Godlesspanther's Cult Trivia Test

[godlesspanther]

Test your knowledge on cults. The answer key is on a separate thread Called Godlesspanther's Cult Test Answer Key. Read all the multiple choice options before making your decision. Some of the questions have more than one possible answer but there is one that is clearly the best fit. See how you do.

1.What is the name of the cult leader who owns the American newspaper, The Washington Times?
A. Pat Robertson
B. Reverend Sun Yung Moon
C. Michael Aquino
D. Dr. Laura Schlesenger

2.What is the name of the cult whose members built a network of underground fallout shelters in rural Montana in the mid 1980s?
A. The Church of Satan
B. The Montana Freemen
C. Church Universal and Triumphant
D. Christian Identity

3.Author and self-proclaimed clairvoyant Annie Bessant took over the leadership of what cult in 1908?
A. The Oneida Community
B. The Jehovah's Witnesses
C. The Theosophical Society
D. The Seventh Day Adventists

4.Which cult leader's father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan
A. Jim Jones
B. Fred Phelps
C. Lincoln Rockwell
D. Reverend Sun Yung Moon

5.Micheal Shermer's article, The Unlikeliest Cult is about what group?
A. Amway
B. The Discovery Institute
C. The Branch Davidians
D. Objectivism

6.What is the name of the largest and longest lasting cult which strictly prohibited all kinds of sexual behavior?
A. The Oneida Community
B. The Shakers
C. Heaven's Gate
D. The Puritans

7.“If you want to see something, open your eyes, if you want to know something, close them.” Are words of wisdom from which cult?
A. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
B. The Theosophical Society
C. Blue Oyster Cult
D. Transcendental Meditation

8.Three cults that originated in what is known as the “Burned Over District” of Western New York are:
A: The Millerites, The Theosophical Society, The Quakers
B. The Mormons, The Diggers, The Branch Davidians
C. The Oneida Community, Church of Christ Scientist, The Shakers
D. The Shakers, The Millerites, The Oneida Community

9.Which cult leader made his own children sell candy door-to-door?
A. Fred Phelps
B. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
C. David Koresh
D. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

10.The poet Alan Ginsberg was a member of which cult?
A. Transcendental Meditation
B. The Hare Krishnas
C. The Dead Poet's Society
D. The Church of Satan

11. What is the name of the cult leader whose group was in possession of a military tank in addition to a significant arsenal?
A. Lincoln Rockwell
B. Jim Jones
C. David Koresh
D. Elizabeth Claire Prophet

12.What is the name of the cult leader who, at one time, provided the singing voice for a Hamm's Beer TV advertisement?
A. Love Israel
B. Reverend Jimmy Swaggart
C. Marshall Applewhite
D. Charles Manson

13.Which cult leader paid over half-a-million dollars for a race horse?
A. Reverend Sun Yung Moon
B. Jerry Falwell
C. Pat Robertson
D. Fred Phelps

14.The phrase, “don't drink the kool-aid” is a reference to which cult?
A. The People's Temple
B. The Unification Church
C. The Manson Family
D. Heaven's Gate

15.Three members of this cult were tortured, one of them to death, by the US government for refusing military service during World War One.
A. The Quakers
B. The Aquarian Way Church
C. The Hutterites
D. The Amish

16. Phony psychics such as James Van Praah, Sylvia Brown, and Jonathan Edwards are most closely represented by which 19th century historical precedent?
A. Joseph Smith
B. Ellen White
C. Alistair Crowley
D. The Fox Sisters

17. Which cult leader was know to shoot photographs of his perceived enemies with a hand gun?
A. Charles Manson
B. David Miscavige
C. Lincoln Rockwell
D. Barry Manilow

18. Which cult leader was murdered in 1844 in Illinois by an angry mob?
A. Madame Blavatski
B. Brigham Young
C. Alistair Crowley
D. Joseph Smith

19. Put the four cults in chronological order according to the time they were founded:
A. Mormons
B. Jehovah's Witnesses
C. Seventh Day Adventists
D. The Shakers

20. The members of which of these cults had NOT been incarcerated for nothing more than being a member of that religious group?
A. The Shakers
B. The Mormons
C. The Jehovah's Witnesses
D. The Theosophical Society

21.Which cult settled in the Greenwich Village district of New York City after they arrived in the United States in 1965?
A. The Moonies
B. The Theosophical Society
C. The Hare Krishnas
D. The New York Jets

22. What is known as the New Age Movement today may never have taken hold without this prominent figure:
A. Madam Blavatski
B. Elizabeth Clair Prophet
C. Charles Manson
D. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
23. This cult leader was known to have a pet lion.
A. JZ Knight
B. Anton Levay
C. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
D. Reverend Sun Yung Moon

24. Which cult promises you the ability to levitate if you reach the highest level of enlightenment within that group?
A. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
B. The Church of Satan
C. The Unification Church
D. Transcendental Meditiation

25. Which cult might recommend that you take a hit of LSD in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment?
A. The Love Israel Family
B. Ramtha's School of Enlightenment
C. The Church of Satan
D. Focus on the Family

[SimSim]

The Washington Times recently was sold, it's no longer owned by a cult.

[godlesspanther]

Nov 2, 2010 18:34:29 GMT -5 SimSim said:

The Washington Times recently was sold, it's no longer owned by a cult.

By gum, it was sold recently. OK, question one should be changed to "cult leader who formerly owned the Washington Times."

[safaraz]

I am very surprised to see that you have the Quakers as a possible answer to one of the questions, as they aren't a cult. They might be a smaller Christian denomination than others, but they definitely aren't a cult.

[BeingFrankwithYou]

16. I KNOW!

The fox sisters! right? right?

[godlesspanther]

Nov 3, 2010 7:30:24 GMT -5 safaraz said:

I am very surprised to see that you have the Quakers as a possible answer to one of the questions, as they aren't a cult. They might be a smaller Christian denomination than others, but they definitely aren't a cult.

A firm definition of the word 'cult' is hard to pin down and it gets messy -- no true Scotsman fallacy. The loosest definition would label the book club that meets at the library every Saturday to discuss Dickens and Tolstoy a cult. Some make the definition so narrow anything short of the groups that make the news after a mass suicide or something catastrophic are free from the label. So, I try to make a happy medium here. A cult is no necessarily a bad or destructive group. The Society of Friends, aka the Quakers, are a faction of Christianity that I happen to have a great deal of respect for. Historically the group has been committed to civil rights and non-violent solutions to social/political conflict. Most notably, perhaps, is their dedication to the abolition of slavery and the underground railroad. They are not known for the sleazy mind-control tactics that many cults have become notorious for. However, they are a relatively recent Christian denomination that holds pronounced doctrinal differences from mainstream Christianity that does set them apart. There is a degree of isolationism within the group, such that, the term 'cult' is not a glaring misnomer.

BTW -- they are not the answer to that question. The main point I'm trying to get across is that a 'cult' does not mean a horrible organization. Many cults have, and still do, make positive contributions to society.

[godlesspanther]

Nov 3, 2010 15:20:33 GMT -5 BeingFrankwithYou said:

16. I KNOW!

The fox sisters! right? right?

Very good. Yes, unlike contemporary phonies such as the ones that I mentioned in the question, the Fox Sisters, at one point, admitted that that their act was a sham. They even revealed the secret as to how they were creating the illusion. Then, later on, one of the sisters became alcoholic and she was destitute. She went back into the spirit-channeling business and fooled people again. Public has a short memory.

[scotsgit]

Nov 2, 2010 17:01:41 GMT -5 godlesspanther said:

17. Which cult leader was know to shoot photographs of his perceived enemies with a hand gun?
A. Charles Manson
B. David Miscavige
C. Lincoln Rockwell
D. Barry Manilow

I new Barry Manilow was up to no good! Vindication at last!

[godlesspanther]

Nov 18, 2010 0:58:36 GMT -5 scotsgit said:

Nov 2, 2010 17:01:41 GMT -5 godlesspanther said:

17. Which cult leader was know to shoot photographs of his perceived enemies with a hand gun?
A. Charles Manson
B. David Miscavige
C. Lincoln Rockwell
D. Barry Manilow

I new Barry Manilow was up to no good! Vindication at last!

LOL, I read a magazine interview w/ Manilow many years ago. As I remember, he is a believer in non-violence, and I imagine that he would be quite offended at this accusation.