Ages of Adam Calendar Quiz 
The Calendar
Quiz covers general calendar questions from Ages of Adam.
Calendar Quiz
1. A _____________________ is a multiple of ten years.
a. decade
b. century
c. millennium
d. era
2. The modern Gregorian Calendar is _____________________
a. a lunar year
b. 365 and one-fourth days per year, not including leap years
c. based on the North Star (Polaris) position
d. named for a Russian Czar
3. The Old Testament primarily uses the ____________________ for time reckoning.
a. Mayan Calendar
b. Egyptian Calendar
c. Jewish Calendar
d. Christian Calendar
4. Lunar/Solar Calendars are the ______________ form of calendar system.
a. most recent
b. strictly religious
c. planetary
d. oldest
5. The three oldest calendar systems in recorded history are the ____________________.
a. Jewish Calendar
b. Egyptian Calendar
c. Mesoamerican Calendar
d. all of the above
6. The Judeo Christian Creative Week is rooted in ____________
a. lunar phase observations.
b. solar eclipses.
c. the star Sirius.
d. the planet Venus.
7. Natural astronomy of the Moon, Sun and Stars is fundamental to ____________ and lunar/solar calendars.
a. monotheism
b. polytheism
c. astrology
d. all of the above
8. The Jewish calendar spreads 7-lunar months or about _____________ intercalary days over a 19-year Metonic cycle.
a. 210-days
b. 209-days
c. 105-days
d. 20-years
9. The Jewish Calendar usually intercalates lunar months by alternating _______________ months and _____________ months every 2 or 3 years.
a. 28-day, 29-day
b. 29-day, 30-day
c. 30-day, 31-day
d. none of the above
10. Three different lengths of common Jewish Calendar years are:
a. 353, 354, or 355-days
b. 354, 355, or 356-days
c. 360, 364, or 365-days
d. 365, 384, or 385-days
11. Three different lengths of Jewish Calendar leap years are:
a. 354, 355, or 356-days
b. 360, 364, or 365-days
c. 383, 384, 385-days
d. 260, 354, 365-days
12. Other cultures using variations of the 19-year or 20-year l/s cycle include:
a. Chinese
b. Greek
c. Sun Kingdoms of Central and
d. all of the above
13. Every lunar year of 12-moon-months requires about ______________ to catch-up the lunar-side of the calendar with the solar-side of the calendar.
a. 11-days
b. 10-days
c. 1 lunar month
d. 7-days
14. Lunar/solar calendar systems insert ______________ intercalary days over a 19-year or 20-year lunar/solar cycle.
a. 209-days
b. 210-days
c. 7 lunar months
d. only a and b
15. The Old Testament employs the __________ form of the Jewish lunar/solar calendar.
a. 50-year Jubilee cycle
b. 19-year Metonic cycle
c. original
d. all of the above
a. watching, commanding
b. the sun, moon during
c. the earth, stars during
d. between, separating
17. Theology advances _____________________ from the literal Hebrew viewpoint to show God existing between lunar-side time and solar-side time.
a. lunar calendars only
b. solar calendars only
c. lunar/solar calendars
d. space calendar time
18. The Jewish Calendar’s Feast of first Fruits compares with the Christian New Testament ____________celebration.
a. Christmas
b. Easter
c. Passover
d. Pentecost
19. Ancient lunar/solar calendar systems practiced a standard midpoint position having __________ between lunar years and solar years.
a. 354-days
b. 360-days
c. 360-years
d. 365-days
20. Ages of Adam employs a ___________________________ Tool, which has a lunar-side component and a solar-side component.
a. Numerical Matching
b. Lunar/Solar Time
c. Separation Time
d. 260-day-day-Tzolken-sacred-year
Answers
1. a. decade
2. b. 365 and one-fourth days per year, not including leap years
3. c. Jewish Calendar
4. d. oldest
5. d. all of the above
6. a. lunar phase observations.
7. d. all of the above
8. b. 209-days
9. b. 29-day, 30-day
10. a. 353, 354, or 355-days
11. c. 383, 384, 385-days
12. d. all of the above
13. a. 11-days
14. d. only a and b
15. d. all of the above
16. d. between, separating
17. c. lunar/solar calendars
18. d. Pentecost
19. b. 360-days
20. b. Lunar/Solar Time
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