Bible code - Quiz
Bible code
  • 1. What is Robert Haralick's professional title?
A) Professor of Computer Science
B) Biblical Scholar
C) Professor of Theology
D) Journalist
  • 2. Where does Robert Haralick work?
A) Oxford University
B) Yale University
C) Harvard University
D) City University of New York
  • 3. Until which minimal ELS was WRR's list successful according to Haralick?
A) 2nd
B) 20th
C) 50th
D) 10th
  • 4. After which minimal ELS did MBBK's list fail according to Haralick?
A) 5th
B) 2nd
C) 10th
D) 20th
  • 5. In what year did Haralick lecture on the Bible code at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition?
A) 2002
B) 2006
C) 1997
D) 2004
  • 6. Which Biblical verse did critics argue Drosnin misused regarding the Rabin assassination?
A) Leviticus 1:1
B) Deuteronomy 4:42
C) Exodus 20:1
D) Genesis 35:4
  • 7. What phrase immediately follows the section of Deuteronomy 4:42 cited by Drosnin?
A) the hand of the murderer
B) the city of refuge
C) fire, great noise
D) unwittingly
  • 8. What is the subject matter of Deuteronomy 4:42?
A) The Ten Commandments
B) The creation of the world
C) The history of Jerusalem
D) Cities of refuge
  • 9. Which Biblical passage did Drosnin supposedly use to describe a bus bombing in Jerusalem?
A) Deuteronomy 4:42
B) Genesis 1:1
C) Numbers 5:5
D) Genesis 35:4
  • 10. What does the phrase from Genesis 35:4 actually refer to, according to critics?
A) The assassination of a leader
B) Under the terebinth that was near Shechem
C) A fire with great noise
D) A terrorist bombing in Jerusalem
  • 11. What event did Drosnin claim would occur in 'The Bible Code II' regarding the world?
A) A peace treaty in the Middle East
B) The return of an ancient king
C) An atomic holocaust
D) A massive flood
  • 12. What did Drosnin predict Libya would develop in 'The Bible Code II'?
A) A space exploration program
B) A democratic government
C) Nuclear power plants
D) Weapons of mass destruction
  • 13. What actually happened to Libya's relationship with the West in 2003?
A) Cut all diplomatic ties
B) Declared war
C) Imposed strict trade sanctions
D) Improved relations
  • 14. Who did Drosnin claim would assassinate Yasser Arafat?
A) A foreign intelligence agency
B) A lone gunman
C) The Israeli government
D) Hamas
  • 15. What was the actual cause of Yasser Arafat's death?
A) Natural causes
B) Terrorist bombing
C) Atomic holocaust
D) Assassination by shooting
  • 16. In what year was 'The Bible Code II' published?
A) 2004
B) 1997
C) 2002
D) 2006
  • 17. What was the result of Drosnin's claim about Yigal Amir?
A) He could not be found in advance
B) He was discovered in 1996
C) He was identified in the code
D) He was warned by police
  • 18. Who conducted an experiment matching rabbis' names with their birth and death places in 1997?
A) Yakov Rambsel
B) Michael Drosnin
C) Harold Gans
D) Dean Coombs
  • 19. What was Harold Gans's former professional role?
A) Senior Cryptologic Mathematician for the NSA
B) Physicist at a university
C) Rabbi at Aish HaTorah
D) Journalist for the New York Times
  • 20. Which author is primarily responsible for bringing Bible codes to the public's attention?
A) Grant Jeffrey
B) Michael Drosnin
C) Nathan Jacobi
D) Eliyahu Rips
  • 21. What is the title of Michael Drosnin's 1997 book?
A) The Bible Code
B) Bible Code II: the Countdown
C) Mathematical Divinity
D) The Torah Codes
  • 22. What did Harold Gans say about the claim that Bible codes can predict future events?
A) It is a proven mathematical fact
B) It is absolutely unfounded
C) It is supported by Markov chain theory
D) It requires further empirical study
  • 23. What was the title of Drosnin's second book published in 2002?
A) The Truth About Bible Codes
B) Bible Code II: the Countdown
C) Further Discoveries in the Torah
D) The Bible Code Revisited
  • 24. Which group uses Bible codes in Discovery Seminars?
A) The Orthodox Christian Council
B) The National Security Agency
C) Aish HaTorah
D) The Moby-Dick Society
  • 25. Who were two main early Christian proponents of Bible code techniques?
A) Michael Drosnin and Dean Coombs
B) Yakov Rambsel and Grant Jeffrey
C) Harold Gans and Nathan Jacobi
D) Eliyahu Rips and Moshe Aharon Shak
  • 26. Who developed a Bible code technique in 1997?
A) Yakov Rambsel
B) Dean Coombs
C) Michael Drosnin
D) Moshe Aharon Shak
  • 27. What are claimed to be formed by words and sentences using ELS?
A) Markov chains
B) Mathematical proofs
C) Historical biographies
D) Pictograms
  • 28. What field of study is Nathan Jacobi associated with?
A) Cryptology
B) Journalism
C) Theology
D) Physics
  • 29. What theory is used to determine expected outcomes for extended ELSs?
A) Game theory
B) Quantum mechanics
C) String theory
D) Markov chain theory
  • 30. What document shows the number of letters in the text was not constant in the first centuries CE?
A) The Moby-Dick manuscript
B) The NSA archives
C) Dead Sea Scrolls
D) The original Torah scrolls
  • 31. What book is cited to show that similar predictions can be obtained via Bible code techniques?
A) Moby-Dick
B) The Talmud
C) The Torah
D) The Bible Code II
  • 32. What is the professional background of Moshe Aharon Shak?
A) Cryptologic Mathematician
B) Engineer
C) Journalist
D) Physicist
  • 33. What is the primary method used to extract messages in the Bible code?
A) Equidistant Letter Sequence
B) Geometric Grid Mapping
C) Alphabetical Substitution
D) Random Letter Patterning
  • 34. What is the Hebrew term for 'skipping of letters'?
A) shabbat
B) dilug
C) tanachi
D) hatzofen
  • 35. What biographical information did the 1994 paper claim was encoded in Genesis?
A) Famous rabbis
B) Future world leaders
C) Dates of natural disasters
D) Names of ancient kings
  • 36. How is the Bible code widely considered by the scientific community today?
A) An accurate prediction method
B) A verified historical tool
C) Mathematically proven
D) Statistically insignificant
  • 37. What phenomenon do critics cite to explain away long extended ELS findings?
A) Transcription error
B) Statistical convergence
C) Linguistic drift
D) Look-elsewhere effect
  • 38. What did the 1994 academic paper present itself as?
A) A challenging puzzle
B) A religious revelation
C) A linguistic survey
D) A definitive mathematical proof
  • 39. According to the text, why can similar 'codes' be found in other texts?
A) Because of ancient translation errors
B) Because they are sufficiently lengthy
C) Because of grammatical patterns
D) Because they are divinely inspired
  • 40. Who described an ELS in the Bible in the 13th century?
A) Michael Ber Weissmandl
B) Eliyahu Rips
C) Bachya ben Asher
D) Moshe Cordovero
  • 41. Which 16th-century mystic included hints of the ELS technique in his book Pardes Rimonim?
A) Bachya ben Asher
B) Moshe Cordovero
C) Yoav Rosenberg
D) Avraham Oren
  • 42. In what year was the book Torat Chemed published?
A) 1958
B) 1994
C) 1957
D) 1980
  • 43. Whose discoveries in the 1980s came to the attention of Eliyahu Rips?
A) Avraham Oren
B) Moshe Cordovero
C) Bachya ben Asher
D) Michael Ber Weissmandl
  • 44. Who helped Eliyahu Rips with the computer software for the ELS technique?
A) Yoav Rosenberg
B) Bachya ben Asher
C) Avraham Oren
D) Moshe Cordovero
  • 45. In what year was the 'Great rabbis experiment' published in Statistical Science?
A) 1985
B) 1958
C) 1980
D) 1994
  • 46. What did Rips and his partners use to define the compactness of ELS arrangements?
A) The date of the author's death
B) A complex definition involving a small window
C) A simple word count
D) The alphabetical order of the names
  • 47. Which group published a critical paper on the work of WRR in 1999?
A) Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg
B) A group of biblical scholars
C) MBBK
D) The Statistical Science Board
  • 48. Who was the editor of the journal that published the MBBK paper?
A) Dror Bar-Natan
B) Robert Kass
C) Maya Bar-Hillel
D) Brendan McKay
  • 49. What did Maya Bar-Hillel call the WRR paper in her summary of the MBBK view?
A) A hoax
B) A minor error
C) A legitimate study
D) A complex puzzle
  • 50. What term did Bar-Hillel use to describe the design of the WRR paper?
A) A magic trick
B) An accidental discovery
C) A rigorous experiment
D) A flawed calculation
  • 51. What did MBBK assert was available to the WRR authors to generate their results?
A) Divine inspiration
B) Wiggle room
C) Strict rules
D) Infinite data
  • 52. What was the professional background of Maya Bar-Hillel?
A) Psychologist
B) Statistician
C) Theologian
D) Mathematician
  • 53. The MBBK argument against WRR was described as being not strictly what?
A) Mathematical
B) Empirical
C) Scientific
D) Logical
  • 54. What was Harold Gans's previous profession?
A) Journalist for a science magazine
B) Cryptanalyst at the National Security Agency
C) Theologian at a university
D) Mathematician at Oxford
  • 55. According to McKay, how many people would actually need to be involved in the alleged fakery?
A) All of the rabbis mentioned
B) Everyone involved in the experiment
C) One person
D) Zero, as he claimed it was an accident
  • 56. Who issued a formal statement of non-response after the WRR reply?
A) Doron Witztum
B) Bar-Natan
C) Harold Gans
D) Brendan McKay
  • 57. What did Witztum claim McKay used to avoid the points made by WRR authors?
A) Mathematical proofs
B) Public debates
C) Smoke screen tactics
D) Peer-reviewed evidence
  • 58. What did Witztum claim happened after interviewing an expert contracted by McKay?
A) The expert admitted to falsifying data
B) Some experiments validated the original WRR findings
C) The expert refused to comment
D) The expert proved the codes were fake
  • 59. In what year did Robert Aumann receive the Nobel Prize in Economics?
A) 1999
B) 1995
C) 2005
D) 2010
  • 60. How did Aumann describe the initial thesis of the Bible code research?
A) Wildly improbable
B) Highly likely
C) Logically necessary
D) Mathematically sound
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