Pyramidology - Quiz
Pyramidology
  • 1. Who was the Astronomer Royal of Scotland influenced by John Taylor?
A) Charles Piazzi Smyth
B) Joseph A. Seiss
C) David Davidson
D) Charles Taze Russell
  • 2. Which of these books was written by Charles Piazzi Smyth in 1864?
A) The Great Pyramid, Its Divine Message
B) A Miracle in Stone
C) Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid
D) Great Pyramid Decoded
  • 3. Which system of units did Charles Piazzi Smyth link to the pyramid inch?
A) Roman measurement system
B) British Imperial Unit system
C) Metric system
D) Ancient Egyptian cubit system
  • 4. Who originally theorized that the Great Pyramid contained prophetic dates for the British, Celtic, or Anglo-Saxon peoples?
A) Robert Menzies
B) Charles Piazzi Smyth
C) Basil Stewart
D) Adam Rutherford
  • 5. What is the title of the 1924 work written by David Davidson and H. Aldersmith?
A) Life, and Work in the Great Pyramid
B) Witness of the Great Pyramid
C) The Great Pyramid, Its Divine Message
D) Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers
  • 6. How many volumes comprise Adam Rutherford's work titled Pyramidology?
A) Six
B) Two
C) Four
D) Three
  • 7. Which author wrote the 1971 book titled Great Pyramid Decoded?
A) Colonel Garnier
B) E. Raymond Capt
C) John Edgar
D) Basil Stewart
  • 8. What was the profession of Joseph A. Seiss, a proponent of pyramidology?
A) Archaeologist
B) Colonel
C) Lutheran minister
D) Astronomer
  • 9. What title did Joseph A. Seiss give to his 1877 book about the Great Pyramid?
A) The Bible in Stone
B) A Miracle in Stone
C) Witness of the Great Pyramid
D) Study in Pyramidology
  • 10. Who founded the Bible Student movement?
A) John Edgar
B) Charles Taze Russell
C) E. Raymond Capt
D) Charles Piazzi Smyth
  • 11. Which variant of pyramidology did Charles Taze Russell explicitly denounce?
A) Evangelical
B) Lutheran
C) British-Israelite
D) Scientific
  • 12. What biblical passage did Charles Taze Russell use to support his pyramid theories?
A) Isaiah 19:19–20
B) Exodus 3:5
C) Genesis 1:1
D) Revelation 22:1
  • 13. What were the names of the two brothers who were archaeologists and associates of Russell?
A) Adam and Robert Rutherford
B) David and Basil Davidson
C) John and Morton Edgar
D) Charles and Piazzi Smyth
  • 14. What is the title of the two-volume work by the Edgar brothers?
A) Witness of the Great Pyramid
B) Life, and Work in the Great Pyramid
C) Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers
D) The Anglo-Israelitish Question
  • 15. In what year did the group known as Jehovah's Witnesses abandon pyramidology?
A) 1891
B) 1928
C) 1931
D) 1910
  • 16. Which researcher linked Egyptian pyramids to the golden ratio before John Taylor?
A) John Taylor
B) Noah
C) Friedrich Röber
D) Isaac Newton
  • 17. In what year was John Taylor's book on the Great Pyramid published?
A) 1849
B) 1839
C) 1869
D) 1859
  • 18. How do modern scholars explain the connections between ancient Egypt and the golden ratio?
A) As coincidental
B) As advanced scientific knowledge
C) As divine revelation
D) As evidence of Hebrew engineering
  • 19. What fraction of the sacred cubit did John Taylor claim the pyramid's inch was?
A) 1/25
B) 1/50
C) 1/10
D) 1/100
  • 20. Who originally postulated the existence of the 'sacred cubit'?
A) Martin Gardner
B) Friedrich Röber
C) Isaac Newton
D) John Taylor
  • 21. According to John Taylor, who built the Great Pyramid?
A) The Greeks
B) The Hebrews
C) The Egyptians
D) The Romans
  • 22. Did John Taylor ever visit the Great Pyramid?
A) He visited it once
B) No
C) Yes
D) He lived there for a year
  • 23. Which Biblical figure did Martin Gardner suggest Taylor might have believed was the architect?
A) Abraham
B) Noah
C) Moses
D) Job
  • 24. What is the earliest century from which knowledge of the golden ratio is known?
A) First century AD
B) Fifth century BC
C) Third century BC
D) Tenth century BC
  • 25. What did Taylor claim the Great Pyramid contained?
A) Scientific maps
B) A revelation
C) The history of the world
D) Buried treasure
  • 26. Which book of the Bible does Taylor cite to support his theories?
A) Job
B) Genesis
C) Exodus
D) Psalms
  • 27. How did Taylor describe the origin of the pyramid's design?
A) Divinely inspired
B) Inherited from aliens
C) Accidentally discovered
D) Based on Roman math
  • 28. What is another term used for pyramidology?
A) Gizaism
B) Egyptology
C) Pyramidism
D) Pharaohism
  • 29. Which of these events is NOT listed as a prediction found by pyramidologists?
A) The founding of modern-day Israel
B) The fall of the Roman Empire
C) The crucifixion of Jesus
D) The start of World War I
  • 30. When did pyramidology reach its peak?
A) By the early 1980s
B) By the 17th century
C) By the mid-1960s
D) By the year 2000
  • 31. Which type of pyramidology focuses on geometric measurements of the Great Pyramid?
A) Metrological
B) Pyramid power
C) Pseudoarchaeological
D) Numerological
  • 32. What is the primary claim of the 'pyramid power' theory?
A) Pyramids were built by extraterrestrials
B) Pyramids contain mathematical codes
C) Geometric shapes possess supernatural powers
D) Pyramids were tombs for Pharaohs
  • 33. According to the text, who proposed that the pyramids had mystical and hidden meanings?
A) Th. Shaw
B) Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
C) John Greaves
D) Kircher
  • 34. What did Th. Shaw believe the Great Pyramid was?
A) A temple to Osiris
B) An astronomical observatory
C) A royal tomb
D) A pre-Adamic construction
  • 35. What concept did Isaac Newton create in relation to pyramidology?
A) Pyramid inch
B) Geometric cubit
C) Anti-gravity theory
D) Sacred code
  • 36. What did Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi praise the pyramids for?
A) Hidden ancient technology
B) Engineering genius
C) Mystical beauty
D) Religious prophecy
  • 37. Whom did al-Baghdadi think was buried in the Great Pyramid?
A) A pharaoh
B) An unnamed architect
C) Agathodaimon or Hermes
D) Khufu
  • 38. Besides the Giza complex, what other structures do some pyramidologists study?
A) The Parthenon
B) The Roman Colosseum
C) Temples of Southeast Asia
D) The Great Wall of China
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