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The 90s Across the Centuries

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Introduction:
"The final decade before the turn of the century nudged the world to explore its own spirituality in a variety of ways. How much do you know about people's attempts to know just where they stood in the grand scheme of things?"


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?
    Bah?'?
    Hare Krishna
    Seventh Day Adventism
    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?
    Joseph Priestley
    Richard Price
    Johann Jacob Schweppe
    Thomas Bayes


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


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?
    "Decet Romanum Pontificem"
    "Magnus Dominus et Laudabilis"
    "Ruthenis Receptis"
    "Benedictus sit Pastor ille Bonus"


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?
    Jesus College
    Magdalene College
    Trinity College
    St John?s College


7. In 1392, the Dutch took ordination very seriously. James of J?lich, 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 defrocked
    to be burned at the stake
    to say 60 'Hail Mary's' and 10 'Our Fathers'
    to be boiled alive


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?
    Richard the Lionhearted
    Henry III
    John Lackland
    Phillip II


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?
    Rome, Italy
    Nicaea, Bithynia
    London, England
    Clermont, France


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


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