Q 01/05

G. K. Chesterton's poem The Donkey ends with the animal recalling its hour of glory on which feast day?

A) Christmas Day

B) Palm Sunday

C) Good Friday

D) Easter Monday

Answer · why

B) Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is the day the despised donkey remembers: it carried Christ into Jerusalem while the crowds cheered. Chesterton holds that reveal back unt...

Q 02/05

Which heavy metal band opened its 1983 song Revelations with lines from a hymn by G. K. Chesterton?

A) Black Sabbath

B) Judas Priest

C) Iron Maiden

D) Def Leppard

Answer · why

C) Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden borrowed the opening of Chesterton's hymn O God of Earth and Altar for Revelations, on the album Piece of Mind. Singer Bruce Dickinson sai...

Q 03/05

A crater named after the author G. K. Chesterton in 2012 lies on which world of the solar system?

A) The Moon

B) Mars

C) Venus

D) Mercury

Answer · why

D) Mercury

Mercury holds the crater, because most craters on that planet are named after famous writers, artists and composers. Radar suggests its permanently sh...

Q 04/05

G. K. Chesterton's rule for reformers says never to remove which object before learning why it is there?

A) A signpost

B) A fence

C) A milestone

D) A hedge

Answer · why

B) A fence

A fence across a road was the example in Chesterton's 1929 book The Thing: a reformer who sees no use for it should go away and think. The idea, that ...

Q 05/05

Which Oxford don said G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man helped bring about his conversion?

A) C. S. Lewis

B) J. R. R. Tolkien

C) T. S. Eliot

D) W. H. Auden

Answer · why

A) C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis called The Everlasting Man the best popular apologetic he knew. He also placed it on his list of the ten books that most shaped his philos...