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What Do You Know?

Try these 20 multi-choice questions to identify your strong and weak knowledge areas.

1. Which continent has the fastest growing Christian population?
Europe
Asia
Africa
2. What denomination did John Wesley found?
The Baptists
The Methodists
The Anglicans
3. How many in a Trinity?
Two
Three
Four
4. Which of these are well-known Christians?
Judge Jules
George Michael
Delia Smith
5. What is a chalice?
A place to baptise babies
A drinking cup used in a communion service or mass
A holy candlestick
6. What is the name of the church season usually seen as the beginning of the Christian Year?
Advent
Christmas
New Year
7. Which of the following ideas does not appear in the Bible?
Reincarnation
Resurrection
Redemption
8. Which of these Church Councils gave its name to a Christian creed?
Council of Nicaea
Synod of Whitby
Council of Trent
9. Who had a conversion experience on the road to Damascus?
Peter
Paul
Saul
10. Which of these influential people was a Christian?
Gandhi
Genghis Khan
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11. Who first brought Christianity to northern Britain?
Augustine
Colomba
Julius Caesar
12. Which gospel tells of the visit of the three wise men to the child Jesus?
Matthew
Mark
Luke
13. What does the word "atonement" describe?
A belief in life after death
A belief in humans being reconciled with God because of Jesus
Inability to sing in tune
14. Which branch of the Christian faith ordains women?
Catholic
Orthodox
Protestant
15. When was the Bible first printed in English?
6th century AD
16th century AD
18th century AD
16. What are the three languages in which the Bible was originally written?
Hebrew, Latin and Greek
Aramaic, Latin and English
Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic
17. According to the Acts of the Apostles, who was the first Christian martyr?
St Peter
St Stephen
St Alban
18. What is the difference between a cross and a crucifix?
Nothing, they are both the same
A crucifix is a cross with a representation of Jesus crucified on it
A crucifix has two cross bars
19. What does the Bible mean by a "prophet"?
Someone who interprets the will of God to people
Someone who foretells the future
Someone who makes money by soothsaying
20. What is "liberation theology"?
A theology related to the prison system
A theology, originally started in the USA, arguing people should be able to do whatever they like
A theology, originally started in South America, attacking social injustice
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