Quiz of the Day, April 2024

Quiz of the Day, April 18, 2024

Which Gospels have the most details on the temptation of Jesus?

a. Matthew and Mark

b. Matthew and Luke

c. Mark and Luke

d. Luke and John

e. Mark and John

f. Matthew and John

Quiz of the Day, April 17, 2024

Which of the following are not dominical sacraments?

a. baptism

b. matrimony

c. confirmation

d. reconciliation of a penitent

e. ordination

f.  eucharist

g. a and f

h. b-e

i. b-d

Quiz of the Day, April 16, 2024

Which was one of the divine threats concerning the holy maintain of Sinai?

a. touch it and die

b. touch it and become leprous

c. touch it and become childless

d. touch it become transfigured

Quiz of the Day, April 15, 2024

What is the advice that Moses received from his father-in-law?

a. shepherding instructions

b. return to Median to receive the law

c. delegate to ministerial colleagues

d. how to treat his spouse

Quiz of the Day, April 14, 2024

The road to Emmaus post-resurrection appearance happened

a. on Easter Day

b. Easter Monday

c. Easter Tuesday

d. a week after Easter

Quiz of the Day, April 13, 2024

The meals of Jesus in his post-resurrection appearances consisted of

a. bread

b. wine

c. water

d. fish

e. lamb

f. all of the above

g. a and d

h. a,c, and d

Quiz of the Day, April 12, 2024

What does "manna" mean?

a. heavenly bread

b. coriander seed

c. "what is it?"

d. flakes

Quiz of the Day, April 11, 2024

Which of the following was not provided by God for the people of Israel to partake of?

a. quail meat

b. manna

c. water

d. mutton

Quiz of the Day, April 10, 2024

Who wrote A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life?

a. Thomas Traherne

b. Thomas a Kempis

c. William Law

d. George Herbert

Quiz of the Day, April 9, 2024

Which of the following is not true regarding Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

a. he went to the USA to avoid military service

b. he was directly involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler

c. he was sent to prison and killed

d. he worked for a German intelligence agency when he returned to Germany

Quiz of the Day, April 8, 2024

Which of the following is true about the Annunciation?

a. the announcement to Mary is found in Luke

b. the announcement to Joseph is found in John

c. the annunciation is not found in John

d. the annunciation in not found in Mark

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, April 7, 2024

According to John's Gospel, when did Thomas encounter the Risen Christ?

a. on Easter

b. Easter Wednesday

c. Sabbath after Easter

d. first Sunday after Easter

Quiz of the Day, April 6, 2024

Of the following, who is best known for the ontological argument for the existence of God?

a. Peter Abelard

b. Thomas Aquinas

c.  Anselm

d.  Albert Magnus

Quiz of the Day, April 5, 2024

Which biblical writer wrote about the "Last Trumpet?"

a. John the Divine

b. Ezekiel

c. Daniel

d. Jeremiah

e. Paul

Quiz of the Day, April 4, 2024

Which of the following, have accounts of the Ascension?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

e. Acts

f. all of the above

g. a,b,c,d

h. a and c.

i. c and e

Quiz of the Day, April 3, 2024

Which Gospel has the account of earthquakes happening at the crucifixion and the resurrection?

a. Mathew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, April 2, 2024

Before the people of Israel hastily left Egypt, what did they ask from their Egyptian neighbors?

a. for their gold and jewelry

b. donkeys for transportation

c. household gods

d. flour for bread

Quiz of the Day, April 1, 2024

Which of the following is not a synonym for the same holiday?

a. Feast of the Unleavened Bread

b. Passover

c. Sukkot

d. Festival of Matzot

e. Feast of Our Redemption 

Quiz of the Day, March 2024

Quiz of the Day, March 31, 2024

The blood of the Passover lamb was spread

a. on the foreheads of first born sons

b. on all family members' foreheads

c. on the lintel and door posts of homes

d. on the hands of all male children

Quiz of the Day, March 30, 2024

The entombment of Jesus was

a. the final resting place for the body of Jesus

b. a temporary place until his bones would be placed in an ossurary

c. the tomb intended for Nicodemus

d. arranged by his disciples

Quiz of the Day, March 29, 2024

"My God, why have you forsaken me," is found in which book of the Bible?

a. Genesis

b. Ruth

c. Jonah

d. Psalms

Quiz of the Day, March 28, 2024

In which Gospel is the "Last Supper" not a Passover meal?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, March 27, 2024

What is not true about "Tenebrae?"

a. it means darkness

b. it is the Good Friday Liturgy

c. it is a Holy Week liturgy during the three days before Easter

d. it is a liturgy with progressive extinguishing of candles

e. it ends with a loud noise

f.  it includes readings from Scriptures interspersed with Psalms

Quiz of the Day, March 26, 2024

Who cursed a fig tree when it did not bear fruit out of season?

a. Moses

b. Elijah

c. Elisha

d. Jesus

Quiz of the Day, March 25, 2024

Which of the following book includes mournful verses about the demise of Jerusalem?

a. Isaiah

b. Daniel

c. Lamentations

d. Jude

Quiz of the Day, March 24, 2024

What book of the Hebrew Scriptures is referenced for Jesus riding on a donkey?

a. Isaiah

b. Psalms

c. Zechariah

d. Jeremiah

Quiz of the Day, March 23, 2024

What book is read on the feast of Purim?

a. Ruth

b. Jonah

c. Job

d. Esther

Quiz of the Day, March 22, 2024

Of the following, one is not associated with "High Church" Anglicanism?

a. James DeKoven

b. James Lloyd Breck

c. John Henry Newman

d. John Keble

e. C.S. Lewis

Quiz of the Day, March 21, 2024

Which of the following was not a plague to befall Egypt?

a. gnats

b. frogs

c. flies

d. locusts

e. thunder and hail

Quiz of the Day, March 20, 2024

What was the first sign Moses showed the Pharaoh?

a. turning the waters of Egypt into blood

b. turn his staff into a snake

c. turn the Pharaoh's hand leprous

d. calling down fire upon an offering

Quiz of the Day, March 19, 2024

What features are shared by the two biblical Josephs?

a. they went to Egypt

b. they were dreamers

c. they were from the same tribe

d. none of the above

e. a and b only

Quiz of the Day, March 18, 2024

What did Moses believe about himself?

a. he was ineloquent in speech

b. his marriage to a Midianite disqualified him from leadership

c. he believed the Israelites would willing follow him

d. he was too close to the Pharaoh because of his adoptive mother

Quiz of the Day, March 17, 2024

In what biblical writing are we implored to present our bodies as living sacrifices?

a. Ephesians

b. John

c. 1 Peter

d. Romans

Quiz of the Day, March 16, 2024

How did God prove the divine self to Moses?

a. appeared in a burning bush

b. called him to go back to Egypt

c. rescued him from death

d. spoke to him the holy name

Quiz of the Day, March 15, 2024

The wife of Moses was

a. an Egyptian

b. an Israelite

c. a Midianite

d. none of the above

Quiz of the Day, March 14, 2024

Of the following, who propounded the notion of the church as the "Body of Christ?"

a. John

b. Luke

c. Peter

d. Paul

Quiz of the Day, March 13, 2024

What is true about the disposition of Joseph's remains?

a. he was embalmed in Egypt

b. he was buried in Egypt

c. Moses exhumed his remains

d. his remains were taken to the Promised Land

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, March 12, 2024

Where can the earliest written instructions of the Eucharist be found?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

e. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, March 11, 2024

What did Jacob do before he died?

a. gave instructions about Jacob's well

b. gave a prediction about Moses

c. gave a prediction about his sons

d. gave instruction for his burial in Egypt

Quiz of the Day, March 10, 2924

The bread of heaven discourse in in which Gospel?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Which of the following is true about the burial of Jacob?

a. he was buried in Egypt

b. he was buried with his wife Rachel

c. he was buried in Bethlehem

d. he was buried with his father and grandfather

Quiz of the Day, March 8, 2024

In the biblical story, what brought the people of Israel into Egypt?

a. Joseph

b. Moses

c. a drought in Canaan

d. Jacob

Quiz of the Day, March 7, 2024

According to the book of Genesis what did all Egyptians despise?

a. asps

b. frogs

c. lice

d. shepherds

Quiz of the Day, March 6, 2024

Of the follow, who had the most to say regarding food sacrificed to idol?

a. John the Divine

b. Paul

c. Jesus

d. Luke

Quiz of the Day, March 5, 2024

Goshen is

a. where Abraham was buried

b. where Jacob's family settled in Egypt

c. the birth place of Moses

d. the location of the Red Sea

Quiz of the Day, March 4, 2024

"Talitha cum" means what?

a. come quickly

b. little girl, get up

c. why have you forsaken me

d. help, O teacher

Quiz of the Day, March 3, 2024

Joseph as chief minister of the Pharaoh, show favoritism to which brother?

a. Benjamin

b. Reuben

c. Asher

d. Judah

Quiz of the Day, March 2, 2024

Rachel was the mother of

a. Jacob and Esau

b. Joseph and Judah

c. Benjamin and Judah

d. Joseph and Benjamin

Quiz of the Day, March 1, 2024

Of the following, who did not go to Egypt with Jacob?

a. Reuben

b. Benjamin

c. Rachel

d. Judah

Quiz of the Day, February 2024

Quiz of the Day, February 29, 2024

In the parable of the sower, the seed did not fall

a. on a path

b. on rocky ground

c. on good soil

d. among thorns

e. among weeds

Quiz of the Day, February 28, 2024

According to the words of Jesus, the kingdom of God was communicated in parables because

a. it was a secret

b. the indirect method of communication was effective

c. uneducated people only understand stories

d. story telling was the prime mode of educating people in the time of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, February 27, 2024

Of the following, who delivered a man over to Satan?

a. Peter

b. Barnabas

c. Paul

d. Simon Magus

Quiz of the Day, February 26, 2024

Which two heads of the 12 tribes of Israel were not sons of Jacob and had Egyptian lineage?

a. Reuben and Asher

b. Ephraim and Judah

c. Benjamin and Manasseh

d. Ephraim and Manasseh

Quiz of the Day, February 25, 2024

Of the following, who had a dream about fat cows and skinny cows?

a. Daniel

b. Nebuchadnezzar

c. Joseph

d. Pharaoh

Quiz of the Day, February 24, 2024

A citation from what book in the Hebrew Scriptures was given for replacing Judas Iscariot with Matthias?

a. Isaiah

b. Job

c. Psalms

d. 2 Samuel

Quiz of the Day, February 23, 2024

Of the following, who was not a biblical dreamer?

a. Pharaoh

b. Joseph of Nazareth

c. Joseph son of Jacob

d. Jacob

e. David

f. Solomon

g.Nebuchadnezzar 

Quiz of the Day, February 22, 2024

Joseph was not

a. overseer of an Egyptian household

b. a prisoner who oversaw the rest of the prisoner

c. an Egyptian minister who over saw the commerce of Egypt

d. the overseer of the synagogue in Egypt

Quiz of the Day, February 21, 2024

Who sold Joseph to slave traders going to Egypt?

a. his brothers

b. the Ishmaelites

c. the Midianites

d. the Ammonites

Quiz of the Day, February 20, 2024

The Gospel of Mark begins with

a. the genealogy of Jesus through Mary

b. the genealogy of Jesus through Joseph

c. the birth of Jesus

d. the baptism of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, February 19, 2024

Of the following, who did not not do any shepherding?

a. Joseph

b. Abel

c. David

d. Solomon

e. Moses

Quiz of the Day, February 18, 2024

Which of the Gospels does not have an account of the temptation of Jesus?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, February 17, 2024

Janani Luwam was 

a. Ugandan

b. an Archbishop

c. a martyr

d. killed because of Idi Amin cruel reign

e. all the above

Quiz of the Day, February 16, 2024

From Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday, the number of days is

a. 40

b. 42

c. 44

d. 46

e. 47

Quiz of the Day, February 15, 2024

Jesus did not tell a parable about

a. a tax collector

b. a Pharisee

c. a leper

d. a Samaritan

e. a refiner

Quiz of the Day, February 14, 2024

To have been shriven on Shrove Tuesday means what?

a. to eat pancakes

b. to celebrate Mardi Gras

c. to perform significant act of penitence

d. to confess and receive absolution

Quiz of the Day, February 13, 2024

Where is it written, "Surely I am too stupid to be a human?"

a. Wisdom of Ben Sirach

b. Proverbs

c. Job

d. Psalms

Quiz of the Day, February 12, 2024

Which woman of the following does not have a "song" in the Bible?

a. Mary

b. Miriam

c. Deborah

d. Hannah

e. Ruth

Quiz of the Day, February 11, 2024

The New Testament Greek word for transfiguration sounds more like what word in English?

a. change

b. alteration

c. metamorphosis

d. transformation

Quiz of the Day, February 10, 2024

Jesus met a woman of Samaria at a well.  Which of the following is not true about the well?

a. named after Jacob

b. was in Sychar

c. was in Shechem

d. it was on land given by Jacob to Benjamin

Quiz of the Day, February 9, 2024

When did the "Jacob's ladder" dream occur?

a. When Jacob was trying to escape Esau

b. When Jacob slept at Beth-el

c. When Jacob was on his way to Laban's household

d. all the above

Quiz of the Day, February 8, 2024

Who in the Bible is know as a "hairy man?"

a. Samson

b. Esau

c. Cain

d. Saul

Quiz of the Day, February 7, 2024

Of of the following, which were not twins?

a. Cain and Abel

b. Jacob and Esau

c. Thomas and twin sibling

d. Peraz and Zerah

Quiz of the Day, February 6, 2024

Which pericope in John's Gospel is regarded by scholars to be a late textual addition?

a. woman taken in adultery

b. changing water to wine

c. raising of Lazarus

d. doubting Thomas

Quiz of the Day, February 5, 2024

What biblical figure was named "Red?"

a. Joseph

b. Ruben

c. Esau

d. Ephraim

Quiz of the Day, February 4, 2024

Who is the apostle to the Scandinavians? 

a. Olaf

b. Boniface

c. Anskar

d. Wilfrid

Quiz of the Day, February 3, 2024

Of the following, which is not the wife of a biblical patriarch?

a. Sarah

b. Ruth

c. Rebekah

d. Rachel

e. Leah

Quiz of the Day, February 2, 2024

Which of the following does not happen liturgically on February 2nd?

a. the commemoration of the Presentation

b. Candlemas

c. the blessing of beeswax

d. the Naming of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, February 1, 2024

What Irish saint has a 1500 anniversary today?

a. Brendan

b. Columba

c. Patrick

d. Brigid

Quiz of the Day, January 2024

Quiz of the Day, January 31, 2024

The Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem is believed to be the site of

a. Jacob's famous dream

b. the place where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac

c. David's battle with Goliath

d. the place of crucifixion of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, January 30, 2024

According to the letter to the Hebrews, what unites Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph?

a. family lineage

b. inheritance of the land

c. marvelous birth stories

d. faith

Quiz of the Day, January 29, 2024

What biblical reference indicates that Simon Peter was married?

a. a reference to his wife

b. a reference to his mother in law

c. a reference to his sister in law

d. a reference to his son

Quiz of the Day, January 28, 2024

Which of the following book does not have a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah?

a. Genesis

b. Psalms

c. Revelation

d. Matthew

e. Luke

f. Romans

g. 2 Peter

h. Isaiah

i. Jeremiah

Quiz of the Day, January 27, 2024

What happened after Abram and Sarai were told they would be having a child?

a. Sarai laughed

b. Sarai denied that she laughed

c. Abram laughed

d. God would tell them to name their child "laughter"

e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, January 26, 2024

Which biblical book treats heaven as parallel world to the natural world?

a. Revelation

b. Hebrews

c. Isaiah

d. Romans

Quiz of the Day, January 25, 2024

A "road to Damascus" experience refers to what?

a. a deep loss

b. extreme joy

c. conversion

d. humiliation

Quiz of the Day, January 24, 2024

How many sons did Abraham have?

a. one

b. two

c. three

d. four

Quiz of the Day, January 23, 2024

Abram was promised land to which river in the East?

a. Tigris

b. Jordan

c. Euphrates

d. Abana

Quiz of the Day, January 22, 2024

Who is the priest king?

a. Moses

b. David

c. Solomon

d. Melchizedek

e. Aaron

Quiz of the Day, January 21, 2024

The oaks of Mamre are associated with what biblical figure?

a. Moses

b. Noah

c. David

d. Abraham

e. Boaz

Quiz of the Day, January 20, 2024

Which of the following is not true about Abram's wife Sarai?

a. she was married to a Pharaoh

b. she was the mother of Isaac

c. she laughed when she heard she'd have a child

d. she was the great grandmother of Jacob

Quiz of the Day, January 19, 2024

Of the following, which is both a biblical person and a place?

a. Abram

b. Terah

c. Haran

d. Bethel

Quiz of the Day, January 18, 2024

What saints are the bookends for commemorating the Week of Christian Unity?

a. Peter and Paul

b. Thomas and Andrew

c. Peter and  John the Baptist

d. Paul and James of Jerusalem

Quiz of the Day, January 17, 2024

Ham and his offspring the people of Canaan were cursed by Noah for what?

a. disobeying God

b. for getting drunk

c. for insulting his brother Shem and Japheth

d. for seeing his drunken father naked

Quiz of the Day, January 16, 2024

What is the most common biblical reference displayed by fans at sporting events?

a. Ps. 23:1

b. Rom. 6:23

c. Jn. 3:16

d. Jn. 11.35

Quiz of the Day, January 15, 2024

What was the post-Flood covenant of God to Noah?

a. to provide rainbows in the sky

b. to spare Noah's children

c. refrain from ever killing all the people on the earth

d. to accept animal sacrifices instead of death of people

 Quiz of the Day, January 14, 2024

How old was Noah when the flood began?

a. 100

b. 200

c. 400

d. 600

Quiz of the Day, January 13, 2024

Where might find the names of the wives of the sons of Noah?

a. Genesis

b. Psalms

c. The Book of Jubilee

d. The Book of Revelation

Quiz of the Day, January 12, 2024

The Nephilim are 

a. angel-human hybrids

b. giant like creatures

c. mentioned in the Bible

d. the genetic predecessors of Goliath and the Philistines

Quiz of the Day, January 11, 2024

The Mark of Cain is

a. a curse upon Cain for killing Abel

b. the scoring of Cain's body by his father Adam

c. a curse upon anyone who would harm Cain

d. the symbol for murder

Quiz of the Day, January 10, 2024

Whom of the following was not a son of Adam and Eve?

a. Enos

b. Seth

c. Cain

d. Abel

Quiz of the Day, January 9, 2024

Clothing for Adam and Eve was

a. none at all

b. fig leaves

c. garments of skins

d. all the above

Quiz of the Day, January 8, 2024

Which of the following would be biblically inaccurate?

a. shepherd and sheep at the creche

b. angels in the skies over the pastures

c. wise men at the creche

d. farm animals at the creche

Quiz of the Day, January 7, 2024

What is a main difference between the creation story in Genesis One and Genesis Two?

a. Gen. 2 uses Adonai for the name of God

b. Gen. 2 uses Elohim for the name of God

d. Gen. 2 uses Yahweh Elohim for the name of God

e. Gens. 2 uses Adonai Elohim for the name of God

Quiz of the Day, January 6, 2024

Why is the date for the Epiphany the date for Christmas in some churches?

a. a papal decree

b. a decree from the Patriarch of Constantinople

c. different calendars

d. church council vote

Quiz of the Day, January 5, 2023

Which biblical person composed based upon his experience in a living bathyscaphe?

a. Noah

b. Miriam

c. chariot driver for Pharaoh

d. Jonah

e. Job

Quiz of the Day, January 4, 2024

Which of the following is not a Pauline saying regarding wine?

a. deacons should not be addicted to too much wine

b. don't be drunk with wine

c. abstain from wine completely

d. take a little wine for your stomach

Quiz of the Day, January 3, 2024

In which Gospel does Peter attempt to walk on water?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, January 2, 2023

Whom of the following was fed by an angel?

a. David

b. Moses

c. Elijah

d. Jesus

Quiz of the Day, January 1, 2024

What is observed on the eighth day of Christmas?

a. New Year's Day

b. Feast of the Holy Name

c. the purification of Mary

d. Feast of St. Joseph