RCC Novice Level - Bonus

Question 1

This is the contribution of a portion of one’s income (originally 10%) for the purposes of religion and
charity.

Answer 1

What is tithing?

Question 2

This is the Latin title for “at the Cross, her station keeping.”

Answer 2

What is “Stabat Mater?”

Question 3

We should pray to these three groups because they will intercede for us to God.

Answer 3

Who are the angels, the saints and the holy souls in purgatory ……………

Question 4

This term refers to the study of Mary.

Answer 4

What is Mariology?

Question 5

These 3 titles of Jesus, called the Triple Office of Christ, refer back to the roles of many Old
Testament people who prefigured the Messiah.

Answer 5

What are: 1. Prophet - 2. Priest - 3. King?

Question 6

Name the five predominant wounds on the body of Christ at His crucifixion.

Answer 6

What are: 1. 2 in the hand - 2. 2 in the feet - 3. 1 in the side?

Question 7

Instruments of the passion.

Answer 7

What are: 1. The Cross - 2. Nails - 3. Hammer - 4. Lance?

Question 8

Jesus walked on this body of water.

Answer 8

What is the Sea of Tiberius?

Question 9

This is the approximate number of years of Jesus’ public life.

Answer 9

What were three years?

Question 10

These are the seven sacraments.

Answer 10

What are: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance (Confession), Anointing of the Sick
(Extreme Unction), Holy Orders, and Matrimony?

Question 11

The direct transgression against these two commandments is always serious matter.

Answer 11

What are: 1. 6th Commandment - 2. 9th Commandment?

Question 12

These are the matter and form of the sacrament of Baptism.

Answer 12

What are: 1. Matter (pouring of water) - 2. Form (“I Baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit”)?

Question 13

This miracle takes place every time Mass is said.

Answer 13

What is transubstantiation?

Question 14

This is the Latin term for the bowl the priest uses when he washes his fingers (in respect for the fact he
will soon be holding the Body of Christ).

Answer 14

What is the “lavabo?”

Question 15

This mystery of faith is the conversion of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of the
Body and Blood of Christ while the accidents of bread and wine remain.

Answer 15

What is the transubstantiation?

Question 16

The only day of the church year on which Mass may not be offered.

Answer 16

What is Good Friday?

Question 17

These are the two purposes of marriage.

Answer 17

What are procreation and unification.

Question 18

These are the four purposes for which a Mass is offered.

Answer 18

What are:
(1) Adoration,
(2) Thanksgiving,
(3) Petition, and
(4) Reparation for sins.

Question 19

This priest taught music at an orphanage for girls in Venice and composed the four violin concertos
known as “The Four Seasons.”

Answer 19

Who is Antonio Vivaldi?

Question 20

These are the 2 effects of the sacrament of Reconciliation.

Answer 20

What are:
1) Reconciles us with God
2) Reconciles us with His Church?

Question 21

These are the 2 purposes of marriage.

Answer 21

What are:
1) To unite husband and wife
2) To procreate?

Question 22

This is a long cloak with a fastening in front worn during during the rite of benediction.

Answer 22

What is a cope?

Question 23

This vestment is worn by a deacon similar to the chasuble born by the priest.

Answer 23

What is a dalmatic?

Question 24

This is a band of cloth worn by the priest on the left arm during a Traditional Latin Mass.

Answer 24

What is a maniple?

Question 25

These are the painted or embroidered images or symbols on a chasuble.

Answer 25

What are the orphrey?

Question 26

This is the liturgical color is used on Sundays in Ordinary Time.

Answer 26

What is green?

Question 27

These are the two liturgical colors primarily used during the seasons of Advent and Lent.

Answer 27

What are purple (or violet) and rose (or pink)?

Question 28

This liturgical colour is used on the third Sunday of Advent and the fourth Sunday of Lent.

Answer 28

What is rose? (Pink is also an acceptable answer)

Question 29

The stole worn when hearing confessions is of this colour.

Answer 29

What is purple?

Question 30

This is the meaning of the term "omniscient."

Answer 30

What is all-knowing?

Question 31

This is one purpose for which the Holy Spirit was sent.

Answer 31

What is: 1. "He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I have said unto you." or 2. To teach and sanctify?

Question 32

This is the name of the person to whom Mary appeared at Lourdes.

Answer 32

Who is St. Bernadette Soubirous?

Question 33

He is considered the father of Western Monasticism.

Answer 33

Who is Saint Benedict?

Question 34

She was the first naturalized-American saint.

Answer 34

Who is St. Frances (Mother) Cabrini?

Question 35

She is the first person born in the U.S.A. to be canonized a saint.

Answer 35

Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?

Question 36

This is the name of the man whose wife said to him: "Bless God and die."

Answer 36

Who is Job?

Question 37

Jacob passed on the rights of succession to this son.

Answer 37

Who is Juda?

Question 38

This girl died before her twelfth birthday defending her purity from her neighbour.

Answer 38

Who is St. Maria Goretti?

Question 39

According to tradition, devotion to the rosary was revealed to this man?

Answer 39

Who is St. Dominic?

Question 40

The Blessed Virgin appeared to this woman in Paris in 1830.

Answer 40

Who is St. Catherine Laboure?

Question 41

She founded the Second Order of Franciscans in 1212

Answer 41

Who is St. Clare?

Question 42

When four soldiers tried to carry this young girl saint away, their combined strength could not move her. She is known as the "shining light."

Answer 42

Who is St. Lucy?

Question 43

This gospel writer was known to be a companion of St. Paul.

Answer 43

Who is St. Luke?

Question 44

Legend says he preached to the fish to convince heretics. He is pictured holding the baby Jesus as Jesus is believed to have appeared to him.

Answer 44

Who is St. Anthony of Padua?

Question 45

Son of a nobleman, he is now the patron of youth. He entered the Jesuits shortly after their establishment by St. Ignatius of Loyola and died while attending the sick during the plague.

Answer 45

Who is St. Alyosius Gonzaga?

Question 46

This saint gathered an army of peace to fight the Albigensian heresy. His order was called the Order of Preachers and dressed in white.

Answer 46

Who is St. Dominic?

Question 47

"Pray and work" is the motto of an order of monks founded by this saint.

Answer 47

Who is St. Benedict?

Question 48

The sisters of Lazarus who often had Jesus visit at their home.

Answer 48

Who were: 1. Martha - 2. Mary?

Question 49

This priest ministered to the lepers on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.

Answer 49

Who is Blessed Damian?

Question 50

This saint founded the religious order called the Christian Brothers.

Answer 50

Who is St. John Baptiste de la Salle?

Question 51

He is the Lord of the flies.

Answer 51

Who is the devil?

Question 52

The colors of the papal flag.

Answer 52

What are white and gold?

Question 53

The symbols of the bishop.

Answer 53

What are: 1. miter - 2. crosier?

Question 54

This is sometimes referred to as the bark of Peter.

Answer 54

What is the church?

Question 55

These are the names customarily given to the three Wise Men.

Answer 55

Who are Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar?

Question 56

This man knew he would live until he saw the Messiah.

Answer 56

Who is Simeon?

Question 57

He was the greatest and last of the judges.

Answer 57

Who is Samuel?

Question 58

Pope John XXIII, in opening the Second Vatican Council, pleaded for renewed fervor rather than for definitions of new doctrine, and referred to the rosary by this term as an instrument of faith capable of withstanding the Goliath's of modern problems.

Answer 58

What is David's sling?

Question 59

When the ark containing the tablets of stone was placed inside the tabernacle, God marked His presence with these.

Answer 59

What are: 1. A cloud 2. Fire at night?

Question 60

In the parable of the sower and the seed, Christ identified this as the seed.

Answer 60

What is: "The seed is the Word of God?"

Question 61

In Exodus, these 3 miracles saved the Israelites as they were being pursued by Pharaoh's army.

Answer 61

What were: 1. Pillar of fire (to light their way) - 2. Cloud of smoke (to hide them from view) - 3. Parting of the Red Sea (to allow them to cross the waters)?

Question 62

Waiting upon the mountaintop after the waters of the great flood had begun to recede, Noah sent out a dove to gauge the condition of the earth. These are the results of each release of the bird.

Answer 62

What is 1. It came back - no dry land - 2. It came back carrying a green twig - life was returning - 3. It didn't come back - the land was habitable?

Question 63

These are the 3 authors of the synoptic Gospels.

Answer 63

Who are: 1. St. Matthew - 2. St. Mark - 3. St. Luke?

Question 64

One of the three main religious parties in Palestine - this priestly group were most known for their strict adherence to the letter of the Law.

Answer 64

Who are the Sadducces?

Question 65

In the book of Genesis, she turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah?

Answer 65

Who is Lot's wife?

Question 66

He was the tetrarch of Galilee during the time of Christ.

Answer 66

Who was Herod (or Herod Antipas)?

Question 67

In Matthew 18, Jesus says to do this, if your eye causes you to sin.

Answer 67

What is pluck it out?

Question 68

This was the signal that Judas arranged with the chief priests and elders to betray Jesus.

Answer 68

What is a kiss? (Matt 26, Mark 14)

Question 69

According to Luke 22, prior to His betrayal at the hands of Judas, Jesus was in such agony and prayed so fervently that this happened.

Answer 69

What is "his sweat became like great drops of blood"?

Question 70

This is the reason Moses cast the tablets of the commandments out of his hands, shattering them on the ground.

Answer 70

What is "because his people were worshipping idols"?

Question 71

According to John's Gospel, this is the first person to pray to Jesus.

Answer 71

Who is Mary?

Question 72

This New Testament author tells us that faith without works is dead.

Answer 72

Who is James? (James 2:17)

Question 73

This prayer verse from the Divine Office, taken from Psalm 50, follows the verse "Thou, O Lord, shall open my lips."

Answer 73

What is "And my tongue (or, my mouth) shall announce Thy praise"?

Question 74

In Ch. 3 of the 1st letter of Peter, St. Peter teaches that in the days of Noah, eight persons were saved through water, prefiguring this sacrament.

Answer 74

What is Baptism? (1 Pet 3:21)

Question 75

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ said this is both among you and is yet to come.

Answer 75

What is the Kingdom of God?

Question 76

When Jesus walked on the water, this person came out of the boat to meet Him.

Answer 76

Who is Peter?

Question 77

This is the variety of the tree that Jesus cursed.

Answer 77

What is a fig tree?

Question 78

In this parable, Jesus says that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

Answer 78

What is the parable of the lost sheep or the parable of the lost coin?

Question 79

This term refers to drawing out the meaning of scriptual text.

Answer 79

What is exegesis?

Question 80

This prophet had a vision of God surrounded by smoke and six-winged seraphs.

Answer 80

Who is Isaiah?

Question 81

This was the first animal Noah sent out to search for land.

Answer 81

What was a raven?

Question 82

According to tradition, this person wrote the Book of Revelation

Answer 82

Who is Saint John?

Question 83

These words, recited during the Mass, echo those of the Roman centurion, whose servant was healed by Jesus.

Answer 83

What are the words "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word, and I (he) shall be healed?"

Question 84

According to tradition, Solomon wrote this book of the Bible which consists of a love poem.

Answer 84

What is the Song of Songs?

Question 85

This was the first animal that Noah sent out to look for land after the flood.

Answer 85

What was a crow?

Question 86

This person spoke the words, ""He must increase, but I must decrease."

Answer 86

Who is John the Baptist?

Question 87

This person proclaimed Mary as "the mother of my Lord".

Answer 87

Who is Elizabeth?

Question 88

This admonishment God gave to Adam and Eve is repeated on Ash Wednesday when our foreheads are blessed with ashes.

Answer 88

What is, "Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return?"

Question 89

Necromancy, which is the evoking of the dead in the quest for knowledge of future or hidden things, was condemned by the Church during the Middle Ages and is now known by this term.

Answer 89

What is spiritism?

Question 90

These days are never days of fasting or abstinence.

Answer 90

What are: 1. Sundays 2. Holy days of obligation 3. Feast days?

Question 91

This "cloth medal", having Mary's Immaculate Heart on one side and a prayer on the other, is especially efficacious in bringing those fallen away Catholics back to practice of the faith.

Answer 91

What is the green scapular?

Question 92

The letters R.I.P., at one time commonly etched into gravestones, is an abbreviation for this.

Answer 92

What is "Requiescat in pace" or "Rest in peace."

Question 93

In the devotion of the Stations of the Cross, these are the first and last "stations."

Answer 93

What are: (1) Jesus is condemned to death, (2) Jesus is laid in the tomb.

Question 94

The Church distinguishes these two types of indulgences.

Answer 94

What are partial and plenary?

Question 95

This is the number of articles of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

Answer 95

What are twelve?

Question 96

This plant is a symbol of martyrdom.

Answer 96

What is the palm branch?

Question 97

This is the hour of the Divine Office during which the Magnificat (or, the Canticle of Mary) is sung.

Answer 97

What is Vespers (or, Evening Prayer)?

Question 98

She is the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network.

Answer 98

Who is Mother Angelica?

Question 99

These are the four traditional forms of prayer.

Answer 99

What are: 1) Petition 2) Intercession 3) Thanksgiving 4) Praise

Question 100

These are the 3 expressions of prayer.

Answer 100

What are: 1) Vocal, 2) Meditative (or Mental), 3) Contemplative.

Question 101

A belfry is a structure used to house this instrument.

Answer 101

What are bells?

Question 102

The two Episcopal Sees occupied by St. Peter.

Answer 102

What are: 1. Antioch - 2. Rome?

Question 103

This city is considered holy by Christians, Muslims and Jews.

Answer 103

What is Jerusalem?

Question 104

This Catholic lay apostolic organization was founded by Frank Duff in Ireland.

Answer 104

What is the Legion of Mary?

Question 105

This general council of the Church dealt with the Doctrine of Justification.

Answer 105

What was the Council of Trent?

Question 106

Believing in superstitions breaks this Commandment.

Answer 106

What is the First Commandment?

Question 107

This is the meaning of the abbreviation O.P. which is used by members of the Dominican order.

Answer 107

What is "Order of Preachers"?

Question 108

These two symbols witness to the eternal divinity of Christ, they are also the fist and last letters of the Greek alphabet.

Answer 108

What are: 1. Alpha and 2. Omega?