Q.1.
What is the title of the 1950s Biblical epic film, set in the time of Jesus of Nazareth, which starred Charlton Heston in the title role as a wrongly accused Jew who is avenged in a climactic chariot race?
Q.2.
How long did it reportedly take Georg Frideric Handel to complete his famous musical setting of ?
Q.3.
What was the name of the 20th-century Oxford don whose Christian writings include , and the Narnia stories?
Q.4.
What is the title of William Holman Hunt's iconic allegorical illustration of v.20 of chapter 3 in the book of Revelation, depicting Jesus knocking on the door of the human soul?
Q.5.
This Oxford polymath originally trained in the Classics and then as a mathematician and astronomer; he was instrumental in the foundation of the Royal Society. After the devastation of the Great Fire of London (1666) he had the relative good fortune to be commissioned to design scores of replacement church buildings ~ most famously St Paul's Cathedral, where he was later buried under an inscription which reads (in Latin): 'If you seek a monument [to him], look around you'! Who was he?
Q.6.
Which famous artist was responsible for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome?
Q.7.
In the 1970s a sequence of television films was made by Franco Zeffirelli called , aimed at telling as 'true' and cogent a version of His life as possible, for a wide audience, using the best actors and technology available at that time. The star-studded cast included a veteran 'Western' actor who delivered his single 'line' in the role of the hard-bitten centurion overseeing the Crucifixion at Golgotha on Good Friday. Who was he?
Q.8.
Which much-loved classic of Christian devotional literature was written by a prisoner in the 1670s?
Q.9.
Probably the most famous and widely-sung musical setting of John 3:16 ('God so loved the world that He sent His Son ...') comes from a cantata, , by which 19th-century English composer?
Q.10.
The main premise of the British independent TV series only became workable after the ordination of the first women to the Anglican priesthood ... in which year?