Q.1
You may have heard it claimed that 'we are living in a post-Christian society', at least in the West; but despite the challenges, there is at least one part of the world where, according to simple statistics, 'at present rates there will soon be more Christians than people'. Where is this?
  • China
  • Africa
  • India
  • Russia
Q.2
Which of the following 'televangelists' in the USA is the ONLY one (within this list) thus far un-tainted by sexual or financial scandal?
  • Jimmy Swaggart
  • Billy Graham
  • Paul and Jan Crouch (Trinity Broadcasting)
  • Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
Q.3
Though the title of the work may be unfamiliar, most of us would probably recognise some of the music from Carl Orff's (not least from film and commercial soundtracks). The texts for this work ~ many of which are, shall we say, 'secular', if not in some places distinctly raunchy ~ were selected from an anthology written in Latin, old German and various other languages ... by members of what Christian community?
  • Crusaders
  • Monks
  • Priests
  • Quakers
Q.4
What do the monks of Mount Athos perpetually continue to forbid in their hilltop monastery?
  • Pets
  • Wine
  • Women
  • Electricity
Q.5
'We gather for a weekly Remembrance Meeting at the Gospel Hall, but we do not have priests as such, nor choirs, for our beliefs are simple and Scriptural. The theologian FF Bruce was one of ours, along with Argentinian evangelist Luis Palau, the early aircraft designer Handley Page, and Joseph Scriven who wrote that widely-loved hymn . Who are we?'
  • Pilgrim Fathers
  • Plymouth Brethren
  • Strict Baptists
  • Free Church of Scotland
Q.6
From time to time 'sects' come and go within the mainstream of Christianity. When and where did the Agapemonites flourish?
  • Greece, in the 3rd century
  • Switzerland, during and after the Hundred Years' War
  • Texas (USA) in the early 20th century
  • London and coastal southern England, from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries
Q.7
In the late 1960s two Australian travellers walked into Harrods' store in London, purchased / adopted 'a lion called Christian' (as in the title of their subsequent book and film), and kept him in the basement of an antique shop in London's West End ... one couldn't do that nowadays, for all sorts of very valid reasons! He was allowed outdoor exercise in the grounds of a nearby Moravian church. Where did the Moravian Church (as a whole, and now with well towards 1 million members worldwide) have its origins?
  • 15th-century Bohemia (now the Czech republic)
  • 17th-century Romania
  • 18th-century Silesia
  • 19th-century Armenia
Q.8
There are estimated to be about 4 million members worldwide of the Coptic Church ~ yet in its original homeland for the almost 2,000 years since AD 42 (not nowadays a Christian country), a mere 10% belong. In which powerfully Biblical country does the Coptic Church have its roots?
  • Syria
  • Egypt
  • Lebanon
  • Turkey
Q.9
The first black Archbishop of Cape Town, this man received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work on the relatively peaceful transition of his native South Africa from post-colonial apartheid to becoming a 'rainbow nation' (widely believed to have been his own phrase, though he would probably be too characteristically modest to claim it). Who is he?
  • Canaan Banana
  • Mangosutho Buthelezi
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Nelson Mandela
Q.10
Evangelical ('born-again') Christians can be expected to treat themselves, and their faith and values, reasonably seriously, but would meanwhile be reluctant to be seen as lacking in humour. A staunch tradition of visual aids and latter-day parables in their worship and witness includes this still-quoted example from start-of-the-day staff prayers on a children's holiday camp: 'Lord, grant that I may greet and face today not like porridge (dull, lumpen and hard to stir) but, rather, like ... ' (?)
  • ... rice crispies: full of snap, crackle and pop
  • ... shredded wheat: naturally wholesome and brim-full of energy
  • ... corn flakes: fresh, crisp and ready to serve
  • ... sugar puffs: coated with golden goodness
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