LEVEL: 2 - Junior [CATEGORY Church]

Question 1

This is a room where vestments, church furnishings and sacred vessels ar~ kept, and where the clergy vest for sacred functions.

Answer 1

What is the sacristy?

Question 2

This term describes the sequence that ties the 12 apostles to the bishops of the present time.

Answer 2

What ts apostolic succession?

Question 3

Also called the Latin Rite, this is the most widely used rite of the Catholic Church.

Answer 3

What is the Roman Rite?

Question 4

This is the title of the superior in a monastary who is the assistant of the Abbot.

Answer 4

What is the prior?

Question 5

This is a term synonymous with pastor.

Answer 5

What is parish priest?

Question 6

This is a cup or bowl, usually of metal, having a perforated cover, the whole suspended on chains, in which lighted charcoal is placed.

Answer 6

What is a censor?

Question 7

Taken from the Greek word meaning, “overseer”, he is a supreme, divinely instituted member of the Church hierarchy, usually entrusted with the pastoral care of a diocese.

Answer 7

What is a bishop?

Question 8

Before this sacrament is administered three renunciations are required of all adults and spoken by adults on behalf of infants receiving the sacrament, renouncing Satan, all of his works, and all of his pomp’s.

Answer 8

What is the sacrament of Baptism?

Question 9

This is the title given to a bishop who governs one or more of the dioceses that form an ecclesiastical province.

Answer 9

What is an archbishop?

Question 10

This is the boat built by Noah at the time of the Great Flood.

Answer 10

What is the ark?

Question 11

This Church title of this man who wears red was taken from the Latin word meaning “hinge.”

Answer 11

What is cardinal?

Question 12

This type of vow is accepted in the name of the Church by a lawful religious superior.

Answer 12

What is a public vow?

Question 13

This is one who collects alms.

Answer 13

What is a pardoner?

Question 14

This is considered the best and most comprehensive description of the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 14

What is the Mystical Body of Christ?

Question 15

He is called the Vicar of Christ on Earth.

Answer 15

Who is the pope?

Question 16

This 20th century pope was Giovanni Battista Montini.

Answer 16

Who is Pope Paul VI?

Question 17

This modern pope was referred to as “The smiling pope.” He reigned only one month.

Answer 17

Who is Pope John Paul I?

Question 18

They are the ones who keep parochial registers.

Answer 18

Who are pastors?

Question 19

This was the century in which the title Catholic was first used.

Answer 19

What is the Second Century (107).

Question 20

This man was the only Catholic who signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Answer 20

Who is Charles Carroll?

Question 21

This English king declared himself head of the Catholic Church in England.

Answer 21

Who is Henry VIII?

Question 22

Engraved with a picture of St. Peter and the name of the present pontiff. it is used to seal briefs and is destroyed on the death of a pope.

Answer 22

What is a Fisherman’s Ring?

Question 23

It was in this year that the bishops of the U.S. made their latest quintennial visit to the pope.

Answer 23

What is 1988?

Question 24

Before Pope John Paul II, it was in this century that the last non-Italian pope reigned.

Answer 24

What is the 16th Century (1522-1523)?

Question 25

These people spread religious doctrine and try to win converts to the faith they represent.

Answer 25

Who are missionaries?

Question 26

This order of nuns, who first came to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1727, pioneered in the education of girls.

Answer 26

What is the Ursuline Order?

Question 27

This famous French Jesuit priest and explorer was a missionary to Canada in 1666 and he explored the lower Mississippi River with Louis Joliet.

Answer 27

Who is Fr. Jacques Marquette?

Question 28

This organization, founded in 1822, assists the Catholic missionary program by prayers and alms.

Answer 28

What is the Roman Catholic Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

Question 29

This order of friars played an important role in the Spanish settlement of California.

Answer 29

Who are the Franciscans or order of St. Francis of Assisi?

Question 30

This is a priest appointed for the pastoral service of any division of the armed forces, religious communities, institutions, and various groups of the faithful.

Answer 30

What is a chaplain?

Question 31

Christ gave these three powers to the apostles, the first bishops of the Church.

Answer 31

What are:

1. Teach
2. Sanctity
3. Rule?

30 Bonus Points

Question 32

These are the 3 attributes (qualities) of the Catholic Church.

Answer 32

What are:

1. Authority
2. Infallibility
3. lndefectibility?

30 Bonus Points

Question 33

The mark of the Church called “Apostolicity” is shown by these two historical facts.

Answer 33

What are:
1. Christ commissioned the apostles to continue the work of building this Church
2. The Church has always been governed by their lawful successors?

30 Bonus Points

Question 34

Name the three stages of Canonization.

Answer 34

What are:
1. Venerable
2. Blessed (beatification)
3. Saint (canonization)?

15 Bonus Points

Question 35

An ecclesiastical prince of the Church who serves as adviser and assistant to the pope.

Answer 35

What is a cardinal?

Question 36

These are three things necessary for the stability of the Church and to guarantee sound doctrine.

Answer 36

What are the Bible, Tradition, and the Magisterium?

Question 37

These are letters from the pope to the bishops and the whole Church.

Answer 37

What are encyclicals?

Question 38

These are the laws of the Church, that help us be a community.

Answer 38

What are the Precepts of the Church? What is the Code of Canon Law?

Question 39

According to St. Paul, this part of the body describes Jesus’ relationship to the Church.

Answer 39

What is the Head?