InQUIZition - Charles Harvey

Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Flaying Alive, Flaying Alive
Rack your brain and stretch your knowledge.


1.Which King of France do we call St. Louis?


a) Louis VII
b) Louis VIII
c) Louis IX
d) Louis Quatorze
e) all of them; it's just an honorary title


2.The heresy of Arianism denied the divinity of Christ. But which of the following denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit?
a) Nestorianism
b) Monothelitism
c) Pelagianism
d) Macedonianism
e) Negativism


3.Which documents granted religious liberty to Christians in the Roman Empire?
a) the Magna Carta
b) the Diet of Worms (yuk!)
c) the Edict of Milan
d) the protocols of Constantine
e) the Emancipationus Proclamationus


4.Who was the first bishop of the United States?
a) Thomas Fitzsimmons
b) John Neumann
c) Charles Carroll
d) John Carroll
e)Lewis Carroll
f) Carroll O'Connor


5.Where was the first episcopal see in the United States?
a) Boston
b) Baltimore
c) New York
d) Washington
e) one has yet to be officially established


6.Who founded Notre Dame University?
a) Knute Rockne
b) Fr. Casey
c) Fr. Sorin
d) Fr. Hanrahan
e) Fr. Houle
f) Our Lady herself, who swung by Indiana with her Son on one of His many trips to Steubenville, Ohio


7.To which religious order (if any) did Cardinal Newman belong?
a) Augustinians
b) Benedictines
c) Carmelites
d) Dominicans
e) Oratorians
f) none of the above
g) all of the above


8.The word "cardinal" comes from the Latin, meaning
a) red bird
b) red hat
c) hinge
d) papal helper
e) ruler
f) big cheese


9.The sin of trying to "buy" spiritual offices or favors is called
a) avarice
b) simony
c) parsimony
d) collusion
e) stupidity


10.When did Our Lady of Guadalupe appear to Blessed Juan Diego?
a) 1492
b) 1517
c) 1531
d) 1533
e) 1544
f) the night the lights went out in Georgia


11.Which first-century saint wrote a letter to the Corinthians which weighs heavily in favor of jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome?
a) Peter
b) Paul
c) Linus
d) Cletus
e) Clement
f) Bill


12.Saints Peter and Paul died in Rome during the persecution of
a) Diocletian
b) Vespasian
c) Nero
d) Domitian
e) Trajan
f) Clintonus


13.Which of these punishments was not threatened by early general and regional councils for those who refused to obey Church teachings?
a) excommunication
b) banishment
c) penances
d) flaying alive


14.St. Ambrose, who brought St. Augustine into the Church, was bishop of what city?
a) Pompeii
b) Naples
c) Milan
d) Perugia
e) Rome
f) Pacoima


15.St. Augustine's mother was, of course, St. Monica. But what was his father's name?
a) Adeodatus
b) Theodotus
c) Patricius
d) Augustine, Sr.
e) Maximus
f) Monico


16.Pope Pius XII declared her Patroness of Television
a) St. Agatha
b) St. Bernadette
c) St. Clare
d) St. Dymphna
e) St. Odilia
f) St. Chung


17.Which pope commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
a) Nicholas V
b) Pius II
c) Sixtus VI
d) Julius II
e) Leo X
f) none of the above, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Sistine Chapel


18.The Protestant revolt began in
a) Austria
b) Italy
c) Germany
d) Switzerland
e) England


19.Had this man not defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours, they probably would have conquered western Europe:
a) Alquin
b) Charlemagne
c) Patton
d) Charles Martel
e) Philip the Fair
f) Philip the Cheater


20.Who is called the "Father of Church History"?
a) Lactantius
b) Origen
c) Tertullian
d) Josephus
e) St. Joseph
f) Eusebius


Answers:1. c, 2. d, 3. c, 4. d, 5. b, 6. c, 7. e, 8. c, 9. b, 10. c, 11. e, 12. c, 13. d, 14. c, 15. c, 16. c, 17. d, 18. c, 19. d, 20. f
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