Question: What is the name given to artistic depictions of Mary?
Answer: Marian art

Question: In the Orthodox church, what types of icons are allowed to be venerated and prayed before?
Answer: flat, two-dimensional icons

Question: Where is the site of the first Church dedicated to Mary?
Answer: Ephesus

Question: Which goddess was worshipped in Ephesus before Mary?
Answer: Artemis

Question: Who was the author of the book, "Survivals of Roman Religion?"
Answer: William E. Phipps

Question: Which Queen furthered the cult of Mary in the 6th Century?
Answer: Queen Theodora

Question: Where was Mary rumored to have died?
Answer: Ephesus

Question: Jesus was known as the "King of Kings" because of his lieage from who?
Answer: King David

Question: Which name is given to Mary because of her role as a protector of captives?
Answer: Our Lady of Ransom

Question: Who was the mother of Jesus?
Answer: Mary

Question: Which New Testament book provides a basis for the term Queen when referring to Mary?
Answer: Luke

Question: Who wrote polemics regarding Roman Catholic beliefs about Mary?
Answer: Martin Luther

Question: In which year was the Immaculate Conception dogmatized?
Answer: 1854

Question: Which pope was responsible for the dogmatization of the Immaculate Conception?
Answer: Pope Pius IX

Question: What does Theotokos mean?
Answer: Mother of God

Question: Where did Martin Luther preach a sermon on Marian devotion a month before his death?
Answer: Wittenberg

Question: On what date does the Catholic Church celebrate the Feast of the Assumption?
Answer: August 15

Question: What do Eastern Catholics call the Feast of the Assumption?
Answer: Dormition of the Theotokos

Question: On what date of the Julian calendar do Eastern Catholics celebrate the Domition of the Theotokos?
Answer: August 28

Question: How many Great Feasts does the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrate?
Answer: 12

Question: Do Protestants celebrate Marian feasts or not?
Answer: do not

Question: Which color is traditionally used to portray Mary in paintings?
Answer: blue

Question: What rock was used as the source of blue pigment in paints in Medieval and Renaissance Europe?
Answer: lapis lazuli

Question: From which country was lapis lazuli imported?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Lapis lazuli was thought to be more valuable than which precious metal?
Answer: gold

Question: Which ancient empire is thought to have started the tradition of portraying Mary in paintings using the color blue?
Answer: Byzantine Empire

Question: According to Nontrinitarian belief, what is Mary's relationship to Jesus?
Answer: biological mother

Question: Which Nontrinitarian theologian says that God cannot approach eveil spirits to redeem them?
Answer: Emanuel Swedenborg

Question: Unittarians, Christadelphians and Jehovah's Witnesses are examples of what kind of church?
Answer: Nontrinitarians

Question: "Mother of God" is an example of what kind of title?
Answer: Marian

Question: By what name is Mary referred to in the Qur'an?
Answer: Maryam

Question: Which Sura in the Qur'an describes the visitation of an angel upon Zakariya?
Answer: 19

Question: In how many places does the Qur'an give detailed accounts of Mary?
Answer: two

Question: Which Gospel provides an identical account of the Virgin Birth as Sura 19 in the Qur'an? 
Answer: Luke

Question: Who was visited by an angel in Sura 19 of the Qur'an?
Answer: Zakariya

Question: What term is used to describe the belief that Mary remained a virgin for her entire life?
Answer: Ever-Virgin

Question: Which Latin father described the belief that Jesus' siblings were his cousins?
Answer: Jerome

Question: Which churches teach that Jesus' brothers and sister were step-siblings from a previous marriage of Joseph the Betrothed?
Answer: Orthodox Churches

Question: What document teaches that Jesus' brothers and sisters were older children of Joseph from a previous marriage?
Answer: Protoevangelium of James

Question: Which doctrine describes the belief that Mary remained a virgin, even though she gave birth to Jesus?
Answer: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Question: In Orthodox tradition, what comes next in precdence after The Theotokos in the order of the saints?
Answer: Angels

Question: What are hymns to the Theotokos called in Orthodox tradition?
Answer: The Theotokia

Question: In the liturgical sequences of the Eastern Church, who is placed next in prominence after Christ?
Answer: the Theotokos

Question: What is Mary proclaimed to be in the Orthodox tradition?
Answer: "Lady of the Angels"

Question: What do the Orthodox believe Mary remained to be before and after she gave birth to Christ?
Answer: a virgin

Question: What is the mother church of the Angican Communion?
Answer: the Church of England

Question: Which church in the United States is associated with the Angican Communion?
Answer: the Episcopal Church

Question: What practice differentiates the Angican Communon from Protestant churches at large?
Answer: veneration of Mary

Question: What branch of Christianity does the Angican Communion fall under?
Answer: Protestant

Question: For what practice did the first Protestants criticize the Roman Catholics?
Answer: venerating Mary

Question: In which century did the Council of Trent occur?
Answer: 16th

Question: Which Protestant churches still honor Mary?
Answer: Anglicans and Lutherans

Question: During which historical era did Protestant interest in Mary almost disappear?
Answer: Age of the Enlightenment

Question: Marian veneration became associated with which Christians after the Council of Trent?
Answer: Catholics

Question: Which doctrine about Mary do Methodists reject?
Answer: the Immaculate Conception

Question: Who was the founder of the Methodist movement?
Answer: John Wesley

Question: What are the sources of beliefs about Mary held by Methodists?
Answer: Scripture and the ecumenical Creeds

Question: The Methodist movement began in which church?
Answer: the Church of England

Question: Which Marian doctrine did John Wesley uphold in founding Methodism?
Answer: the perpetual virginity of Mary

Question: To whom was Mary dedicated while still in the womb?
Answer: Allah

Question: Which prophet cared for Mary?
Answer: Zakariya

Question: What is understood to be the Holy of Holies in Islam?
Answer: Al-Mihrab

Question: Where did Mary reside in her chilhood?
Answer: the Temple

Question: What did God provide for Mary?
Answer: heavenly "provisions"

Question: Who suggested that Jesus was the son of a Roman soldier?
Answer: Celsus

Question: What was the name of the Roman soldier said by Celsus to be the father of Jesus?
Answer: Panthera

Question: Origen was a Church Father in which Egyptian city?
Answer: Alexandria

Question: In which century did Celsus suggest that Jesus' father was a Roman soldier?
Answer: 2nd

Question: For what purpose did detractors use the idea of Mary's virginity and the virgin conception of Jesus?
Answer: to challenge the divinity of Jesus

Question: What is the literal meaning of Theotokos?
Answer: Giver of birth to God

Question: Which branch of Christianity gives a diminished role to Mary?
Answer: Protestants

Question: What is Mary called in Islam?
Answer: Maryam

Question: What is the basis for Mary's diminished role in Protestantism?
Answer: brevity of biblical references

Question: Which two Protestant churches, along with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, believe that Mary is the Mother of God?
Answer: Anglican, and Lutheran

Question: What is the first stage of Jewish marriage?
Answer: betrothal

Question: Which angel announced to Mary that she was to be the mother of the Messiah?
Answer: Gabriel

Question: What did Joseph plan to do when told of Mary's coneption in a dream?
Answer: divorce her

Question: Where did Mary live when she was visited by the angel Gabriel?
Answer: in Nazareth in Galilee

Question: In his dream, who told Joseph about Mary's conception?
Answer: an angel of the Lord