Nothing to Do with Religion Trivia Quiz

Answer: a person who takes great risks

A daredevil is someone who performs dangerous feats, often professionally. The noun can mean that the person is bold or that the person is reckless. Nik Wallenda said, before he walked across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope in 2013, "I completely understand why people see me as a daredevil." Used since the 1700s, the term might have originally meant "one who dares the devil" or "one who is himself a sort of devil." A related but little-used noun is "daredeviltry." Marvel publishes a comic called "Daredevil" of which there have been cinematic and television adaptations.

Answer: a light-coloured semi-sweet German wine

The colour(s) of a nun's habit are a clue to the order (and even sometimes to the smaller part of an order) to which the sister belongs. Different communities sometimes deviate from the over-all colour choice of their order.

Blue Nun is a semi-sweet white wine produced in Germany. It was first made and marketed by H. Sichel Söhne (Mainz) in 1923. One of the reasons for calling it "Blue Nun" was because German wine-labeling conventions were thought too difficult for Americans to follow. Whacky British chef Heston Blumenthal used a Sodastream to carbonate Blue Nun on his television programme and started a craze.

Answer: a small extension of the bow's deck

In Christian churches, the pulpit is a raised stand from which preacher preaches or the officiant officiates. The term derives from the Latin "pulpitum" meaning a sort of platform or built-up stage.

The pulpit on a boat protrudes from the bow. On some sailing ships, it is a walkway by which the jibs (forward-most sails) can be reached. Pulpits are often surrounded by a railing. They afford a safe place from which to fish, or to attend the raising and lowering of an anchor, or to mount red and green running lights, or to secure a mooring line, or for a lookout or even a harpooner.

Answer: Jack the Ripper killings

Whitechapel was, in the 1880s, a somewhat impoverished, somewhat slumlike district of the City of London, England. Five similar murders of prostitutes occurred there in 1888 which would come to be known as the work of Jack the Ripper. The victims all had their throats cut and all were surgically disemboweled suggesting a perpetrator with some medical anatomical knowledge. Subsequent murders were grouped with "the canonical five" but, as the crimes were never solved, the connection could not be conclusively established.

Answer: an English cheese

Stinking Bishop is a cheese made in Gloucestershire, England, of the milk from Gloucester cattle. Charles Martel and Sons of Hunts Court Farm have made this cheese since 1972. The demand is so great that the milk of other breeds is now mixed with that from the Gloucester cows.

The cheese is washed during ripening in perry made from Stinking Bishop pears which grow locally. It from this cider that the cheese gets its name. The perry was named after Frederick Bishop who owned Moorcroft Farm in the early 1800s and who is thought to be the hybridizer of the Stinking Bishop pears.

It is mentioned prominently in the "Curse of the Were-Rabbit", a Wallace and Gromit movie made in 2005 and in a classic Monty Python sketch about a cheese shop.

Answer: Australia, Canada and Scotland

Any place near an abbey where an abbot might have gone was likely to be named "abbot's something."

Abbotsford is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia, Canada, on the border with the United States. Abbotsford is the home of Sir Walter Scott on River Tweed in the Scottish Borders.

Answer: a soft brittle sandstone used to polish wooden decks

In past, both the United States and the British Navy have used a soft form of sandstone as an abrasive to clean the wooden decks of its ships. The piece of rock, called a holystone, is pushed back and forth with a long handle, rather like a broom stick, which scrubs the wood. Seawater and a handful of fine sand assist the process.

In US Navy parlance, the smaller stones were called "prayer books" and the larger stones were called "Bibles." This is not an entirely ancient practice; the weather decks of the four U.S. battleships of the Iowa class (Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin) laid down 1939-1940 were made of teak.

Answer: "Revival" is the name of his ninth studio album

A revival meeting is more often a series of events calculated to inspire the faithful and attract new converts. Billy Sunday was a noted American revivalist; Evan Roberts was a successful revivalist in Wales. Revivals tend to be conducted and supported by conservative, evangelical, fundamentalist groups.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known as "Eminem," has produced numerous highly successful rap and hip-hop albums as songwriter, performer and producer. His ninth studio album, "Revival," was released 15 December 2017. Numerous "guests" perform on the album including Beyoncé, Phresher, Ed Sheeran, Alicia Keys, X Ambassadors, Skylar Grey, Kehlani, and Pink.

Answer: the hub, the centre

There is a sense in which the body of a church is like a ship, which carries the crew from Earth to Heaven and is thus appropriately called a "nave" from the Latin for ship. In Act I, Scene 2, of "Macbeth," the Captain describes how Macbeth killed Macdonwald -- "[H]e unseamed him from the nave to th' chops," as a metaphor for disemboweling him. Whereas, in Act II, Scene 2, of "Hamlet," the First Player says, "All you gods, In general synod take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven." Here Shakespeare uses the word "nave" to mean the hub of a wheel.

It might be related to the modern English "navel."

Answer: a running event with obstacles

The Modern English noun "steeple" derives from the Old English "stepel" and the West Saxon "stiepel" which both refer to things which are high, tall and lofty.

The first steeplechases were cross-country horse races in Ireland where the competitors were required to jump fences and hedges and to ford streams. Beginning in 1860, a similar footrace was created at Oxford. Steeplechase races have since been held either cross-country or over a course on which both hurdles and water hazards were erected. The steeplechase has been an Olympic running event since 1920. Women have competed since 2008.