My quizzical friends,
Since it’s Lent, I am fasting from jokes in my quiz intro. What a sacrifice! But I do have several more Lenten questions for you to answer. What did you give up or are you doing for Lent? (Please don’t say this quiz.)
1) Catholic Hawaii
Bishop Silva recently traveled to what mainland city for a regional meeting of bishops? The Diocese of Honolulu is a “suffragan see” of that city’s namesake archdiocese, which is the “metropolitan see.”
- a) Los Angeles
- b) Seattle
- c) Washington D.C.
- d) San Francisco
2) Catholic Hawaii
Speaking of the metropolitan province Hawaii is in, which is NOT one of the states that’s a part of the same ecclesiastical province as the Diocese of Honolulu?
- a) Utah
- b) (Northern) California
- c) Nevada
- d) Arizona
3) Lent
How many days are there between Ash Wednesday and Easter?
- a) 60
- b) 40
- c) 46
- d) 38
4) Lent
What is NOT another name for the day before Ash Wednesday?
- a) Mardi Gras
- b) Surfeit Day
- c) Pancake Day
- d) Shrove Tuesday
5) Lent
How many Stations of the Cross are there?
- a) 10
- b) 12
- c) 14
- d) 16
6) Lent
Which religious denomination listed below does NOT celebrate Lent?
- a) Anglicans
- b) Lutherans
- c) Methodists
- d) Mormons
7) Saints
March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. It marks the day the Irish saint is believed to have died. What century A.D. was that in?
- a) Fifth century
- b) Fourth century
- c) Seventh century
- d) Sixth century
Answers: 1) d, 2) d, 3) c, 4) b, 5) c, 6) d, 7) a.
