Quiz of the Day, December 2025

Quiz of the Day, December 14, 2025

What New Testament book was written to comfort people who were worried about their departed loved ones who had died before the Lord had returned?

a. 1 Corinthians

b. 1 Thessalonians

c. Jude

d. 2 John

Quiz of the Day, December 13, 2025

The seven churches of Revelation are

a. located in modern day Turkey and Greece

b. located in modern day Turkey and Macedonia

c. all located in modern day Turkey

d. located in modern day Turkey, Greece, and Italy

Quiz of the Day, December 12, 2025

Veni Emmanuel is 

a. an Advent hymn

b. Latin title for a Psalm

c. Morning Prayer canticle

d. Compline canticle

Quiz of the Day, December 11, 2025

Which New Testament Book refers to seven churches in seven different locations?

a. Acts of the Apostles

b. 1 Corinthians

c. 1 John

d. Jude

e. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, December 10, 2025

The "tree of life" is found where in the Bible?

a. Zechariah

b. Revelations

c. Genesis

d. Ezekiel

e. all the above

f. a and c

g. b and c

Quiz of the Day, December 9, 2025

The Latin phrase which a priest using the Latin Mass says which receiving the ablutions of his hands comes from

a. 1 Corinthian 11

b. John 12

c. Psalm 26

d. Psalm 51

Quiz of the Day, December 8, 2025

Where is the "plumb line" used as a metaphor in Hebrew Scripture?

a. Amos

b. Ezekiel

c. Jeremiah

d. Isaiah

e. b and c

f. a and d

Quiz of the Day, December 7, 2025

Which person does not have a song in the Gospel of Luke?

a. Anna

b. Simeon

c. Zechariah

d. Mary

Quiz of the Day, December 6, 2025

What humble man from Turkey may be the most popular worldwide saint?

a. Nicholas of Myra

b. John of Ephesus

c. Saul of Taursus

d. George of Cappadocia

Quiz of the Day, December 5, 2025

What New Testament book makes a reference to a prophecy of Enoch which is not found in the canonical Hebrew Scriptures?

a. Revelations

b. Hebrews

c. 2 Peter

d. Jude

Quiz of the Day, December 4, 2025

Which of the following parables is found in more than one Gospel?

a. Good Samaritan

b. The Lost Coin

c. The Pearl of Great Price

d. The Sower

Quiz of the Day, December 3, 2025

John of Damascus

a. was an iconoclast

b. painted icons

c. collected icons

d. defended icons

Quiz of the Day, December 2, 2025

Francis Xavier did not make it to

a. Japan

b. Malaysia

c. Portugal

d. Spain

e. Mainland China

f. India

Quiz of the Day, December 1, 2025

Who of the following disciples was not a fisherman?

a. Peter

b. Andrew

c. James

d. John

e. Philip

f.  Matthew

Quiz of the Day, November 2025

Quiz of the Day, November 30, 2025

The notion of the Rapture is

a. a belief that some people will be taken suddenly from this world

b. a dogma of the Council of Nicaea

c. is the literal belief of most mainline churches

d. written about in 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, November 29, 2025

Royalty from what American state are on the Episcopal calendar of saints?

a. Connecticut

b. Hawaii

c. Massachusetts

d. Louisiana

Quiz of the Day, November 28, 2025

Where is it written that Jesus preached to the spirits of the dead?

a. Matthew

b. Revelations

c. Jude

d. 1 Peter

Quiz of the Day, November 27, 2027

De profundis in the Bible is

a. reference to Jonah's despair

b. the Latin title for Psalm 131

c. the cataracts referred to in the Psalms

d. the first two words in Latin of Psalm 131

e. two of the above

Quiz of the Day, November 26, 2025

Which of the following is not a topic of the words of Jesus?

a. Wealth and greed

b. service

c. discipleship

d. kingdom of God

e. child motif

f. Son of Man

g.the evils of Rome

Quiz of the Day, November 25, 2025

In what Gospel might one find a spiritual metaphor for voluntary celibacy?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Quiz of the Day, November 24, 2025

Turning swords into plowshares in not found in which of the following books of the Bible?

a. Micah

b. Joel

c. Isaiah

d. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 23, 2025

Which Pope instituted the Feast of Christ the King?

a. Gregory the Great

b. Leo the Great

c. Pius XI

d. John XXIII

Quiz of the Day, November 22, 2025

Of the following, we was not a member of the Oxford literary group know as the Inklings?

a. C.S. Lewis

b. J.R.R. Tolkien

c. G.K. Chesterton

d. Charles Williams

Quiz of the Day, November 21, 2025

Of the following, which have liturgical celebrations found in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. bar mitzvah

b. bat mitzvah

c. Hanukkah

d. Purim

e. none of the above

Quiz of the Day, November 20, 2025

Where does Jesus get money to pay for taxes?

a. from a borrowed denarius coin

b. from the mouth of a caught fish

c. Jesus did not pay taxes

d. from his disciples fishing revenue

Quiz of the Day, November 19, 2025

For the Jews of the Maccabean times, their revolt might best express

a. the Pharisee position against the Saduccees

b. the apocalyptic vs. the realized eschatology

c. the fight for a conserving Judaism without too much hellenistic compromise

d. the need for the Hanukkah festival

Quiz of the Day, November 18, 2025

The church is referred to as the bride of Christ where?

a. Romans

b. John

c. 1 John

d. Titus

e. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 17, 2025

Prior to 1948, when was the last time of self rule for Israel?

a. the autonomy granted under Darius

b. the monarchies of David and Solomon

c. the divided kingdom era

d. the Hasmonean era

Quiz of the Day, November 16, 2025

The life of Mattathias is found in what book?

a. Acts of the Apostles

b. 1 Maccabees

c. Enoch

d. Daniel

Quiz of the Day, November 15, 2025

The Apocrypha books are not in the Jewish canon of Scripture mainly because

a. a council of rabbis in 2nd century BCE did not vote to include them

b. Rabbi Akiba

c. Josephus the historian's list of books

d. the council of scholars at Jamnia

Quiz of the Day, November 14, 2025

Antiochus IV Epiphanes is associated with what Jewish Feast?

a. Purim

b. Passover

c. Hanukkah

d. Yom Kippur

e. Sukkot

Quiz of the Day, November 13, 2025

Alexander the Great is explicitly named in

a. Zechariah

b. Daniel

c. Ezekiel

d. 1 Maccabees

Quiz of the Day, November 12, 2025

Which of the following books of the Bible does not make reference to the plagues visited on Egypt?

a. Genesis

b. Exodus

c. Psalms

d. Deuteronomy

e. Revelations

Quiz of the Day, November 11, 2025

Of the following, who is not a patron saint of soldiers?

a. Joan of Arc

b. Martin of Tours

c. St. George

d. St. Michael the Archangel

e. St. Ignatius of Loyola

f.  St. Alban

g. St. Sebastian

h. St. Valentine

Quiz of the Day, November 10, 2025

The "fallen Babylon" of the Book of Revelation is probably reference to

a. Nero

b. the Babylonian Empire which was defeated by Persia

c. Alexander's Empire

d. Rome

Quiz of the Day, November 9, 2025

When was Jesus called a "ghost?"

a. by Herod after John the Baptist was killed

b. when he walked on the water

c. when he appeared to his disciples on seashore

d. when he encountered the Doubting Thomas

Quiz of the Day, November 8, 2025

Why did Ezra tear his clothes in distress and anger?

a. the profaning of the Temple

b. the destruction of the holy writings

c. the intermarriage of his countrymen

d. the destruction of Jerusalem

Quiz of the Day, November 7, 2025

Ahava is

a. food eaten by Israelites in exile

b. a river near the Euphrates

c. a city in Babylon

d. a song sung in the Temple

Quiz of the Day, November 6, 2025

Which is not a notable number in the Book of Revelations?

a. 3

b. 7

c. 12

d. 144,000

e. 666

Quiz of the Day, November 5, 2025

Of the following, who does not get "bad press" in the Hebrew Scriptures?

a. Ahab

b. Jezebel

c. Rahab of Jericho

d. Hamaan

e. Tobiah

f. Sanballat 

Quiz of the Day, November 4, 2025

Asaph was not

a. Solomon's close friend

b. chief Levite musicianQuiz of the Day, November 3, 2025

c. writer of a number of Psalms

d. appointed by David

What ancient people celebrated the predecessor to the "Day of the Dead?"

a. Incas

b. Aztec

c. Apache

d. Celts

Quiz of the Day, November 2, 2025

Who fell asleep during a sermon?

a. the disciples

b. Eutychus

c. Dorcas

d. Sapphira

Quiz of the Day, November 1, 2025

Why is October 31st called Reformation Day?

a. to provide Lutheran with a counter to Halloween

b. it's the anniversary of Luther's nailing of the 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door

c. Luther opposed the veneration of the saints

d. an anniversary for Protestant opposition to superstition regarding the dead

Quiz of the Day, October 2025

Quiz of the Day, October 31, 2025

Halloween is 

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?

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

b. Armenia

c. Persia

d. Syria

Quiz of the Day, October 27, 2027

The two tax collectors called by Jesus in the Gospels are

a. Zaccheaus

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?

a. Cyrus

b. Darius

c. Xerxes

d. Nebuchadnezzar

e. Artaxerxes

Quiz of the Day, October 25, 2025

The Epistle to Philemon was written to

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?

a. Nehemiah

b. Moses

c. David

d. Solomon

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

d. Medes

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

e. Malachi

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?

a. Revelations

b. Isaiah

c. Ezekiel

d. Zephaniah

Quiz of the Day, October 17, 2025

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

a. Ignatius Loyola

b. Ignatius of Antioch

c. St. Augustine of Hippo

d. St. John of Damascus

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?

a. Daniel

b. Ezekiel

c. Hosea

d. Jeremiah

e. Isaiah

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?

a. Rehoboam

b. Ahab

c. Jehoiakim

d. Zedekiah

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

b. Apollo

c. Hermes

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

c. Galatians

d. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, October 10, 2025

Which countries stole gold and furnishings from the First Temple?

a. Philistine and Edom

b. Assyria and Persia

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?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

e. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, October 7, 2025

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

a. Jeroboam

b. Josiah

c. Hezekiah

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?

a. Cyril

b. Methodius

c. Jerome

d. Alcuin

e. Justin Martyr

Quiz of the Day, October 3, 2025

Remigius is a patron saint of what country?

a. Wales

b. Scotland

c. France

d. Belgium

e. Luxembourg

Quiz of the Day, October 2, 2025

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

a. Jesus

b. John the Baptist

c. Paul

d. James

Quiz of the Day, October 1, 2025

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

a. Tiglath-Pileser III

b. Shalmaneser V

c. Sargon II

d. Xerxes I

e.Sennacherib

f. Esarhaddon

g. Ashurbanipal