Q 01/05

Martin Luther King Jr. retold the Good Samaritan in his final speech, given in which US city?

A) Atlanta

B) Selma

C) Montgomery

D) Memphis

Answer · why

D) Memphis

Memphis was where King, backing striking sanitation workers, said the Samaritan turned the passers-by's worry around and asked what would happen to th...

Q 02/05

In the parable of the Good Samaritan, the traveler was going down from Jerusalem to which city?

A) Bethlehem

B) Jericho

C) Nazareth

D) Capernaum

Answer · why

B) Jericho

Jericho lay at the end of a road notorious in Jesus's day for its danger and difficulty, so an ambush on a lone traveler there was entirely believable...

Q 03/05

Which sitcom's 1998 finale put its four leads on trial under a so-called Good Samaritan law?

A) Seinfeld

B) Friends

C) Murphy Brown

D) Frasier

Answer · why

A) Seinfeld

Seinfeld sent Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer to court for cracking jokes and filming while a man was carjacked, under a small-town law that required...

Q 04/05

What did the Good Samaritan pour on the beaten traveler's wounds while bandaging them?

A) Honey and vinegar

B) Myrrh and aloes

C) Oil and wine

D) Salt and water

Answer · why

C) Oil and wine

Oil and wine went on as the Samaritan bandaged the wounds with his own hands, and he then stayed with the man overnight rather than leaving at once.

Q 05/05

In the Good Samaritan story, who was the first traveler to see the beaten man and keep walking?

A) A priest

B) A scribe

C) A shepherd

D) A tax collector

Answer · why

A) A priest

A priest happened to be going down the same road purely by chance, the story says, and he saw the man lying there before carrying on with his journey.