FunTrivia Religion Mix: Vol 29 Quiz

Answer: honey wafers

According to the Bible, the Israelites left Egypt for a 40 year journey to Canaan, the Promised Land. Conditions were harsh and food was scarce until God provided them with "bread from heaven". It appeared each morning and had to be consumed the same day as it spoilt overnight. Exodus 16:31 (KJV) reads: "And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey."

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Answer: Mary, the mother of Jesus

Mary was a virgin betrothed to Joseph, when the angel Gabriel visited her and said she would give birth to the Messiah. The words uttered by her cousin Elizabeth on first meeting Mary after this incident, praised her, with her words forming the basis of the Roman Catholic prayer called the "Hail Mary". "Our Lady" is generally used to refer to various apparitions of Mary that are believed to have been encountered in different parts of the world.

Some of these are "Our Lady of Fatima" where Mary is said to have appeared to three small children at Fatima, Portugal and "Our Lady of Lourdes", when Mary appeared to a girl named Bernadette at Lourdes, France.

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Answer: Roman Catholic Pope

"Ex cathedra" means "from the chair". It was defined by the First Vatican Council of 1869-1870 during the papacy of Pope Pius IX. According to this, when the Pope is speaking "ex cathedra" on matters of the faith, he is infallible.

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Answer: Martin Luther

Martin Luther (1483-1546) became an Augustinian monk in 1505, was ordained to the priesthood in 1507, was made Doctor of Theology in 1512 and was excommunicated by Pope Leo X on 3 January 1521. While many theologians contributed to the Protestant Reformation, Luther's was one of the leading voices, especially on the issue of indulgences.


Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: a full-length ecclesial garment

The cassock was the ordinary vestment of European clergy for many centuries. It is a full-length garment, most often black in colour (although the Pope's cassock is white). Roman Catholic cassocks have a single row of buttons up the front; Anglican cassocks are double-breasted, probably because it is cold in those unheated English cathedrals.

It is modernly worn not only by clergy but also by acolytes, servers, choristers and others with a function in the liturgy. The word "cassock" from the 16th century French "casaque" meaning "long coat" and the Italian "casaca" meaning "riding coat." Another name for a cassock is soutane.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Seven deadly sins

The seven deadly sins, also known in Christianity as the cardinal sins, are Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth.
The mnemonic SALIGIA can be used to remember the Latin terms for them.

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Answer: None of these

Jehovah's Witnesses do not usually celebrate their birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving etc since they consider these holidays to have pagan roots.

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Answer: Pharisees and Sadduccees

The Pharisees were an ancient Jewish sect who taught strict observance of Jewish tradition as written in Scripture and interpreted rabbinically, and they believed in life after death and in the coming of the Messiah. Comprising the ruling class of priests, the Sadduccees upheld only the authority of written Scripture, and only the letter of the law, and not the oral tradition held by the Pharisees.

The Sadducces rejected the resurrection of the dead and any other doctrine not explicitly taught in the first five books of the Bible.

The full verse: "But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?'" (Matt 3:7, NRSV)

Question by player gracious1

Answer: Henotheistic

Henotheism is a devotion to one deity, while other Gods and Goddesses are acknowledged, and seen as part of the one deity. Hinduism may be considered a henotheistic religion, as may many of the Native American spiritual views, where there are gods of the wind, gods of corn, and many others, while the Creator is the God of all.

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Answer: Shakers

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, was formed in the 18th century. Ann Lee (1736-1784) had been baptised as a Quaker, and joined the Shakers in 1758. In 1774 she led a band of Shakers to the USA to escape persecution in the UK.

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