Quiz

[barretcreek]

No fair using Wikipedia



Old Goat Quiz

Great mental exercise for the over-60 crowd. Which of the following names are you familiar with?

1. Monica Lewinsky

2. Spiro Agnew

3. Benito Mussolini

4. Adolf Hitler

5. Jorge Bergoglio

6. Alfonse Capone

7. Vladimir Putin

8. Linda Lovelace

9. Saddam Hussein

10. Tiger Woods


You had trouble with #5, didn't you?

You know all the liars, criminals, adulterers, murderers, thieves, sluts, and cheaters, but you don't know the Pope??


Lovely, just lovely ... Sometimes I worry about you .... & me ��

[S.A. Boggs]

I am not Catholic so it got past me.
Sam

[USMilitaryGuy]

Don't all of the Popes change their name just as soon as they become a Pope?

[JOHN COOK]

I'm Baptist and as far as I know the POPE is not mentioned in my Bible. If so, I must have overlooked it somehow. Not being critical, I just would not have known as did S.A. Boggs...

[Allen]

Still don't know who he is.

Perhaps Billy Graham would have been a better choice. (of names)

[JB White]

Nobody really knows the name of any Pope until they become Pope and adopt a title name. Even if you may have been vaguely familiar with a last name you'd probably think his first name was Cardinal.
Doesn't matter what faith you were brought up in. It's a joke and the Bible says nothing about suppressing a sense of humor.

[Sunray]

Knew an uppity MCpl in the Queen's Service named Cardinal. He'd answer the phone with a, "Cardinal, Art." Told him one day he'd run into an OCdt named Pope and he'd be in trouble.
"...You know all the..." Lotta the Popes have been all of those. Ever heard of The Borgias? Frank is just the latest of a long line of the superstitious.

[JOHN COOK]

It's a joke and the Bible says nothing about suppressing a sense of humor.

I didn't take it as a joke. It was a good question and made you think.

john

[Mark in Ottawa]

I once threw a costume party at Halloween and had one guest come dressed as a Catholic Cardinal and another come as a pregnant nun. Somewhere I do have a photo of them posing together

[Vern Humphrey]

I'm Baptist and as far as I know the POPE is not mentioned in my Bible. If so, I must have overlooked it somehow. Not being critical, I just would not have known as did S.A. Boggs...

The Pope is a bishop. If you read the epistles of Paul, you see the organization of the early Church:

Deacons -- who were administrative assistants.
Presbyters (elders or priests) who did the sacramental and pastoral work of the Church
Episcopoii, or supervisors, who kept order in large areas. Today we call them bishops.

But who supervises the supervisors? The senior bishop, the Bishop of Rome who is traditionally called the Pope (which is based on the root word for "father.")

[m1ashooter]

I don't follow the different Popes but did enjoy Lindas movie.

[JOHN COOK]

Thank you Vern, guess I need to comprehend more what I read.
john

[Vern Humphrey]

Interestingly enough, in the Early Church, there were certain "churches" or religious communities that were held in special regard, and called "Patriarchies" These included Antioch (founded by Peter), Rome (where Peter served as the supervisor and was martyred) and Alexandria (founded by Mark.) The patriarchies of Rome and Alexandria still exist, and the Patriarch of Alexandria (who is the head of the Coptic Catholic Church) is the number 2 man in the Church. And he is, by definition, an African.

[Vern Humphrey]

Here's a quiz every American should be able to ace:


1. Give the proper names of Columbus' three ships.

2. Name the ship or ships that brought the first successful English colonists to America.

3. Name the oldest continuously-settled English-speaking town in America.

4. Name the oldest university in America.

5. Which of these states was the first to be visited by Europeans?

a. California
b. Massachusetts
c. Arkansas
d. Virginia

6. After losing the battle of Concord, the British were besieged in Boston. Which army besieged the British?

7. During the Revolution the flagship of the United States Navy was named after a book. What was that book?

8. The British surrender at Yorktown ended the American Revolution.

a. What was the name of the British general who surrendered?
b. What was the name of the American general to whom he surrendered?

9. In the old British monetary system, the units were pounds, shillings and pence. What are the units in the modern American monetary system?

10. With what nations does the United States share common boundaries?

11. Name the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost and westernmost states.

12. Who was the first President of the United States?

13. Where is the Cherokee Strip?

a. Oklahoma
b. Kansas
c. Texas
d. Arkansas

14. Is there a Constitutional right to education? Where do you find it?

15. The bell-shaped façade of the Alamo is one of the great American icons. Who built that façade?

16. What was the last state admitted to the Union as a slave state?

17. Jews were expelled from England on 18 July 1290, from France on 22 July, 1306 and from Spain in 1492.

Have Jews ever been expelled in the United States?

[Jay Johnson]

Considering the current and ongoing allegation by Archbishop Vigano that Pope Francis as early as 2013 had knowledge of and was complicit in the cover-up of the sexual abuse of seminarians under his control by former Boston Cardinal Theodore McCarrick when he was a priest in New York, perhaps the Lefty Pope deserves to be on a list with “liars, criminals, adulterers, murderers, thieves, sluts, and cheaters” and be recognized with such company...

Strange ‘Gun Talk’, but I didn’t start the thread...