Holy Trivia Quiz 

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How many years older was Aaron than Moses? - 3

What job did Rachel do? - Shepherdess

Who first wrapped Jesus’ crucified body in myrrh and aloes? - Nicodemus

Where was George Whitefield sent by the Wesley brothers to preach? - United States

Whose first Gospel hit was I’m going to move on up a little higher? - Mahalia Jackson

How were Esther and Mordecai related? - Cousins

Which book did Dietrich Bonhoeffer finish while in a German prison? - The Cost of Discipleship

How many of Eve’s sons are named in the Bible? - 3

What was Rebekah doing when the servant came to find a wife for Isaac? - Carrying Water

Ruth said “Your people will be my people and your God my God” to whom? - Naomi

Which New Testament male has his lineage traced through Ruth? - Joseph

Which Nobel Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1979? - Peace

Which city does Christian leave at the start of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress? - The City of Destruction

Where was John Bunyan when he began writing The Pilgrim’s Progress? - Bedford Gaol

Which English cleric was described as “The Morning Star of the Reformation”? - John Wycliffe

Which Christian physicist determined the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas at constant temperature? - Robert Boyle

Which song by John Newton was originally entitled Faith’s Review and Expectation? - Amazing Grace

In which country was Florence Nightingale born? - Italy

In which city is Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper located? - Milan

How old was Anna when she saw Jesus in the Temple ? - 84

Which Old Testament hero did not experience death, but went directly to heaven? - Enoch

Who watched the baby Moses while he was hidden from Pharaoh? - Miriam

Who was the husband of Zipporah, whom she first described as “An Egyptian”? - Moses

In what way does God move, according to William Cowper? - Mysteriously

Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman at a well named after which OT character? - Jacob

By what name were Charles Wesley and his friends known at Oxford University ? - The Holy Club

Who wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion, which helped establish Protestantism? - John Calvin

Who first carried the news of the risen Lord to the disciples? - Mary Magdalene

In the time of which Pope was the Sistine Chapel built at Rome ? - Sixtus IV

Whose memorial in St Paul’s states in Latin “If you seek a monument, look around you”? - Sir Christopher Wren

With grateful thanks to Phil Bonner, Churwarden at St. Mary's Church, Maulden for compiling this.

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