Quiz: Who are these famous people

theseed · Jan 8, 2005

1.Who wrote the best-selling book of all time, after the Bible?
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2. Who is called the "father of the modern missionary movement"?

3. Who was America's first Protestant missionary?
4. Who was called the "prince of preachers"? (hint: nearly every thing he ever wrote and every sermon he ever preached is still in print over 100 years after his death!)

5. What do each of these men have in common?

Clicke here to see the answers. Let me how many you got right.

Matthan · Jan 8, 2005

Theseed, this is a great post!!! Great idea!!!

I didn't get any right, either. Great history. (I always thought Noah Webster had the second best selling book of all time. Oh, well!)

Matthan <J><

newlite · Jan 8, 2005

i got none...

Cajun Huguenot · Jan 8, 2005

theseed said:
Let me how many you got right.

I got 1,2 and 4 correct . That should have been enough to have guessed #5 but I did not think it through . I did not know 3.

Kenith

CFoster · Jan 9, 2005

I got #4 right, but nothing else.

lucypevensie · Jan 9, 2005

got #1 and #4

theseed · Jan 10, 2005

lucypevensie said:
got #1 and #4

That's what I got.

SumTinWong · Jan 10, 2005

Just #4 for me.

ZiSunka · Jan 10, 2005

Me, too.

Iam4Jesus · Jan 11, 2005

kewl quiz!!

and very informative.
Thank you for sharing.

Gold Dragon · Jan 12, 2005

Got #2 and #4. Should have guessed #1 from the link to a reformed baptist site.

Gold Dragon · Jan 12, 2005

Gold Dragon said:
Got #2 and #4. Should have guessed #1 from the link to a reformed baptist site.

According to The Top Ten of Everything 2001 by Russell Ash my guess of In His Steps is much closer to being #2 than Pilgrim's Progress. I don't want to burst anyone's bubble but the Pilgrim's Progress factoid sounds more like Baptist urban legend than truth, as great a book it is. I doubt this list is very accurate either. It sounds very Ameri-centric. How could any top ten list be without the Koran?

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The Best-selling Books of All Time

This list was taken from The Top Ten of Everything 2001, by Russell Ash (General Publishing, 29.95)

The Bible - (more than 6 billion)

Quotations from the works of Mao Tse-Tung (900 million)

American Spelling Book - Noah Webster (100 million)

The Guinness World Book of Records (90 million)

World Almanac* - (73.5 million)

The McGuffey Readers - William Holmes McGuffey (60 million)

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Dr. Benjamin Spock (50 million)

A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard (40 million)

In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do?" (more than 30 million)

Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann (more than 30 million)

* denotes aggregate sales of annual publications.

theseed · Jan 12, 2005

Gold Dragon said:
According to The Top Ten of Everything 2001 by Russell Ash my guess of In His Steps is much closer to being #2 than Pilgrim's Progress. I don't want to burst anyone's bubble but the Pilgrim's Progress factoid sounds more like Baptist urban legend than truth, as great a book it is. I doubt this list is very accurate either. It sounds very Ameri-centric. How could any top ten list be without the Koran?

It is true, also, why do you mean by Ameri-Centric? NIether Bunyon nor Spurgeon were American.

Gold Dragon · Jan 12, 2005

theseed said:
It is true, also, why do you mean by Ameri-Centric? NIether Bunyon nor Spurgeon were American.

I was talking about the top ten list that I quoted from Ash being americ-centric, since most of those titles aside from Mao's were American.

As for Bunyan being #2, I find that hard to believe although I see it stated often that way from Baptist sources.

theseed · Jan 13, 2005

Gold Dragon said:
I was talking about the top ten list that I quoted from Ash being americ-centric, since most of those titles aside from Mao's were American.

As for Bunyan being #2, I find that hard to believe although I see it stated often that way from Baptist sources.

I don't know if it is #2 best Christian seller or #2 best seller over all.

Diane_Windsor · Jan 18, 2005

CFoster said:
I got #4 right, but nothing else.

Ditto. That question was super-easy!

Dmckay · Feb 6, 2005

I got them all, but then I used them all as examples of the forgotten Calvinistic roots of the Baptist Movement in my Doctoral dissertation.

AJ · Feb 6, 2005

I only got #4... Great quiz! Thanks for sharing!

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