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