Christianity quiz

Question 1

Who is the Angel that speaks to Mary?

Answer 1

Gabriel

Question 2

What was it called when Mary was born without original Sin?

Answer 2

The Immaculate Conception

Question 3

What was original sin?

Answer 3

When Satan tricks Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit

Question 4

Where was Jesus born?

Answer 4

Bethlehem in a stable

Question 5

Who visits the cradle?

Answer 5

Called the Nativity, shepherds came and later 3 wise men came and gave gifts

Question 6

What were the gifts and the meaning behind them?

Answer 6

Gold - Kingship on Earth
Frankincense - symbol of a God
Myrrh - symbol of death

Question 7

Parts of the Trinity?

Answer 7

God the father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus the son

Question 8

What does redemption mean?

Answer 8

To save someone from their sins

Question 9

What does ‘resurrection’ mean?

Answer 9

When Jesus came back to life after Crucifixion

Question 10

What is a baptism?

Answer 10

When sin is washed away

Question 11

Christmas and Easter holidays remember what?

Answer 11

The birth and the resurrection of Jesus

Question 12

What was Lent?

Answer 12

The 6 weeks before Easter when Christians fast to remember Jesus walking in the desert, going without food or water

Question 13

What were the three temptations of Jesus by Satan in the desert?

Answer 13

Turn the rock in to bread, to jump of the second Jewish Temple, and to not follow God’s will

Question 14

What was the Old Testament?

Answer 14

From the Tanakh(Jewish Bible) before Jesus

Question 15

What was the New Testament?

Answer 15

Books written after Jesus’s birth

Question 16

Who wrote the main 4 Gospels?

Answer 16

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Question 17

Who wrote the letters or ‘epistles’ in the New Testament?

Answer 17

Paul, previously Saul

Question 18

Where was Paul born?

Answer 18

Born in Tarsus(modern day Turkyie) in around 10 CE

Question 19

What happened on the road to Damascus?

Answer 19

Jesus comes to Saul in a vision, and Saul becomes blind and converts to Christianity

Question 20

What is the book of Revelation? Who wrote it?

Answer 20

The last book of the Bible, written by John the Apostle

Question 21

What are the colours of the horses and what do they represent?

Answer 21

White - Christ, Holy Spirit
Red - Blood, war
Black - Famine
Pale - Death

Question 22

Who was the governor that sentenced Jesus to Death?

Answer 22

Pontius Pilate

Question 23

Who was the puppet Roman Jewish King?

Answer 23

Herod Antipas

Question 24

Why were the Romans threatened by Jesus?

Answer 24

There was rioting and revolt against Roman rule

Question 25

On which hill was Jesus crucified?

Answer 25

On the hill of Golgatha

Question 26

What did the sign nailed to the cross say?

Answer 26

King of the Jews

Question 27

In which three languages?

Answer 27

Greek, Hebrew, Latin

Question 28

Why do Christians see the crucifixion as important?

Answer 28

The death of Jesus washed sins away

Question 29

What is a disciple?

Answer 29

Follower of Jesus

Question 30

Which disciple was crucified upside down in Rome?

Answer 30

Saint Peter

Question 31

What does Jesus command his disciples to do just before he descends into heaven?

Answer 31

Spread the gospel

Question 32

Which denomination of Christianity is now based on top of this rock in Rome? ( Hint: Pope claims descent)

Answer 32

Catholic Church

Question 33

Which Emperor fiddled while Rome burned?

Answer 33

Nero

Question 34

Why did Romans mistrust early Christian communities? (Hint: bread and wine + brother and sister names)

Answer 34

alleged cannibalism and refusal to recognize the emperor as a God

Question 35

What did the Emperor blame on Christians and what did he do to some of them in Rome?

Answer 35

The Great fire of Rome, burned alive