10/23/2016
Reformation Celebration is coming up on Sunday, October 30, from 2 - 3:30. Below, I'll paste the Reformation Jeopardy answers and questions. The game will come entirely from these:
Reformation Jeopardy - 2016 Edition (Study Questions)
*Indicates easier category*
*Books of the Bible:*
The name of this book means “beginning.”
-What is Genesis?
This book’s name means “unveiling,” and it is the last book of the NT.
-What is Revelation? (Note: don’t add the heinous extra “s” to this name.)
This book of songs and poetry is right in the middle of the Bible.
-What is the Book of Psalms (or just Psalms) ?
Moses was sent by God to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt in this book.
-What is Exodus?
This short poem laments the fall of Jerusalem and was written by Jeremiah, the weeping prophet.
-What is Lamentations?
The Pentateuch includes these five books.
-What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
People:
This German Reformer became an Augustinian monk as a result of a lightning storm.
-Who was Martin Luther?
This Reformer married a widow, with whom he had at least two children (who died in infancy). His wife, herself, died after only 9 years of marriage, leaving him a widower. He never remarried.
-Who was John Calvin?
This first-generation Swiss Reformer was a humanist scholar who became a Pastor in Zurich. He met Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon at the Marburg Colloquy (1529).
-Who was Ulrich Zwingli?
This is the throne name of the French King to whom young John Calvin dedicated his famous Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.
-Who is Francis I?
This second-generation Scottish Reformer is largely responsible for establishing Presbyterian government in Scotland after the death of John Knox. He also shares a name with a famous American novelist.
-Who was Andrew Melville?
This Scottish King became the King of England and Ireland in 1603. English Puritans had high hopes for this Presbyterian-trained King from the House of Stuart, but were sorely disappointed.
-Who is James I of England (AKA James VI of Scotland; also, King James Version)
Famous Christian Writings:
Erasmus of Rotterdam attacked Martin Luther saying that humanity was not quite as helpless in sin as Luther let on. Luther wrote this book as a response.
-What is The Bo***ge of the Will by Martin Luther?
This book of the Italian Renaissance is about a pilgrim named Dante, who is led by through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
-What is The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
This epic work of high fantasy was written by an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon and English literature and is set in Middle Earth.
-What is The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
This English Baptist was imprisoned for unlicensed preaching. He wrote this famous allegory of the Christian life.
-What is Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
This book was written in response to the fall of Rome. Roman pagan accused Christianity of angering the old Roman god by converting the Roman Empire to Christianity.
-What is The City of God by Augustine?
This book was originally published around AD 1150 and became the theological textbook of the Western Church for centuries until the Reformation.
-What is Sentences by Peter Lombard?
Cities of Christianity:
This city is the birthplace of Christianity.
-What is Jerusalem?
The Apostle Paul’s hometown - it was “no mean city.”
-What is Tarsus?
This city has the most powerful and important Archbishopric of the Anglican Church. Thomas a Becket and Anselm were both Archbishops here.
-What is Canterbury?
Cyprian was a Bishop in this great North African city. Well before that, it fought the Punic Wars against the City of Seven Hills and lost.
-What is Carthage?
This city was of central importance for the spread of the Gospel in the Roman province of Asia Minor. Paul’s young protege, Timothy, ministered here for many years.
-What is Ephesus?
This 109 acre city-state is entirely surrounded by the city of Rome and is the home of the Pope and the Sistine Chapel, among other things.
-What is Vatican City?
Doctrine:
This is the great Reformation slogan having to do the purpose of all created things.
-What is Soli Deo Gloria?
This theological term specifies the doctrines relating to the person and work of Jesus Christ.
-What is Christology?
The Reformers thought of their work as carrying on this institution, the name of which has since been hijacked by Roman church.
-What is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church?
The unfortunately named Protestant doctrine that the Bible is clear and understandable at all points necessary to salvation.
-What is the Perspicuity of Scripture? (Perspicuity has to do with clear expression.)
This is the Protestant slogan intended to express that there is only one infallible source of Divine revelation.
-What is Sola Scriptura?
This Roman Catholic error describes the way the body and blood of Jesus become physically present at Communion.
-What is Transubstantiation?
The Reformers stressed the dignity and usefulness of Christians working in all lawful fields.
-What is vocation or calling?
This Reformation slogan speaks to the issue of the alone instrument of justification.
-What is Sola Fide?
This Reformation slogan identifies God’s grace as the only source of our salvation.
-What is Sola Gratia?
This Reformation slogan heralds that Jesus’ merits and sacrifice alone are the ground of our salvation.
-What is Solus Christus?
This is the theological term for the study of matters relating to the end times.
-What is eschatology?
*Famous Bible Passages:*
For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
-What is John 3:16?
In the beginning what the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
-What is John 1:1?
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
-What is Romans 8:1?
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
-What is Ephesians 4:31-2?
This is the end of the matter; all has been heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
-What is Ecclesiastes 12:13
The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
-What is Psalm 110:1
*Bible Characters:*
This Jewish King was the son of Jesse. Like King Saul before him and his son, Solomon, after him, he ruled Israel for 40 years.
-Who was King David?
This prophet had to lay on his side for over a year, besiege a model of Jerusalem, and eat his bread cooked on cow p**p.
-Who was Ezekiel? (See Ezekiel 4)
With the help of her uncle, this resourceful and beautiful young lady saved the Jews from being slaughtered.
-Who was Esther?
With the help of her mother-in-law, this resourceful and beautiful young lady scored a godly, faithful, and rich husband in Israel.
-Who was Ruth?
This Apostle is the “one Jesus loved” and wrote a good deal of the New Testament, including Revelation.
-Who was John?
This faithful man was willing, at God’s command, to sacrifice his only son. He is the father of the faithful.
-Who was Abraham?
*Attributes of God:*
God ______ the world in this way, that He sent His one and only Son that whoever should believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
-What is the love of God?
Outside of Jesus Christ, the world is under this: God is angry with the wicked everyday.
-What is the wrath of God?
God knows everything there is to know, not by learning it but of Himself.
-What is the omniscience of God?
The Lord has all power: He has a strong right arm.
-What is the omnipotence of God?
God is everywhere present: wherever the is a “there,” Thou art there.
-What is the omnipresence of God?
God is unchangeable: He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.
-What is the immutability of God?
*The “I-Am” statements of Jesus:*
Whoever comes to Me shall never hunger.
-Who is “I am the Bread of Life”?
Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness.
-Who is “I am the Light of the World”?
If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
-Who is “I am the Door”?
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
-Who is “I am the true Vine”?
This One gives his life for the sheep.
-Who is “I am the good Shepherd”?
Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
-Who is “I am the Resurrection and the Life”?
