Hola quiz faithful, I love that today is 8-8-08. Check out the question below that I included to mark this uniformly interesting date.
1. Number Eight
This issue is dated 8-8-08. Which of the following is a biblical interpretation of the number 8?
- a) There are eight patriarchs of the Israelites found in the Old Testament.
- b) Eight signifies eternity because it is a closed number made of two circles.
- c) It is the “superabundant” number as it is one number more than seven, the last day of the week when God rested after creation. Eight is beyond complete.
- d) Jesus was thought to have eight half siblings.
2. Popes
How many popes named Pius have there been?
3. Church in Hawaii
Which Hawaii Catholic church is known as The Painted Church?
- a) Sacred Hearts, Lanai City, Lanai
- b) St. Benedict, Honaunau, Big Island
- c) Holy Ghost Mission, Waiakoa, Maui
- d) St. Roch, Kahuku, Oahu
4. Theology
What is the term used to describe defending the Catholic faith through intellectual and theological reasoning?
- a) apostasy
- b) rightification
- c) summarilizing
- d) apologetics
5. Saints
This Jewish-born, German philosopher and writer converted to Catholicism after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. She later became a Carmelite nun and took the religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her feast day is Aug. 9, the day in 1942 when she died in a Nazi gas chamber.
- a) Paula Frasinetti
- b) Margaret Pole
- c) Edith Stein
- d) Elizabeth Ann Seton
6. Picture
Why is this statue of St. Peter, outside of St. Peter’s Basilica, holding a key?
- a) The saint’s original occupation was as a locksmith.
- b) Peter is considered the “gatekeeper of heaven.”
- c) He was known to love golden objects as he saw them as a symbol of Christ “our light.”
- d) It was later added by the sculptor when the bishop’s staff the statue was originally holding broke apart.
7. Current Events
Aug. 15 is the feast of what (and a Holy Day of Obligation in some parts of the country)?
- a) Divine Mercy Sunday
- b) Pentecost
- c) All Saints Day
- d) Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8. Current Events
On July 27, 35,000 pilgrims climbed to the summit of Croagh Patrick (above), a mountain in Ireland’s County Mayo, for Mass on Reek Sunday, celebrated every year on the last Sunday of July. What is the significance of Croagh Patrick?
- a) It is the site where St. Patrick is said to have fasted for 40 days and nights.
- b) The Blarney Stone was found there.
- c) Irish martyrs were thrown to their death from the mountain in 1825.
- d) The Reek religious order started a monastery at the summit.
9. Church Trivia
Candles used at Mass used to be made of 100 percent of what material?
- a) paraffin
- b) stearine
- c) beeswax
- d) soy
10. Hawaii’s Beatified
What was the birth name of Blessed Mother Marianne Cope who died 90 years ago on Aug. 9?
- a) Karen
- b) Barbara
- c) Perpetua
- d) Agatha
Answers: 1) c, 2) a, 3) b, 4) d, 5) c, 6) b, 7) d, 8) a, 9) c, 10) b