Q 01/05

Which word for a small ornament comes from the Old English for 'prayer', thanks to the rosary?

A) Charm

B) Bead

C) Token

D) Bauble

Answer · why

B) Bead

Bead comes from Old English 'gebed', meaning prayer. People counted their prayers on a string, and the name slid from the prayer itself to the little ...

Q 02/05

Which pope added the Luminous Mysteries to the rosary as he began his twenty-fifth year in office?

A) John Paul II

B) Benedict XVI

C) Paul VI

D) John XXIII

Answer · why

A) John Paul II

John Paul II offered them as an optional addition covering the public ministry of Jesus, the years between his childhood and his Passion that the olde...

Q 03/05

Which archangel's greeting to Mary opens the Hail Mary, the most repeated prayer of the rosary?

A) Michael

B) Raphael

C) Uriel

D) Gabriel

Answer · why

D) Gabriel

Gabriel greets Mary as full of grace before telling her she will bear a son. Those words open the Hail Mary, which is said 53 times in a five-decade r...

Q 04/05

The second Luminous Mystery recalls which first miracle of Jesus, performed at a wedding in Cana?

A) Calming a storm

B) Healing a blind man

C) Turning water into wine

D) Feeding the five thousand

Answer · why

C) Turning water into wine

Turning water into wine came at his mother's request after the hosts ran dry. The steward, not knowing where it came from, praised the groom for keepi...

Q 05/05

Which month is devoted to the rosary, with the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary on its seventh day?

A) May

B) November

C) October

D) August

Answer · why

C) October

October holds the feast because it marks a 1571 sea battle whose outcome was credited to the prayer. A later pope asked Catholics to say the rosary ev...