Answers to the Slice Reader Quiz
Sep 19 by Ingrid Schlueter
The answers to the earlier Slice Reader Multiple Choice Quiz are in bold below.
1. In a recent YouTube video posted at Slice, a pastor engaged in what disastrous indoor activity in front of his church:
A. An equestrian jumping event on stage in which the horse fell and had to be put down in full view of the audience.
B. A Dancing with the Pastors sermon opener that went south when a Sunday School teacher was dropped into the front row of seats during a particularly ambitious maneuver.
C. A motorcycle wheelie that went bad and sent the bike into the wall and parishioners running for their lives.
2. A church recently made Slice headlines when it featured what prelude number from the following 80’s musical group:
A. Hell’s Bells by AC/DC
B. Do You Really Want to Hurt me? by the Culture Club
C. I’m All Out of Love by Air Supply
D. Our House in the Middle of Our Street by Madness
3. Which of the following was not a real church sermon series title talked about here at Slice?
A. Lessons from Dr. Seuss
B. Sex and the City and You
C. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Ringo and George
D. Dates of Our Lives: How do keep your love life from being a soap opera
4. A pastor made secular news headlines when he challenged church couples to do what for 30 days straight:
A. Save $5 a day for missions
B. Forgo television
C. Pray and read the Scriptures for half an hour each day
D. Have sex
5. Which of the following rock songs of the past was used for congregational singing in a past Slice news story?
A. Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
B. Losing My Religion by REM
C. Until the End of the World by U2
D. We’re in This Together by Nine Inch Nails
6. A large church in Gainesville, Georgia staged what famous dance scene as a lead-in for the pastor’s sermon?
A. Flash Dance from the movie by the same name
B. Thriller from Michael Jackson
C. A dance scene from Footloose
D. The La Conga scene from Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Strike up the Band
7. Which of the two sermon series actually took place at a famous megachurch and which is fictitious? Answer: Series 1 is fictional–for now. Series 2 was conducted at Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana.
Series 1
The Ultimate Manilow: Help For Relationships Based on Those “Old Songs”
Week 1 Regrets: Mandy - “…she came and she gave without taking.”
Week 2 When you can’t let go: Even Now – “…even now I wake up crying in the middle of the night…”
Week 3 When love dies: Tryin’ To Get the Feeling Again “…and I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again…”
Week 4 Letting your love shine through: Daybreak “…it’s daybreak if you wanna believe and let it shine, shine, shine, ALL around the world…”
Series 2
I love the 80’s series: Big Hair, Bad Debt, Good Music
Week 1 – Risky Business
Week 2 – Living on a Prayer
Week 3 – Tight Like Spandex
Week 4 – The MacGyver Plan
9. Pastors nationwide are buying boxes full of what book to distribute to their congregations?
A. Holy in Christ by Andrew Murray
B. The Bible
C. The Sovereignty of God by A.W. Pink
D. The Shack by William P. Young
10. This month, Christianity Today promoted what woman as an example of devotion to Christ:
A. Mary who sat at the feet of Jesus while her sister busily prepared supper.
B. Elizabeth Elliot who continued to serve the Lord after losing her missionary husband in Ecuador.
C. Gladys Aylward who traveled to China by train to bring the Gospel to that country.
D. Catherine of Siena, a Roman Catholic mystic who starved and beat herself daily with a chain to purge away her sins and who claimed that she had married Christ and wore an invisible ring made from the foreskin left from his circumcision.
