Question: In what Italian village was Giovanni Battista Montini born?
Answer: Concesio

Question: What political organization was Giovanni's father a member of?
Answer: Italian Parliament

Question: How many brothers did Giovanni have?
Answer: two

Question: What was Giovanni's mother descended from?
Answer: rural nobility

Question: In what year did Montini enter the Catholic seminary to become a priest?
Answer: 1916

Question: In what field did Montini obtain a doctorate in?
Answer: Canon Law

Question: In what city did Montini finish his doctoral studies?
Answer: Milan

Question: At what age did Montini enter the Secretariat of state?
Answer: twenty-five

Question: Where did Montini continue to study at the request of Giuseppe Pizzardo?
Answer: Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici

Question: What political problem did Montini feel he needed to address as a diplomat in Poland?
Answer: excessive nationalism

Question: How did Montini see the nationalism of Poland as a problem?
Answer: treats foreigners as enemies

Question: What humanitarian concept did Montini see nationalism as violating?
Answer: common frontiers

Question: What type of political stability was compromised as a result of violent nationalism?
Answer: Peace

Question: Where was Montini happy to return to after his tenure in Poland?
Answer: Rome

Question: What type of natural ability helped Montini in his career in the Roman Curia?
Answer: organisational skills

Question: When was Paccelli elected to the papacy?
Answer: 1939

Question: With whom did Montini have a relationship with that eventually groomed him for the papacy?
Answer: Pacelli

Question: Where did Montini teach history?
Answer: Papal Academy for Diplomats

Question: Who was Montini's mentor that eventually became a Cardinal?
Answer: Giuseppe Pizzardo

Question: What department did Montini oversee when he worked with the Secretariat of State?
Answer: ordinary affairs

Question: What organization did Montini, Maglione and Tardini belong to?
Answer: Vatican's State Department

Question: What role did Montini fill for Pius XII?
Answer: Private Secretary

Question: What did Montini take charge of responding to on behalf of Pius XII?
Answer: letters

Question: During what time was Montini responsible for the communications of the Vatican?
Answer: war years

Question: In what year was the office for information for prisoners and refugees founded?
Answer: 1939

Question: How many inquiries did Mintini receive regarding missing persons ?
Answer: ten million

Question: What was Montini accused of being by the Italian government?
Answer: politician

Question: With whom did Montini feel he had a brother like connection to?
Answer: Pope Pius XII

Question: What Italian Prime Minister attacked Montini for his political stances?
Answer: Mussolini

Question: Who requested Montini become involved in the Church Asylum movement?
Answer: Pius XII

Question: What war time group did the Vatican and Papal residence open their doors to?
Answer: refugees

Question: How many people lived at Castel Gofolfo during the war?
Answer: 15,000

Question: What organization did Montini form with other fellow officials to help refugees?
Answer: Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza

Question: What did Montini strive to reestablish to help persecuted Jews and allied soldiers?
Answer: Church Asylum

Question: In what year did Pius XII deliver a radio address announcing Montini's papal appointment?
Answer: 1954

Question: On what date did Montini become the archbishop of Milan?
Answer: 5 January

Question: In what year did Montini become the archbishop of the Cathedral of Milan?
Answer: 1955

Question: Where was Pius XII when he announced Montini's appointment as archbishop?
Answer: his sick-bed

Question: To what Italian city was Montini appointed archbishop?
Answer: Milan

Question: What group did Montini oppose reforming?
Answer: Ecumenical Council

Question: In what year was Montini appointed to the Central Preparatory Commission? 
Answer: 1961

Question: Where did the Pope ask Cardinal Montini to live?
Answer: Vatican

Question: What did Montini avoid as a member of the Commission for Extraordinary Affairs?
Answer: debates

Question: What illness had the Pope contracted?
Answer: cancer

Question: What type of political viewpoint was Montini known for as a member of the Catholic leadership?
Answer: progressive

Question: What part of Catholic ministry did Montini seek to reform?
Answer: pastoral care

Question: What type of media did Montini use to advertise the church's sermons to the people of Milan?
Answer: posters

Question: How many "voices" did Montini's posters claim the people of Milan would hear?
Answer: 1,000

Question: From the 10 of NOvember to the 24 of November how many sermons were actually delivered to the Italian people?
Answer: 7,000

Question: To whom did Montini speak as an archbishop in the year 1957?
Answer: Second World Congress of Lay Apostolate

Question: According to Montini was does the term apostolate mean?
Answer: love

Question: How many nations did Montini hope to unify as Pro-secretary?
Answer: 58

Question: When was Montini's first meeting addressing the unification of Catholic lay followers?
Answer: 1951

Question: What role was Montini not considered a likely candidate for?
Answer: pope

Question: What had Montini yet to become?
Answer: a cardinal,

Question: Who was elected pope in 1958?
Answer: Angelo Roncalli

Question: When did Montini finally become a cardinal?
Answer: 15 December 1958

Question: What doicese did Montini become cardinal of?
Answer: Ss. Silvestro e Martino

Question: What country did Montini visit as Cardinal?
Answer: Africa

Question: In what year did Montini travel to visit Africa as a cardinal?
Answer: 1962

Question: How many foreign trips did Montini make as Cardinal?
Answer: fifteen

Question: In what year did Montini visit the United States?
Answer: 1960

Question: Where did Montini like to use as a retreat as a cardinal?
Answer: Engelberg Abbey

Question: What role was Montini not perceived to fill unlike some of his fellow cardinals?
Answer: reformer

Question: In what year did Pope John XXIII die?
Answer: 1963

Question: What role did Pope John XXIII's death precipitate the election of?
Answer: pope

Question: What illness caused the death of Pope John XXIII
Answer: stomach cancer

Question: What organization did the church expect Montini to continue?
Answer: Second Vatican Council

Question: What did Paul VI donate to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception ?
Answer: Papal Tiara

Question: What group gave Paul VI his Papal tiara?
Answer: Archdiocese of Milan

Question: Where is the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception located?
Answer: Washington, DC

Question: Who was the last pope to be crowned?
Answer: Paul VI

Question: What ceremony had Paul VI left in place in in the 1975 apostolic constitution?
Answer: Papal Coronation

Question: Who was President of the Christian Unity Secretariat?
Answer: Cardinal Augustin Bea

Question: What did Paul VI believe in keeping friendly to people of other Christian faiths?
Answer: Council language

Question: Who insisted that Protestant and Orthodox Christians be invited to all Counsel meetings?
Answer: Pope John XXIII

Question: Which cardinal became heavily engaged in the passage of Nostra aetate?
Answer: Cardinal Augustin Bea

Question: Which Vatican strove to avoid offending other Christian faiths with counsel session language?
Answer: Vatican II

Question: What did Paul VI want to keep open with the modern world and people from all walks of life?
Answer: a dialogue

Question: How many days after Paul VI election did he announce he would continue the Vatican II?
Answer: Six

Question: On what date was Vatican II re convened?
Answer: 29 September

Question: Six days after he was elected, what did Paul VI announce he would continue? 
Answer: Vatican II