Lent
Holy Week
Crucifixion
Disciples
Traditions
100
The length of the season of Lent ...a) 14 days ...b) 34 days ...c) 40 days ...d) 62 days
What is 40 days?
100
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' triumphant entry into this biblical city ...a) Bethlehem ...b) Damascus ...c) Antioch ...d) Jerusalem
What is Jerusalem?
100
How Jesus responded when being interrogated by Herod ...a) with prayer ...b) with song ...c) with prophecy ...d) with silence
What is with silence?
100
The disciple who denied knowing Jesus before the rooster crowed ...a) Matthew ...b) Judas ...c) Peter ...d) John
Who is Peter?
100
The fashion tradition that originated from people denying themselves the pleasure of wearing fine clothes during Lent ...a) white stockings ...b) white shoes ...c) bonnets / hats
What are bonnets / hats
200
The name given to the day before Ash Wednesday ...a) Day of Feasts ...b) Fat Tuesday ...c) Mardi Gras ...d) b & c
What is Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras?
200
Another name for Holy Thursday ...a) Good Thursday ...b) Easter Thursday ...c) Lenten Thursday ...d) Maundy Thursday
What is Maundy Thursday?
200
The name of the murderer released by Pilate instead of Jesus ...a) Barnabus ...b) Barabbas ...c) Barnobulus ...d) Barabby
What is Barabbas?
200
The number of times Peter denied Jesus ....1 ....2 ....3 ....4
What is 3 times?
200
What Easter eggs symbolize ...a) Victory of good over evil ...b) Celebration of the arrival of Spring ...c) The Tomb of Christ ...d) All of the above
What is All of the above?
300
The name given to the last week of Lent ...a) Holy Week ...b) Easter Week ...c) The Sixth Week
What is Holy Week?
300
The garden where Jesus went after the Last Supper to pray ...a) Gethsemane ...b) Golgotha ...c) Gardenia ...d) Ararat
What is Gethsemane?
300
The name of the actual site on Calvary where Jesus' cross was erected ...a) Gethsemane ...b) Golgotha ...c) Gardenia ...d) Ararat
What is Golgotha?
300
The amount of money Judas received to betray Jesus ...a) 10 copper coins ...b) 20 pieces of gold ...c) 30 pieces of silver ...d) 40 denarii
What is 30 pieces of silver?
300
Festum Ovorum or Egg Feast refers to the Saturday before or after Ash Wednesday?
What is the Saturday BEFORE Ash Wednesday? Eggs were originally forbidden during Lent. Thus, they had to eat all of the eggs beforehand. Since chickens did not stop producing eggs during Lent, they had to be hard boiled to prevent spoilage and were eaten quickly starting on Easter Day.
400
What the word "Lent" means ...a) To live without ...b) To let go ...c) Lengthening of days ...d) To live again
What is Lengthening of days?
400
This is held in the hours of darkness between sunset Saturday and sunrise on Easter morning ...a) Easter Vigil ...b) fasting ...c) sleeping ...d) feeding the animals
What is Ester Vigil?
400
What the name 'Golgotha' means ...a) Skull ...b) Garden ...c) Ark ...d) High Place
What is Skull?
400
After returning the 30 silver coins and admitting he'd made a mistake about Jesus, Judas went away and did this ...a) he hung himself ...b) he prayed for forgiveness ...c) he rejoined the disciples
What is he hung himself?
400
Made by Monks at the Vatican to give to the poor as a representation of Lent ...a) Crosses made from palms ...b) Pretzels ...c) Perfume ...d) Prayer beads
What are pretzels? They looked like a person with arms folded and praying.
500
The Jewish feast which occurred near the time of the Last Supper. ...a) Yom Kippur ...b) Purim ...c) Hanukkah ...d) Passover
What is Passover?
500
"Maundy" is Latin for "Commandment". This was Jesus' greatest commandment. ...a) Love one another as I have loved you ...b) Treat others as you wish to be treated ...c) Wash your hands before you eat ...d) Pray only to me
What is "Love one another as I have loved you"
500
The natural disaster that occurred during the crucifixion ...a) a volcano erupted ...b) a hurricane ...c) an earthquake ...d) a bushfire
What is an earthquake? "The Earth shook..."
500
The wound that Peter inflicted on the servant of the high priest when the soldiers came for Jesus ...a) stabbed him in the side ...b) crushed his foot ...c) cut off his ear ...d) broke his arm
What is cut off his ear?
500
How Easter's date is determined ...a) the 3rd Sunday in April ...b) the first Sunday after Spring ...c) the 3rd Sunday after the first day of Spring ...d) the Sunday after the first full moon, after the first day of Spring
What is the Sunday after the first full moon, after the first day of Spring?
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