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100
He wrote The Old Man and the Sea and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
100
Frank's clergy title.
What is Deacon?
100
Who is the current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth?
Who is Chancellor Mark Fuller.
100
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
100
The current pope, Leo, was born in this U.S. city.
What is Chicago?
200
She wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel published in 1985.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
200
Frank's go-to vacation?
What is a cruise?
200
What is the address of the current building we are in.
What is 359 Old Westport Road?
200
The first human to walk on the Moon in 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
200
The Mass in the Catholic Church is divided into these two main parts.
What is The Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist?
300
This Russian author is famous for War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
300
How many masses does Frank do a weekend?
What is five?
300
What is the name of this object, the tallest object on campus.
What is the campanile
300
This telescope, launched in 1990, has provided some of the clearest images of deep space.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
300
This is the Catholic teaching that the bread and wine truly become the Body and Blood of Christ during Mass.
What is Transubstantiation?
400
Known as the “Father of American Literature,” he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
400
What is the weeklong "process" (not a retreat) that Frank used to run for the diocese?
What is CLI?
400
This modernist architect, known for his Brutalist designs, designed the Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth, which opened in 1971 and is considered a signature example of his style.
Who is Paul Rudolph?
400
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
400
He is the patron saint of animals and is often depicted preaching to birds.
Who is Saint Francis of Assisi?
500
This English poet and artist, author of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, is known for his visionary works that combined poetry and illustrations.
Who is William Blake?
500
The name of the retreat that changed Frank's life
What is Cursillo?
500
What is the original name of UmassD
What is Southeastern Massachusetts University.
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Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute.
New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology.
Bradford Durfee College of Technology.
500
The spacecraft that took the first close-up images of Pluto in 2015.
What is New Horizons?
500
In the Catholic Church, these three holy oils are used in sacraments like baptism, confirmation, and anointing of the sick.
What are the Oil of Catechumens, the Oil of the Sick, and Sacred Chrism?