Q 01/05

Which Star Wars villain, drawn by a child for a contest, is carved on Washington National Cathedral?

A) Boba Fett

B) Darth Vader

C) Jabba the Hutt

D) Emperor Palpatine

Answer · why

B) Darth Vader

Darth Vader glares from high on a tower because Christopher Rader's sketch took third place in a 1980s National Geographic World competition for new g...

Q 02/05

Which Apollo-era object sits at the centre of the Space Window in Washington National Cathedral?

A) A Moon rock

B) A meteorite

C) A heat-shield tile

D) A spacesuit glove

Answer · why

A) A Moon rock

A Moon rock was presented for the window in 1974, on the fifth anniversary of Apollo 11; it may be the most familiar of the cathedral's two hundred or...

Q 03/05

Which Episcopal bishop preached at the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?

A) Frank Griswold

B) Mariann Budde

C) Michael Curry

D) Edmond Browning

Answer · why

C) Michael Curry

Michael Curry was the first African American to lead the Episcopal Church, chosen as Presiding Bishop on the first ballot in 2015.

Q 04/05

Which Founding Father, killed in an 1804 duel, is buried at Trinity Church on Wall Street?

A) Gouverneur Morris

B) Button Gwinnett

C) Robert R. Livingston

D) Alexander Hamilton

Answer · why

D) Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton shares the churchyard with his wife Eliza, his sister-in-law Angelica Schuyler Church and the tailor-spy Hercules Mulligan.

Q 05/05

Which president served as senior warden of an Episcopal church in Hyde Park while in office?

A) Franklin Roosevelt

B) William Howard Taft

C) Gerald Ford

D) Herbert Hoover

Answer · why

A) Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt worshipped at St. James' from boyhood, and his parents and four of his children lie in its churchyard, a few miles from the family ...