Trivial Matters
By JOE SIXPACK
Let’s lighten up a bit this week with a little Catholic trivia! Cover the answers while you look at the questions and see if you can get the answers correct. If you get five right, you’ve just had infant Baptism. If you get ten right, you’ve just been confirmed. Get fifteen right and you’ve been made a deacon. Get them all right and the bishop needs to worry about his job!
- + + Question: What are the three ordinary vows of a religious?
Answer: Poverty, chastity and obedience. Question: What day of the year is the only day the altar is stripped bare?
Answer: It is stripped on Holy Thursday night and left bare on Good Friday. Question: What is the official Latin title of Mary’s response to her cousin Elizabeth?
Answer: The Magnificat. Question: What is the First Sorrowful Mystery of the rosary?
Answer: The Agony in the Garden. Question: What do we call the false claimants to the papacy from the third to the fifteenth centuries?
Answer: Antipopes. Question: Continence, chastity, and modesty battle which one of the seven deadly sins?
Answer: Lust. Question: What is the Fifth Sorrowful Mystery of the rosary?
Answer: The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus. Question: What is the maximum number of cardinals permitted in the College of Cardinals?
Answer: 210 Question: Tithing is the giving of how much of one’s income to the Church?
Answer: Ten percent. Question: What is the First Joyful Mystery of the rosary?
Answer: The Annunciation. Question: What number occurs more than any other in the Book of Revelation?
Answer: Seven. Question: What do we call holy things or actions instituted by the Church that resemble the sacraments in some way?
Answer: Sacramentals. Question: Who is buried in the Valley of Moab?
Answer: Moses. Question: What famous German Catholic composed the Ninth Symphony and Mass in D?
Answer: Ludwig von Beethoven. Question: What do we call the long black garment all priests are authorized to wear?
Answer: A cassock. Question: What do we call the inordinate desire for temporal goods?
Answer: Avarice or greed. Question: Whom did St. Peter attack in the Garden of Gethsemane?
Answer: The high priest’s servant, Malchus. Question: Who was the oldest man mentioned in the Bible? Hint: He was 969 years old.
Answer: Methuselah.
Question: Can you earn an indulgence for another living person?
Answer: No.
Question: How often does an ordinary jubilee year occur in the Church?
Answer: Every twenty-five years.
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