InQUIZition - Charles
Harvey
You Ain't Nothin' but a Heliocentrist .
. . You Ain't No Friend of Mine
Rack your brain and stretch your
knowledge.
1. Who wrote Orthodoxy, the 20th-century classic book on the Catholic
Church?
a) Hilaire Belloc
b) G.K. Chesterton
c) Frank Sheed
d) Yves M.J. Congar, O.P.
e) Danielle Steel
2. How many bona fide saints do you figure there are?
a) approximately
5,000
b) about 10,000
c) nearly 25,000
d) God only knows
3. St. Therese of Lisieux's family name was
a) Camembert
b) Martin
c) Tours
d) Bojnie-wicz
e) De Lisieux
4. The term "soteriology" refers to
a) the science of designing
church structures and other sacred buildings
b) a specialized study of
biblical chronologies
c) the nature of salvation
d) an early European
form of Scientology
5. Which of Jacob's sons did he compare to a lion?
a) Asher
b) Benjamin
c)
Levi
d) Judah
e) Todd
6. What bird flew about crying "Woe!" in the book of Revelation?
a) a raven
b) an eagle
c) a spotted owl
d) a parrot
e) a hawk
7. According to the Old Testament Book of Leviticus, what must be done to
any bird killed for food?
a) it must be cooked over an open fire
b) it
must be decapitated
c) its blood must be drained
d) it must not be
prepared with Mesquite or Cajun spices
8.What Old Testament king had 12,000 cavalry horses?
a) Sennacherib
b) Nebuchadnezzar
c) David
d) Solomon
e) Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II
9.What was Moses' basket made of?
a) balsa wood
b) bulrushes
c) rattan
d)
an ancient form of nylon
10. Who appeared with Jesus at the Transfiguration?
a) Abraham and Moses
b) Moses and David
c) Elijah and Moses
d) David and Elijah
e) Jeremiah and Elijah
11. Who was the bloodthirsty demon "god" of the Ammonites, to whom
children were ritually sacrificed?
a) Moloch
b) Baal
c) Marduk
d) Dagon
e) Sanger
12. To which Old Testament figure did God say, "How long will this
people provoke Me?"
a) Isaiah
b) Jeremiah
c) Moses
d) Abraham
e) Joshua
13. Who was Moses' father-in-law?
a) Aaron
b) Joshua
c) Jethro
d) Jed
e) Morris
14. Who is credited with coining the term "New Testament" to
describe the last 27 books of the Bible (Matthew -- Revelation)?
a) St.
Vincent of Lerins
b) St. Jerome
c) St. Augustine
d) Tertullian
e) St. Paul
15. What three colors was the curtain for the Holy of Holies?
a) blue, red,
purple
b) blue, purple, white
c) red, yellow, blue
16.What biblical book mentions a woman with lips like a scarlet ribbon?
a)
Revelation
b) Proverbs
c) the Song of Solomon
d) Ephesians
e) Hosea
17.Which Apostle ran to meet a foreign official seated in a chariot?
a) St.
Andrew
b) St. Bartholomew
c) St. Philip
d) St. Thomas
e) St. Peter
18.Who had a vision of the Ancient of Days seated upon a throne?
a) Moses
b) Jeremiah
c) Daniel
d) St. John
19.Which of the following architectural styles was prevalent in Spain
during the 17th century?
a) gothic
b) baroque
c) Romanesque
d) rococo
e)
easy living
20.
During the lifetime of the astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Jesuit
Cardinal St. Robert Bellarmine spent his career trying to suppress the
idea of heliocentrism.
a) yes
b) no
c) maybe
d) you got a problem with
that?
Answers:1.b, 2.d, 3.b, 4.c, 5.d, 6.b, 7.c, 8.d, 9.b, 10.c,
11. a, 12.c, 13.c, 14.d, 15.a, 16.c, 17.c, 18.c, 19.b, 20.b
