Q 01/05

The 1631 'Wicked Bible', a King James printing, left the word 'not' out of the commandment against what?

A) Adultery

B) Theft

C) Murder

D) Idolatry

Answer · why

A) Adultery

Adultery became an order rather than a sin, and the printers were hauled before the Star Chamber, fined £300 and stripped of their licence.

Q 02/05

Which legendary creature is named in the King James Old Testament where modern translations say 'wild ox'?

A) Griffin

B) Unicorn

C) Phoenix

D) Centaur

Answer · why

B) Unicorn

Unicorn was the translators' choice because the older Greek and Latin Bibles used words meaning one-horned; the animal meant was probably the aurochs,...

Q 03/05

A long-running legend claims which playwright hid his name in the King James translation of Psalm 46?

A) Ben Jonson

B) Christopher Marlowe

C) William Shakespeare

D) John Webster

Answer · why

C) William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the name the legend finds in the psalm's words 'shake' and 'spear', though scholars doubt it because committees agreed the word...

Q 04/05

Which NASA mission's crew read the King James opening of Genesis from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968?

A) Apollo 7

B) Apollo 8

C) Apollo 10

D) Apollo 11

Answer · why

B) Apollo 8

Apollo 8 carried the first humans to orbit the Moon, and Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman took turns reading the first ten verses during a tel...

Q 05/05

In A Charlie Brown Christmas, which Peanuts character recites the King James account of the first Christmas from Luke?

A) Lucy

B) Sally

C) Violet

D) Linus

Answer · why

D) Linus

Linus drops his security blanket mid-speech, and creator Charles Schulz insisted on keeping the Bible reading despite his producers' worries about rel...