Friday, October 31, 2025

Quiz of the Day, October 2025

Quiz of the Day, October 31, 2025


a. a shorten form of saying Hallows' Eve
b. a Druid Celtic phrase
c. the Day of the Dead
d. All Saints Day

Quiz of the Day, October 30, 2025

Who was present at the dedication of the Second Temple?

a. Ezra
b. Nehemiah
c. Zerubbabel
d. Malachi

Quiz of the Day, October 29, 2025

What city is located on the site of the ancient Ecbatana?

b. Shiraz, Iran
c. Shush, Iran
d. Hamadan, Iran
e. Baghdad, Iraq

Quiz of the Day, October 28, 2025

In certain church history traditions, in what country was saints Simon the Zealot and Jude martyred?

a. Babylon
c. Persia
d. Syria

Quiz of the Day, October 27, 2027

The two tax collectors called by Jesus in the Gospels are

b. Joseph
c. Bartimaeus
d. Levi
e. a and c
f. a and d
g. b and d

Quiz of the Day, October 26, 2025

Which of the following was not a king of Persia?

c. Xerxes
e. Artaxerxes

Quiz of the Day, October 25, 2025


a. condemn slavery
b. make Onesimus a free man
c. to reconcile Onesimus with Philemon his owner
d. establish a Pauline church in Philemon's house

Quiz of the Day, October 24, 2025

What biblical figure would scholars believe to be most responsible for the formation of the Torah, the Writings, and the Prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures?

e. Ezra

Quiz of the Day, October 23, 2025

Why was there a need to be 12 disciples of Jesus?

a. to be consistent with their being 12 tribes of Israel
b. to be consistent with their being 12 Patriarchs
c. to be consistent with a claim of the church being the new Israel
d. all the above

Quiz of the Day, October 22, 2025

Lamentations is about the destruction of Jerusalem by what invading country?

a. Babylon
b. Persia
c. Assyria
e. Elam

Quiz of the Day, October 21, 2025

Who is credited with writing a book of the Bible given the title of a word that is synonymous with weeping and crying?

a. Solomon
b. David
c. Jeremiah
d. Job

Quiz of the Day, October 20, 2025

The Phos Hilaron is 

a. a reference to the Trinity
b. appointed open hymn for Evensong
c. opening hymn for Matins
d. Latin for "funny light"

Quiz of the Day, October 19, 2025

Scholars are certain of the authorship of which Gospel(s)?

a.Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John
e. c and d
f. a and c
g. not certain of any authorship of Gospels

Quiz of the Day, October 18, 2025

A river flowing from the Temple is found in what book of the Bible?

b. Isaiah
c. Ezekiel

Quiz of the Day, October 17, 2025

Of the following, who would be considered an architect of the "monarchial episcopate?"


Quiz of the Day, October 16, 2025

The Psalm about being sunk in the "mire" could be by or about the experience of what person's literal experience?

a. Moses
b. David
c. Joel
d. Amos
e. Daniel
f. Jeremiah

Quiz of the Day, October 15, 2025

Who was held captive in a cistern?

d. Jeremiah

Quiz of the Day, October 14, 2025

What did Jeremiah do after his scroll was burned by the King?

a. he rewrote them
b. he added more words to a new scroll
c. he did not remember what he had written verbatim
d. Jeremiah did not write; he dictated to Baruch

Quiz of the Day, October 13, 2025

What king burned the writings of the prophet Jeremiah?

b. Ahab

Quiz of the Day, October 12, 2025

In the Acts of the Apostles, people of a certain location were so impressed with the speech of Paul, they gave him the name of what god?

a. Zeus
d. Eros
e. Ares

Quiz of the Day, October 11, 2025

Which of the following books of the New Testament does not mention "speaking in tongues?"

a. Mark
b. Acts
d. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, October 10, 2025

Which countries stole gold and furnishings from the First Temple?

c. Medes and Persia
d. Assyria and Babylon
e. Babylon and Persia

Quiz of the Day, October 9, 2025

Which is not a female deity mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. Asherah
b. Astarte
c. Baal
d. Anath

Quiz of the Day, October 8, 2025

The earliest account of the Eucharist would be found in which writing of the New Testament?

b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

Quiz of the Day, October 7, 2025

What king showed the gold of the Temple to visiting emissaries from Babylon?

d. Asa

Quiz of the Day, October 6, 2025

What would characterize Jeremiah's advice to those who were sent into exile?

a. resist the oppressors
b. blend and inter-marry
c. maintain yourselves as a community in exile
d. become spies for the opposition

Quiz of the Day, October 5, 2025

What was used in a poultice to cure a boil of King Hezekiah?

a. garlic
b. pomegranate
c. figs
d. dates

 Quiz of the Day, October 4, 2025

Who is responsible for the Vulgate Bible?


Quiz of the Day, October 3, 2025

Remigius is a patron saint of what country?


Quiz of the Day, October 2, 2025

Who said, "Thus you shall know them by their fruits?"

c. Paul

Quiz of the Day, October 1, 2025

Which of the following is not an Assyrian king mentioned in the Bible?

a. Tiglath-Pileser III

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