My dear quizcentrics,
I hope the quarantine provides you with a little extra time to ponder our latest quiz. Test your knowledge on the rosary, Our Blessed Mother and Japanese church history.
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1) Current events
A finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama was Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” a play about alumni from a small Catholic college in what state?
- a) New York
- b) California
- c) Wyoming
- d) Pennsylvania
2) Pope
During the month of May, Pope Francis has asked people to do what in particular?*
- a) Give to charity
- b) Pray the rosary
- c) Recite the Divine Mercy prayer daily
- d) Fast for the end of COVID-19
St Mary’s Basilica
Phoenix AZ
3) Saints
The feast day of St. Margaret of Cortona (no, not Corona) is May 16. As a young woman, she left home because of an unpleasant stepmother, and gave birth to a child out of wedlock. Her child eventually became a Franciscan friar and Margaret did what?
- a) Practiced severe self-denial
- b) Ran a hospital
- c) Founded a tertiary order of Franciscan sisters
- d) All of the above
4) Rosary
Which 20th-century pope created the five Luminous Mysteries as part of praying the rosary?
- a) Pope John Paul II
- b) Pope John Paul I
- c) Pope Paul VI
- d) Pope John XXIII
5) Mary
Multiple Choice (Two answers are correct): Do Catholics worship Mary?
- a) Yes
- b) No, but when Catholics pray to Mary, they believe she intercedes on their behalf to her son, Jesus Christ.
- c) No, but they hold her in a special place of honor.
- d) No, but they do worship saints.
6) Catholic history
In Japan, during the ban on Christianity in the country, what was one way Catholics managed to celebrate Mass?
- a) By going into the forest
- b) Through sake barrel ceremonies
- c) Through the Japanese tea ceremony
- d) In kabuki performances
7) Saints
Pope Francis recently announced that Matteo Farina would be named venerable. The 19-year-old, who was inspired by Padre Pio, died of cancer in what century?
- a) 21st
- b) 20th
- c) 19th
- d) 18th
Answers: 1) c, 2) b, 3) d, 4) a, 5) b & c, 6) c, 7) a
*The day after this issue of the Herald went to press, Pope Francis announced a special day of prayer and fasting for the end of COVID-19, thus making option d also a valid answer for Question 2.