The 90s Across the Centuries

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1. In the 1990s, burgeoning American religious values brought the former Louis Eugene Walcott into the spotlight as a lightning rod for a new brand of American Islamic experience. By what name was he known by the time of his rise to prominence? Wallace Fard Muhammad Louis Farrakhan Warith Deen Muhammad. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

2. In 1894, a Massachusetts Baptist named Thornton Chase became the first westerner to permanently convert to a new religion that espoused one world faith. By the turn of the century, almost 1500 other Americans had joined him. What religious movement did Chase embrace? Seventh Day Adventism Bahá'í Hare Krishna Jehovah's Witnesses

3. 1791 saw fear grip the English city of Birmingham. Concern over Dissenters celebrating the French Revolution, advocating repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, and fomenting their own brand of theological revolution, brought the citizenry to violently drive out one of the bright lights of Reform Theology, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and inventor of soda water. What leading Unitarian left behind his forwarding address in 1791? Thomas Bayes Johann Jacob Schweppe Joseph Priestley Richard Price

4. In response to witchcraft allegations made in Salem Village in 1692, which of the following investigative techniques were brought to bear? all were techniques employed defendants brooms were checked for evidence of flight the victims laid hands on the accused a dog ate a cake containing the victims' urine

5. While, at the turn of the 16th century, the English were consternated over whether to remain Protestant, or return to Roman Catholicism, the Eastern Orthodox Church was also torn. What coin commemorated the return of the "Russian church" to Papal authority in 1595? "Ruthenis Receptis" "Benedictus sit Pastor ille Bonus" "Magnus Dominus et Laudabilis" "Decet Romanum Pontificem"

6. In 1496, while Christopher Columbus was traipsing around Hispaniola, thinking it was the East Indies, the English were installing William Chubbes as the first Master of "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge". What is the common name for this college? St John’s College Trinity College Jesus College Magdalene College

7. In 1392, the Dutch took ordination very seriously. James of Jülich, a Franciscan, had been appointed by the Bishop of Utrecht as an auxiliary bishop (without consecration). When James went about ordaining priests illegitimately, what was his sentence? to be boiled alive to say 60 'Hail Mary's' and 10 'Our Fathers' to be defrocked to be burned at the stake

8. By 1190, Jews in England were no longer protected by Henry II. The "religious" fervor of the crusades gave rise to ugly antisemitism resulting in riots and ethnic cleansing triggered by the coronation of which new King? Phillip II John Lackland Richard the Lionhearted Henry III

9. In 1095, a meeting of clerics and noblemen was assembled by Pope Urban II to initiate a “holy war" in order to reclaim Jerusalem for Christendom. Where did the Pope gather this council together? Nicaea, Bithynia Rome, Italy Clermont, France London, England

10. The first wave of millennialism - that is, the end of the world at the stroke of midnight on the last day of 999 - began in 992 with what portentous event? the murder of Pope John XV the Fall of Rome to Otto III Haley's Comet Good Friday fell on the Feast of the Annunciation