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HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR CATHOLIC BIBLES?
A fun quiz for fundamentalists like myself.
1) The Douay-Rheims translation is the first official Bible in English. What is ?Douay-Rheims??
a) Two Catholic cardinals who oversaw the translation
b) Two cities in France where exiled English Catholics made and printed the translation
c) Two cities in Switzerland where exiled Catholics made and printed the translation
d) Two previous translations that the translators consulted
Answer: b
2) The Douay-Rheims was translated mostly from
a) The original languages
b) The Latin Vulgate
c) The oldest and most reliable manuscripts
d) The Codex Vaticanus
Answer: b
3) What is a Latinized Bible?
a) Certain difficult Latin words are transcribed directly into the translation
b) Any translation from the Vulgate
c) Any translation into Latin
d) Any translation from any source that never contradicts the Vulgate
Answer: a The English language was not yet fully developed, so the Douay-Rheims was sometimes Latinized.
4) The Douay-Rheims translators probably invented the word
a) baptism
b) regeneration
c) transubstantiation
d) verily
Answer: b
5) The Challoner-Rheims is a major revision of the Douay-Rheims into more modern English. What is ?Challoner??
a) A Catholic bishop who opposed the King James Version
b) A translator of the KJV who later turned Catholic
c) A city in France
d) None of the above
Answer: a
6) Both the Douay-Rheims and the KJV were completed during
a) The Golden Age of English Literature
b) The Great Awakening
c) The Protestant Reformation
d) The Welsh Revival
Answer: a
7) The KJV translators ___________________that they had consulted the Douay-Rheims Version.
a) admitted
b) denied
c) hinted
d) openly stated
Answer: c It cannot be proven, but the marginal notes, certain difficult phrases, and some guarded statements in their minutes show that the KJV translators consulted the Douay-Rheims.
8) Knox hoped that his translation would last for two hundred years?it lasted for twenty. Who was Knox?
a) The Protestant Reformer
b) A Catholic cardinal who supervised the translation
c) A Catholic priest who wrote detective novels on the side
d) A secular scholar who did it to make money
Answer c---A language genius, theologian, and fiction writer, Ronald Knox single-handedly translated the Bible from the Vulgate, while taking the original languages into consideration. Finished in 1950, it was replaced by a newer official Catholic translation in 1970.
8) You?ll never find this in the introductory pages of a Catholic Bible:
a) Appointed to be read in churches
b) Imprimatur
c) Nihil Obstat
d) Saint Joseph Edition
Answer: a You?ll find this in the introductory pages of a KJV
9) The word ?imprimatur? does NOT mean:
a) ?Let it be printed?
b) Official permission from the Catholic hierarchy to print this book
c) This book has been carefully checked for printers' errors, misspellings, etc.
d) In a secular printing company, the management has authorized this book to be printed
Answer: c
10) What does ?Nihil Obstat? NOT mean?
a) ?Nothing hinders?; ?nothing stands in the way?
b) This book contains no errors in Catholic doctrines
c) The Catholic Church officially agrees with everything this book says
d) This book is approved by the Catholic Church
Answer: c The Catholic church declares the book to be free of errors in Catholic doctrines and morals, but does not necessarily agree with all opinions, historical references, scientific statements, etc.
11) Every approved US Catholic Bible is a ?Saint Joseph?s Edition.? What does this mean?
a) Saint Joseph preserved the translators from error.
b) The Order of Saint Joseph, the official translators of the Catholic Church, has approved this translation
c) Saint Joseph forbids Catholics to use any other translation of the Bible
d) This translation is dedicated to Saint Joseph
Answer: d
12) In the phrase ?Saint Joseph Edition,? what does ?Edition? mean?
a) It is a new translation, replacing all previous translations
b) It is the US version, as opposed to the British, Canadian, and other English versions
c) It has been carefully checked for printers' errors, misspellings, etc.
d) It contains the Apocrypha
Answer: c
A fun quiz for fundamentalists like myself.
1) The Douay-Rheims translation is the first official Bible in English. What is ?Douay-Rheims??
a) Two Catholic cardinals who oversaw the translation
b) Two cities in France where exiled English Catholics made and printed the translation
c) Two cities in Switzerland where exiled Catholics made and printed the translation
d) Two previous translations that the translators consulted
Answer: b
2) The Douay-Rheims was translated mostly from
a) The original languages
b) The Latin Vulgate
c) The oldest and most reliable manuscripts
d) The Codex Vaticanus
Answer: b
3) What is a Latinized Bible?
a) Certain difficult Latin words are transcribed directly into the translation
b) Any translation from the Vulgate
c) Any translation into Latin
d) Any translation from any source that never contradicts the Vulgate
Answer: a The English language was not yet fully developed, so the Douay-Rheims was sometimes Latinized.
4) The Douay-Rheims translators probably invented the word
a) baptism
b) regeneration
c) transubstantiation
d) verily
Answer: b
5) The Challoner-Rheims is a major revision of the Douay-Rheims into more modern English. What is ?Challoner??
a) A Catholic bishop who opposed the King James Version
b) A translator of the KJV who later turned Catholic
c) A city in France
d) None of the above
Answer: a
6) Both the Douay-Rheims and the KJV were completed during
a) The Golden Age of English Literature
b) The Great Awakening
c) The Protestant Reformation
d) The Welsh Revival
Answer: a
7) The KJV translators ___________________that they had consulted the Douay-Rheims Version.
a) admitted
b) denied
c) hinted
d) openly stated
Answer: c It cannot be proven, but the marginal notes, certain difficult phrases, and some guarded statements in their minutes show that the KJV translators consulted the Douay-Rheims.
8) Knox hoped that his translation would last for two hundred years?it lasted for twenty. Who was Knox?
a) The Protestant Reformer
b) A Catholic cardinal who supervised the translation
c) A Catholic priest who wrote detective novels on the side
d) A secular scholar who did it to make money
Answer c---A language genius, theologian, and fiction writer, Ronald Knox single-handedly translated the Bible from the Vulgate, while taking the original languages into consideration. Finished in 1950, it was replaced by a newer official Catholic translation in 1970.
8) You?ll never find this in the introductory pages of a Catholic Bible:
a) Appointed to be read in churches
b) Imprimatur
c) Nihil Obstat
d) Saint Joseph Edition
Answer: a You?ll find this in the introductory pages of a KJV
9) The word ?imprimatur? does NOT mean:
a) ?Let it be printed?
b) Official permission from the Catholic hierarchy to print this book
c) This book has been carefully checked for printers' errors, misspellings, etc.
d) In a secular printing company, the management has authorized this book to be printed
Answer: c
10) What does ?Nihil Obstat? NOT mean?
a) ?Nothing hinders?; ?nothing stands in the way?
b) This book contains no errors in Catholic doctrines
c) The Catholic Church officially agrees with everything this book says
d) This book is approved by the Catholic Church
Answer: c The Catholic church declares the book to be free of errors in Catholic doctrines and morals, but does not necessarily agree with all opinions, historical references, scientific statements, etc.
11) Every approved US Catholic Bible is a ?Saint Joseph?s Edition.? What does this mean?
a) Saint Joseph preserved the translators from error.
b) The Order of Saint Joseph, the official translators of the Catholic Church, has approved this translation
c) Saint Joseph forbids Catholics to use any other translation of the Bible
d) This translation is dedicated to Saint Joseph
Answer: d
12) In the phrase ?Saint Joseph Edition,? what does ?Edition? mean?
a) It is a new translation, replacing all previous translations
b) It is the US version, as opposed to the British, Canadian, and other English versions
c) It has been carefully checked for printers' errors, misspellings, etc.
d) It contains the Apocrypha
Answer: c