel does not have an account of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, December 4, 2024

Besides Jesus, who of the following gets the most coverage in the Gospels?

a. Peter

b. John, son of Zebedee

c. James, son of Zebedee

d. John the Baptist

Quiz of the Day, December 3, 2024

"The Son of Man coming on the clouds" is not found in

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

e. Daniel

f. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, December 2, 2024

The father of John the Baptist was 

a. a prophet

b. a scribe

c. a priest

d. a rabbi

Quiz of the Day, December 1, 2024

Apocalypse is

a. the name of book of Revelation

b. refers to the "end times"

c. means unveiling

d. All of the above