The QI Quiz Thread

No, there were no caterpillars, hungry or otherwise, at the birth of Jesus

 

-10 points?

 

no, not for caterpillar

But you have to wear this hat

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I'm going to embarrass myself and say a Donkey.

 

A partirdge in a pear tree?

 

Ass

 

I expect the answer to be none or unknown since in no account of my Bible does it state that anyone was there at the time of Jesus' birth, the Shepperds etc came after he was born.

 

-10 points to Richie and go-away

But 5 points to Ogli.

The bible doesn't say there were any animals at all. In fact, in the 4 gospels, there is only reference which says Jesus was even in a manger (Luke). Nowhere does it state they were in a stable, let alone there were animals there.

The first "nativity scene" was created in the 13th century by St Francis. So there

On a similar theme, how many heads did Jesus' grandmother have?

 

Maternal or "paternal"?

 

Correct Hal, infact Matthew and Luke are the only 2 gospels to mention Jesus' birth at all. Mark and John pick up his story later as he begins to preach.

 

Let's go for maternal

 

7

 

hmmm, if you want the points, you need to explain

 

Ah, my apologies to the Good Book for accusing it of lying.

Someone else did it instead

 

I think I did it with more panache as well




//Still waiting on Ogli to explain how he came by his guess

 

his correct guess, by the way.

And hurry up, I've got another question

 

The Church didn't bother consulting its members so they all picked different heads out of a picture or something so that 7 different faces were listed as beeing St anne or something like that

 

Well, right answer but the the explanation I was looking for, but you can still have the points

On the authority of the Church, she had seven. Because for hundreds of years, during the Middle Ages, her heads were on display, at the same time, at Léon, Apt, Aix-la-Chapelle, Chartres, Bologna, Sicily, and in Düren. The Church recognised them all, so she must have had seven heads.


Now, name one of the 10 commandments.

 

Which religions version of them.


All religions have a "ten commandments" and all preach a similar thing but the terminology and percieved intent behind the list varies from religion to religion.


There is a wiki article with loads of information on it


The obvious ones like you shall not murder, steal etc.. are all there but it's the way that they are phrased.


It is also believed that the "You shall not steal" "commandment" did not actually apply to stealing personal possesions but was more inline with the Jewish one of you "shall not kidnap" which was more about nabbing someones slaves or even family members.

There is a small voice in religion that goes to state that the second half of the "commandments" are all about protecting life, freedom, liberty, heredity etc... but it's not very well supported.







//waits to lose a silly number of points even though the post is accurate

 

tut tut tut. The only accurate part of the post was your prediction about the point loss

Minus 10 for "don't steal" and minus 10 for "don't murder"

You can have 5 points back for the interesting tidbit about stealing meaning kidnapping (It is also considered to be about the use of slave labour as well), but no. That's not one of the 10 commandments.

Any others?

 

I can post a direct passage from the Bible.


And considering the Bible is considered to be an accurate source for this (see Hals post above) I may again call Shenanigans

I can't believe I just quoted that. I feel dirty.




//goes off to wash himself




EDIT: it helps if I actually put in the correct passage

 

Thou shalt not make any Graven images.

 

Ooh, I await your declaration of shenanigans!!

Ritchie. Yes, you can have that one. 5 points

So that's 1. Still a choice of 9!

 

Though shalt have no other gods before me

Though shalt not commit adultery

(even if tempted )

 

5 points for the first one.

But minus 10 for adultery. Sorry