Around the World
What country still practices a folkloric custom where a spoon, knife and fork are placed under three different chairs, and the mom-to-be chooses one to sit on? The spoon means a girl, the knife a boy and the fork means the gender is undetermined.
A. France, B. The Dominican Republic, C. Italy
What is B. The Dominican Republic?
In this species, the mother is a queen and the baby is a larva.
What is a bee, wasp, yellow jacket, or ant?
What Saint is hailing from France and is a Doctor of the Church who is often considered the greatest modern-day saint?
Who is Saint Therese of Lisieux?
What are the color of a baby's eyes at birth?
What is blue?
Saint Padre Pio quoted that, “The ___?___ is the ‘weapon’ for these times.”
What is The Rosary?
This African country, has a record-setting twinning rate.
What is Nigeria?
In this species, the mother is a jill and the baby is a joey.
What is a kangaroo, opossum, wallaby, or wombat?
What Saint is known as the 'Beloved Disciple' and survived all the other apostles and lived until the year 100?
Who is Saint John the Apostle?
What will increase your babies knowledge?
What is reading?
What Saint introduced the Total Consecration to Mary?
Who is Saint Louis de Montfort?
In this country, the most populous democracy in the world, new mothers traditionally rest for 45 days after giving birth.
What is India?
In this species, the mother is a sow and the baby is a farrow.
What is a hog, pig, or boar?
What Saint is the guardian and protector of the Church who is also the patron saint of police officers, paratroopers and sickness?
Who is Saint Michael the archangel?
Born in 1924 and elected in 1976, he was the first US President born in a hospital.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
What do Catholics call this paragraph from Luke 1:46-49?
“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for He has looked on the humble estate of His servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for He who is mighty had done great things for me, and holy is His name.”
What is Mary’s Song of Praise, The Magnificat?
Navajo newborns are considered part otherworldly and part human at birth. They become fully human when they achieve this fun developmental milestone (between 1 – 4 months).
What is laughter?
In these species, when the mother is either a cow, elephant, dolphin or whale, their babies are called what name?
What are Calves?
What Saint was a mother and also the first native-born American Canonized Saint by the Catholic Church?
Who is Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton?
How often is a baby born in the world?
What is every seven seconds?
What sacramental is a "conventional sign signifying three elements strictly joined: first, belonging to a religious family particularly devoted to Mary, especially dear to Mary, the Carmelite Order; second, consecration to Mary, devotion to and trust in her Immaculate Heart;third an incitement to become like Mary by imitating her virtues, above all her humility, chastity, and spirit of prayer"?
What is the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (also known as the Brown Scapular)?
In Turkey, the baby shower takes place after the baby is born. Guests rub this common baking ingredient into baby’s eyebrows and hairline to ensure a long life.
What is flour?
In this species, the mother is a vixen and the baby is a kit.
What is a fox?
This saint is patron of Bible scholars and students. A Doctor of the Church, who reportedly drew a thorn from a lion's paw and the lion stayed loyal at his side for years.
Who is Saint Jerome?
In newborns, this bone is still cartilage and hasn’t hardened into dense bone material yet. The Latin name is patella.
What is the kneecap?
How many Marian Dogmas has the Catholic Church declared and what are they?
What is 4? What is Mary's Divine Motherhood as "Mother of God", Mary's Perpetual Virginity, Mary's Immaculate Conception and Mary's Assumption into Heaven?