Q 01/05

Nazareth is the largest city in which of Israel's six administrative regions?

A) Central District

B) Haifa District

C) Northern District

D) Jerusalem District

Answer · why

C) Northern District

Northern District: its biggest city was once so obscure that the Old Testament never names it, and in John's Gospel Nathanael asks whether anything go...

Q 02/05

In Matthew's Gospel, Joseph settles his family in Nazareth after bringing them back from which country?

A) Syria

B) Egypt

C) Persia

D) Arabia

Answer · why

B) Egypt

Egypt: they had fled there from Herod, and on the way back Joseph avoided Judea, where Herod's son Archelaus now ruled, and settled in Nazareth instea...

Q 03/05

In Luke's Gospel, what sends Joseph and Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem before Jesus is born?

A) A famine in Galilee

B) A summons from King Herod

C) A Roman order to register

D) The Passover pilgrimage

Answer · why

C) A Roman order to register

A Roman order to register: Luke says Caesar Augustus decreed a census and everyone had to register in his ancestral town, which for Joseph, of David's...

Q 04/05

Which inscription on crucifixes abbreviates the Latin for 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews'?

A) DNJC

B) ICXC

C) AMDG

D) INRI

Answer · why

D) INRI

INRI: John's Gospel says Pilate had the notice written in three languages, and when the chief priests objected he answered, 'What I have written, I ha...

Q 05/05

According to Luke, which angel appeared to Mary in Nazareth to announce she would bear Jesus?

A) Raphael

B) Uriel

C) Michael

D) Gabriel

Answer · why

D) Gabriel

Gabriel: Luke has the angel sent to Nazareth in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, and he points to that pregnancy of Mary's elderly relative a...