Quiz of the Day, May 2025

Quiz of the Day, May 31, 2025

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

a. John the Baptist

b. Isaac

c. Samuel

d. David

e. Samson

Quiz of the Day, May 30, 2025

Which is the only Gospel to record the Ascension event of Jesus?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, May 29, 2025

Which prophets/leaders of the Hebrew Scriptures lived in exile?

a. Isaiah and Daniel

b. Nehemiah and Daniel

c. Ezra and Nehemiah

d. Ezekiel and Daniel

e. c and d

Quiz of the Day, May 28, 2025

Which of the following saints influenced Dante's Divine Comedy?

a. Hildegard of Bingen

b. Mechthilde

c. Thomas Traherne

d. Bernard

Quiz of the Day, May 27, 2027

"The Spirit and the bride..." phrase occurs in which book?

a. Song of Solomon

b. Ezekiel

c. Zephaniah

d. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, May 26, 2025

Augustine of Canterbury was a member of which religious order?

a. Franciscan

b. Benedictine

c. Augustinian

d. Jesuit

Quiz of the Day, May 25, 2025

Which of the following is not a metaphor in a parable of Jesus?

a. mustard seed

b. sower

c. knife

d. pearl

e. fishing net

Quiz of the Day, May 24, 2025

Which two Gospels have two accounts of the multiplication of the fish and loaves?

a. Matthew and Mark

b. Matthew and Luke

c. Mark and Luke

d. Mark and John

e. Luke and John

f. Matthew and John

Quiz of the Day, May 23, 2025

Marcion of Sinope is not known for

a. approving the creator God of the Hebrew Scripture

b. establishing one of the earliest collections of "New Testament" writings

c. presenting a collections of Paul's writing

d. presenting a Gospel with similarities to Luke's Gospel

e. being designated a heretic by Irenaeus

Quiz of the Day, May 22, 2025

Which of the following ideas did not have influential origin in Zoroastrianism?

a. angels, demons, and devils

b. messianic prophet

c. final judgment and resurrection

d. dualism of good and evil

e. chosen people

f. baptism with fire

Quiz of the Day, May 21, 2025

What order of ministry was Alcuin?

a. lay person

b. deacon

c. priest

d. bishop

Quiz of the Day, May 20, 2025

What color is associated with Lydia?

a. red

b. blue

c. purple

d. green

Quiz of the Day, May 19, 2025

According to a dream of Paul, a man from where gave him an invitation to come?

a. heaven

b. Ephesus

c. Corinth

d. Macedonia

Quiz of the Day, May 18, 2025

Where does a voice from the throne declare, "I am the Alpha and the Omega?"

a. Ezekiel

b. Jeremiah

c. Revelations

d. Jude

Quiz of the Day, May 17, 2025

How many U.S. Supreme Court Justices are on the Episcopal Calendar of saints?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d. 4

Quiz of the Day, May 16, 2025

Which is not true about the so-called "Gnostic Gospels?"

a. the writers did not consider themselves heretics

b. at one time some were considered "canonical"

c. they often refer to special or secret knowing

d. they all rejected the validity of Hebrew Scriptures

Quiz of the Day, May 15, 2025

Where is "new Jerusalem" found in the Bible?

a. Revelations

b. 1 Thessalonians

c. Romans

d. 1 Corinthians

e. two of the above

Quiz of the Day, May 14, 2025

Why did Paul rebuke Peter?

a. Peter assumed his experience of Jesus made him the preferred leader

b. Peter was opposed to allowing Gentiles into synagogue membership

c. Peter's hypocritical behaviors during a assembly of Jewish and Gentile followers of Jesus

d. Peter's three denials of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, May 13, 2025

Which of the following is not true regard the Acts of the Apostles?

a. it presents chiefly ministries of Peter and Paul

b. it is a companion book to the Gospel of Luke

c. it seeks to reconcile the missions of Peter and Paul

d. it was written before the letters of Paul

Quiz of the Day, May 12, 2025

Who had a dream vision about permission to eat snakes, alligators, and lizards?

a. Paul

b. Peter

c. Barnabas

d. Agabus

Quiz of the Day, May 11, 2025

Tabitha is a woman who was healed through the ministry of whom?

a. Jesus

b. Peter

c. John

d. Paul

Quiz of the Day, May 10, 2025

Who is Gaius?

a. a companion of Paul

b. a prefect mention in Acts of the Apostles

c. a recipient of a Johannine Epistle

d. a leader in the Philadelphia church

Quiz of the Day, May 9, 2025

What biblical prophet was thrown into lair of wild beasts?

a. Jeremiah

b. Elijah

c. Samson

d. Daniel

Quiz of the Day, May 8, 2025

The book of Daniel wrongly stated the successor of Nebuchadnezzar to have been

a. Cyrus the Great

b. Darius the Mede

c. Amel-Marduk

d. Belshazzar

Quiz of the Day, May 7, 2025

The famous handwriting on the wall in the book of Daniel was in what language?

a. Hebrew

b. Assyrian

c. Akkadian

d. Old Persian (cuneiform) 

e. Aramaic

Quiz of the Day, May 6, 2025

In what book of the Bible is Jesus both lamb and shepherd?

a. Hebrews

b. Revelations

c. John

d. 1 John

Quiz of the Day, May 5, 2025

Which King of England had a madness liken to the temporary "madness" of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon?

a. George I

b. George II

c. George III

d. George IV

e. George V

f. George VI

Quiz of the Day, May 4, 2025

Belteshazzar was another name for

a. Shadrach

b. Meshach

c. Abednego 

d. Daniel

Quiz of the Day, May 3, 2025

Which New Testament writers do not refer to Jesus as the "Lamb of God?"

a. writer of the Gospel of John

b. writers of the Synoptic Gospels

c. writer of the Revelation of St. John the Divine

d. writers of Johannine Epistles

Quiz of the Day, May 2, 2025

What saint referred to Jesus as "our great Mother?"

a. Ignatius

b. Julian of Norwich

c. Anselm

d. Augustine

e. Thomas Aquinas

Quiz of the Day, May 1, 2025

Why do Philip and James share the same feast day?

a. they died on the same day

b. they were patron saints of the same church in Jerusalem

c. they were companion disciples

d. their relics were brought to Rome on the same day