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Here are the answers to the Great Disciples Leadership Quiz. Don't you wish you had these in advance?


Round One Answers
1. Where was Alexander Campbell born? Answer: County Antrim, Ireland. We'll accept Ireland or Northern Ireland.

2. Which Disciples President of the US was a preacher. Answer: James Garfield (He was also president of Hiram College.)

3. What new name did the publication, The Christian Oracle take in 1900? Answer: The Christian Century

4. Who was the former slave who organized the National Christian Missionary Convention? Answer: Preston Taylor

5. In 1849 the Stone-Campbell movement sent James Barclay as its first overseas missionary. Where did they send him? Answer: Jerusalem.


Round Two Answers
1. Hesperian College is now Chapman University.

2. Walnut Grove Academy is now Eureka College.

3. Western Reserve Eclectic Institute is now Hiram College.

4. Kentucky Female Orphan School is now Midway College.

5. College of the Bible is now Lexington Theological Seminary.


Round Three Answers:
1. Who is that one person who is both a contributor to and the subject of an article in the Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching? Answer: Dr. Fred Craddock.

2. Who was the Presbyterian minister who hosted the Cane Ridge Revival? Answer: Barton W. Stone.

3. Sidney Rigdon was an early follower of Alexander Campbell who became a close advisor to the leader of another, larger, American religious movement. What was that movement? Answer: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, or The Mormons.

4. The celebrity on that list who was never related to the Disciples? Answer: author Anne Rice.

5. The Executive Pastor for North American Asian Ministries is Rev. Dr. Geunhee Yu.


Round Four Answers:
1. Who was that troublesome woman with the hatchet? Answer: Carrie Nation.

2. Who is the current president of the National Convocation of the Christian Church? Answer: It's Rev. Dr. Delores Carpenter.

3. Which of those guys was not a debating opponent of Alexander Campbell? Answer: Thomas Jefferson

4. The first periodical Alexander Campbell published was The Christian Baptist.

5. How many losing seasons did Coach Wooden have? Answer: One (His first season at Dayton High School in Dayton Kentucky)


Round Five Answers:
1. The Disciples evangelist who developed the "Five Finger Exercise" was Walter Scott.

2. The man Esquire said ought to be President of the United States was Disciples industrialist, and the first lay president of the National Council of Churches, J. Irwin Miller.

3. The Disciples missionary who became a head of state was Sir Garfield Todd, and the country he served as Prime Minister was Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He was an outspoken advocate for political and human rights both before and after that nation's independence. You have to get both the man and the country to get this one right.

4. Within 5, how many Hispanic and Bilingual Disciples congregations are there in 2005. Answer: 150

5. Who was the first woman elected moderator of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). That was Arkansas attorney Jean Woolfolk, who was elected moderator in 1973.


And just what did prizewinners win?
  • Third-place prize winners received a certificate redeemable at HELM's booth for any of the giveaways.

  • Second-place prize winners received the certificate and a "highly collectible, retro, cloisonné lapel pin with the old Division of Higher Education logo."

  • The Grand Prize Team received the HELM Prize Vault award certificate, and the retro DHE lapel pin, but that's not all. The Grand Prize also includes, for each team member, a full size portrait of Alexander Campbell, suitable for framing, and enclosed in it own protective mailing tube.


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