Q 01/05

Which extreme sport grew out of the land diving ritual of Pentecost Island in the South Pacific?

A) Base jumping

B) Cliff diving

C) Bungee jumping

D) Wingsuit flying

Answer · why

C) Bungee jumping

Bungee jumping began after Oxford students discussed the islanders of Vanuatu, who leap from wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles. Unlike ...

Q 02/05

Firefighters shower rose petals through the roof of which ancient building in Rome at Pentecost?

A) The Colosseum

B) The Pantheon

C) Castel Sant'Angelo

D) Baths of Caracalla

Answer · why

B) The Pantheon

The Pantheon has a round opening at the top of its dome, and the petals drift down through it onto the congregation. They recall the tongues of fire i...

Q 03/05

Which food is chased down Cooper's Hill in a Gloucestershire race that was long held on Whit Monday?

A) A cheese wheel

B) A pork pie

C) A plum pudding

D) A black pudding

Answer · why

A) A cheese wheel

A cheese wheel of Double Gloucester weighing up to nine pounds is sent down the steep slope ahead of the runners. The race later moved from Whit Monda...

Q 04/05

Which explorer named Australia's Whitsunday Passage for the feast day his calendar showed when he found it in 1770?

A) Matthew Flinders

B) Abel Tasman

C) William Bligh

D) James Cook

Answer · why

D) James Cook

James Cook named the passage for the feast because his own calendar showed Whit Sunday when the Endeavour sailed through. The 74 Whitsunday Islands of...

Q 05/05

What did mockers in the Pentecost crowd of Acts 2 say was wrong with the apostles?

A) They were possessed

B) They were drunk

C) They were mad

D) They were lying

Answer · why

B) They were drunk

They were drunk on new wine, the mockers claimed. The apostles' reply was practical: it was only the third hour of the day, about nine in the morning.