By Charles Harvey
The Secret Ingredient is Spam
Rack your brain and stretch your knowledge.
 
  1. Oneness Pentecostal theology today is most similar to what early Church heresy?
    Gnosticism
    Arianism
    Sabellianism
    Docetism
    Marcionism
    Bachelorism
     
  2. Who was the first person of the Eastern rites to be officially canonized by the Vatican?
    Adamnan
    Bademus
    Catherine of Alexandria
    Josephat
    Charbel Makhlouf
    Elijah Mohammed
     
  3. Who is considered Australia’s pioneer priest?
    Francis Xavier
    Damien DeVeuster
    John Joseph Therry
    Matthew Fox
    Eusebius Kino
    Crocodile Cardinal Dundee
     
  4. Who wrote the landmark work of Reformed theology, Institutes of the Christian Religion?
    Martin Luther
    Ulrich Zwingli
    John Calvin
    Thomas Hobbes
    Calvin and Hobbes
    Coolio
     
  5. Which one of the following is an example of a so-called sinful structure?
    Communism
    the California State Assembly
    capitalism
    the Libertarian party
    the Security and Exchange Commission
    Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion
    none of the above
     
  6. Napoleon took possession of the Papal States in what year?
    1798
    1803
    1809
    1901
    the year of living dangerously
     
  7. In the notorious St. Bartholomew’s Night Massacre who pounced upon whom?
    Catholics upon Huguenots
    Huguenots upon Catholics
    Dominicans upon Franciscans
    Carmelite Sisters upon freemasons
     
  8. What is the “fatal plague” spoken of by one of the popes “which insinuates itself into the marrow of human society, only to bring about its ruin.”
    atheism
    botulism
    Communism
    Nazism
    liberalism
    feminism
    Rap music
     
  9. Who was James A. Healy?
    the first Catholic mayor of New York
    the first African American bishop
    the first Catholic book publisher in San Francisco
    the first Catholic Justice on the Supreme court
    that guy from “Three’s Company” - you know, the one who played Mr. Roper
     
  10. This Belgian Franciscan discovered Niagra Falls
    Fr. Louis Hennepin
    Fr. Hercule Poirot
    Fr. Jacques Herriot
    Fr. Guillaume Retrouvaille
    Fr. Emil Concord
    Fr. Barrel le Fall
     
  11. To which North American First Nation grouping (formerly known as tribe) did Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha belong?
    Mohawk
    Mohican
    Lakota Sioux
    Navaho
    Sycuan
    Iroquois
     
  12. Sursum corda means
    Pay attention
    The table is ready
    Lift up your hearts
    Make your petitions known
    Don’t you wish you knew Latin?
     
  13. The family name of St. Catherine of Siena was
    Abruzzi
    Sianese
    Calzone
    Tedesco
    Benicasa
    Tonicasa
    DeCaprio
     
  14. The Blessed Virgin Mary is patroness of the United States under the title of
    Our Lady of the United States
    Our Lady of Guadalupe
    the Immaculate Conception
    Queen of Peace
    the Immaculate Heart of Mary
     
  15. Who composed the famous Memorare?
    St. Ambrose
    St. Bernard
    St. Benedict
    St. Dominic
    St. Cecilia
    St. Francis
    I can’t remember
     
  16. Who wrote the terrifying novel Descent into Hell
    C.S. Lewis
    J.R.R. Tolkein
    Charles Williams
    G.K. Chesterton
    George Stephanopolous
    Louis L’Amour
     
  17. The Biblical name Daniel means
    Lion food
    Den master
    Servant of God
    Beloved of God
    God is my judge
     
  18. Enchiridion as in Enchiridion Indulgentiarum means most closely
    litany
    gathering
    collection
    demonstration
    handbook
    Well, figuring in the tense and form of the word, and allowing for cultural grammatical determinants, the closest direct translation would be “give me a break”
     
  19. The Biblical name Esau means
    aboriginal
    outdoorsy
    cynical
    dumb
    entrepreneur
    red and hairy
     
  20. The best infinitive to describe the imposition of excommunication by legitimate ecclesiastical authority is
    to hurl
    to levy
    to chuck
    to launch
    to impose
    to fling
    to sling
    to inflict
    it doesn’t matter, Poncho - doesn’t make a damn bit of difference (get it?).

Explain my wrong answers.
Just gimme my score!

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