Echoing the Word Vol. 15 No.

2, 2016 Liturgies & Activities

Here is your challenge: Find a group of three or four people and give a different coloured counter to each team member. Work out
who gets to go first by identifying which month each team member has their birthday. The person with the earliest birthday in the
calendar year goes first, then the person with the next birthday and so forth. Each player starts on Question 1 and is awarded points
according to the quality of their responses. Each player moves forward the number of points they are awarded. All answers need to be
correct before scoring any points. The winner is the first person to move past the last question. Lets get started!

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3. 4. 5.
1. 2.
Name two books in the Name two books in the What text types are in
Who wrote the Bible? When was the Bible written?
Old Testament. New Testament. the Bible?

7. 9. 10.
6. 8.
What is something really What is your favourite story Name a character in the
Why do people still read How would you describe
interesting youve learnt from the Bible and why is it Bible you admire and
such an ancient text? the Bible?
about the Bible? your favourite? explain why.

11. 15.
12. 14.
Retell a Bible story and 13. What else do we find in the
What would we find in the What would we find in
explain why it still has Name two of the prophets. New Testament apart from
book of Psalms? the Gospels?
meaning for people today. Gospels?

17. 20.
16. 19.
Name one Bible character 18. What are three things we
How is reading the Bible Explain why there are two
you think is misunderstood Describe life in the can learn about Mary,
different to reading a different stories about the
by most people. time of Jesus. the mother of Jesus,
history book? birth of Jesus.
Explain why. from the Bible?

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Teacher notes:
This quiz game is best taught at the end of a unit of work and could be used for assessment purposes, as well as fun.
This activity enables the teacher to identify students with high level knowledge of the Bible, as well as students who
are deep thinkers and capable of higher order thinking. The questions could also be changed for more capable
students to target specific teaching about the Bible or about a particular text.

The point system could be enlarged onto an A4 page for student reference.

Teams award points according to the following criteria:

1 point A correct answer without any other information (Very basic)
2 points An answer with limited details (Okay)
3 points An answer with a few interesting details (Very good)
4 points An answer with considered thought and information (Great thinking!)
5 points An answer with evidence to support ideas and shows excellent thinking (Awesome ideas)

Acceptable responses would include:

1. Who wrote the Bible? Many different people.

2. When was the Bible written?
3. Name two books in the Old Testament.
4. Name two books in the New Testament.
5. What text types are in the Bible?
6. Why do people still read such an ancient text?
12. What would we find in the book of Psalms?
13. Name two of the prophets
(over a long period of time and in different places)
Thousands of years ago. Just over two thousand years for
the NT and many years before that for the OT.
Check the table of content of a Catholic Bible for possible
answers.
Letters, poetry, narratives, myths etc.
The text can still speak to people in their own lives today.
Prayers of praise, thanksgiving, sorrow, intercession.
See Felix Just What is biblical prophecy? http://catholic-
resources.org/Bible/Prophecy.htm
See Echoing the Word, Vol. 13(3) 2014, Prophets of the Bible
http://www.echoingtheword.com/member/article_view.cgi?aid=1186

14. What would we find in the Gospels? Stories about Jesus.

15. What else do we find in the New Testament
apart from Gospels?
16. How is reading the Bible different to reading
a history book?
18. Describe life in the time of Jesus.
19. Explain why there are two different stories
about the birth of Jesus.
20. What are three things we can learn about
Mary, the mother of Jesus, from the Bible?
The Acts of the Apostles and various Letters.
The Bible has some history in different stories, but the Bible
is a book to help people understand important things about
God not history, so the history is not always accurate. The
Bible contains religious truths about God and Jesus.
Answers could be about transportation; food; housing; the
language people spoke at that time; Jesus Jewishness and
what that meant for his daily life; social and religious groups
such as the Pharisees
Matthew and Luke were writing for two different
communities and they wanted to emphasis particular things
about Jesus for their own communities.
She was a woman of prayer, she was a woman of deep faith,
she had a cousin called Elizabeth, she was at the foot of the
cross when Jesus died, she was a Jewish woman who went to
the Temple and Synagogue

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Copyright 2016 Pauline Electronic Publishing by Beth Nolen