Trivia Quiz on Church Architecture
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Explore the language and landmarks of church architecture—from naves and narthexes to spires and flying buttresses. Test your knowledge of sacred-space design across eras in a fast, team-friendly challenge.
From basilicas of antiquity to soaring Gothic cathedrals, this group quiz unpacks the vocabulary and design features that define church architecture. You’ll identify key plan elements (nave, apse, transept), pinpoint fixtures and furnishings (font, cathedra), and recognize structural innovations (domes, spires, buttresses). Designed for mixed-knowledge groups, it balances quick definitions with context clues so art lovers, students, and architecture buffs can all play together. Run it as a cooperative learning session, a team-versus-team showdown, or a fast warm-up before a longer event. It works brilliantly in classrooms, clubs, workshops, and museum nights, and is easy to host in online meetings or live streams for remote or hybrid teams. Ready to duplicate, customize, and play in minutes, with occasional leaderboard moments to keep the energy high.
1. A continuous aisle in a building, especially around the apse in a church.
A) Nave
B) Transept
C) Ambulatory
D) Choir
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2. In a church who would use the chancel
A) The congregation
B) Choir they sit there
C) The priest
D) The organist
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3. The transverse entrance hall of a church.
A) Nave
B) Apse
C) Crypt
D) Narthex
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4. In a church, the area where the transept and the nave intersect, usually emphasized by a dome or a tower.
A) Nave
B) Crossing
C) Transept
D) Apse
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5. Where is a nave, apse, atrium and narthex
A) Cathedral
B) Basilica
C) Temple
D) Chapel
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6. A passageway of a Christian Church or a Roman basilica running paralell to the nave, separated from it by an arcade or colonnade.
A) nave
B) apse
C) Aisle
D) transept
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7. A receptacle for holy water is a(n) ________.
A) Ablution basin
B) Baptistery
C) Font
D) Pew
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8. A tall, tapering, pointed roof on a tower, as in the top of a steeple.
A) Minaret
B) Cupola
C) Spire
D) Turret
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9. The bishop's throne in a cathedral is called a___
A) Chancel
B) Cathedra
C) Sedile
D) Pulpit
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10. In a roman basilika, the central aisle. In a church, the main section extending from the entrance to the crossing.
A) Narthex
B) Nave
C) Apse
D) Transept
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11. In church terms what are saucers
A) Altars
B) Naves
C) Cupolas
D) Domes
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12. Among the fifty_two _____________ churches Sir Christopher Wren created from 1670 to 1711, the greatest was St. Paul's Cathedral.
A) parish
B) Anglican
C) collegiate
D) London
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13. According to popular belief brides walk to the what in the church? (not the aisle)
A) The altar
B) The nave of the church
C) The chancel
D) The transept
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14. In what field of study would you find "flying buttresses"
A) Engineering
B) Architecture
C) Archaeology
D) Literature
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