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50 free Christian Denominations trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Christianity has never been one organisation. A Catholic Mass, an Amish service in a farmhouse, a Pentecostal revival and a Coptic liturgy are all Christian worship, yet they differ in who leads, what is sung, which calendar is kept and what happens at baptism. The differences have stories behind them: an 1845 split over slaveholding missionaries, a date in 1844 when the world did not end, a village of refugees on a Saxon estate. The 50 questions cover the Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Adventist, Latter-day Saint, Amish, Mennonite and Hutterite traditions, plus the ecumenical bodies that try to hold them together: founders, schisms, headquarters, liturgical colours, membership figures, and the politicians, preachers and performers who belong to each. It suits a pub quiz round, a comparative-religion class or anyone who has wondered why the church down the road does things differently. Play on your phone with instant answers, or print it for the table.
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Q 01At Latter-day Saint Sunday services, the bread-and-cup ordinance passed on trays to the congregation uses which liquid?
Water
Water stands for the blood of Christ in a set prayer, and Latter-day Saints hold the bread and water to be symbols rather than the actual body and blood. Whatever is left over is simply discarded after the meeting.
Q 02The Salvation Army, which calls its ministers officers and its leader the General, leaves what out of worship?
The sacraments
The sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion are not celebrated, because the Booths feared Christians had come to rely on outward signs rather than on grace itself. The movement began in London's East End in 1865.
Q 03Which breakfast food was created in 1894 for patients at the Adventist-run Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan?
Corn flakes
Corn flakes began as a batch of wheat dough that John Harvey Kellogg left standing overnight; his brother Will worked out how to flake it reliably and went on to found the Kellogg Company.
Q 04Which musician behind 'Purple Rain' became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001 through his friendship with bassist Larry Graham?
Prince
Prince took up the faith in 2001 under the influence of Larry Graham, a fellow Witness who had played bass for Sly and the Family Stone.
Q 05Which singer, raised in an Assembly of God church in Tupelo, won all three of his Grammys for gospel records?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley found his first inspiration as a singer in the Pentecostal congregation his family attended, and his competitive Grammy wins came for 'How Great Thou Art' and 'He Touched Me' out of fourteen nominations.
Q 06Which star of Forrest Gump and Cast Away converted to Greek Orthodoxy before marrying his Greek-descended actress wife?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks took his wife Rita's faith before their wedding; she is of Greek and Bulgarian descent and a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. The two have been married since the late 1980s.
Q 07Who, at 43 the youngest person ever elected US president, was also the first Catholic to win the office?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy won in 1960, thirty-two years after Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee of a major party, had lost to Herbert Hoover. Theodore Roosevelt was younger when he took office, but he succeeded to it rather than being elected.
Q 08Which US president taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, into his nineties?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter first taught Sunday school at Maranatha at 18 and was still occasionally taking the class in 2019, when he was 94. He announced his grandson's death to the class in 2015.
Q 09Which Christmas carol was written by Charles Wesley, the Methodist co-founder credited with over 6,500 hymns?
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Hark the Herald Angels Sing sits among some 150 Wesley hymns in the Methodist hymnal Hymns and Psalms, beside 'Love Divine, All Loves Excelling' and 'And Can It Be'. Some counts put his output as high as 10,000 hymn texts.
Q 10Orthodox churches that keep the Julian calendar, such as Russia's, celebrate Christmas on which Gregorian date?
7 January
7 January is simply 25 December on the Julian calendar, and after the 2022 invasion Ukraine moved its official Christmas to 25 December to distance itself from the Russian church. The two calendars currently differ by thirteen days.
Q 11The Latter-day Saint health code, the Word of Wisdom, bars 'hot drinks', read as coffee and which other drink?
Tea
Tea and coffee are read as the 'hot drinks' of the revelation, and the church teaches the ban applies whether or not the drink is actually hot; herbal tea and hot chocolate are generally allowed.
Q 12Which successor to Joseph Smith led the Latter-day Saint pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley on 24 July 1847?
Brigham Young
Brigham Young's arrival on 24 July 1847 is kept in Utah as Pioneer Day; the valley then belonged to Mexico, and he served as church president from 1847 until his death in 1877. The trek had staged through Winter Quarters in Nebraska.
Q 13Which 2012 Republican presidential nominee served as Latter-day Saint bishop of a ward in Belmont, Massachusetts?
Q 21Jehovah's Witnesses, known for evangelising with The Watchtower, call their plain, unadorned meeting places what?
Kingdom Halls
Kingdom Halls are deliberately functional buildings without religious symbols, and several congregations often share one. Weddings can be held there too, though throwing rice or wishing good luck is banned as pagan.
Q 22In the Western liturgical colour scheme, which colour is set for Pentecost Sunday and may also be used for ordinations?
Red
Red marks Pentecost Sunday and serves for ordinations, church anniversaries and memorials for ordained clergy, while green covers the long stretches of Ordinary Time. The Coptic tradition, by contrast, uses only one vestment colour.
Q 23Which Seventh-day Adventist co-founder left extensive writings that the church still holds in high regard today?
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney led the Belmont ward from 1981 to 1986 and then presided over the church's Boston area, with more than a dozen wards and almost 4,000 members, from 1986 to 1994.
Q 14Which civil rights leader served until his death as co-pastor with his father at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. shared the Ebenezer pulpit with his father, and at his widow's request his last sermon there, given on 4 February 1968, was played at his own funeral. His maternal grandfather had become the church's pastor in 1894.
Q 15Mount Athos, the self-governing Orthodox monastic peninsula in Greece, bars which group by Greek law and tradition?
All women
All women are prohibited from entering the area governed by the monks, which tradition holds was consecrated as the garden of the Mother of God. The ban is written into Greek law as well as monastic custom.
Q 16Churches of Christ, heirs of America's 19th-century Stone–Campbell movement, are known for banning what from worship?
Musical instruments
Musical instruments are absent because the New Testament never mentions them in worship, so congregations worship a cappella, often pitched from a pitch pipe and led by a song-leader. Alexander Campbell himself opposed their use.
Q 17In 1917 some 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to US soldiers' camps in France and became famous for frying what?
Doughnuts
Doughnuts served to the troops earned the volunteers the nickname 'Doughnut Lassies', and they are credited with popularising the treat in the United States. The feat is remembered each June on National Doughnut Day.
Q 18Which Nobel Peace laureate was Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, the first Black African in the post?
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu had already been the first Black Bishop of Johannesburg, and more than 1,300 people attended his enthronement at St George's Cathedral on 7 September 1986.
Q 19Who, once England's chief nursing officer, became the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in 2026?
Sarah Mullally
Sarah Mullally, the 106th archbishop, had been the first female Bishop of London from 2018 and was confirmed in the post at St Paul's Cathedral early in 2026. She is only the second holder since the Middle Ages without an Oxbridge degree.
Q 20The 'Holy Club' of John and Charles Wesley, whose methodical piety gave Methodists their name, met at which university?
Oxford
Oxford's Lincoln College had John Wesley as a fellow and later a lecturer, and George Whitefield, the great open-air preacher, was another Holy Club member. The label began as mockery of the club's disciplined routine.
Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White, with her husband James and Joseph Bates, was among the church's most prominent early figures, and her writings remain central to Adventist teaching. The denomination was formally established in 1863.
Q 24Which practice, modelled on Acts chapters 2 and 4, sets the Hutterites apart from the Amish and Mennonites?
Community of goods
Community of goods, developed under Jakob Hutter between 1530 and 1535, has been abandoned and restored more than once during the group's centuries of wandering. Colonies still hold property in common today.
Q 25Old Order Amish church districts of 20 to 40 families hold worship every other week in what kind of place?
A member's home or barn
A member's home or barn hosts the district in turn, whereas the car-driving Beachy Amish meet every week in church buildings. Bishops, ministers and deacons serve each district without pay.
Q 26The Lambeth Conference, first called by Archbishop Longley in 1867, gathers the Anglican Communion's bishops how often?
Every ten years
Every ten years or so the Archbishop of Canterbury calls the bishops together; 76 attended the first four-day meeting in 1867, which sat in private. Recent conferences have met on the University of Kent campus at Canterbury.
Q 27The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant body in the United States, is administered from which city?
Nashville
Nashville also houses the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, the official depository for the denomination's records. Texas supplies the convention's largest state membership, at about 2.75 million.
Q 28Southern Baptists split from the north over slaveholding in 1845 at the First Baptist Church of which Georgia city?
Augusta
Augusta hosted the May 1845 meeting after the northern-led Triennial Convention would not treat slaveholders as fit for mission work, and the northern side is today's American Baptist Churches USA.
Q 29Roger Williams founded the first Baptist church in America in 1638, two years after founding which city?
Providence
Providence, founded by Williams in 1636, still has the First Baptist Meetinghouse on North Main Street, the oldest church in Rhode Island. Williams had held services in his own house for nearly a year before forming the congregation.
Q 30Modern Baptists descend from John Smyth's exiled English congregation, which adopted believer's baptism in 1609 where?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam's English exiles saw Smyth baptise himself in 1609, earning him the nickname 'Se-baptist'; he later sought union with the Mennonites while Thomas Helwys carried on as a Baptist.