Catholic Pope Trivia Quiz Questions and the Answers

Trivia quiz questions with answers about the Pope.

Catholic Pope Trivia Quiz Questions and the Answers

1. What has been the most common name for Popes through the millennium?
    
2. Pope Clement VIII officially recognized a beverage as a Christian drink in an edict issued in 1592. What was that beverage?
    
3. Pope John Paul II succeeded who as Pope?
    
4. What was the name of the Pope with died in 1978 after only 33 days in office?
    
5. In the 20th century, who has been Pope the longest?
    
6. What did Pope Pius V do to Elizabeth I and Pope Paul III do to Henry VIII?
    
7. Pope John Paul II comes from what eastern European country?
    
 
8. In 1980 the Pope made a triumphant homecoming visit to his home country. What is the name of the country?
    
9. Henry VIII created what church when the Pope refused to give him a divorce in 1534?
    
10. Who addressed the U.N. in Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, French, and English in 1995?
     
11. The real name of the Pope who succeeded John Paul I was what?
     
12. In 1798 Napoleon sent Pope Pius VI to the south of France when he occupied what city?
     
13. Where did cantaloupe get its name?
     
 
14. The Pope is delighted by what European country that has the lowest divorce rate in the western world?
     
15. Pope John Paul II supported what Polish political movement in the 1980s?
     
16. What caused the deaths of Charles V of France, Emperor Claudius and Tiberius, Czar Alexander I, and Pope Clement VII?
     
17. What baseball announcer said Pope Paul VI's death "puts a damper on even a Yankees win"?
     

1. John.
2. Coffee, which had been introduced to Europe by Arab traders and was considered by many Roman Catholics to be the wine of infidels.
3. John Paul I.
4. John Paul I.
5. John Paul II.
6. Excommunicate.
7. Poland.
8. Poland.
9. The Church of England.
 
10. Pope John Paul II.
11. Karol Wojtyla.
12. Rome.
13. The cantaloupe was named after the Pope's summer residence of Cantalupo.
14. Italy.
15. A:  Solidarity.
16. Mushroom poisoning.
17. Phil Rizzuto.