Christmas Muusic
Name that UU
Where in the World are UUs?
Theology
Final Jeopardy
100

This self-styled “Queen Of Christmas” grew up at the UU congregation in Huntington, New York. Perhaps she’s singing “All I want for Christmas is UU.” 

Mariah Carey

100

This 16th century Spanish "heretic" was burned at the stake in 1553 for rejecting the Trinity Doctrine

Michael Servetus

100

Where is the headquarters of the UUA?

Boston, MA
100

How many principles and Purposes are there?

Seven

100

What 2020 report was released by the UUA Commission on Intuitional Change?

Widening the Circle of Concern

200

James Lord Pierpont served as the music director of the Unitarian church in Savannah, Georgia, when he wrote this popular song. Perhaps the snow he wrote of riding through was in his childhood home of Boston, where his father served as a minister

 Jingle Bells

200

Who is credited with defining Unitarian Universalism in his 1819 sermon "Unitarian Christianity" and is sometimes called the father of Unitarianism?

William Ellery Channing
200
The first Unitarian churches were founded in this country now known as this.

Romania

200

This symbol is used in many UU congregations and is attributed to Austrian lawyer and artist Hans Deutsch 

a flaming chalice

300

“Cantique de Noel” got this English title along with new lyrics by Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, whose fervent abolitionist beliefs are evident in the verse that proclaims “the slave he is our brother.”

 O Holy Night

300

This 19th century activist is probably best known for her work with women's suffrage

Susan B. Anthony

300

This Southeast Asian country has over 27 member congregations

The Philippines 

300
What is the purpose of the proposed 8th principle?

To explicitly name the need to dismantle racism and other forms of opression

400

UU layperson Noel Regney and his wife Gloria Shayne Baker wrote this Christmas standard during the Cuban Missile Crisis as an exhortation to “people everywhere” to “pray for peace.”

Do you Hear What I Hear?

400

This 19th century UU advocated for research and investigation into the ethics of mental health instuitions.

Dorothea Dix

400

UU's are credited with two theological schools. (and one honorary mention!) They are located in these TWO US states.


(California) Starr King School for the Ministry

(Illinois) Meadville Lombard

400

This is a comprehensive sexuality training education program published by the UUA and UUC

Our Whole Lives

500

This minister of the UU Church in Wayland, Massachusetts, had his Christmas poem, “It Came Upon The Midnight Clear” set to music in 1850. In the poem, he uses the story of Jesus’ birth as the basis for commentary on the issues of war and peace facing the world in his day

Edmund Hamilton Sears

500

Who wrote A Treatise on Atonement in 1805? 

Hosea Ballou

500

In this Caribbean country, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee engaged in questionable family planning work in the 1960s-1970s

Haiti

500

In rejection of Calvinism, what message did Universalist John Murray preach that got him banned from preaching in England and led him to sail to America?

Salvation for everyone/God is a source of infinite love for all people