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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Quiz of the Day, October 2025

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?

a. Isfahan, Iran
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

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Quiz of the Day, September 2025

Quiz of the Day, September 30, 2025

Of the follow, who would not be on the list of worst kings of Israel and Judah?

a. Ahab
b. Omri
c. Hezekiah
d. Jeroboam !
e. Manasseh

Quiz of the Day, September 29, 2025

Which of the following is not one of the names for an English Academic term?

a. Michaelmas
b. Hilary
c. Easter
d. Trinity

Quiz of the Day, September 28, 2025

The Prophet Isaiah used the "mother" metaphor for what place?

a. Zion
b. Bethel
c. Judah
d. Israel
e. Jerusalem

Quiz of the Day, September 27, 2025

Lancelot Andrewes was known for

a. editing the King James Bible
b. being King James chaplain
c. being a non-juror
d. his Scottish heritage

Quiz of the Day, September 26, 2025

Which of the following might be called a source for the Gospels?

a. Gospel of Thomas
b. The Didache
c. The Shepherd of Hermes
d. A Gospel source called "Q" for non-Markan material found in Matthew and Luke

Quiz of the Day, September 25, 2025

Who said that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?

a. John the Baptist
b. The author of the epistles of John
c. Jesus
d. Paul

Quiz of the  Day,September 24, 2025

The presumed first language of Jesus derived from where?

a. Ur of the Chaldees
b. Assyria
c. Aram
d. Egypt
e. Jerusalem

Quiz of the September 23, 2025

Who had the leprosy of Naaman "transferred" to them because their lying about the prophet Elisha's request for extra money?

a. Eliezer
b. Ahab
c. Gehazi
d. The son of the Shunammite woman

Quiz of the Day, September 22, 2025

What is not true about biblical Lazarus?

a. there were two of them
b. both are in afterlife events
c. one has two sisters
d. one had leprosy
e. one is fictional
f. both are found only in the Gospel of John

Quiz of the Day, September 21, 2025

What metaphors was shared by Jesus and John the Baptist?

a. Dove from Heaven
b. Vine and branches
c. Brood of vipers
d. Door of the Sheep

Quiz of the Day, September 20, 2025

Which of the following was not one of the immediate stops for Elijah before his ascension into the sky?

a. Jerusalem
b. Bethel
c. Jericho
d. Jordan River

Quiz of the Day, September 19, 2025

Of the following, who was most successful at calling down fire from heaven to destroy foes of God?

a. Abraham
b. Moses
c. Elijah
d. Elisha
e. Michael the Archangel

Quiz of the Day, September 18, 2025

Where is "Blessed are the poor in spirit" found?

a. Matthew and Luke
b. Luke
c. Matthew
d. Psalms

Quiz of the Day, September 17, 2025

What were James and John doing when Jesus called them?

a. fishing
b. conversing with their father Zebedee
c. conversing with Peter
d. mending fishing nets

Quiz of the Day, September 16, 2025

Which prophet is most quoted from in the Gospels?

a. Jeremiah
b. Ezekiel
c. Zechariah
d. Isaiah

Quiz of the Day, September 15, 2025

What saint is associated with the origin of the feast of the Holy Cross?

a. Monnica
b. Helena
c. John of the Cross
d. Augustine of Hippo

Quiz of the Day, September 14, 2025

When Elijah believed himself to be the lone faithful one, what did God say to him?

a. there are 7 other faithful ones
b. there are 70 other faithful ones
c. there are 700 other faithful ones
d. there are 7000 other faithful ones

Quiz of the Day, September 13, 2025

Elijah ran away when he was threatened by whom?

a. Ahab
b. Prophets of Baal
c. Jezebel
d. Naaman

Quiz of the Day, September 12, 2025

What religious order was named after a famous location for the prophet Elijah?

a. Dominican
b. Benedictine
c. Carmelite
d. Cistercian

Quiz of the Day, September 11, 2025

What contemporary prophet with Elijah has a book in the Bible?

a. Ezekiel
b. Jeremiah
c. Isaiah
d. Malachi
e. Joel
f. Obadiah

Quiz of the Day, September 10, 2025

Elijah did not confront which of the following kings

a. Ahab
b. Ahaziah
c. Ben-Haddad
d. Omri

Quiz of the Day, September 9, 2025

Which of the following kings does not belong on the list of good kings of Israel and Judah?

a. Jeroboam
b. David
c. Asa
d. Hezekiah
e. Jehoshaphat
f. Josiah

Quiz of the Day, September 8, 2025

Of the following, who is mentioned in all four canonical Gospels?

a. Nicodemus
b. Caiaphas
c. Annas
d. Joesph of Aramathea

Quiz of the Day, September 7, 2025

What language did Jesus speak in his words from the cross?

a. Latin
b. Hebrew
c. Most likely Aramaic
d. Greek

Quiz of the Day, September 6, 2025

What king said, "my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions?"

a. Solomon
b. the son of Solomon
c. Jeroboam
d. Ahab

Quiz of the Day, September 5, 2025

Which book does the Hebrew Scriptures say is lost?

a. Nathan, the Prophet
b. The Wisdom of the Queen of Sheba
c. The Book of Elijah
d. The Acts of Solomon

Quiz of the Day, September 4, 2025

Which Gospel or Gospels do Barabbas appear in?

a. Matthew
b. Mark 
c. Luke
d. John
e. all the above

Quiz of the Day, September 3, 2025

Of the following, which is not true regarding Solomon?

a. he is the "patriarch" of the wisdom tradition
b. he built the first temple
c. he built holy places for other gods
d. his mother was Abigail
e. God was angry with Solomon

Quiz of the Day, September 2, 2025

Where is Rahab of Jericho mentioned in the New Testament?

a. Revelations
b. Luke
c. Matthew
d. James
e. Hebrews
f. a,d,and e
g. c, d, and e

Quiz of the Day, September 1, 2025

Who is Jesus quoted as saying that his followers should hate?

a. fathers
b. mothers
c. brothers
d. wives
e. children
f. one's possessions
g. one's life
h. all the above

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Quiz of the Day, August 2025

Quiz of the Day, August 31, 2025

Who asked God to heed the prayers of the people who prayed toward the Temple?

a. David
b. Solomon
c. Asaph
d. the Psalmist

Quiz of the Day, August 30, 2025

The wood to construct the first Temple came from where?

a. Galilee
b. Tyre
c. Cypress
d. Syria

Quiz of the Day, August 29, 2025

Which of the following is not included in the Gospel accounts as parallel events in the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus?

a. their births
b. their baptisms
c. their ministry
d. their teaching
e. their deaths

Quiz of the Day, August 28, 2025

Which of the following is not true about the Augustinian Religious Order?

a. it was once led by Pope Leo XIV
b. it was founded by Augustine of Hippo
c. it was founded in the 13th century
d. it was founded by persons who followed circulating  the Rule of St. Augustine

Quiz of the Day, August 27, 2025

How many wives from Africa did Solomon have?

a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four

Quiz of the Day, August 26, 2025

Which of the following is not true?

a. Solomon was anointed as King before David died
b. Absalom wanted to replace David as King
c. Bathsheba's son became a King of Israel
d. Abigail's son became King of Israel

Quiz of the Day, August 25, 2025

When did the Jacob's ladder dream occur?

a. when Jacob was returning to Canaan
b. when Jacob was seeking a wife
c. when Jacob wrestled with an angel
d. when Jacob had his name changed to Israel

Quiz of the Day, August 24, 2025

Who is the best non-Christian historian of the New Testament era?

a. Tacitus
b. Suetonius
c. Josephus
d. Philo

Quiz of the Day, August 23, 2025

What did David long for and reject when he attained it?

a. a palace in Jerusalem
b. a drink of water from the well in Bethlehem
c. the advice of the prophet Natan
d. the sword of Goliath

Quiz of the Day, August 22, 2025

The fruits of Spirit are listed in the Pauline writings and the Seven-fold Gifts of the Spirit are listed where?

a. Hebrews
b. 1 Corinthians
c. Isaiah
d. Proverbs

Quiz of the Day, August 21, 2025

Who said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's...?"

a. Paul
b. Peter
c. Clement of Rome
d. Jesus

Quiz of the Day, August 20, 2025

Which of the following is not true regarding Bernard of Clairvaux?

a. He wrote a spiritual interpretation of the Song of Solomon
b. he supported the 2nd Crusade
c. he belonged to the Cistercian Order
d. he supported a schismatic pope

Quiz of the Day, August 19, 2025

Which was not a factor in the death of Absalom?

a. Joab
b. three spears
c. long hair
d. low tree branches
e. mule
f. David

Quiz of the Day, August 18, 2025

What topic did Paul used to create havoc among his accusers at trial?

a. Roman citizenship
b. the nature of the Messiah
c. the belief in the resurrection
d. the validity of the baptism of John the Baptist

Quiz of the Day, August 17, 2025

In the writings of St. Paul, who is the Father of faith?

a. God
b. Jesus
c. Moses
d. Isaiah
e. Abraham

Quiz of the Day, August 16, 2025

What did Absalom do to humiliate his father David and scorn his rule?

a. stole his harp
b. stole David's sword
c. slept with David's concubines
d. attacked David's palace

Quiz of the Day, August 15, 2025

Which of the following is not a "sign" in John's Gospel?

a. changing water to wine
b. walking on water
c. healing a blind man
d. making a lame man walk
e. raising a dead man
f. cursing a fig tree
h. feeding 5000 people

healing of a child

Quiz of the Day, August 14, 2025

Who was involved in "coup" attempts against David the King?

a. Solomon
b. Joab
c. Absalom
d. Adonijah
e. b, c, and d
f. c and d

Quiz of the Day, August 13, 2025

Who said to call no one good except God?

a. Paul
b. Peter
c. John
d. Jesus

Quiz of the Day, August 12, 2025

Which is not true about the Song of the Three Young Men?

a. it is found in the canonical Daniel
b. it was composed by Azariah
c. it is about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednigo
d. it is found in the additions to Daniel of the Apocrypha

Quiz of the Day, August 11, 2025

Maacah was not

a. the name for two different women
b. a wife of David
c. mother of Absalom and Tamar
d. grandmother of Asa
e. daughter of a Geshur king
f. daughter of Absalom
e. born into a family of Judah

Quiz of the Day, August 10, 2025

Which of the following is not true about Tamar?

a. she was a daughter of David
b. she was a full sister of Absalom
c. she was a half-sister of Amnon
d. she was raped by her half brother
e. David punished her rapist with death

Quiz of the Day, August 9, 2025

The following is not true regarding Edith Stein?

a. she was a Jewish convert to catholicism
b. she was murdered in Auschwitz
c. she was influenced by the writings of Therese of Lisieux
d. she was a Carmelite

Quiz of the Day, August 8, 2025

The member of what religious order use the abbreviation O.P.?

a. Franciscans
b. Jesuits
c. Benedictine
c. Dominican

Quiz of the Day, August 7, 2025

Who was Joab?

a. the man who arranged the death of Uriah
b. the commander of David's army
c. the founder of the Joabite tribe
d. the man who told the prophet Nathan about David and Bathsheba

Quiz of the Day, August 6, 2025

The event of the Transfiguration has a heavenly voice which is found in what other event in the life of Jesus?

a. his crucifixion
b. his encounters with Greeks at a feast
c. his encounter with the Samaritan woman
d. his prayer recorded in John 17
e. his baptism

Quiz of the Day, August 5, 2025

Where were two Tabernacles erecting and functioning at the same time?

a. Hebron and Shiloh
b. Rameh and Hebron
c. Shiloh and Jerusalem
d. Jerusalem and Hebron

Quiz of the Day, August 4, 2025

What did God tell Nathan the prophet that God needed in Israel?

a. a palace for David in Zion
b. a permanent temple home
c. a walled city
d. a permanent kingly lineage

Quiz of the Day, August 3, 2025

What king of Israel got in an argument with his wife for "dancing in poor taste?"

a. Saul
b. Solomon
c. David
d. Ahab
e. Josiah
f. Asa

Quiz of the Day, August 2, 2025

Why did God strike Uzzah dead?

a. he openly opposed David
b. he tried to steady a shaking Ark of the Covenant
c. he impersonated a High Priest
d. he was a Philistine spy

Quiz of the Day, August 1, 2025

Where did David first reign as king?

a. Jerusalem
b. Bethlehem
c. Rameh
d. Hebron

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Quiz of the Day, July 2025

Quiz of the Day, July 31, 2025

Which founder of the Jesuits had a method of prayer named after him?

a. Peter Faber
b. Francis Xavier
c. Leynez
d. Salmeron
e. Ignatius of Loyola

Quiz of the Day, July 30, 2025

William Wilberforce, John Newton, Hannah More, and Beilby Porteus were Anglicans united by what cause?

a. 39 articles of Religion
b. American Revolution
c. Abolition of Slavery
d. Eucharistic controversy

Quiz of the Day, July 29, 2025

Which wife of David was taken from him and remarried, and then brought back to David?

a. Bathsheba
b. Abigail
c. Michal
d. Eglah
e. Maachah

Quiz of the Day, July 28, 2025

Who anointed David King?

a. God, came and poured the oil of anointing in David's dream
b. Samuel anointed David King of Israel
c. Men of Judah anointed David, King of Judah
d. Jonathan anointed David, King of Hebron
e. a, b, and c
f. b and c

Quiz of the Day, July 27, 2025

David expressed a love, passing the love of women, for whom or what?

a. God
b. singing to God
c. Samuel
d. Jonathan

Quiz of the Day, July 26, 2025

Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary are listed where?

a. Matthew, in an early codex
b. Luke, in a variant codex from the canonical Luke
c. In the Protoevangelium of James from the Second Century
d. In the apocryphal Gospel of Mary

Quiz of the Day, July 25, 2025

Who is St. James the Great?

a. the supposed writer of the Epistle of James
b. the half-brother of Jesus
c. the son of Zebedee
d. the son of Alphaeus

Quiz of the Day, July 24, 2025

Which of the following might be associated with the biblical location of Endor?

a. a famous battle
b. necromancy
c. false idols
d. David's harp

Quiz of the Day, July 23, 2025

To assist David, Abigail had to contradict whom?

a. King Saul
b. Nabal, her husband
c. David's warriors
d. Jonathan

Quiz of the Day, July 22, 2025

Who were the first women recorded to witness the empty tomb of Jesus?

a. Mary, mother of Jesus
b. Mary, mother of James
c. Salome
d. Mary Magdalene
e. Mary of Bethany
f. Martha of Bethany
g. b,c, and d
h. a,c, and d

Quiz of the Day, July 21, 2025

In stead of killing King Saul what did David do?

a. cut off a lock of hair while he was sleeping
b. cut off a corner of sleeping Saul's cloak
c. stole Saul's sword while he slept
d. stole Saul's spear while he slept

Quiz of the Day, July 20, 2025

In the reported words of Jesus, what is the "unforgivable" sin?

a. murder
b. blasphemy of the one God
c. idolatry
d. blaspheming the Holy Spirit

Quiz of the Day, July 19, 2025

What is Doeg the Edomite known for?

a. stealing Goliath's sword
b. being the armor bearer for David
c. killing 85 priests
d. betraying Saul

Quiz of the Day, July 18, 2025

What is David on the lam from Saul receive from the priest Ahimelech?

a. Goliath's sword
b. honey
c. holy bread to eat
d. Aaron's budding rod
e. a message from Jonathan
f. a and e
g. a and c

Quiz of the Day, July 17, 2025

William White, the first Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, was from what state?

a. New York
b. Connecticut
c. Maryland
d. Pennsylvania

Quiz of the Day, July 16, 2025

What mode of communication did Jonathan use with David to signal Saul's intent toward David?

a. messenger servant
b. shot arrows
c. falcon delivery
d. sounding a ram's horn in the forest

Quiz of the Day, July 15, 2025

What was the battle trophies presented by David as proof of his success?

a. the heads of his foes
b. the gold and possessions of his foes
c. the foreskins of his foes
d. the women and children of his foes

Quiz of the Day, July 14, 2025

Saul did not

a. give his daughter Michal to David to wed
b. throw a spear at David
c. ask David to play his harp for him
d. want David to be the next king
e. have an evil spirit

Quiz of the Day, July 13, 2025

Who was said to have loved David even as he loved his own soul?

a. Samuel
b. Saul
c. Jonathan
d. Uriah
e. Abner

Quiz of the Day, July 12, 2025

Which Church Council dealt with food eating customs regarding Gentiles?

a. Nicaea
b. Constantinople
c. Chalcedon
d. Jerusalem

Quiz of the Day, July 11, 2025

Who was Scholastica's twin?

a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Dominic
c. Benedict
d. Bernard

Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2025

How did King Saul use David?

a. to tend to his herd of sheep
b. to blow the shofar
c. to play on his harp to calm his nerves
d. to serve as an armor bearer
e. b and c
f. c and d

Quiz of the Day, July 9, 2025

Who immediately succeeded Saul as King of Israel?

a. David
b. Ish-Bosheth
c. Jonathan
d. no one for months

 Quiz of the Day, July 8, 2025

Which Apostle is Dorcas associated with?

a. Paul
b. Peter
c. Barnabas
d. Philip

Quiz of the Day, July 7, 2025

Who said, "I regret making Saul the king of Israel?"

a. God
b. Samuel
c. Samuel and God
d. Samuel's acolyte who poured the oil of anointing

Quiz of the Day, July 6, 2025

If Mary sang a "mother's song" recorded in the Gospel, who sang a "father's song?"

a. Simeon
b. David
c. Zechariah
d. Jesus

Quiz of the Day, July 5, 2025

Why did Saul curse his own son Jonathan?

a. because he teamed up with David
b. Jonathan was a weak soldier
c. Jonathan ate some honey and did not know his father's food ban
d. Jonathan's mother was not Saul favorite spouse

Quiz of the Day, July 4, 2025

Which church had the largest number of signers of the Declaration of Independence?

a. Congregationalists
b. Presbyterian
c. Anglican/Episcopal
d. Roman Catholic
e. Quaker
f. Unitarian
e. Deists

Quiz of the Day, July 3, 2025

Jerusalem was not

a. ruled by Saul
b. captured by David
c. a Jebusite controlled city
d. the initial seat of David's power

Quiz of the Day, July 2, 2025

When Saul was anointed King of Israel, what form of rule ended?

a. rule by the chief priest
b. rule by prophets
c. rule by judges
d. rule by community vote

Quiz of the Day, July 1, 2025

What legal scholar on issues of civil rights and women's rights, collaborated with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall, went on to be ordained as an Episcopal priest?

a. Andrew Young
b. Jesse Jackson
c. Pauli Murray
d. Kelly Brown Douglas

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