Advent and Christmas
This gospel is the only gospel that contains the Annunciation narrative.
What is the Gospel according to St. Luke / St. Luke's Gospel?
There is a Garfield movie title that riffs on this novel by Charles Dickens.
What is A Tale of Two Cities? (The movie is Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties)
This philosopher is so groundbreaking that ancient philosophy is divided into two eras by his life and work.
Who is Socrates? (The pre and post-Socratic eras)
This famous scientist came up with three fundamental laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The "Wailing Wall" is the only standing remnant of this majorly important and ancient Jewish structure.
What is the Second Temple?
The Latin word "adventus" fittingly means this.
What is "coming" or "arriving"?
This famous Roman author wrote what is essentially a Latin version of a Homeric Epic: the Aeneid.
Who is Virgil?
This famous philosopher is said to have flexed at his opponents when they were obstinate.
Who is Plato?
This "powerhouse of the cell" became part of a viral meme making fun of the American education system.
What is the "mitochondria"?
This singer and musician known mostly for his Christmas music recently sang the "Ave Maria" at the Vatican for Pope Leo XIV.
Who is Michael Bublé?
This Latin word, now commonly used to refer to the head of a parish, would have been used in Latin translations of Scripture to refer to the shepherds.
What is "pastor"?
The title of this novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky sounds as though it could have been written by Jane Austen.
What is Crime and Punishment?
This philosopher is the first person to seriously use the term "atom" in his understanding of the world.
Who is Democritus?
The "RAM" used in computers stands for this.
What is Random Access Memory?
The first PlayStation was originally going to be manufactured as part of a contract between Sony and this company before this company backed out of the deal.
What is Nintendo?
This is the calendar month and day of the Incarnation (hint: it's not Christmas.)
What is March 25th (the Feast of the Annunciation)?
This proto-feminist, 19th-century author wrote the first ever horror novel.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley? (The novel is Frankenstein.)
This famous medieval philosopher's most read work is Consolation of Philosophy.
Who is Boethius?
Hippasus, the man credited with proving that the square root of 2 is an irrational number, was a follower of this famous mathematician and philosopher.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the first model of iPhone ever to have a $999 USD MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price).
What is the iPhone X?
In the gospels, St. Joseph is said to be the son of two different men. One of these men is named Heli, the other is named this.
Who is Jacob? (He had two fathers because of something called the Levirate Law [Deut. 25:5-6]).
This character said "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for," in the film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
Who is Sam Gamgee?
Among the lesser known works of this preeminent Catholic theologian and philosopher are his Disputed Questions series, his Exposition on the Angelic Salutation (the 'Hail Mary'), and his De Regno (on Kingship).
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
Einstein's gravitational Theory of Relativity is being replaced by theories from this field of physics.
What is Quantum Mechanics?
This is Seal's 1994 hit soul rock song that was re-released as part of the Batman Forever soundtrack in 1995.
What is "Kiss From a Rose"?