Quizzers,
The days are getting longer, and warmer and lazier. Ahhh. Nothing like a languid quiz to get your summer off to a great start!
-H.C. Harold
PRINTABLE QUIZ
1) A to Z Catholic Dictionary
What does “paraclete” mean in terms of the Bible?
- a) High Priest
- b) Holy Spirit
- c) Bird of the Lord
- d) None of the above
2) Catholic Hawaii
In what year did the Maryknoll order turn over the leadership of Sacred Heart Parish to the Diocese of Honolulu? (Hint: You’ll know the answer if you read this issue’s Heralding Back.)
- a) 1950
- b) 1998
- c) 2001
- d) 2010
3) Scripture
How many years did the Jewish people spend wandering in the desert after leaving Egypt?
- a) 1
- b) 20
- c) 40
- d) 100
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4) Catholic History
In 1992, the Vatican formally apologized for the persecution of what renowned scientist who famously posited that the Earth revolved around the Sun?
- a) Galileo Galilei
- b) Nicolaus Copernicus
- c) Giordano Bruno
- d) Girolamo Savonarola
5) Popes
Eleventh-century Pope Benedict IX is considered to be the only pope to do what?
- a) Sell the papacy
- b) Have been pope more than once
- c) Be elected at the youngest age
- d) All of the above
6) June
The Catholic Church dedicates June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Why is June the month selected?
- a) It’s when the feast of the Sacred Heart takes place.
- b) It was in June when St. Margaret Mary Alacoque received her revelations about the Sacred Heart.
- c) All the other months were taken.
- d) a and b
7) Saints
St. Justin the Martyr (feast day: June 1) was an early Christian philosopher and apologist from where?
- a) Italy
- b) Egypt
- c) Palestine
- d) Greece
Answers: 1) b, 2) b, 3) c, 4) a, 5) d, 6) d, 7) c
