InQUIZition - Charles Harvey

Don't Go Begging For French Fries
Rack your brain and stretch your knowledge.

1. Who was the first Apostle selected by Christ?
a) St. Peter
b) St. Andrew
c) St. Bartholomew
d) St. John
e) the Blessed Virgin Mary

2. The name "Isaiah" means:
a) God is salvation
b) Awesome speaker
c) Mercy is at hand
d) Here I am, send me
e) There he is, send him

3. Which of David's wives was said to be "very beautiful to look upon"?
a) Haggath
b) Bathsheba
c) Michal
d) Eglah
e) Xena

4. Which of the following encyclicals was not originally promulgated in Latin?
a) Rerum Novarum
b) Quadragesimo Anno
c) Redemptor Hominis
d) Mit Brennender Sörge
e) Mater et Magistra

5. St. Peter was pope for approximately how many years?
a) 20
b) 27
c) 30
d) 35
e) He's still considered the true pope

6. Who among the following is a Doctor of the Church?
a) St. Pius X
b) Pius XII
c) John XXIII
d) St. Clare of Assisi
e) St. Thérèse of Lisieux
f) Marcus of Welby

7. What does "mendicant," as in "mendicant orders" mean?
a) pilgrim
b) preacher
c) beggar
d) builder
e) without french fries

8. The head of the Church of England is:
a) Queen Elizabeth
b) Prince Philip
c) the Archbishop of Canterbury
d) It has no head

9. When is the Protestant Reformation generally considered to have begun?
a) 1509
b) 1517
c) 1523
d) 1535
e) 1542
f) the day the music died

10. What great exegete of St. Paul's epistles called him "Christ's Second Eye"?
a) St. Augustine
b) St. Jerome
c) St. John Chrysostom
d) St. Gregory the Great
e) St. Thomas Aquinas

11. Many of the Church Fathers, in reflecting on hell, thought it was a definite place, most likely:
a) on the sun
b) at the center of the earth
c) in the Delta Quadrant
d) somewhere near Yuma, Arizona

12. Theologians who believe in hell think the primary pain of the damned is:
a) hellish heat
b) numbing cold
c) frightening demons
d) a sense of loss
e) being forced to listen to Country Western music for all eternity
f) a nagging feeling they left the iron on

13. Which theologian is called the "Angelic Doctor"?
a) St. Augustine
b) St. Jerome
c) St. Bonaventure
d) St. Thomas Aquinas
e) St. Alphonsus Liguori
f) St. Michael

14. The pope crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor in 800 A.D. on which day?
a) New Year's
b) Easter
c) Labor Day
d) Christmas
e) Emperor's Day

15. Which pope crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor?
a) Honorius
b) Laborius I
c) Stantorius II
d) Leo III
e) Nicholas

16. The word "basilica" comes from the Greek, meaning:
a) envoy
b) royal house
c) huge church
d) episcopal palace
e) religious publisher

17. Canonized in 1992, this Jesuit saint was spiritual director to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque:
a) Joseph Fessio
b) Aloysius Gonzaga
c) John Berchmans
d) Claude la Colombiere
e) Peter Canisius
f) Mitchell Pacwa

18. Which of the original Apostles evangelized India?
a) St. Andrew
b) St. Jude
c) St. Bartholomew
d) St. Thomas
e) St. Simon the Zealot

19. The group called Militia Immaculatae was founded by
a) José-Maria Escrivá
b) Maximilian Kolbe
c) Frederic Ozanam
d) Chuck Colson

20. The Jewish convert, Edith Stein, was murdered by the Nazis at:
a) Auschwitz
b) Bergen-Belsen
c) Treblinka
d) Dachau