Q 01/05

Whose Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery carries Amos 5:24, 'until justice rolls down like waters'?

A) Maya Lin

B) Frank Gehry

C) I. M. Pei

D) Richard Serra

Answer · why

A) Maya Lin

Maya Lin set the line on a granite fountain bearing the names of 41 people killed in the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1968, the wording borr...

Q 02/05

Besides herding, which crop did Amos say he gathered when he denied being a prophet's son at Bethel?

A) Black mulberries

B) Sycamore figs

C) Pomegranates

D) Carob pods

Answer · why

B) Sycamore figs

Sycamore figs come from a tree the ancient Egyptians prized so highly that some mummy caskets were carved from its wood. Amos added that the LORD took...

Q 03/05

Amos 1:1 dates his prophecy to 'two years before' which event, traced in an excavation layer in Jerusalem?

A) A great fire

B) A flood

C) An earthquake

D) A siege

Answer · why

C) An earthquake

An earthquake in the 8th century BC left a layer that archaeologists found in the City of David, matching the book's dating. Zechariah 14:5 still reca...

Q 04/05

What did Amos 8:9 say the LORD would make 'go down at noon', a line some link to a 763 BC eclipse?

A) The moon

B) The stars

C) The lamps

D) The sun

Answer · why

D) The sun

The sun going down at noon may echo the total eclipse of 15 June 763 BC recorded in Assyrian eponym lists, which passed over Nineveh in the middle of ...

Q 05/05

Beds of which luxury material, later excavated by the hundred at Samaria's palace, did Amos denounce?

A) Ivory

B) Cedar

C) Marble

D) Silver

Answer · why

A) Ivory

Ivory inlays, some 500 pieces carved with animals, plants and foreign deities, turned up in the palace at Samaria, matching Amos's 'beds of ivory' and...