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Random Trivia
100
This is the form of government that the Presbyterian Church works within.
What is presbyterian polity, or representative government?
100
This is the Day on which we celebrate the Birth of Jesus the Christ.
What is Christmas?
100
This is the "Church's Birthday", celebrated every year by wearing red to church. It is marked in the book of Acts by the descending of the Holy Spirit. It is typically thought of as the "beginning of the Church."
What is Pentecost?
100
This is the state in which the city of Houston is located.
What is Texas?
100
He is the current President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
This is the group of elders that run each individual church.
What is the session?
200
This season encompasses the weeks leading up to Christmas.
What is Advent?
200
This person started many churches throughout the ancient world, including churches in Corinth, Thessaloniki, Philippi, and Ephesus.
Who is the Apostle Paul?
200
This event is the largest of its kind in the world, showcasing livestock alongside live concerts.
What is the Houston Livestock and Rodeo?
200
In the Harry Potter series, this is the name of a game played on broomsticks.
What is Quidditch?
300
This is the largest official governing body in the PC (USA). It meets every other year.
What is the General Assembly?
300
This is the day we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus.
What is Easter?
300
In the book of Acts, this is what earlier followers of Jesus were called.
Who are Followers of "The Way"
300
These are the names of the 4 major sports teams in Houston.
Who are the Houston Rockets, Astros, Texans, and Dynamo?
300
This is the number of sizes the Grinch's heart grew on Christmas day?
What is growing 3 sizes?
400
This person is in charge of moderating every session meeting, but only votes in the event of a tie.
Who is the church pastor?
400
These are the 5 weeks that lead up to Easter.
What is Lent?
400
This person made Christianity a legal religion in the Roman Empire in the Edict of Milan in 314 CE. He also gathered all the church leaders of the time in Nicaea (a city in modern Turkey) to come up with the Nicene Creed, which we use in church to this day.
Who is the Emperor Constantine?
400
This is the location of NASA's mission control.
What is the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center?
400
This is Jonathan's favorite food.
What are hot dogs?
500
This is the group of all the presbyterian churches in a given geographical region. For example, St. Thomas is a part of this one that covers all of Houston & Galveston.
What is a presbytery?
500
This is the time in the church calendar which is in between the seasons of lent and advent (usually late April through November)
What is ordinary time?
500
This person broke off from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s to start the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
500
This is the person for whom the city of Houston, TX is named after.
What is Sam Houston?
500
More copies have been made of this book than any other book ever printed.
What is the Bible?