Christian Denominations Trivia
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100 free Christian Denominations trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Christianity has never been one organisation. A Catholic Mass, an Amish service in a farmhouse, a Pentecostal revival and a Coptic liturgy are all Christian worship, yet they differ in who leads, what is sung, which calendar is kept and what happens at baptism. The differences have stories behind them: an 1845 split over slaveholding missionaries, a date in 1844 when the world did not end, a village of refugees on a Saxon estate. The 100 questions cover the Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Adventist, Latter-day Saint, Amish, Mennonite and Hutterite traditions, plus the ecumenical bodies that try to hold them together: founders, schisms, headquarters, liturgical colours, membership figures, and the politicians, preachers and performers who belong to each. It suits a pub quiz round, a comparative-religion class or anyone who has wondered why the church down the road does things differently. Play on your phone with instant answers, or print it for the table.
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Q 01At Latter-day Saint Sunday services, the bread-and-cup ordinance passed on trays to the congregation uses which liquid?
Water
Water replaced wine after an 1830 revelation told Joseph Smith that it did not matter what was eaten or drunk in the rite, and warned him against buying wine from enemies.
Q 02The Salvation Army, which calls its ministers officers and its leader the General, leaves what out of worship?
The sacraments
The sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion are not celebrated, because the Booths feared Christians had come to rely on outward signs rather than on grace itself. The movement began in London's East End in 1865.
Q 03Which breakfast food was created in 1894 for patients at the Adventist-run Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan?
Corn flakes
Corn flakes are said to have begun as a batch of wheat dough that John Harvey Kellogg left standing overnight; his brother Will worked out how to flake it reliably and went on to found the Kellogg Company.
Q 04Which pop star became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001 through his friendship with funk bassist Larry Graham?
Prince
Prince called the change a 'realization' rather than a conversion, and afterwards he sometimes knocked on strangers' doors to talk about his faith.
Q 05Which singer, raised in an Assembly of God church in Tupelo, won all three of his Grammys for gospel records?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley found his first inspiration as a singer in the Pentecostal congregation his family attended, and his competitive Grammy wins came for 'How Great Thou Art' and 'He Touched Me' out of fourteen nominations.
Q 06Which Oscar-winning actor joined the Greek Orthodox Church before marrying his Greek-descended actress wife in 1988?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks took his wife's faith before their wedding, and after she saw Nia Vardalos's one-woman stage show the couple produced it as the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Q 07Who was the first Catholic elected US president, a milestone Joe Biden matched six decades later?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy won in 1960 after telling Protestant ministers in Houston he was the Democratic candidate who happened to be Catholic; Al Smith, the first Catholic major-party nominee, had lost to Herbert Hoover in 1928.
Q 08Which US president taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church into his nineties?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter quit the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000 after it voted that women should not be pastors, yet he kept teaching the Maranatha class and was still occasionally taking it in 2019.
Q 09Which Christmas carol was written by Charles Wesley, the Methodist co-founder credited with over 6,500 hymns?
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Hark the Herald Angels Sing first opened 'Hark how all the welkin rings' until fellow Methodist George Whitefield rewrote the line in 1753, and its tune was lifted from a Mendelssohn cantata for a Gutenberg festival.
Q 10Orthodox churches that keep the Julian calendar, such as Russia's, celebrate Christmas on which Gregorian date?
7 January
7 January is simply 25 December on the Julian calendar, and after the 2022 invasion Ukraine moved its official Christmas to 25 December to distance itself from the Russian church. The two calendars currently differ by thirteen days.
Q 11The Latter-day Saint health code, the Word of Wisdom, bars 'hot drinks', read as coffee and which other drink?
Tea
Tea and coffee are read as the 'hot drinks' of the revelation, and the church teaches the ban applies whether or not the drink is actually hot; herbal tea and hot chocolate are generally allowed.
Q 12Which successor to Joseph Smith led the Latter-day Saint pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley on 24 July 1847?
Brigham Young
Brigham Young's arrival on 24 July 1847 is kept in Utah as Pioneer Day; the valley then belonged to Mexico, and he served as church president from 1847 until his death in 1877. The trek had staged through Winter Quarters in Nebraska.
Q 13Which politician served in the 1980s as Latter-day Saint bishop of a ward in Belmont, Massachusetts?
Q 21Jehovah's Witnesses, known for evangelising with The Watchtower, call their plain, unadorned meeting places what?
Kingdom Halls
Kingdom Halls got their name in 1935, when Witness leader Joseph Rutherford suggested it for a building in Hawaii; they carry no religious symbols, and volunteers can raise a standard-design hall in a few days.
Q 22In the Western liturgical colour scheme, which colour is set for Pentecost Sunday and may also be used for ordinations?
Red
Red is the colour of fire, recalling the flames of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and as the colour of blood it also marks the feasts of martyrs, while green covers the long weeks of Ordinary Time.
Q 23Which Seventh-day Adventist co-founder left extensive writings that the church still holds in high regard today?
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney held the unpaid lay post alongside his business career, then led the church's Boston area, with more than a dozen wards and almost 4,000 members, work that took 30 or more hours a week.
Q 14Which civil rights leader served until his death as co-pastor with his father at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. shared the Ebenezer pulpit with his father, and at his widow's request a recording of his 1968 sermon there, in which he imagined his own funeral, was played at the service.
Q 15Mount Athos, the self-governing Orthodox monastic peninsula in Greece, bars which group by Greek law and tradition?
All women
All women are prohibited from entering the area governed by the monks, which tradition holds was consecrated as the garden of the Mother of God. The ban is written into Greek law as well as monastic custom.
Q 16Churches of Christ, heirs of America's 19th-century Stone–Campbell movement, are known for banning what from worship?
Musical instruments
Musical instruments are absent because the New Testament never mentions them in worship, so congregations worship a cappella, often pitched from a pitch pipe and led by a song-leader. Alexander Campbell himself opposed their use.
Q 17In 1917 some 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to US soldiers' camps in France and became famous for frying what?
Doughnuts
Doughnuts served to the troops earned the volunteers the nickname 'Doughnut Lassies', and the Army honoured them in 1938 with the first Doughnut Day, a Depression fundraiser in Chicago that is still marked each June.
Q 18Who was Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, the first Black African to hold the post?
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate, moved into the archbishop's Bishopscourt residence without the permit needed to live in a 'white area', and in 1990 he hosted the newly freed Nelson Mandela there.
Q 19Who, once England's chief nursing officer, became the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in 2026?
Sarah Mullally
Sarah Mullally was ordained in 2001 while still chief nursing officer and worked as an unpaid curate in Battersea until she gave up the government post in 2004 for full-time ministry.
Q 20The 'Holy Club' of John and Charles Wesley, whose methodical piety gave Methodists their name, met at which university?
Oxford
Oxford's Lincoln College had John Wesley as a fellow and later a lecturer, and George Whitefield, the great open-air preacher, was another Holy Club member. The label began as mockery of the club's disciplined routine.
Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White reported some 2,000 visions and dreams over seventy years, and one in June 1863 on healthy living steered Adventists towards health reform and a vegetarian diet.
Q 24Which practice, modelled on Acts chapters 2 and 4, sets the Hutterites apart from the Amish and Mennonites?
Community of goods
Community of goods was given up in the late 17th century and revived in the 1760s after Lutheran exiles from Carinthia joined the remnant in Transylvania; each colony still owns its land and equipment in common.
Q 25Old Order Amish church districts of 20 to 40 families hold worship every other week in what kind of place?
A member's home or barn
A member's home or barn hosts the district in turn, whereas the car-driving Beachy Amish meet weekly in church buildings; each district's bishop, ministers and deacons are picked by nomination and the drawing of lots.
Q 26The Lambeth Conference, first called by Archbishop Longley in 1867, gathers the Anglican Communion's bishops how often?
Every ten years
Every ten years or so the Archbishop of Canterbury calls the bishops together; only 76 of the 144 invited came in 1867, when the Archbishop of York and several other English bishops refused to attend.
Q 27The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant body in the United States, is administered from which city?
Nashville
Nashville houses the convention's executive committee and archives; in 1995, 150 years after the split that created it, the convention voted to apologise for its founders' defence of slavery.
Q 28Southern Baptists split from the north over slaveholding in 1845 at the First Baptist Church of which Georgia city?
Augusta
Augusta hosted the May 1845 meeting after the northern-led Triennial Convention would not treat slaveholders as fit for mission work, and the northern side is today's American Baptist Churches USA.
Q 29Roger Williams founded the first Baptist church in America in 1638, two years after founding which city?
Providence
Providence, founded by Williams in 1636, saw him hold services at home for nearly a year before forming the church, yet within months he left it to live as a 'seeker' tied to no denomination.
Q 30Modern Baptists descend from John Smyth's exiled English congregation, which adopted believer's baptism in 1609 where?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam's English exiles saw Smyth baptise himself in 1609, earning him the nickname 'Se-baptist'; he later sought union with the Mennonites while Thomas Helwys carried on as a Baptist.