Apostles by RalliP

Champion(s):

ESB


Runner(s)-Up:

WellsW
If you ain't first, you're last


Quiz Description

Unlike 1DS: Apostles, this is a quiz full of questions about the Christian Apostles (and maybe some of the other followers of Jesus). For obvious reasons I will accept first names of people from antiquity.

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Questions:

This is a photo of the gang, as depicted in what 2015 television program about the Apostolic Age?

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A.D. : The Bible Continues

Name either of the two candidates who cast lots to fill a vacant apostleship, according to Acts 1.

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Joseph called Barsabbas who was also known as Justus, Matthias

What word's etymology is unknown, but has been variously suggested to refer to a Judean place-name, a group of assassins, and a term that roughly translates as "chokiness"?

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Iscariot

"Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powers of heaven. And ye shall never endure the pains of death; but when I shall come in my glory ye shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality; and then shall ye be blessed in the kingdom of my Father." - 3 Nephi 28:7-8. To which of the Twelve did Jesus promise a similar fate, according to Mormon tradition?

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John

Of the twelve apostles named in the Gospel of Matthew, five are not mentioned in John (although, church tradition holds that two of these five are the same people as Nathanael and Jude "not Iscariot", who both appear in John but not Matthew). Name three of these five men.

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Bartholomew, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean

Christopher Moore's 2002 novel, partially titled Lamb, not-too-seriously puts itself forward as a gospel written by what wise-cracking and over-sexed "childhood pal" of Jesus?

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Biff AKA Levi son of Alphaeus

According to church tradition, the evangelists Mark and Luke were not apostles, but were, respectively, hangers-on to the apostles _______ and _______. Fill in both blanks in the correct order.

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Peter, Paul

Which is the only current sovereign country directly named for one of the Twelve Apostles (i.e., not a country that is named for someone who was named for an apostle)?

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São Tomé and Príncipe

Longtime LLamas will recall that Judas Iscariot is the first disciple to die in the biblical narrative. Who is the second, and the first to be martyred, killed by a Herod "with the sword" in Acts 12?

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James son of Zebedee

Which apostle finds himself in somewhat of a sticky situation here?

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Andrew

In the non-canonical Acts of [This Apostle], the title character is the identical twin of Jesus. Hilarity ensues.

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Thomas

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are currently planning a bio-pic of the Apostle Paul. What Australian has agreed to take the lead role in this film?

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Hugh Jackman