Catholic Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What is the largest Christian denomination in the world?
Answer:
Catholic Church
2.
What city is the headquarters of the Catholic Church?
Answer:
Vatican City
3.
What is the official language of the Vatican?
Answer:
Latin
4.
How many books are in the Catholic Bible?
Answer:
73 Books
5.
What is the name of the Pope's official residence?
Answer:
Apostolic Palace
6.
What does “Catholic” mean?
Answer:
Universal
7.
Who founded the Jesuit order?
Answer:
St. Ignatius of Loyola
8.
What is the name of the Pope's weekly public address?
Answer:
Angelus
9.
What is the term for a priest elevated to a position directly below the Pope?
Answer:
Cardinal
10.
What is the name of the Pope's armed forces?
Answer:
Pontifical Swiss Guard
11.
What are the three theological virtues?
Answer:
Faith, hope, and charity
12.
What are the four cardinal virtues?
Answer:
Prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance
13.
What is the name of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples?
Answer:
The Lord's Prayer (Our Father)
14.
What is the first book of the Bible?
Answer:
Genesis
15.
What is the last book of the Bible?
Answer:
Revelation
16.
Who is the patron saint of Ireland?
Answer:
Saint Patrick
17.
Who is the patron saint of animals?
Answer:
Saint Francis of Assisi
18.
What is the name of the Catholic church in Paris, famous for its stained glass windows?
Answer:
Notre Dame Cathedral
19.
What is the name of the highest mountain in the world, named after a Jesuit?
Answer:
Mount Everest
20.
Who was the first Pope to visit the United States?
Answer:
Pope Paul VI
21.
What was the name of the agreement signed between the Vatican and Nazi Germany in ?
Answer:
Reichskonkordat
22.
Which Pope opened the Vatican Secret Archives to researchers?
Answer:
Pope Leo XIII
23.
Who was the longest-reigning Pope in history?
Answer:
Pope Pius IX
24.
What was the name of the Catholic monastic order founded by St. Benedict?
Answer:
Benedictines
25.
Which Pope convened the Council of Trent?
Answer:
Pope Paul III
26.
Who was the first Pope to voluntarily resign?
Answer:
Pope Celestine V (in )
27.
What is the name of the official collection of canon law in the Catholic Church?
Answer:
Code of Canon Law
28.
What is the term for the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays?
Answer:
Abstinence
29.
What is the name of the sacrament in which bread and wine are consecrated into the body and blood of Christ?
Answer:
Eucharist
30.
What is the name of the liturgical season leading up to Christmas?
Answer:
Advent
31.
What is the name of the liturgical season leading up to Easter?
Answer:
Lent
32.
What is the name of the feast that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles?
Answer:
Pentecost
33.
What is the name of the Marian apparition that took place in Lourdes, France?
Answer:
Our Lady of Lourdes
34.
What is the name of the Marian apparition that took place in Fatima, Portugal?
Answer:
Our Lady of Fatima
35.
What is the name of the Catholic devotion that focuses on the suffering of Mary?
Answer:
The Seven Sorrows of Mary
36.
What is the name of the Catholic devotion that focuses on the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
Answer:
Sacred Heart of Jesus
37.
What is the name of the first ecumenical council?
Answer:
Council of Nicaea
38.
What is the name of the document that officially ended the First Vatican Council?
Answer:
Pastor Aeternus
39.
What is the term for the belief that the Pope is infallible when speaking ex cathedra on matters of faith and morals?
Answer:
Papal infallibility
40.
What is the name of the theological concept that refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary being conceived without original sin?
Answer:
Immaculate Conception
41.
What is the name of the theological concept that refers to Mary being taken bodily into Heaven at the end of her earthly life?
Answer:
Assumption of Mary
42.
What is the name of the Catholic doctrine that teaches the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist?
Answer:
Transubstantiation
43.
What is the name of the philosophical school of thought that was prominent in the Middle Ages and heavily influenced Catholic theology?
Answer:
Scholasticism
44.
Who is considered the "Doctor of the Church" for his contributions to the development of Catholic social teaching?
Answer:
Saint Thomas Aquinas
45.
What is the name of the encyclical written by Pope Leo XIII that addressed the rights and duties of capital and labor?
Answer:
Rerum Novarum
46.
What is the name of the Second Vatican Council document that deals with the relationship between the Church and the modern world?
Answer:
Gaudium et Spes
47.
What is the name of the Catholic organization founded by Mother Teresa?
Answer:
Missionaries of Charity
48.
Who was the first American-born saint?
Answer:
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
49.
What is the name of the Catholic saint who is the patron saint of missionaries?
Answer:
Saint Francis Xavier
50.
Who is the patron saint of lost causes?
Answer:
Saint Jude
51.
What is the name of the Catholic sacrament that is celebrated after a person has died?
Answer:
Anointing of the Sick (formerly known as Last Rites)
52.
What is the name of the Catholic prayer book that contains the Liturgy of the Hours?
Answer:
Breviary
53.
What is the name of the Catholic religious order that was founded to combat heresy and preach the Gospel?
Answer:
Dominicans
54.
What is the name of the Catholic religious order that was founded to live a life of poverty and preach the Gospel?
Answer:
Franciscans
55.
What is the name of the Catholic religious order that is known for its educational work?
Answer:
Jesuits
56.
What is the name of the Catholic religious order that is known for its contemplative life and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament?
Answer:
Carmelites
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