Answers to Stuardt's Quick Quiz
1. B.
140
2. A.
Santa Maria Maggiore
3. C.
Trinita dei Monti
4. B.
265
5. C.
John (there have been 23)
6. C.
St. John the Baptist (in a small chapel just inside the church on the left
encased in glass)
7. B.
Capuchin Friars
8. C.
Augustus Caesar (the original mausoleum sits to the right of this structure)
9. B.
Hadrian's Mausoleum
10. A. 1300
11. A. 25 years
(originally, Holy Years were every 50 years, but was changed to every 25)
12. B. Pilate's
Palace in Jerusalem (brought to Rome by Constantine's mother, St. Helena)
13. B. Emperor
Constantine (atop Santa Croce in Gerusalemme which was erected on a portion
of land that was once St. Helena's villa)
14. B. A 4th century
drain cover (in the portico of Santa Maria in Cosmedin)
15. B. Santa Maria
del Popolo in Piazza del Popolo where Nero was originally buried
16. B. Circular
17. C. Sacred
temples where Julius Caesar was assassinated
18. B. The Pantheon
(built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 B.C. and still used as a church)
19. A. Pope Paul
VI
20. B. 4
21. C. Raphael
22. A. Leonardo
da Vinci International Airport
23. B. Civitavecchia
(about 60 miles north of Rome)
24. B. Via Condotti
25. A. Pope Julius
II (who also commissioned Michelangelo to create the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel)
26. B. College
of Cardinals
27. C. St. Peter
(Anacletus II, 1130 A.D., was the other, but he was an antipope)
28. C. Avignon
(moved there in the early 1300s and returned to Rome in 1377)
29. B. Michelangelo
30. B. Campo de'Fiori
31. C. 29
32. C. 8 (Peter,
Jude/Thaddaeus, Simon the Canannite, Bartholomew, Matthias (selected after
the
vacancy left by Judas Iscariot), Philip, James the Less, and Andrew).
Paul is also buried in Rome
although he was not one of the Twelve Apostles.
33. B. San Giovanni
in Laterano