Q 01/05

Which animal lies beside Saint Jerome in countless paintings, recalling a legend that he pulled a thorn from its paw?

A) A wolf

B) A lion

C) A bear

D) A leopard

Answer · why

B) A lion

A lion became Jerome's emblem, though the tale may first have belonged to Gerasimus, a saint whose name resembles Jerome's in later Latin.

Q 02/05

Jerome's Latin wording led artists, Michelangelo among them, to give which Old Testament prophet a pair of horns?

A) Elijah

B) Isaiah

C) Moses

D) Daniel

Answer · why

C) Moses

Moses came down from Sinai with a face Jerome's Latin called horned, where the Hebrew is now read as shining. By about 1500 scholars doubted the readi...

Q 03/05

Which Native American leader is known by a Spanish form of Jerome, perhaps from Mexican soldiers invoking the saint?

A) Cochise

B) Tecumseh

C) Sitting Bull

D) Geronimo

Answer · why

D) Geronimo

Geronimo was born Goyaale, meaning the one who yawns. By one account the label stuck when Mexican soldiers cried out to Saint Jerome as he charged the...

Q 04/05

Which profession marks its international day on 30 September, the feast of Saint Jerome, its patron saint?

A) Translators

B) Photographers

C) Journalists

D) Teachers

Answer · why

A) Translators

Translators were given 30 September by a United Nations resolution in 2017, decades after their own federation began marking the date in honour of the...

Q 05/05

Which Renaissance artist left an unfinished Saint Jerome, later cut into five pieces and now kept in the Vatican?

A) Sandro Botticelli

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Piero della Francesca

D) Andrea Mantegna

Answer · why

B) Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci never got beyond the monochrome underdrawing. A Roman dealer later cut out the head to sell it separately, and Napoleon's uncle boug...