Quiz of the Day, September 2019

Quiz of the Day, September 30, 2019

Which of following angels is not included in the canonical books of the Bible?

A. Gabriel
B. Uriel
C. Raphael
D. Michael

Quiz of the Day, September 29, 2019

In the causality answers of the Hebrew Scriptures, why did the people of Israel get carried away into captivity and the temple destroyed?

A. The strength of the invading armies of Assyria
B. The strength of the Babylonian armies
C. The failure of the people of Israel to keep the commandments
D. The strength of the Persian armies

Quiz of the Day, September 28, 2019

Of the following, whom might be considered a queen of Israel?

A. Jezebel
B. Athaliah
C. Deborah
D. Bathsheba

Quiz of the Day, September 27, 2019

What did Jesus warn about regarding prayer before he introduced the “Our Father?”

A. Prayer as empty phrases
B. Prayer as the Gentiles pray
C. Prayer as volume of words
D. All of the above

Quiz of the Day, September 26, 2019

Who anointed Jehu as king of Israel?

A. Elijah
B. Elisha
C. Samuel
D. A protege prophet of Elisha

Quiz of the Day, September 25, 2019

“Turn the other cheek,” is found where?

A. In the New Testament
B. In the Gospel of Matthew
C. In the Sermon on the Mount
D. All of the above

Quiz of the Day, September 24, 2019

Whose servant was Gehazi?

A. Elijah’s
B. Abraham’s
C. Elisha’s
D. David’s

Quiz of the Day, September 23, 2019

Which of the following is not true of Naaman?

A. He was an Assyrian general healed of leprosy by Elisha’s ministry
B. He is referred to by Jesus in the Gospel
C. He is not mentioned in the New Testament
D. He is a symbol of “foreigners” or Gentiles having access to God’s healing grace

Quiz of the Day, September 22, 2019

Which of the following did not occur in the days after Saul was converted?

A. He went blind
B. He received his sight
C. He preached in the Damascus synagogues
D. He fell off a horse
E. He escaped the city being lowered in a basket 

Quiz of the Day, September 21, 2019

The Book of Job might be called a “theodicy.”  What is a theodicy?

A. a document about the suffering caused by God
B. The defense of God as creator
C. The defense of divine intervention
D. The justification of belief in God in spite of problem evil and innocent suffering

Quiz of the Day, September 20, 2019

Who was called the “Tishbite?”

A. Jeremiah
B. Amos
C. Micah
D. Elijah

Quiz of the Day, September 19, 2019

Dag Hammarskjold was

A. Post-humous Nobel Peace Prize Winner
B. A UN Secretary-General
C. Put on the Episcopal Calendar of Saints
D. Swedish
E. All of the Above

Quiz of the Day, September 18, 2019

The Jehoshaphat of the phrase “jumpin’ Jehoshaphat” is who?

A. A king of Israel
B. A book of the Apocrypha
C. A king of Judah
D. An Assyrian king

Quiz of the Day, September 17, 2019

Who had 26 divine visitations and wrote a book about them?

A. Julian of Norwich
B. Teresa of Avila
C. Madame Guynn
D. Hildegard

Quiz of the Day, September 16, 2019

What did Chloe report to St. Paul?

A. Progress in the Corinthian church
B. Quarreling in the Corinthian church
C. The success of the ministry of Apollos
D. The departure of Barnabas

Quiz of the Day, September 15, 2019

Which of the following might be call the Gameliel principle?

A. If you snooze you lose
B. If something endures, it is a sign of God’s will
C. God helps those who help themselves
D. Good things come to those who wait

Quiz of the Day, September 14, 2019

Whom of the following is most responsible for the Feast of the Holy Cross?

a. Monica
b. St. Paul
c. Helena
d. Athanasius

Quiz of the Day, September 13, 2019

Of the following, whom has a collect in his name in Morning Prayer?

a. St.Basil
b. Thomas Cranmer
c. Richard Hooker
d. St.John Chrysostom



Quiz of the Day, September 12, 2019

How many prophets of Baal and Asherah did the prophet Elijah challenge to a "holy duel" on Mount Carmel?

a. 100
b. 500
c. 400
d. 800

Quiz of the Day, September 11, 2019

Which prophet had to "deal" with King Ahab?

a. Elisha
b. Elijah
c. Hosea
d. Isaiah

Quiz of the Day, September 10, 2019

What Melville character had the same name as the husband of Jezebel?

a. Omri
b. Jeroboam
c. Ahab
d. Joash

Quiz of the Day, September 9, 2019

Lois was the grandmother of whom?

a. Titus
b. Peter
c. Timothy
d. John Mark

Quiz of the Day, September 8, 2019

Who set up shrines in Bethel and Dan to replace Jerusalem for the people in Northern Israel?

a. Solomon
b. Rehoboam
c. Jeroboam
d. Ahab

Quiz of the Day, September 7, 2019

Which of the following is not true regarding Rehoboam?

a. he succeeded his father Solomon as King
b. he was the brother of Jeroboam, the king of the northern kingdom
c. Israel  separated from Judah during his reign
d. some Israelites resided within the territory of Judah in his reign

Quiz of the Day, September 6, 2019

What happened to Jeroboam, a servant of King Solomon?

a. he became the next king of Israel
b. he became the king of Judah
c. he became the king of Jerusalem
d. he became the high priest of the temple

Quiz of the Day, September 5, 2019

Which biblical person is reported to have had as wives seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines?

a. David
b. Samson
c. Ahab
d. Solomon
e. Cyrus
f.  Xerxes

Quiz of the Day, September 4, 2019

Who of the following did not regard Jesus of Nazareth to be primarily an apocalyptic prophet preaching an imminent end of the world?

a. E.P. Sanders
b. Albert Schweitzer
c. Bart Ehrman
d. Scholars of the Jesus Seminar
e. Alan Segal

Quiz of the Day, September 3, 2019

Which of the following proposed that faith without works is dead?

a. Paul's Epistle to the Romans
b. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
c. The Epistle of James
d. The Book of Revelation

Quiz of the Day, September 2, 2019

Who of the following is not listed in Paul's letter to Philemon?

a. Paul
b. Titus
c. Timothy
d. Onesimus
e. Archippus
f.  Apphia
g. Philemon

Quiz of the Day, September 1, 2019

Which temple was the temple of Solomon?

a. the first
b. the second
c. the third
d. the last

Quiz of the Day, August 2019

Quiz of the Day, August 31, 2019

Where was the Ark of the Covenant before it came to reside in the temple built by Solomon?

a. Shiloh
b. Hebron
c. Zion, city of David
d. Bethlehem, city of David

Quiz of the August 30, 2019

King Hiram of Tyre provided what for the Temple of Solomon?

a. granite
b. cedar
c. marble
d. oak

Quiz of the Day, August 29, 2019

Which of the following is associated with Solomon?

a. playing the harp
b. wife Bathsheba
c. divide the baby and give half to each woman
d. the northern kingdom of Israel

Quiz of the Day, August 28, 2019

Augustine of Hippo was not

a. the author of "Confessions"
b. the author of "The City of God"
c. son of Monnica
d. the first Archbishop of Canterbury

Quiz of the Day, August 27, 2019

Who anointed Solomon to be the successor king of David?

a. David
b. the prophet Nathan
c. Zadok the priest
d. Samuel

Quiz of the Day, August 26, 2019

What is true of the biblical Adonijah?

a. he was a son of David
b. he was a brother of Solomon and Absalom
c. he was a rival to the throne of Solomon
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 25, 2019

For which of the following did David feel "stricken" by the Lord?

a. marrying Bathsheba
b. taking a census of Israel and Judah
c. for arranging the death of Absalom
d. for marrying Abigail

Quiz of the Day, August 24, 2019

Whose dream was responsible for the naming of the dream place, "Beth-el," of house of God?

a. Joseph
b. Daniel
c. Jacob
d. Abraham

Quiz of the Day, August 23, 2019

Who said, "I am only a boy," when he was called by God as a prophet?

a. Hosea
b. Jeremiah
c. Isaiah
d. Daniel

Quiz of the Day, August 22, 2019

Felix and Agrippa were Roman officials who enter the story of what biblical person?

a. Timothy
b. Philemon
c. Paul
d. Peter


Quiz of the Day, August 21, 2019

Which of the follow was the prelude to the killing of Absalom, the rebelling son of David?

a. he was bucked off his horse
b. his long thick hair was caught in a tree leaving him hanging
c. David ordered the pursuit and killing of Absalom
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 20, 2019

Which of the following saints was born in a town famous for its mustard name? (Dijon)

a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Benedict
c. Bernard
d. Igntius Loyola

Quiz of the Day, August 19, 2019

What topic did Paul raise to divide his religious opponents in Jerusalem?

a. the topic of Jesus as Messiah
b. the belief in the resurrection from the dead
c. the future of Jerusalem
d. the issues of circumcision and Quiz of the Day August 18, 2019

Where in the New Testament can one read about Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel?

a. Matthew
b. John
c. Revelations
d. Hebrews

Quiz of the Day, August 17, 2919

How did Paul avoid being flogged by the tribune is Jerusalem after his arrest?

a. The tribune included followers of Jesus
b. Paul declared himself a Roman citizen with attending rights
c. Peter intervened on his behalf
c. All of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 16, 2019

Which of the following is not a reference to Eucharistic belief?

a. Transubstantiation
b. Consubstantiation
c. Receptionist
d. Real Presence
e. Complementarianism

Quiz of the Day, August 15, 2019

Where is it written that Jesus is the pioneer of our faith?

a. John
b. Romans
c. Hebrews
d. 1 Corinthians

Quiz of the Day, August 14, 2019

Who said, “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword?”

a. Paul
b. David
c. Jesus
d. Elijah

Quiz of the Day, August 13, 2019

Who prophesied that Paul would be seized by the Jews?

a. Barnabas
b. Ananias
c. Agabus
d. Silas

Quiz of the Day, August 12, 2019

Which son of David had his half brother assassinated?

a. Absalom
b. Solomon
c. Amnon
d. Jonadab
e. Shimeah

a. Quiz of the Day, August 11, 2019

Which of the following is not true about the rape of Tamar?

a. David was complicit by asking Tamar to fix meal for the feigning sick Amnon
b. Absalom was Tamar's brother and Amnon's half brother
c. David did not punish Amnon
d. Absalom would eventually attempt a coup against David
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 10, 2019

What happened to the first child born to Bathsheba, the wife whom David stole from Uriah the Hittite?

a. he was Solomon, King of Israel
b. the baby died at birth
c. he was Absalom, who rebelled against David
d. he was born with a deformity

Quiz of the Day, August 9, 2019

Why was Abram's name changed to Abraham?

a. because he moved from Ur to Canaan, a new land with new language
b. Abraham was his Hebrew name
c. the "ham" was added when he was going to be the father of many nations
d. Moses added the "ham" to Abram

 Quiz of the Day, August 8, 2019

Which of the following might be called the "faith" chapter of the Bible?

a. Hebrews 11
b 1 Corinthians 13
c. John 3
d. John 1

Quiz of the Day, August 7, 2019

Which of the following is not true regarding Miphibosheth?

a. he was crippled
b. he was the son of Jonathan
c. as Saul grandson, he was a heir to the throne of Israel
d. he ate at the table of King David 

Quiz of the Day, August 6, 2019

Who was present at the Transfiguration event?

a. Jesus
b. Peter
c. Moses
d. Elijah
e. James
f. John
g. voice of God
h. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, August 5, 2019

Which of the followed did the most famous render of "praying hands?"

a. Albrecht Dürer
b. Rembrandt
c. Cranach the Elder
d. Matthias Grünewald

Quiz of the Day, August 4, 2019

Why did David gain the rebuke of his daughter Michal?

a. he took her away from Saul
b. he took her away from her husband in the regime change
c. he danced before the Ark of the Covenant in a mere loin cloth
d. David would not let her be devote to Baal

Quiz of the Day, August 3, 2019

Who said that "we too are God's offspring?"

a. Peter
b. Andrew
c. Paul
d. Timothy

Quiz of the Day, August 2, 2019

What is the city of David?

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

Quiz of the Day, August 1, 2019

What did David do to people who killed the son of Saul?

a. rewarded them with a position in his kingdom
b. had them killed
c. had them exiled
d. made the spies against those who opposed him

Quiz of the Day, July 2019

Quiz of the Day, July 31, 2019

Which of the following is not true regarding Ignatius Loyola?

a. He was a soldier and fought in war with France
b. his conversion involved a vision of Madonna and Child
c. He was the sole founder of the Society of Jesus, the "Jesuits"
d. His order was crucial in the Counter-Reformation

Quiz of the Day, July 30, 2019

What is William Wilberforce best known for?

a. being a member of Parliament
b. being an Evangelical Anglican
c. being against the slave trade
d. his relationship with John Bunyan

Quiz of the Day, July 29, 2019

Who did Herod think that Jesus was?

a. Elijah
b. Moses
c. The Messiah
d. John the Baptist raised from the dead

Quiz of the Day, July 28, 2019

About whom did David sing, "your love was wonderful, surpassing the love of women?"

a. Absalom
b. Jonathan
c. Bathsheba
d. God

Quiz of the Day, July 27, 2019

In which Gospel does Jesus and the disciple not cast out demons?

a.Matthew
b. Mark
c. Luke
d. John

Quiz of the Day, July 26, 2019

Where is the information on the parents of the Virgin Mary found?

a. Apocryphal Gospel of Anne and Joachim
b. Matthew
c. Luke
d. The Protoevangelium of James

Quiz of the Day, July 25, 2019

Who is the patron saint of Spain?

a. Santiago
b. James, son of Zebedee
c. James, the Greater
d. One of the "sons of thunder,"
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 24, 2019

Which of the following are true about Abigail and Bathsheba?

a. They were wives of David
b. They married David after their first spouses died 
c. They both bore children for David
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 23, 2019

Who was the husband of Abigail?

a. David
b. Jethro
c. Moses
d. Nabal
e. a and d

Quiz of the Day, July 22, 3019

The word maudlin meaning weepy pity derives from what saint?

a. Mary of Bethany
b. Martha of Bethany
c. The Virgin Mary
d. Mary Magdalene

Quiz of the of the Day, July 21, 2019

Who took communion on the moon?

a. Armstrong
b. Bean
c. Conrad
d. Aldrin

Quiz of the Day, July 20, 2019

What Episcopal saint is associated with women's undergarments?

a. Harriet Tubman
b. Amelia Bloomer
c. Sojourner Truth
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Quiz of the Day, July 19, 2019

What did David receive from the priest Abimelech?

a. the holy bread of the Presence
b. the budding rod of Moses
c. the sword of Jonathan
d. the sword of Goliath
e. b and c
f. a and d

Quiz of the Day, July 18, 2019

Jonathan, son of Saul,

a. was to be a king of Israel
b. was the best friend of David
c. warned David to flee his father Saul
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 17, 2019

If George Washington might be called the political "father" of our country, who might be called the "father" of the Episcopal Church?

a. Bishop Samuel Seabury
b. Bishop Samuel Provoost
c. Bishop William White
d. Bishop Philander Chase

Quiz of the Day, July 16, 2019

What musical instrument did David play?

a. harp, according to the King James' translation
b. lyre, actually
c. psaltery, according to King James' translation
d. nevel
e. all of the above


Quiz of the Day, July 15, 2019

In what city is it said that the followers of Jesus were first called "Christians?"

a. Jerusalem
b. Rome
c. Antioch
d. Corinth

Quiz of the Day, July 14, 2019

Jesus said which of the following?

a. I, Christ am the fulfillment of the law
b. Love is the fulfillment of the law
c. not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 
d. without the law there is no sin

Quiz of the Day, July 13, 2019

How did David kill Goliath?

a. bow and arrow
b. sling shot
c. decapitation with a sword
d. spear

Quiz of the Day, July 12, 2019

What does the Gospel of Mark begin with?

a. In the beginning was the Word
b. the birth of Jesus narrative
c. the genealogy of Jesus
d. John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus

Quiz of the Day, July 11, 2019

Who is the "Father" of Western monasticism?

a. Dominic
b. Francis
c. Benedict
d. Anthony

Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2019

Who said, "Mortals look on outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart?"

a. Samuel to Jesse
b. the Lord to Samuel
c. Jesse to David
d. David to Goliath

Quiz of the Day, July 9, 2019

Joseph of Arimathea is the obvious patron saint for what profession?

a. jailers
b. lawyers
c. morticians
d. soldiers

Quiz of the Day, July 8, 2019

Why was Saul rejected by God as a worthy king of Israel?

a. David was preferred
b. Jonathan was an unworthy successor
c. Saul disobeyed the Lord
d. Saul spared and used some of the spoils of war
e. c and d

Quiz of the Day, July 7, 2019

Why was Saul going to kill his son Jonathan?

a. because he took David's side
b. because Jonathan inadvertently violated Saul's food ban
c. because he began a coup
d. Saul was jealous of Jonathan's prowess in battle

Quiz of the Day, July 6, 2019

Jan Hus was associated with which of the following views of the Holy Eucharist?

a. transubstantiation
b. consubstantiation
c. receptionism
d. symbolic presence
e. spiritual presence

Quiz of the Day, July 5, 2019

Where is it written about beating "swords into plowshares?"

a. Isaiah
b. Joel
c. Micah
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 4, 2019

The Fourth of July, Independence Day

a. is a feast day on the Episcopal liturgical calendar
b. whose collect was opposed by the first Presiding Bishop because of too many "Tory" clergy
c. did not become a Major Feast until the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
d. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 3, 2019

What ended the rule of Judges in Israel?

a. the sins of the sons of Eli
b. the death of Samuel
c. the failure of the sons of Samuel
d. the replace of the rule by judges with rule by king

Quiz of the Day, July 2, 2019

What is the sin of "simony?"

a. derived from Simon Magus
b. means the selling of offices (positions) of the church
c. originated from a story in the Acts of the Apostles
d. involved Simon being jealous for the gifts of the evangelist Philip, Peter & John
e. all of the above

Quiz of the Day, July 1, 2019

Of the following, who was present at the stoning of St. Stephen?

a. Peter
b. Saul of Tarsus
c. Philip
d. Cornelius