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100

What Holiday was Jesus celebrating with His Apostles the night he was betrayed? 

Passover

100

Other than baptism, name one of the other two sacraments that imparts an indelible mark in the soul of its recipient 

Confirmation or Holy Orders

100

By what title do you a call someone who has been beatified but not yet canonized a saint?

Blessed

100

With the closing of the Holy Doors at St. Peter's Basilica this most recent January 6th, what roughly year-long celebration that occurs once every 25 years was brought to an end?

Jubilee (year)

100

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the virtue of religion falls under which Cardinal Virtue?

Justice

200

What is the original name of the man who fathered the twelve tribes of Israel? 

Jacob

200

What is the name for the the outer garment worn by a priest celebrating Mass?

Chasuble

200

In what country was Saint John Paul II born?

Poland

200

What was the name of the Church council convened from 1545-1563 in northern Italy that was part of the Counter-Reformation?

(Council of) Trent

200

In Christian eschatology, what are the four last things?

Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell

300

By what name are the first five books of the Bible called?

Pentateuch or Torah

300

As we learned recently from Bishop Izen's visit, this is the name of the staff carried by a bishop.

Crosier

300

Which doctor of the Church has the distinction of being the teacher and baptizer of St. Augustine of Hippo?

St. Ambrose (of Milan)

300

Which heresy that rejected the divinity of Christ was condemned by the Council of Nicaea?

Arianism

300

What title taken from Greek is used to refer to the Virgin Mary being the Mother of God? 

Theotokos

400

What are two of  the four senses of Sacred Scripture?

Literal, Moral/Tropological, Allegorical, Anagogical

400

The first Eucharistic prayer is also known by what name?

The Roman Canon

400

What saint said while being roasted on a grill, “turn me over, I’m done on this side”?


St. Lawrence

400

Our glorious Cathedral of St. Paul was built by what first Archbishop of St. Paul, one of the towering figures in American Church History?

(Archbishop) John Ireland

400

What is the term that describes the inclination to evil present in man after the Fall of Adam and Eve?

Concupiscence

500

In the Old Testament, which of the minor prophets is instructed to marry a harlot by the name of Gomer?

Hosea

500

Which portion of the liturgical calendar, the most solemn of the year, begins with Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Lord’s Supper and closes with Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday?

Easter (or Paschal) Triduum

500

St. Polycarp was the disciple of which of the twelve apostles?

St. John

500

In the year 313 A.D., Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire through which proclamation?

Edict of Milan

500

What are the three elements of a moral act?


Object, Intent (or End), and Circumstance