OK, so I should be working on my conference proposal, research, writing, or anything else, but here goes more trivia. Last round we learned just how wrong a lot of these questions are, so I thought it would be fun to open it up to guessing what they want you to answer. (Or you can just give the correct answer if all else fails).
I'm not going to do too many of these because I really do have to get some work done today.
1. To the nearest century, how many centuries are contained in the gap between Genesis and Exodus? (Remember, your guess should probably not be based on reality).
2. What is the middle verse of the NT? (And this isn't "trivial"?).
3. How long did darkness cover the land during Jesus' crucifixion?
4. What is the largest number of people to whom Jesus is recorded as appearing after his resurrection? (Was it at Mile High Stadium?).
5. Recite the fifth Commandment. (Or type it, which would probably prove more useful).
6. How many times did Jesus ask Peter if he loved him? ("Say over again, and yet once over again, / That thou dost love me / Though the word repeated /Should seem a "cuckoo-song" ). Total bonus if you can name the poet I just quoted. :)
7. (Oh, my favorite yet). Spell "Beelzebub" prince of demons.
8. How many loaves and how many fish did Jesus use to feed the multitude of over 5,000?
9. What is the four-word exhortation used at the beginning and the end of each of the last four Psalms?
10. To how many churches was the book of Revelation sent as a letter?
11. How long was Moses on the mountain receiving the Ten Commandments the first time? (With that much time, I think he should at least have come back with 40).
12. (Leftovers Question): How many basketfuls of food did the disciples pick up after feeding the 5,000?
13. How old was Jesus when he stayed behind in Jerusalem to be with the teachers in the temple?
14. What age of children did King Herod order to be killed when he realized the Magi had tricked him in his search for baby Jesus? (Did I miss a big part of this story? I don't remember especially tricky Magi).
15.How many books of the Bible include the name John as part or all of the title?
15 comments:
4. I'm just guessing, but I would bet the answer they are looking for doesn't happen on the American Continent, does it?
5. Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land (cuz, like my mom used to say, she brought me into this world, she can take me out.)
7. Right now I'm spelling it M-I-L-O as my tiny orange cat seems to have developed a taste for human blood, preferably mine.
5) This question can be used to narrow down the religious persuasion of the game's creator.
This is of course is presuming that the author knows the order for their religious group. I attempted to explain the different ordering of the ten commandments to the confirmation class. Later I had a woman following me demanding to know when the Lutheran church had changed the numbering. The answer of "we didn't" failed to satisfy. She insisted we had. Apparently her Lutheran instructor (despite talk of how tough confirmation used to be) didn't know the Lutheran/Catholic order of the commandments, despite the fact that we've been using the same document with the order of the commandments for confirmation material since the 1500's when Luther wrote it. (Prior to that we were all Catholic so we really haven't changed the order.)
15) 4 or 5, it depends on what one considers the title of Revelation to be
Nobody took #3?
3 hours, no?
#14
2 and under, but I forget if it was just males, or everyone...I think it was just the males.
I'm shocked, I actually know a few of these.
And as for #6, I am going with Yeats. I don't know why. I just am.
I finally got feedback on my proposal and I SHOULD be reading it, but I am not.
Mrs. B,
4. Yeah, they don't seem to count any other continents. 500 (1 Cor. 15:6)
5. Yes, this is the answer they wanted. Honor thy father and mother (Ex. 20:12).
7. Milo is a cutie; little devils can be very winsome.
Lutheranchick,
What are the different orderings? I was aware there were differences, but I don't know the various individual traditions well enough. For #5 they had honor Dad & Mom.
15. They went with 4, obviously they weren't counting subtitles I guess. I love how smart you are.
Baby O,
3. Yes, 3 hours (Matt 27:45)
14. Also right, 2 and under, (Matt 2:16). Matthew doesn't specify males that I can see, verse 16 just says "all the children."
6. EBB :) from her "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
I'm glad to hear you finally got feedback. That's ok, I think I understand, sometimes I make J.D. open my e-mails and read part of them before I look. And sometimes, you just don't have time right away. I hope it was useful feedback for you.
Well, maybe I'll just forward the pdf file onto you.....hey that's a good idea...yeah that's the ticket!
Absolutely, if you want to, I'd be happy to take a look. And I may be sending a proposal for my Blake paper & a Romanticism conference your way later today!
14) This actually should be all male children and is a famously mockable point in the NRSV. The NRSV is generally a fabulous translation. However, that line exposes its weakness. They chose to make some gendered statements more inclusive. This isn't always a bad idea, because we no longer have the tradition of only addressing men when we really mean everyone. However, the problem is that they also chose to translate male children in that story as children.
Thank you for the chance to show off odd knowledge that is for the most part utterly unnecessary.
The game maker is neither Catholic nor Lutheran in their ordering of the ten commandments. All other groups are in accord by the time one gets to commandment five. (For Catholics and Lutherans that is commandment four.) So the author is somewhere in the conservative Protestant spectrum.
Okay, I have given everyone ample opportunity to answer, so here I go. This is my one and only opportunity to embarrass myself by saying I know the answers and then getting them wrong, so here I go:
8. 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread (we had to sing another really lame song in school about this one...or was it our Methodist Sunday school....ah the hybridity of my religiosity)
9. Lord (?)
11. 40 days and 40 nights (?)
12. 12 baskets....I think you put it at 12 as a hint!
13. 12 years old. (i.e., right before his bar mitzvah.....duh!)
Ummm, could someone explain to me the alternate numbering of the commandments to me? I am more than a little confused. But then again, I always was confused since there always only seemed to be like 9 to me since don't covet seemed to be repeated. Also, in the actual bible (KJV), there are like about a million commandments, not just 10. (like you can't eat ferrets or weasels people!)
8. Yes, 2 fishes and 5 loaves.
9. Lord (?)
Correct path, full phrase: "Praise ye the Lord."
11. 40 days and 40 nights. Right again!
12. 12 baskets. Yep, lots of leftovers. Mmmm...leftover fish, yummy.
13. Absolutely, 12 years old.
Excellent Bible Answering!
There are a total of 613 mitzvot (or commandments). However, 10 get to be extra special and have been for quite some time. Most questions about the ordering of the commandments can be answered by Wikipedia (heretical as that may be to say).
13) If only there had been bar mitzvahs (as we know them) in Jesus' day instead of its development beginnng in the middle ages . . .
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