Q 01/05

Which Tarantino film has a hitman recite a passage he calls Ezekiel 25:17, though most of it is invented?

A) Reservoir Dogs

B) Jackie Brown

C) Kill Bill: Volume 1

D) Pulp Fiction

Answer · why

D) Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction's version is mostly stitched together from stray biblical phrases; only its ending resembles the real verse, which closes an oracle again...

Q 02/05

Which modern Israeli city is named after the exiles' settlement where Ezekiel sat overwhelmed for seven days?

A) Haifa

B) Tel Aviv

C) Beersheba

D) Ashdod

Answer · why

B) Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv took its name from the Hebrew title given to Theodor Herzl's novel Altneuland; older English Bibles spell the exiles' village Tel Abib.

Q 03/05

In Ezekiel's opening vision, each living creature has the face of a man, a lion, an ox and which bird?

A) A falcon

B) A dove

C) An eagle

D) A raven

Answer · why

C) An eagle

An eagle is the fourth face; each creature also had four wings with human hands beneath them, and moved straight ahead without ever turning.

Q 04/05

What covered the high rims of the wheels beside the living creatures in Ezekiel's first vision, all the way around?

A) Eyes

B) Flames

C) Feathers

D) Bells

Answer · why

A) Eyes

Eyes filled the rims all around, and each wheel looked like one wheel set inside another, able to roll in any of four directions without turning.

Q 05/05

What did the scroll taste like in Ezekiel's mouth when he obeyed the command to eat it?

A) Vinegar

B) Ashes

C) Wormwood

D) Honey

Answer · why

D) Honey

Honey was the taste in his mouth, though the scroll handed to him was written on both sides with lamentations and he was told to fill his stomach with...