Religion Quiz - Your knowledge vs. various groups

[Hype]

You answered 30 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 94%.

I brain farted on Abraham.

I also never learned a damn thing about any Great Awakening (that I recall) and I was a history major?


... I guessed on Maimonides.

I'm disappointed in all you JA fans who love a band with a Jewish singer and drummer. Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher who wrote the Guide for the Perplexed. He was also known as Rambam (or RMBM: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon). Back in the medieval era, the schools (in Europe, but also in the Arab world) taught mostly Aristotle and Aristotle-tinged theology. At that time, the Catholic saints Thomas Aquinas and Augustine were both very good philosophers, as were the Jews Maimonides, Gersonides, and the Muslims Averroes and Avicenna.

Even if you don't know much about what any of those guys actually wrote, I think it's good general trivia to know that they're the main canonical medieval thinkers of the three main Abrahamic religions.

why should we know anything about jewish philosophers??? just because some guys in a band that we like are jewish? maybe if we were philosophy majors we would have heard of them. i was never taught religion ever and i'm fine with that. i've never heard of maimonides and i have never heard of the great awaking.

I was being silly -- except that it's probably a good thing to know the very basics of the history of lots of different kinds of people in the world, even if you do live in California. That'd be like: Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher/theologian. Sorta like knowing that John Lennon was a Beatle, not a Rolling Stone, maybe?

I know some young folks who don't know who the Beatles were. That might actually be scarier.

[Hype]

ive never heard of maimonides either. but i went to catholic school for 14 years

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09540b.htm

[Artemis]

He was also known as Rambam (or RMBM: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon).

So, that expression 'Rambam, thank you m'am" comes from that guy??

[Hype]

He was also known as Rambam (or RMBM: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon).

So, that expression 'Rambam, thank you m'am" comes from that guy??

I think he was also the child of a woman named Black Betty.

[Artemis]

He was also known as Rambam (or RMBM: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon).

So, that expression 'Rambam, thank you m'am" comes from that guy??

I think he was also the child of a woman named Black Betty.

I did not know that Lead Belly did a version of that song. I only ever heard the Ram Jam version.

[Hype]

He was also known as Rambam (or RMBM: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon).

So, that expression 'Rambam, thank you m'am" comes from that guy??

I think he was also the child of a woman named Black Betty.

I did not know that Lead Belly did a version of that song. I only ever heard the Ram Jam version.

I didn't know it until this evening either. Pleasant surprise.

[kv]

scary

You answered 32 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 100%.

educated guessed a couple...raised catholic and now a proud atheist!1! moms not so proud but tough shit...cya in hell! ( not)

[Desri]

I don't see how a quiz that gives you the option of "don't know" can claim it is wrong if you admit your ignorance. Anyway... that quiz was very long. Too long. Though you are clearly all experts on religious trivia.

[Larry B.]

I don't see how a quiz that gives you the option of "don't know" can claim it is wrong if you admit your ignorance. Anyway... that quiz was very long. Too long. Though you are clearly all experts on religious trivia.

I.e.

I just got 2 questions right out of sheer luck and I'm pissed off.

[clickie]

Prepare yourself Larry, for you will soon be the soul survivor, and the defender of earth and mankind...

[SR]

28 of 32. 88%

[Larry B.]

Prepare yourself Larry, for you will soon be the soul survivor, and the defender of earth and mankind...

God have mercy on my sole.

[chaos]

As well as on your soul.

[Larry B.]

Another awesome joke lost in translation... oh well.

I try my best, people.

[Hype]

Another awesome joke lost in translation... oh well.

I try my best, people.

You sure do.

[chaos]

Another awesome joke lost in translation... oh well.

Not really. You would need mercy on your "sole" too when you start running to escape the rapture (or in your case damnation).

[Larry B.]

[Jasper]

Another awesome joke lost in translation... oh well.

I got it.

[mockbee]

I like tuna better.

[Hype]

Larry is floundering.

[mockbee]

Cod you be more clear?

[chaos]

Holy Mackerel!

[Hype]

Jesus fish.

[Larry B.]

(TW?)

[Artemis]

(TW?)

Looks kinda hoki to me.