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God bless you - Quiz
  • 1. What is a common English phrase used to wish a person blessings?
A) God bless you
B) Peace be with you
C) Have a nice day
D) Best of luck
  • 2. What is a shortened form of 'God bless you'?
A) God's speed
B) God bless
C) Bless all
D) Bless it
  • 3. When is 'God bless you' commonly used as a response?
A) A sneeze
B) A cough
C) A hiccup
D) A yawn
  • 4. In what other situation is the phrase used besides sneezing?
A) Opening a gift
B) Parting or writing a valediction
C) Accepting an apology
D) Greeting a stranger
  • 5. Where has the phrase been used by Jews?
A) The Hebrew Bible
B) The Quran
C) The New Testament
D) The Book of Mormon
  • 6. Which Bible reference is cited for the phrase's use in the Hebrew Bible?
A) Genesis 1:1
B) John 3:16
C) Numbers 6:24
D) Psalms 23:1
  • 7. Since when have Christians used the phrase as a benediction?
A) The 19th Century
B) The Reformation
C) The time of the early Church
D) The Middle Ages
  • 8. Who uses the phrase 'God bless you' when blessing their congregants?
A) Many clergy
B) Monks only
C) Choir directors
D) Deacons exclusively
  • 9. What is the Aaronic blessing noted for doing?
A) Invoking the name of the Lord to transfer identity and presence onto his people
B) Forgiving all past sins
C) Healing physical illnesses instantly
D) Granting worldly wealth
  • 10. What do believers call upon God to grant the recipient of the phrase?
A) Political power
B) Favour and protection
C) Material riches
D) Eternal youth
  • 11. Who wrote about blessing in the periodical Christianity Today?
A) Thomas Crofton Croker
B) Pope Gregory I
C) Dallas Willard
D) William Butler Yeats
  • 12. How did Dallas Willard define blessing?
A) A legal contract
B) A traditional superstition
C) The projection of good into the life of another
D) A simple polite greeting
  • 13. According to Dallas Willard, what does blessing always involve?
A) God
B) The Church
C) Medicine
D) Magic
  • 14. According to National Geographic, which Pope ordered unceasing prayer during the Roman Plague?
A) Pope Leo X
B) Pope John Paul II
C) Pope Gregory I
D) Pope Urban II
  • 15. During which plague was unceasing prayer ordered according to National Geographic?
A) Great Plague of London
B) Black Death
C) Roman Plague of 590
D) Antonine Plague
  • 16. Why did Pope Gregory I command that sneezing people be blessed immediately?
A) It prevented evil spirits from entering
B) It was considered bad manners not to
C) It kept the heart beating
D) Sneezing was often the first sign of falling ill with the plague
  • 17. By what year had it become customary to say 'God bless you' for a sneeze?
A) AD 590
B) AD 750
C) AD 400
D) AD 1000
  • 18. What is the status of the Pope Gregory story regarding the origin of the phrase?
A) It is a verified biblical event
B) It appears to be apocryphal
C) It is historically proven
D) It is written in the Hebrew Bible
  • 19. What folk belief claimed that sneezing could cause what to happen to the body?
A) The heart would stop permanently
B) A person's soul could be thrown from their body
C) The body would shrink
D) The mind would erase memories
  • 20. What else did folk beliefs say sneezing could open the body to?
A) Physical healing
B) Pure divine light
C) Invasion by the Devil or evil spirits
D) Mental clarity
  • 21. What Irish folk story describes the variation of sneezing as a vulnerability to evil?
A) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
B) Cuchulain's Blessing
C) Master and Man
D) The Dublin Curse
  • 22. Who wrote the Irish folk story 'Master and Man'?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Thomas Crofton Croker
D) James Joyce
  • 23. Who collected the story 'Master and Man'?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) William Butler Yeats
C) Seamus Heaney
D) George Bernard Shaw
  • 24. What past folk belief claimed the heart did what during a sneeze?
A) Stops beating
B) Beats twice as fast
C) Changes direction
D) Skips two beats
  • 25. In some cultures, how is sneezing viewed instead of a sign of illness?
A) A warning of bad weather
B) A sign of weakness
C) A sign of good fortune or God's beneficence
D) A curse from enemies
  • 26. Who recorded a chance sneeze as being seen as a good omen from god around 400 BC?
A) Xenophon
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Aristotle
  • 27. What exists in various languages regarding sneezing besides 'God bless you'?
A) Silent prayers
B) Apologies
C) Mandatory fines
D) Alternative responses
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