Q 01/05

Before clocks were common, which workers recited the Lord's Prayer to time steps in their work?

A) Sailors

B) Weavers

C) Cooks

D) Miners

Answer · why

C) Cooks

Cooks used the prayer as a kitchen timer, so an old recipe might say to simmer a broth for the length of three recitations.

Q 02/05

In the Lord's Prayer, which food do worshippers ask God to "give us this day"?

A) Bread

B) Fish

C) Honey

D) Milk

Answer · why

A) Bread

Bread here is usually read as shorthand for sustenance in general: whatever a person needs to get through to tomorrow.

Q 03/05

In the 2002 film Spider-Man, which villain attacks Aunt May while she is saying the Lord's Prayer?

A) Doctor Octopus

B) Green Goblin

C) Kingpin

D) Sandman

Answer · why

B) Green Goblin

Green Goblin is Norman Osborn's alter ego, and his attack on Aunt May in the middle of her prayer leaves her in hospital.

Q 04/05

Cliff Richard's 1999 UK number one "The Millennium Prayer" set the Lord's Prayer to which famous tune?

A) Amazing Grace

B) Scarborough Fair

C) Greensleeves

D) Auld Lang Syne

Answer · why

D) Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne first carried the prayer's words in the finale of a Christian musical, Hopes & Dreams. Cliff Richard then recorded it as a Christmas si...

Q 05/05

In Matthew, Jesus teaches the Lord's Prayer during which address that also contains the Beatitudes?

A) Sermon on the Mount

B) Olivet Discourse

C) Farewell Discourse

D) Sermon on the Plain

Answer · why

A) Sermon on the Mount

Sermon on the Mount is the name for Matthew chapters 5 to 7, and the prayer sits in the central chapter, inside a warning against praying to impress.