Q 01/05

In 2015, Francis became the first pope to address which body?

A) The UN General Assembly

B) The European Parliament

C) The US Congress

D) The Italian Parliament

Answer · why

C) The US Congress

The US Congress. Straight after the speech he left the Capitol for a lunch with homeless people, served in a tent beside a nearby church.

Q 02/05

Jonathan Pryce earned an Oscar nomination for playing Francis in which 2019 film?

A) Conclave

B) The Young Pope

C) The Two Popes

D) We Have a Pope

Answer · why

C) The Two Popes

The Two Popes. Its Sistine Chapel scenes were not shot in the Vatican: the crew rebuilt the chapel's interior, frescoes included, on a soundstage at R...

Q 03/05

Francis was the first pope from which religious order?

A) The Franciscans

B) The Jesuits

C) The Dominicans

D) The Benedictines

Answer · why

B) The Jesuits

The Jesuits. Members of the order are meant to avoid church honours and serve the pope himself, so seeing one of them elected pope was a novelty.

Q 04/05

After his election in 2013, how did Francis travel back to his lodgings?

A) In the papal limousine

B) On a bus with the cardinals

C) On foot across the square

D) In an open-top popemobile

Answer · why

B) On a bus with the cardinals

On a bus with the cardinals. He waved off the papal limousine, and soon afterwards went back to the clergy hotel where he had stayed before the concla...

Q 05/05

Francis told journalists in 2013 that he chose his papal name in honour of which saint?

A) Francis Xavier

B) Francis de Sales

C) Francis Borgia

D) Francis of Assisi

Answer · why

D) Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi. As the votes passed two-thirds, Cardinal Cláudio Hummes hugged him and said, 'Don't forget the poor,' and the saint of poverty came...