Q 01/05

What does the Hebrew name of Bethlehem, Bet Lehem, literally mean?

A) House of bread

B) House of God

C) Little town

D) House of the star

Answer · why

A) House of bread

House of bread: yet the Book of Ruth opens with a famine that drove Naomi's family out of Bethlehem to Moab.

Q 02/05

Which king does the Hebrew Bible identify as having been born in Bethlehem?

A) Saul

B) David

C) Solomon

D) Herod

Answer · why

B) David

David: Samuel turned down Jesse's seven older sons before the youngest was fetched in from the sheep and anointed.

Q 03/05

Which Nazareth basilica is built over the grotto Catholics venerate as the Virgin Mary's home?

A) The Nativity

B) The Holy Sepulchre

C) The Annunciation

D) All Nations

Answer · why

C) The Annunciation

The Annunciation: Pope Paul VI visited the shrine in 1964 while it was still under construction, five years before its 1969 consecration.

Q 04/05

Which biblical 'city of palm trees' was the first the Israelites captured in the Promised Land?

A) Lachish

B) Hebron

C) Gibeon

D) Jericho

Answer · why

D) Jericho

Jericho: when its walls fell, only Rahab and her family were spared, because she had hidden Joshua's two spies.

Q 05/05

Which chief tax collector, according to Luke, gave half his goods to the poor after meeting Jesus?

A) Zacchaeus

B) Matthew

C) Nicodemus

D) Bartimaeus

Answer · why

A) Zacchaeus

Zacchaeus: too short to see Jesus over the crowd, he climbed a sycamore tree, and Jesus called him down and stayed at his house.