Q 01/05

The Amish are named for which Anabaptist leader, whose followers split from the Swiss Mennonites in 1693?

A) Jakob Ammann

B) Menno Simons

C) Jacob Hutter

D) Conrad Grebel

Answer · why

A) Jakob Ammann

The word 'Amish' began as an insult used by his opponents in 1710; he was born in 1644.

Q 02/05

The Anabaptist movement from which the Amish emerged began in 1525 in which Swiss city?

A) Geneva

B) Zürich

C) Bern

D) Basel

Answer · why

B) Zürich

Conrad Grebel and George Blaurock baptised each other there in circles around the reformer Huldrych Zwingli.

Q 03/05

What two-word formal name do the Amish go by, distinguishing them from the newer, more modern subgroups?

A) Plain Order

B) Swiss Order

C) Old Order

D) Reformed Order

Answer · why

C) Old Order

When people say Amish today they normally mean this group, though New Order and Beachy Amish also exist.

Q 04/05

What do the Amish call the set of church rules that governs dress, technology and daily life?

A) The Ausbund

B) The Dordrecht

C) The Gelassenheit

D) The Ordnung

Answer · why

D) The Ordnung

It is largely unwritten, differs from district to district and is reviewed twice a year by every member.

Q 05/05

Amish migrants of 1717-1750 settled first in the area that became which Pennsylvania county?

A) Berks

B) Lancaster

C) Chester

D) York

Answer · why

A) Berks

Land pressures and the French and Indian War later pushed many of them on to Lancaster County.