MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2000
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
Masonic Presidents
10
20
30
40
50
QUESTION
ANSWER
This President was Master of
his Lodge when he assumed
the office of President.
He was a Freemason and U.S.
President who established an
important doctrine in 1823.
He became a U.S. President
in 1828, at the height of the
anti-Masonic period.
This U.S. President and
Freemason won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906.
This U.S. President and
Freemason died three hours
after he was scheduled to give
a speech to the Knights
Templar in Hollywood
California.
Who was George
Washington?
This federal scout and Indian
fighter was raised a Master
Mason in Platte Valley Lodge
No 32, in Nebraska.
This Freemason opposed
William McKinley for the
Presidency in 1896, and
subsequently became a
Mason in 1902.
This Nebraska Mason was
made Commander-in-Chief of
the American Expeditionary
Forces in WWI.
This author and humorist was
raised a Master Mason in
Lincoln Lodge No. 19, in
Lincoln Nebraska in 1902.
Who was William F. “Buffalo
Bill” Cody?
Who was James Monroe?
(The Monroe Doctrine)
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Who was Theodore
Roosevelt?
Who was Warren Harding?
Nebraska Masonry
10
20
30
40
Who was William Jennings
Bryan?
Who was General John J.
Pershing?
Who was Will Rogers?
50
This American Grand Lodge
was the second to recognize
Prince Hall Masonry as a
legitimate Masonic body.
What is the Grand Lodge of
Nebraska?
They were the first two
Freemasons to travel in the
Dakota Territory.
This Mason led the United
States Marine Band in the
1880's.
This General and Freemason
said, “Old soldiers never die,
they just fade away.”
He wore a pin depicting the
Masonic square and compass
when he flew to Paris in
1927.
This Freemason coined the
term “iron curtain”.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
This Masonic Revolutionary
General became a traitor
This man founded Prince Hall
Masonry in 1784
The first Masonic library was
founded in this state in 1844.
These two rival Masonic
groups joined together in
1813.
The society formed in 1783,
with George Washington as
its president, to provide aid
for widows and orphans of
the Revolutionary War.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
Famous Masons
10
20
30
40
50
Who was John Phillip Sousa?
Who was General Douglas
MacArthur?
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Who was Winston Churchill?
Masonic History
10
20
30
40
50
Who was Prince Hall?
What is Iowa?
Who were the Ancients and
the Moderns?
What is the Society of the
Cincinnati? (It is still in
existence)
Masonic Ritual
10
20
30
40
50
This problem states that the
square erected on the
hypotenuse of a right triangle
is equal to the sum of the
squares erected on the two
legs.
The Middle Chamber lecture
refers to these two kinds of
Masons.
Of the seven liberal arts and
sciences this one is most
revered by Masons
This Lodge officer is armed
with a weapon
A term applied to several raps
of the gavel or clapping of the
hands.
What is the 47th Problem of
Euclid? (or Pythagorean
Theorem)
What are operative and
speculative Masons?
What is geometry?
Who is the Tiler? (sword)
What is a battery?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Nebraska Masons
This Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 54 of Nebraska, who died in 1964 was one of the most
prolific authors of Masonic and other works.
Who was Roscoe Pound?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2001
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
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Masonic Presidents
10
This Freemason was sworn in a
President in 1901, on the death
of William McKinley.
Who was Theodore
Roosevelt?
20
This U.S. President and
Freemason, who died in 1875,
said APillow my head on the
constitution of my country, and
let the flag of the nations be my
winding sheet.@
Who was Andrew Johnson?
30
Leon Czolgosz ended this U.S.
President’s life in 1901.
Who was William McKinley?
40
Thomas Dewey, Henry A.
Wallace and Strom Thurmond,
all Freemasons, have this in
common.
Who were the opponents of
Harry Truman in the 1948
election?
50
George W. Bush was sworn in as
President on this man’s bible.
Who was George
Washington?
10
This Nebraska Mason and
prosecutor died just a few days
after the conclusion of the
famous “Scopes Trial”.
Who was William Jennings
Bryan?
20
This Freemason wrote The
Power of Positive Thinking.
Who was Norman Vincent
Peale?
30
This famous ace of the American
air force in WWI became a
Mason in Michigan in 1922.
Who was Eddie
Rickenbacker?
40
This Freemason and Senator was
head of the Watergate
committee.
Who was Sam Irvin?
Famous Masons
50
This WWII General and
Freemason became
Administrator of the Veterans’
Administration after the war.
Who was General Omar N.
Bradley?
10
The Grand Lodge of Utah
allowed this group to petition its
Lodges in 1984.
Who are the Mormons?
20
This Grand Lodge was originally
organized in 1874 as the Grand
Lodge of Indian Territory.
What is the Grand Lodge of
Oklahoma?
30
Iowa city originally known as
Shiboleth.
What is Mason City?
40
The Masons erected a statue at
this Civil War battlefield.
What is Gettysburg?
50
After his abduction in 1826, the
anti-Masonry period began.
Who was William Morgan?
10
This tree, native of warm
climates is a symbol of
immortality.
What is the acacia tree?
20
They are identified as the Great
Lights of Masonry.
What are the Holy Bible,
Square and Compass?
30
The name of the left hand pillar
that stood at the porch of King
Solomon’s Temple.
What is Boaz?
40
A herbaceous plant with broad
leaves characterized in the
capital of Corinthian columns.
What are acanthus leaves?
50
The bible quote of “. . . the
almond tree shall flourish. . .” is
found in this degree.
What is the Master Mason
Degree? (3)rd
American Masonic
History
Masonic Ritual
Miscellaneous Masonry
10
In 1884, the Grand Lodge of
New York laid the cornerstone
on Bedloe’s Island for this
famous landmark.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
20
At the Potsdam Conference
Truman and Churchill were
Freemasons, this third world
leader was not.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
30
The Latin name for the Holy of
Holies.
What is the Sanctum
Sanctorum?
40
Frederic Bartholdi, a Frenchman
and a Freemason, designed this
famous American landmark in
1884.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
50
This Grand Lodge for over 60
years did not allow Masons to
join the Eastern Star.
What is the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Revolutionary War Famous Masons
Of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Monroe, he was not a
Mason.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
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Famous Prince Hall
Masons
10
An American jazz legend known
by the name Satchmo.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
20
Born in 1941, he is a famous
U.S. Political leader, clergyman,
and civil-rights activist.
A famous jazz singer, but started
out as a jazz pianist. After his
death, his daughter won a
Grammy award with a duet with
her father.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
40
He was the middleweight
champion for the first time in
1951 by knocking out Jake La
Motta. When he retired from
boxing as middleweight
champion in 1952 he had lost
only 3 times in 137 bouts. He
returned to boxing in 1955 and
was the first boxer ever to regain
a title after retiring.
Who was Sugar Ray
Robinson?
50
He rose up from slavery and
illiteracy to become the foremost
educator and leader of black
Americans at the turn of the 19th
century. Books written by him
were Up from Slavery, The Souls
of Black Folk, and The
Autobiography of an Ex Colored
Man.
Who was Booker T
Washington?
30
Who was Nat King Cole?
Famous Living Masons
10
He has separated his fast-food
chain from the competitors by
cultivating that family feeling.
His self-depreciating
commercials were vital in the
turnaround of his fast-food
chain, the hamburger chain he
named after his youngest
daughter.
Who is Dave Thomas, owner
of Wendy’s?
20
He piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6
“Friendship 7” spacecraft on the
first manned orbital mission of
the United States.
Who is John Glenn?
30
An American golfer who turned
professional after winning the
1954 U.S Amateur
Championship. He won the
Masters tournament in 1958,
1960, 1962, and 1964,
(becoming the first four-time
winner), the U.S. Open in 1960
and the British Open in 1961 and
1962.
Who is Arnold Palmer?
40
A master of all stringed
instruments, he also plays
trumpet, trombone, and piano.
He’s a singer of simple love
ballads and rousing country
rockers. His brand of humor is
infectious. He co-hosted the
television country comedy Hee
Haw for 20 years.
Who is Roy Clark?
50
An American actor who gave
memorable performances in
films such as The Catered Affair
(1956) with Bette Davis, The
Vikings (1958) and Barabbas
(1962). Later notable films
included The Dirty Dozen
(1967), The Wild Bunch (1969),
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
and Emperor of the North Pole
(1973).
Who Ernest Borgnine?
Supposed to have been written in
1390 AD, this is the oldest
known and most important
version of the Old Charges. It is
a poem written on 64 pages of
vellum.
What is the Regius
Manuscript?
The second oldest known
manuscript. In the British
Museum’s catalogue it is listed
as Additional M.S. 23,198, and
has been dated by Hughan at
1450 or thereabouts, an estimate
in which most of specialists have
concurred. The Book of
Charges, which forms the
second part of the document, is
certainly of the 14th century, the
historical or first part, the
beginning of the 15th.
What is the Cooke
Mauscript?
30
The first record of an initiation
in an English lodge is 16
October 1646 when it was noted
in this man’s diary that he and a
Colonel Henry Mainwaring had
been initiated into a nonoperative lodge.
Who is Elias Ashmole?
40
The first Masonic Monitor also
known as The Freemasons
Monitor.
These were the two first Grand
What is Webbs?
Early Masonic History
10
20
50
What are the Grand Lodge of
Lodges, which were formed in
1717 and 1751 and eventually
merged in 1813.
Moderns and the Grand
Lodge of Antients?
10
A symbol of untimely death.
What is broken column?
20
A symbol of industry and
cooperation.
What is the beehive?
30
A symbol of immortality and of
faith.
What is acacia?
40
A symbol of Deity, and, by
analogy of His powers most
important to man; love, justice
and mercy.
What is the All-Seeing Eye?
50
A symbol of honorable labor.
What is the Apron?
10
The evangelical Roman Catholic
Bishop who in 1996 threatened
mass excommunication of
parishioners if they didn’t
terminate membership in or
support of 12 organizations
which included almost the entire
Masonic family.
Who is Bishop Fabian
Bruskewitz?
20
Leader of the Religious Right in
the United States, he is
convinced that the Masons are
part of some grand plan and he
uses the trustworthy sources of
Jim Shaw and the like on which
to base these conclusions. He
wrote the book The New World
Order that includes the
descriptions of the Illuminati –
Masonic – Trilateral
Commission conspiracy theory.
Who is Pat Robertson?
Masonic Symbols
Anti-Masons
30
He published Masonic rituals,
changing them to include devil
worship, and then convinced the
church that he was on a crusade
to “expose” Masonry as a satanic
cult. His “confession” of this
hoax even included information
from a Diana Vaughan,
purportedly a victim of Masonic
Rites whose life was in danger
from the Masons. (She was, in
point of fact, a sales
representative for an American
Typewriter company and his coconspirator.)
Who was Leo Taxil?
40
He had written a book
purporting to reveal Masonic
secrets. The Masons were said,
without proof, to have murdered
him, and in reaction, local
organizations arose to refuse
support to Masons for public
office. This gave rise to the
Anti-Masonic Party.
Who was Captain William
Morgan?
50
Sixth President of the United
States, he was a member of the
Anti-Masonic Party, although
there has never been any
evidence that he was against
Masonry.
Who was John Quincy
Adams?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Masonic Authors
He authored the books Revolution and Freemasonry and Franklin (about Benjamin Franklin).
Credited with the death and suffering of many Freemasons during World War II, was a very
active ‘collaborator’. He was tried and convicted by a court of justice in Paris. Despite a plea
from the prosecution that he receive the death penalty, the court was lenient and sentenced him
to imprisonment at hard labor for life, the confiscation of all his property, and ‘national
degradation’.
Who was Professor Bernard Fay?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2002
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
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Masonic Presidents
10
This President was only one of
two US Presidents to be Grand
Master of their State
Jurisdiction. He was Grand
Master of Tennessee. L.
Randall Rogers Our Masonic
Who is Andrew Jackson?
20
This President was made a
Master Mason in 1909. Two
years later in 1911 he helped
form a new Masonic Lodge and
was it's first Worshipful Master.
He served as Secretary of his
Lodge from 1912 to 1916 when
he was elected Master again.
L. Randall Rogers Our Masonic
Presidents.
Who is Harry S Truman?
30
This President's four sons all
became Master Masons. One in
1933, two in 1935 and the last
was raised 1953.
L. Randall
Rogers Our Masonic Presidents.
Who is Franklin D
Roosevelt?
40
This President was proud of the
fact that he enjoyed attending
lodge and meeting on the level
with his brothers from all walks
of life. He especially enjoyed
attending his Lodge during the
time period when the Worshipful
Master of his Lodge was the
gardener of and estate adjoining
this Presidents estate.
L.
Randall Rogers Our Masonic
Presidents.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
50
This President's administration
was so popular he did not have
an opponent in 1820, which has
happened at only one other time,
when Washington was elected.
He was made an Entered
Apprentice Mason at the age of
17.
L. Randall Rogers Our
Masonic Presidents.
Who is James Monroe?
Masonic Symbols
10
This symbol represents a method
of control of an initiate, and is
removed when love and care
replace the need for physical
control. Page 37 One Hundred
Questions About Freemasonry.
What is the Cable-tow?
20
This is a symbol of obligation
and a reminder to him who gives
it to remember his promises. It
is universally used as a salute to
the Master. Page 37 One
Hundred Questions About
Freemasonry.
What is the Due Guard?
30
Bro. Carl Claudy states that
superstition in the middle ages
maintained that a man's body
must be buried while perfect, if
his soul were to go to heaven.
The destroyed, eaten flesh of a
body prevented resurrection.
Masonry has used this idea as a
symbol of a penalty if we fail to
stay true to our obligations. Page
358 One Hundred Questions
About Freemasonry.
What is the Beast of the Field
and Bird of the Air?
40
If the Lodge is considered as a
symbol of the world, then this
symbol denotes the universality
of Masonry. Page 23 Pocket
Encyclopedia of Masonic
Symbols.
What is the Covering of
the Lodge or (the clouded
canopy or starry-decked
heavens)?
50
This is a symbol of control of
conduct, a standard of right
living. Operative Masons used
this to test a perfect square or
"try a square." Page 46 Pocket
Encyclopedia of Masonic
Symbols.
What is the Point Within a
Circle?
10
This Grand Master of Masons of
Massachusetts was famous for a
midnight ride at the beginning of
the American Revolution.
Famous Masons and Masonic
Presidents pg.314.
Who is Paul Revere?
20
The third Chief Justice of the
United States, serving in that
office 34 years with great
integrity. He was also Grand
Master of Virginia. Famous
Masons and Masonic Presidents
pg.127.
Who is John Marshall?
Famous Masons
30
This Mason served in the Army,
studied law and passed the bar
and became District Attorney, a
defender of the American Indian,
elected to Congress, elected
Governor of Tennessee, was
Commander-in-Chief of Texas
Army in 1836, elected President
of the Republic of Texas, and
probably saved the life of fellow
Freemason, the defeated Santa
Anna from the angry Texans.
Little Masonic Library pg. 139.
Who is Sam Houston?
40
This Mason undertook the
assignment to organize the
teachings of the Old Charges
into a modern form of
Constitutions in 1723 and then
revised them in 1738? Haywood
Famous Masons and Masonic
Presidents pg.99.
Who is Dr James Anderson?
50
This Mason traveled throughout
England, recording and
committing to memory the
various forms of ritualistic work
being used by the many Masonic
Lodges. In 1772 he published
Illustrations of Masonry, a series
of lectures, which perfected the
Masonic ritual used at the time.
Haywood Famous Masons and
Masonic Presidents pg.170.
Who is William Preston?
This year, eleven representatives
from the three Masonic Lodges
in the Territory of Nebraska
convened to form the Grand
Lodge of Nebraska? Masonry in
Nebraska pg. 19.
What was 1857 (September
23rd )?
Masonic History
10
20
In November of 1854 several
Masons met at Green, Kenney
and Co's log store located in St.
Marys, Iowa for the purpose of
taking the initial steps to procure
a dispensation from the Grand
Lodge of Illinois to form this
first Lodge in the Nebraska
Territory. Masonry in Nebraska
pg.7-13.
What is Nebraska Lodge No.
184, Illinois, at Bellevue;
Later Called Nebraska Lodge
No.1, and in 1888 was moved
to Omaha?
30
On May 29th, 1855 Brethren met
to form this second lodge in the
Nebraska Territory, under
dispensation from the Grand
Lodge of Missouri, and it was
named after its first Worshipful
Master. Masonry in Nebraska
pg. 13.
What is Giddings' Lodge No.
156, Missouri, at Nebraska
City, Later Called Western
Star Lodge No.2?
40
On January 26th, 1857 nineteen
Master Masons met in the home
of Brother George Armstrong
under authority of a dispensation
from the Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Iowa to form
this third Lodge in the Nebraska
Territory. Masonry in Nebraska
pg. 15.
What is Capitol Lodge No.
101, Iowa, at Omaha City,
later called Capitol Lodge
No 3, Omaha?
50
One Hundred and Thirteen of
these old documents are known
to exist, and spell out many of
the earliest known details or
regulations of Freemasonry.
Wallace McLeod's The Grand
Design pg. 33.
What are the Old Charges or
Gothic Constitutions?
The minimum age requirement
in Nebraska to petition a Lodge
for membership. The
Constitution and Bylaws page
47.
What is Eighteen?
Miscellaneous
10
20
The document given to brethren
who are members of a lodge
under dispensation, who have
demonstrated their fitness to
receive this document
empowering them to work as
Masons. Page 47 One Hundred
Questions About Freemasonry.
What is a Lodge Charter or
Warrant?
30
These are the final words of the
Regius Poem and mean "So may
it be." Page 7 One Hundred
Questions About Freemasonry.
What is So Mote It Be?
40
Except to conduct a funeral,
open installation of lodge
officers, or the dedication of
Masonic temples with Masonic
ceremonies, and for the laying of
a cornerstone with Masonic
ceremonies, no meeting of a
subordinate lodge shall be held
on this day. The Constitution
and Bylaws page 53.
What is Sunday?
50
A rejected petitioner for
initiation must wait this period
of time before he may repetition
the Lodge. The Constitution and
Bylaws page 48.
What is Six Months?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Early Masons
The founder of the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, Laurence Dermott, wrote this Book of
Constitutions for his Grand Lodge in 1756. When the Ancients and the Moderns merged in
1813, this Book of Constitutions ceased to be used in England. But to this day some Grand
Lodges in America still apply this name to their Constitutions. . Wallace McLeod's The Grand
Design pg. 28, and Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia, pg. 19
Who is Ahiman Rezon?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Masonic Symbols
10
An ancient symbol used in
Masonry to represent the
watchfulness and omnipresence
of Deity.
What is the A11-Seeing Eye?
20
A symbol of the brotherly love
and fellowship that hold a lodge
together.
What is cement?
30
A symbol of industry.
What is the beehive?
40
Symbols of hope and a well
spent life.
What are the Anchor and the
Ark?
50
It is a symbol of death or failed
work.
What is the broken column?
10
These leaves are typically carved
as decorations on the capitals
of Corinthian and
Composite columns.
What are acanthus leaves?
20
A knock at the door of the Lodge
indicating that someone is
seeking admission.
What is an alarm?
30
A story, fable or legend that has
a hidden meaning.
What is an allegory?
40
This item is often called the
"badge of a Mason".
What is the apron?
50
It is the jewel of the Stewards.
What is the cornucopia?
Masonic Ritual
Masonic History
10
A political party formed in 1828
after the Morgan Affair.
What is the Anti-Masonic
Party?
20
He was the last U. S. President to
be a Freemason.
Who was Gerald Ford?
30
He was the author of the
Constitutions of 1723.
Who was Dr.James
Anderson?
40
A Greek mathematician who
lived about 300 B.C.
Who was Euclid?
50
This U.S. President was a
member of the Anti-Masonic
Party.
Who was John Quincy
Adams?
10
This Mason composed the
"Magic Flute".
Who was Wolfgang A.
Mozart?
20
This Mason wrote the book "The
Man Who Would Be King".
Who was Gerald Ford?
30
This Mason composed
"Finlandia".
Who was Jean Sibelius?
40
This Mason wrote "Auld Lang
Syne".
Who was Robert Burns?
50
This Mason wrote "Faust".
Who was Goethe?
Famous Masonic
Authors & Composers
Harry Truman
10
This Freemason wrote a book
about Truman.
Who was Wolfgang A.
Mozart?
20
In addition to Harry Truman, this
President is the only other one to
hold the title of Grand Master
Who was Andrew Jackson?
30
Three U.S. Presidents were
Masters of their Lodge
Who were Harry Truman,
George Washington and
James Buchanan?
40
These two vice presidents of
Franklin Roosevelt were
Freemasons.
Who were Harry Truman and
Henry Wallace?
50
Harry Truman had these two
"33rd" honors.
What is the Scottish Rite 33rd
Degree Honorary and the
33rd President of the United
States?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Masonic Meanings
It is the ancient Hebrew word for "strength".
What is Boaz?
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Famous Masons
10
As President, he distinguished
himself by being shot at and by
falling down the steps of Air
Force One.
Who was Gerald R. Ford?
20
He was the second man to walk
on the Moon.
Who was Edwin [“Buzz”]
Aldrin?
30
He was commander of the
American Expeditionary Force
in World War I.
Who was John J. Pershing?
40
He became heavyweight-boxing
champion of the world in 1919
by defeating Jess Willard.
Who was Jack Dempsey?
50
He was the second President of
the Republic of Texas.
Who was Sam Houston?
10
This is where famous cedars
used in the building of King
Solomon’s Temple came from.
What is Lebanon or “forests
of Lebanon”?
20
The sanctum sanctorum was also
known as this.
What is the Holy of Holies?
30
This is where the Lord stood
when he had a plumb line in his
hand.
What is the wall?
40
This Masonic building has the
world’s largest Masonic Square
and Compass made out of
Flowers.
What is the George
Washington National
Masonic Memorial?
Masonic Places
(both real & mythical
50
This is the traditional
checkerboard-looking part of a
lodge.
What is the Mosaic
pavement?
10
This plant is the namesake of a
fraternity, and is used in the
Master’s degree.
What is acacia?
20
This rope-like item is secured on
part of the candidate’s body in
the degrees.
What is the cabletow?
30
This Masonic symbol is
composed of two Working Tools,
one either wholly or partly
partially superimposed over the
other.
What is the Square and
Compass(es)?
40
This symbol is often used as a
sign of industry.
What is the Beehive?
50
This is where the Master
traditionally “posts” the work for
the Brethren to do.
What is the Trestleboard?
10
He was known as “The March
King”, and directed the U.S.
Marine Band.
Who was John Philip Sousa?
20
He is known for his operas: Don
Juan, The Magic Flute, and The
Marriage of Figaro.
Who was Mozart?
30
This comedian was known for
his characters named Freddie the
Freeloader and Klem
Kadiddlehopper.
Who was Red Skelton?
Masonic Symbols
Famous Masonic
Muscicians &
Entertainers
40
This country music star (and
father of a country music star) is
famous for the fact that he sings
flawlessly, but speaks with a
stutter.
Who was Mel Tillis?
50
This famous Mason was known
for his folksongs such as “Jimmy
Crack Corn”, “Little Bitty Tear”,
and “Blue Tail Fly.”
Who was Burl Ives?
10
George Washington was known
to wear this particular kind of
dental appliance.
What is false teeth?
20
This branch of York Rite
Masonry requires that a man be a
Christian.
What is the Commandery?
30
This Masonic body is known as
“The University of
Freemasonry.”
What is the Scottish Rite?
40
This Masonic “patron” dipped
Christ in the Jordan River.
Who was St John the Baptist?
50
In World War I, Mason and
former President Harry Truman
was a captain in this U.S. Army
branch.
What is the Artillery or Field
Artillery?
Masonic Odds & Ends
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Masons
Which famous Mason’s picture hangs in the lobby of the Muehlbach hotel in Kansas City, MO?
Who was Harry Truman?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fall 2003
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Famous American
Masons
10
He was the first AfricanAmerican justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Who was Thurgood
Marshall?
20
This Mason was famous for his
illusions and his escapes from
handcuffs, safes, and other
restraining devices.
Who was Harry Houdini?
30
He was the victorious general at
the Battle of New Orleans in the
War of 1812.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
40
This Mason led the famous 1942
air raid on Tokyo.
Who was Jimmy Doolittle?
50
This Mason was assassinated in
1901, allowing Vice President
and Mason Teddy Roosevelt to
succeed him as President.
Who was William McKinley?
10
This German Mason composed
his immortal 5th Symphony while
going deaf.
Who was Beethoven?
20
This German Mason of the
1700s was a composer famous
for his church music and his
music for organ.
Who was Bach?
30
This British Mason was brought
up in India and wrote “The
Jungle Book” and “The Mother
Lodge.
Who was Kipling?
Famous Worldwide
Masons
40
This Mason is known as the
“great national poet of
Scotland.”
Who was Robert Burns?
50
This French Mason was the
author of “Candide.”
Who was Voltaire?
10
The Western Wall, or “Wailing
Wall”, in Jerusalem, is the only
part of this building still
standing.
What is King Solomon’s
Temple?
20
This is masonically declared a
place of darkness.
What is the North?
30
This is the port to which the rafts
of timbers for Solomon’s Temple
were floated.
What is Joppa?
40
The Scottish Rite House of the
Temple is in this U.S. city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
50
Where is the Seafaring Man
going.
What is Ethiopia?
10
This organization is headed
locally by an officer known as
the Potentate.
What is the Shrine?
20
This organization allows men
and women to participate
together.
What is the Eastern Star?
30
The members of this
organization wear black fezzes.
What is the Grotto?
40
This organization takes its name
from a Middle Eastern tree.
What is the Tall Cedars of
Lebanon?
Masonic Places
(both real & mythical
Masonic Organizations
50
The curent Duke of Kent is the
Grand Master of this Masonic
organization.
What is the United Grand
Lodge of England?
10
This allows the candidate to be
“removed” from the lodge if he
decides not to proceed with the
degree.
What is the cable tow?
20
This Masonic garment is the
prerogative only of the
Worshipful Master.
What is the hat?
30
Knights Templar are often
depicted wearing this symbolic
“weapon.”
What is the sword?
40
This Masonic headgear is named
after an ancient city in Morocco.
What is the fez?
50
The columns and pilasters of
King Solomon’s Temple were
made out of this kind of marble.
What is Parian marble?
Masonic Things
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Masons
This Texas Mason was the most decorated soldier in World War II.
Who was Audie Murphy?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2004
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
10
Signified by the three tapers in a
triangular position about the
altar.
What are the Sun, the Moon,
and the Master of the Lodge?
20
A representation of the ground
floor in King Solomon’s temple.
What is The Mosaic
Pavement?
30
Where you first met resistance,
and afterward gained admission.
What is “a door” or “the
door of the lodge”?
40
A beautiful border or skirting.
What is the Indented Tessel?
50
Hieroglyphically represents
Divine Providence.
What is The Blazing Star?
10
Teaches the proper arrangements
of words.
What is Grammar?
20
Helps us to distinguish
wholesome from nauseous
foods.
What is Tasting?
30
Teaches us to speak copiously
and fluently.
What is Rhetoric?
40
Teaches the art of forming
concords.
What is Music?
50
The most simple and solid of the
five orders of Architecture.
What is the Tuscan?
Things in the Blue
Lodge
Masonic Learning: The
Middle Chamber
Masonic Symbols
10
The Holy Bible, Square and
Compasses.
What are the three Great
Lights of Masonry?
20
The point of beginning –
midway between the dark of the
North and the light of the East.
What is the Northeast
Corner?
30
A word for walking around the
altar.
What is circumambulation?
40
A good and pleasant place for
men to dwell together.
What is unity?
50
Amos saw this symbol.
What is a plumbline?
10
He was the Past Grand Master of
Pennsylvania and signed the
Declaration of Independence.
Who was Benjamin
Franklin?
20
He was elected Commander-inChief of the Continental Forces
in 1775.
Who was General George
Washington?
30
This famous event was spawned
at the Green Dragon Tavern and
St. Andrew’s Lodge.
What is the Boston Tea
Party?
40
This Frenchman and Freemason
became an officer of the
Continental Army.
Who was Lafayette?
50
Eggs and conspirator conjure up
this revolutionary Freemason’s
name.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
Masonic and American
History
Famous Masons
10
This Mason was Back in the
Saddle Again.
Who was Benjamin
Franklin?
20
“God Bless America” for this
Freemason.
Who was Irving Berlin?
30
This Freemason spoke of an iron
curtain while in Missouri.
Who was Sir Winston
Churchill?
40
This pony express rider was a
general of the Nebraska National
Guard.
Who was William “Buffalo
Bill” Cody?
50
The Chicago Daily Tribune was
the first newspaper to announce
this Freemason as president in
1948.
Who was Thomas Dewey?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Masonic Ritual
This person was the inventor of the Corinthian order of architecture.
Who was Callimachus?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fall 2004
The following three categories have questions our newly initiated Masons are required know to
move on to the next degree. (The modern proficiency).
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Entered Apprentice
Mason
10
The minimum age to sign a
petition.
What is Eighteen?
20
This is the first place Masonry
says a man should be prepared
before he can take the degrees of
Masonry.
What is in his heart?
30
Lodge can be opened without
these three things present.
What is the The three great
lights of Masonry, the Holy
Bible, Square and Compass?
40
This Rite in the Entered
Apprentice degree teaches the
initiate that he is to bring nothing
into the Lodge which would
destroy its’ peace and harmony.
What is the Rite of
Destitution?
50
This place in the Lodge is
intended to teach the
significance of initiation as the
symbolic birth of the candidate
into the world of Masonry.
Who is the entrance into the
Lodge?
10
This is a symbol of upright
conduct in life and of the
conscience by which each person
must live.
What is the Plumb?
20
This is a symbol in the
Fellowcraft degree of morality,
truthfulness and honesty.
What is the Square?
Fellowcraft Mason
30
This is the date and place where
the first Grand Lodge of Masons
was formed.
What is the Goose and
Gridiron Tavern, London
England in 1717?
40
This symbolic place in the
Lodge represents man’s journey
from ignorance to enlightenment
and is a place where we receive
the symbolic wages of Devine
Truth.
What is the Middle
Chamber?
50
These three jewels of the
Fellowcraft degree teach the
necessity to learn to utilize good
Masonic instruction and develop
a devotion to its teachings.
Who is the attentive ear, the
instructive tongue, and the
faithful breast?
10
This person teaches the
magnificent lessons of fidelity
and was the son of a widow of
the Tribe of Naphtali.
Who is Hiram Abif?
20
These have symbolic meanings
which serve to enrich the mind
and improve our lives as Masons
and also serve as modes of
recognition.
What are Signs, Tokens, and
Words?
30
This symbol in the degree
reminds us that the things we do
before man, and the things we do
in secret will be recorded and
will bear witness for or against
us at Judgment time.
What is the All-Seeing Eye?
40
This portion of the degree
teaches the virtues of fidelity and
fortitude and represents
resurrection after death.
What is the Raising of the
Candidate?
50
There are only four ways a
Mason can terminate his
membership from his Lodge.
What isDemit, Suspension,
Expulsion, or Death?
Master Mason Degree
Lodge Customs
10
A term used to mean a Lodge
communication called for a
funeral.
What is the Emergent Lodge
or Communication?
20
A custom in Lodges that comes
from a time when the King
remained covered while his
subjects were required to be
uncovered as a sign of respect.
What is “Why the Master
wears a hat”?
30
When a Lodge is at labor
Brethren don’t pass between
these two objects without the
permission of the Master.
What is the Altar and the
East?
40
This Lodge custom assures that
the Brethren entering or leaving
an open Lodge know what
degree it is in.
What is “Saluting the Master
with the Due Guard and
Sign”?
50
A Lodge is opened and closed by
its Master “in due form,”
meaning according to the
customs and laws of the Grand
Lodge. When the Grand Master
opens and closes a Grand Lodge
or a particular Lodge he is said
to do so in “_________ form”.
What is Ample Form. (This
means he has the power and
authority to accomplish his
purpose regardless of the
manner in which he does it)?
10
Quarterback for the Green Bay
Packers from 1956-1971 and
coach from 1975-1983.
Who was Bart Starr?
20
This American aviator was the
first pilot to solo non-stop across
the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Charles Lindberg?
Famous Masons
30
This Mason was famous for
being the leader of the most
popular big band during the “Big
Band Era” in the 1930’s and
1940’s.
Who was Glenn Miller?
40
One of the wealthiest men in the
American colonies at the time of
the American Revolution,
President of the Continental
Congress in 1775 and signed the
Declaration of Independence
with the largest signature.
Who was John Hancock?
50
This Tennessee back woodsman
was a member of the Tennessee
Legislature, a member of
Congress and he died with 139
others at the massacre at the
Alamo in 1836.
Who was Davy Crockett?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Nebraska Masonic History
These three Grand Lodges were the Mother Grand Lodges of the Nebraska Grand Lodge .
What is Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2005
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Quotes of the
Founding Fathers
10
This Founding Father said of the
revolution: “We must hang
together, gentlemen… else we
shall most assuredly hang
separately.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
20
He was the first signer of the
Declaration of Independence and
signed with a bold signature so
that “King George III may read
it without putting on his
glasses”.
Who is John Hancock?
30
He said this of the government
he helped found: “Government is
not reason, it is not eloquence, it
is force; like fire, a troublesome
servant and a fearful master.
Never for a moment should it be
left to irresponsible action.
Who is George Washington?
40
His Masonic membership is
questionable but this quote is
not: “Is life so dear, or peace so
sweet, as to be purchased at the
price of chains or slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I
know not what course others
may take but as for me; give me
liberty or give me death!
Who is Patrick Henry?
50
These were the last words of this
Founding Father: “It is well, I
die hard, but I am not afraid to
go.”
Who is George Washington?
Masonic Oddities
10
This refers to the drinking of a
toast and slamming the glass on
the table.
What is firing?
20
These men made fun of Masons
with their own processional
march including asses and
kettledrums on St. Johns the
Baptist day in 1741.
Who were the Mock Masons
or Scald Miserable Masons?
30
This famous Masonic author
conducted his own Masonic
funeral.
Who is Harold V. B. Voorhis?
40
Where can the “Lodge of the
Holy Saints John” be found?
Nowhere, it is a construct of
ritual.
50
From the time of the American
Revolution until 1859, attempts
were made to create this kind of
Lodge in America.
What is the General Grand
Lodge for the United States?
10
He was the second man to step
on the moon in 1969.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
20
This Lodge meeting took place
in one of the most remote spots
on earth. Where is it?
What is Antarctic 1947?
30
These kinds of Lodges meet only
before or after a full moon.
What is a Moon Lodge?
40
This member of the Lodge
traditionally carries a “flaming”
sword.
Who is the Tyler?
50
He may have just moved to
Canada or perhaps even the
Bahamas.
Who is William Morgan?
Masonic Potpourri
Masonry at War
10
This Mason was the greatest
American ace pilot in World War
I.
Who is Eddie Rickenbacker?
20
This Mason commanded the
Armed Forces in the Philippines.
Who is Douglas McArthur?
30
This Masonic organization was
formed during World War I to
aid Masons overseas.
What is the Masonic Service
Association?
40
A member of Lincoln Lodge #
19, he was the commander of the
American Expeditionary Force.
Who is General John J.
Pershing?
50
These Masons wore a “blue
forget me not” pin in order to
recognize each other.
Who were the German
Masons during World War
II?
10
This common symbol consists of
two equilateral triangles
interconnected.
What is the Star of David?
20
This tool is used to “coax” a
stone into the proper position.
What is the setting Maul?
30
Brother love, relief and truth are
3 of the things found on this
symbol.
What is Jacob’s ladder?
40
These two items were once
necessary to “draw the Lodge”.
What is chalk and charcoal?
50
Not strictly a Masonic only
symbol, this symbol appears also
on the back of a dollar bill.
What is the All Seeing Eye?
Masonic Symbols
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Nebraska Masons
He had a strange combination of professional interests that included botany and law.
Who is Roscoe Pound?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fall 2005
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Anti-Mason Trivia
10
Often quoted or rather missquoted, by anti-Masons, he
wrote the book Morals and
Dogma.
Who was Albert Pike?
20
Having gotten the trust of
Masons, then spurned, because
he wasn’t a Mason, he
mysteriously disappeared after
writing Illustrations of
Freemasonry. His disappearance
caused the creation of the antiMason political party.
Who was William Morgan?
30
This Catholic Bishop threatened
excommunication to members if
they belonged to any body of
Freemasonry in 1995.
Who is Bishop Fabian W.
Bruskewitz?
40
Author of The Three-point
Brothers; The Anti-Christ and
the Origin of masonry; The Cult
of the Great Architect; Pius IX,
Freemason?and The masonic
Assassins. In 1897, he
announced that every word
written about Masonic devil
worship was made up.
Who was Leo Taxil?
50
He led a campaign to get the
Southern Baptist Church to
declare his religion and Masonry
incompatible in the mid 1990s.
Who is Dr. James Larry
Holly?
Famous Country
Musician Masons
10
Country-Western star and singer;
member of the Grand Ole Opry
and co-start of television show
“Hee-Haw”.
Who is Roy Clark?
20
"King of the Cowboys".
American singer and actor who
played a singing cowboy in
motion picture Westerns.
Who was Roy Rogers?
30
American actor who made some
90 movies from the 1930s
through the 1950s, cowboy
singer ("Back in the Saddle
Again" and more.
Who was Gene Autry?
40
Country and Western performer
of renown. Famous for his
stuttering.
Who is Mel Tillis?
50
He was known as the “King of
Country Music”.
Who was Roy Acuff?
10
Austrian composer considered
among the greatest and most
prolific composers in history.
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart?
20
Entertainer and songwriter who
wrote more than 1,500 songs
including "Alexander's Ragtime
Band" (1911) and several
musical comedies like Annie Get
Your Gun (1946).
Who was Erving Berlin?
30
U.S. Marine Band leader from
1880 - 1892, he wrote numerous
marches including the US's
'national march', "The Stars and
Stripes Forever".
Who was John Philip Sousa?
Famous Country
Musician Masons
40
Legendary entertainer and ballad
singer.
Who was Burl Ives?
50
American jazz composer,
orchestrator, bandleader, and
pianist, considered the greatest
composer in the history of jazz
music and one of the greatest
musicians of the 20th Century.
Who was Duke Ellington?
10
American soldier and explorer
who, with fellow Mason William
Clark conducted the first
overland exploration of the West
and Pacific Northwest.
Who was Meriwether Lewis?
20
A former US Chief of Staff, he
commanded the Allied Forces in
the South Pacific during World
War II.
Who was Douglas
MacArthur?
30
Most decorated American
Soldier of WWII, he also
achieved fame as an actor in
movies (Westerns).
Who was Audie Murphy?
40
American silversmith, engraver
and Revolutionary hero who on
April 18, 1775 made his famous
ride to warn "The British are
coming!" as celebrated in a
poem by Longfellow.
Who was Paul Revere?
50
American Army General who
led the American Expeditionary
Forces in Europe during World
War I. His nickname was “Black
Jack”.
Who was John Joseph
Pershing?
Famous Military
Masons
Famous Business
Masons
10
Fried chicken magnate, his
Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets
are found world-wide.
Who was Colonel Harland
Sanders?
20
Founder of the very popular
Wendy's Restaurants, publicly he
was the grandfatherly star of
commercials.
Who was Dave Thomas?
30
A brand of vacuum cleaners is
named after him.
Who was Frank Hoover?
40
American inventor and
manufacturer who developed the
safety razor.
Who was King C Gillette?
50
Headed the company which
produced farm equipment, the
now little-known car with his
namesake, and the first washing
machine capable of being
operated by an outside power
source.
Who was Fredrick Maytag?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Famous Nebraska Masons
He was known as "The Great Commoner"; "The Peerless Leader"; "The Silver-Tongued Orator";
"The Boy Orator of the Platte". He was a candidate for Democratic nomination for President in
1896, 1900, and 1908.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2006
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Entered Apprentice
Symbols
10
This symbolizes that state of
ignorance before light
(knowledge) is received.
What is the Darkness?
20
This is the symbolic action
called for on entrance into a
lodge.
What are the Perfect Points
of Entrance?
30
Symbolic of the triumphs and
the despairs throughout life.
What is the Tessellated
Pavement?
40
This is a symbol of all those
external restraints by which a
man is controlled by others, or
by forces outside himself.
What is the Cable Tow?
50
This is a symbol of the world,
initiation means birth, and the
Great Pillars signify entrance
into a new kind of life.
What is the Lodge?
10
The symbol of morality,
truthfulness and honesty.
What is the Square?
20
The symbol of uprightness of
conduct.
What is the Plumb?
30
These are emblematical of
youth, manhood, and age.
What is the Three Steps?
40
This is an emblem of peace and
unity.
What is the Lily-Work?
50
These are symbols of strength
and establishment - and by
implication, power and control.
What are the 2 pillars?
Fellowcraft Symbols
More Fellowcraft
Symbols
10
This is a symbol of equality.
What is the Level?
20
These symbolize seven arts and
sciences.
What is the seven steps?
30
These are the symbolic wages of
a Fellowcraft Mason.
What is Corn, Wine and Oil?
40
This symbol represents joy,
gladness and happiness.
What is the Oil?
50
These symbols should signify
the necessity to learn to utilize
good Masonic instruction and
develop a devotion to the
teachings of our Craft.
What are the three jewels?
10
This is an emblem of industry,
and recommends the practice of
that virtue to all created beings.
What is the Beehive?
20
This emblem reminds us that we
should be ever watchful and
guarded in our thoughts, words
and actions.
What is the Book of
Constitutions Guarded by the
Tyler’s Sword?
30
This emblem demonstrates that
justice will sooner or later
overtake us.
What is the “Sword Pointing
to a Naked Heart”?
40
This is an emblem of a well
grounded hope and a well spent
life.
What is the “Anchor and the
Ark”?
50
This emblem teaches Masons to
be general lovers of the arts and
sciences.
What is the Forty Seventh
Problem of Euclid?
Master Mason Symbols
More Master Mason
Symbols
10
This emblem reminds us of that
disease or casualty which will
soon terminate our lives.
What is the Setting Maul?
20
This emblem symbolizes the
immortality of the soul and the
timely discovery of Hiram
Abiff’s body.
What is the Sprig Acacia?
30
An emblem reminding us that
we are constantly in God's
presence.
What is the All Seeing-eye?
40
This is an emblem of human life.
What is Hour-Glass?
50
This is an emblem of time,
which cuts the brittle thread of
life and launches us into eternity.
What is the Scythe?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Masonic Symbols
These symbols represent those moral and spiritual virtues which should govern our conduct.
What are the Working Tools?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fall 2006
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
MASONIC THINGS
10
A place, especially a raised
platform where sacrifices or
offerings are made to deity.
What is an Altar?
20
A little twig or spray from a tree
or bush of the mimosa family.
What is a sprig of acacia?
30
A very heavy hammer made of
wood for driving stakes, wedges,
etc.
What is a Maul (setting
Maul)?
40
straight slender shoot or stem cut
from a bush or tree. Several
junior officers carry them.
What is a Rod?
50
The foot or bottom support of a
column or pilar.
What is a Pedestal?
10
NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback
for the Denver Broncos.
Who is John Elway?
20
The Manassa Mauler, world
heavyweight boxing champion
from 1919 to 1926.
Who is Jack Dempsey?
30
Star of “Titanic” and “The
Aviator”.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
40
Brigadier General who served
with Pickett and Lee at
Gettysburg, where he was killed.
Who is Lewis Armistead?
50
Actor from “Seinfeld” that
joined Freemasonry after
discovering his idol, Red
Skeleton, was a Mason.
Who is Michael Richards
(Cosmo Kramer).
Famous Masons
Same Name
10
_Father,
_Canyon,
_Lodge.
What is Grand?
(Grandfather, Grand Canyon,
Grand Lodge)
20
_Terrier,
_bagpipe,
_Rite.
What is Scottish? (Scottish
Terrier, Scottish Bagpipe,
Scottish Rite).
30
_mind,
_key,
_Mason.
What is Master?
40
_a,
_o,
_um.
What is Jubil? (Jubila,
Jubilo, Jubilum)
50
_league,
_college,
_Warden.
What is Junior?
10
East coast city and Masonic
appendant body.
What is New York Rite? (New
York and York Rite)
20
Young ladies appendant body
and Shriners appendant body for
women.
What is Jobs Daughters of
the Nile. (Jobs Daughters
and Daughters of the Nile)
30
Famous U. S. General that
fought against Mexico and Past
Grand Master of Masons of
Nebraska.
What is Winfield Scott
Krieger? (Winfield Scott and
Scott Krieger)
40
One of the principal tenants of
Masonry that teaches love for
each other and for all mankind
and famous movie from the 70’s
(chick flick) starring Ryan
O’Neal.
What is Brotherly Love
Story?
50
Famous pirate (and name of hard
liquor) and incident in 1826
What is Captain Morgan
Affair?
Before and After
where the disappearance of a
man caused Anti-Masonic
hysteria.
Masonic Places
10
This chapel is thought to be by
many the physical link between
the Knights Templar and the
origin of Scottish Masonry.
What is the Roslyn Chapel?
20
Gothic masterpiece, built in
mathematical multiples of 33 in
Indianapolis. Declared one of the
most beautiful buildings in the
world.
What is the Scottish Rite
Cathedral?
30
Located in Washington, D. C., it
is the headquarters of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
Southern Masonic Jurisdiction.
What is the House of the
Temple?
40
Located in Alexandria, VA, this
monument is a memorial to a
famous Freemason. Each floor
of the building is sponsored by a
different appendant Masonic
body.
What is the George
Washington Masonic
Memorial?
50
Church with a circular design in
London where stone effigies of
Knights are displayed.
What is the Templar Church?
Final Jeopardy
Topic "Masonic Celebrated Dates".
These two dates coincide with the summer and winter solstices.
What are Saints John's days (St. John the Baptist, June 24th; St. John the Evangelist,
December 27th).
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2007
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Who am I? (We will give
you a quote and you
must indicate the
character who says it)
10
“…of so vile a wretch as I
should be…”.
Who is Jubilum?
20
“…I am glad to meet you thus
alone.”
Who is Jubila?
30
“…that you form in grand
procession to go with him to
endeavour to raise…”
Who is the Grand Senior
Warden?
40
“How did it originate?”
Who is the Junior Warden?
50
“Present your pass”.
Who is the Seafaring man?
10
“…the making of a woman a
Mason…”
What is the Master?
(Obligation)
20
“It alludes to the sacred name of
Deity”
What is the Fellowcraft?
(Letter G)
30
“…that this is an instrument of
torture to the flesh…”
What is the Entered
Apprentice? (Receiving
candidate)
40
“... as yet you have received but
partial light in Masonry.”
What is the Fellowcraft? (At
Altar, explaining the three
great lights of Masonry)
50
“…I am free to inform you that
our obligations…”
What is the Entered
Apprentice? (Disclaimer
before taking obligation)
In which degree? (We
will give you a quote and
you must indicate from
which degree)
Contained in
“FREEMASONRY”
(We will give the
definition and the
answer will only have
the letters F, R, E, E, M,
A, S,O, N, R, and Y)
10
Price paid or demanded for
releasing a captive.
What is RANSOM?
20
Their first name is George, or
George, or George, or George, or
George.
Who is FOREMAN?
30
A deep sense of guilt or regret
felt over a wrong that one has
done.
What is REMORSE?
40
A sauce made with cheese.
What is MORNAY?
50
Four times champion of the
Indianapolis 500.
Who is MEARS (Rick
Mears)?
10
He used eleven herbs and spices.
Who is COLONEL
HARLAND SANDERS?
20
Founder of the squared
hamburger.
Who is DAVE THOMAS?
30
Founder of Department store
chain.
Who is JAMES C. PENNEY?
40
Co-founder of Apple computer.
Who is STEVE WOZNIAK?
50
Comedian that uses
malapropisms and is a member
of Scottish Rite.
Who is NORM CROSBY?
A brimless felt hat shaped like a
truncated cone that shriners
wear.
What is a FEZ?
Famous Masons
Famous Masons
10
20
Founder of the squared
hamburger.
Who is DAVE THOMAS?
30
Degree that represents manhood.
What is the FELLOWCRAFT
DEGREE?
40
a2 = b2 + c2
What is the FORTY
SEVENTH PROBLEM OF
EUCLID?
50
The first of the five points of
fellowship.
What is FOOT TO FOOT?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Shriners
In which Illinois city did one hundred thousand conventioning Shriners paraded for 3 days in
June of 1937?
What is DETROIT?
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fall 2007
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Famous Masons
(We will give you the
name of two Masons,
and you will have to
indicate their common
last name)
10
Theodore and Franklin.
Who was Roosevelt? (26th
and 32nd presidents of the
USA)
20
Gerald and Henry.
Who was Ford? (Gerald R.
Ford was the 38th president of
the USA. Henry Ford
founded Ford Motor
Company)
30
Will and Roy.
Who was Rogers? (Will
Rogers was an actor and
humorist. Roy Rogers was an
American singer and actor)
40
Jesse and Andrew.
Who is Jackson? (Reverend
Jesse Jackson was/is an
American Civil Rights leader.
Andrew Jackson was the 7th
president of the USA)
50
Roy and William.
Who is Clark? (Roy Clark
was a country-western singer.
William Clark explored the
Mississippi river with
Merriwether Lewis)
Ritual Sections
(We will give you the
action or description of
part of the ritual and
you will name it)
10
Only part of a degree divided
into sections.
What are the Lectures?
20
Agreement by which the
candidate is bound to the Lodge.
What is the Obligation?
30
Section of one degree in which
the candidate is informed about
the meaning and importance of a
letter from the alphabet.
What is the Letter G?
40
Communication given by the
Senior Deacon before the
candidate enters the Lodge for
the first time.
What is Prepatory Address?
50
To conduct the candidate around
the Lodge as part of the ritual.
What is Circumambulation?
10
Genesis 1:1 (In the beginning
God created the Heaven and the
earth).
What is the EA, FC, MM?
(Any or all of the three
answers are correct).
20
Amos 7:8 (I will set a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel).
What is the FC?
30
Revelations 5:5 (There is
strength in the Lion of the tribe
of Judah, and He will prevail).
What is the MM?
Biblical Quotes
(We will give you a
verse from the bible and
you must indicate the
degree in which it is
mentioned)
40
Matthew 25:23 (Well done good
and faithful servant, enter thou
into the joy of thy Lord).
What is the EA?
50
Psalm 133:1 (Behold, how good
and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in
unity).
What is the EA?
10
The Great Lights of Masonry.
What is 3? (Bible, square,
and compass)
20
The liberal arts and sciences
(described in the FC degree).
What is 7? (Grammar,
rhetoric, logic, arithmetic,
geometry, music, and
astronomy)
30
The orders in architecture
(described in FC degree).
What is 5? (Tuscan, Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian, and
Composite)
40
Number of non-honorary degrees
conferred in Scottish Rite.
What is 29? (4th to the 32nd)
50
Number of craftsmen that
conspired against the life of your
Grand Master Hiram Abiff.
What is 15? (Twelve
craftsmen plus Ja, Jo, and
Jm)
10
_____Steward
_____Deacon
_____Warden
What is Senior or Junior?
(Senior Steward, Senior
Deacon, Senior Warden)
20
_____Wayne
_____The Baptist
_____The Evangelist
Who is John?
Numbers
(The answer of the clue
is a number)
Same name.
(Each group has a
common word)
_____Meal
30
_____Deal
_____and compass
What is SQUARE?
40
_____of Tyre
_____Solomon
_____David
What is KING?
50
_____Templar
_____Commander of the Court
of Honor
_____of Columbus
What is KNIGHT?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Masonic Customs and regulations.
This person can overrule the objection of a Lodge member to having a visiting Mason seated?
Who is no one? (While the objecting brother is present)
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fall 2008
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Masonic Abbreviations
10
R.W.
What is Right Worshipful?
20
K. S.
What is King Solomon?
30
V. S. L.
What is the Volune of the
Sacred Law?
40
U.D.
What is Under Dispensation?
50
T. G. A. O. T. U.
What is The Grand Artificer
Of The Universe?
10
Implement carried by Deacons
and Stewards.
What is the rod?
20
Wooden mallet used by
operative Masons.
What is the setting maul?
30
On brazen pillars; symbols of
universality in Fellowcraft
degree.
What are the globes?
40
Emblems worn by officers and
some past officers.
What are the jewels?
50
The left hand pillar in porch of
King Solomon’s Temple.
What is Boaz?
10
Unique emblem of authority of
the Master of the Lodge.
What is the hat?
20
Emblem of brotherly love.
What is the trowel?
30
Emblem of innocence.
What is the lamb?
40
Emblem of plenty.
What is the sheaf of wheat?
Lodge paraphernalia
Masonic emblems
50
Emblem of immortality.
What is the sprig of acacia?
10
This Mason was known as the
Duke.
Who was John Wayne?
20
This Mason was a famous movie
studio founder.
Who was Louis Mayer
(MGM), or Jack Warner
(WB), or Carl Laemmle
(Universal), or Darryl
Zanuck (20th Century Fox)?
Note: One or more answers
would be acceptable.
30
This Mason was the Father of
the U. S. Navy.
Who was John Paul Jones?
40
All seven brothers from a circus
family were Masons.
Who were the Ringling
brothers?
50
Surgeon and scientist; this
Mason pioneered the concept of
antiseptics in medicine.
Who was Joseph Lister? (His
name originated the name of
the mouth antiseptic
“Listerine”)
10
The governing body of
subordinate Masonic Lodges.
What is the Grand Lodge?
20
Deity.
What is the Grand artificer of
the universe?
30
The two methods of salute
known to Masons: Private
(behind tiled doors) and Public
(funerals and cornerstone
laying). It differs in form in
different jurisdictions. Salute to
Grand Master and distinguished
guests.
What are the Grand Honors?
Famous Masons
We are “Grand” (Each
answer will have the
word “grand” in it)
40
City and Temple in which Grand
Lodge holds communications
and issues edicts; Seat of the
Grand Master.
What is the Grand East?
50
The Governing body of Scottish
Rite in foreign countries.
What is the Grand Orient?
Final Jeopardy
Topic: Masonic characters.
He collected 465 equations, postulates, theorems, and axioms of which Masons use one as a
symbol of how some pieces of the world fit together. He did not exclaim “Eureka”, because he
did not find it.
Who was Euclid.
NOTE: “Elements” was a 13-volume work produced by Euclid. The 47th problem of this work
was the theorem developed by Pythagoras, 300 years before Euclid. Therefore it is the
Pythagorean Theorem or the 47th problem of Euclid.
MASONIC JEOPARDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spring 2009
CATEGORY/AMOUNT
QUESTION
ANSWER
Masonic Presidents
10
He was the only President who
was Master of his Lodge while
in office.
Who was George
Washington?)
20
The number of Brothers that
have been U. S. Presidents?
What is Fifteen (Washington,
Monroe, Jackson, Polk,
Buchanan, A. Johnson,
Garfield, McKinley, T.
Roosevelt, Taft, Harding,
F.D. Roosevelt, Truman, L.B.
Johnson, and Ford).
30
One of 2 Presidents that have
been Past Grand Masters.
Who was Andrew Jackson or
Harry S Truman?
40
The president who was only
initiated as an Entered
Apprentice and allowed in
Lodge.
Who was Lyndon B.
Johnson?
50
Only President that was made a
Mason “at sight”.
Who was William H. Taft?
10
The Emblem of human life.
What is the Hour glass?
20
An instrument used to spread the
cement of Brotherly Love and
Affection.
What is the trowel?
30
A symbol of the pure heart.
What is the Pot of incense?
40
It reminds us that we should ever
be watchful and guarded in our
thoughts.
What is the Book of
Constitutions guarded by the
Tyler's sword?
Masonic Symbols
50
The one that does NOT belong
in the second or last class of
Masonic Emblems (from the
third section of the lecture in the
MM degree): Setting maul,
Spade, Coffin, Beehive, Sprig of
Acacia.
What is the Beehive?
10
To teach or impress upon the
mind.
What is Inculcate?
20
A free thinker or person with
loose morals.
What is a Libertine?
30
Decline of mental alertness.
What is Dotage?
40
A Mason without the word.
What is a Cowan?
50
To offer for consideration and
acceptance.
What is to Propound?
10
Month in which Lodges hold
elections.
What is the first regular
meeting in November?
20
Latest date in which an Officer
may be installed without special
dispensation.
What is January 31st?
30
Only Grand Lodge Officer
whose title is “Very Worshipful”.
Who is the Grand Chaplain?
40
Name for a non-Mason, under
Nebraska by laws.
What is a Profane?
Masonic Words
Masonic Bylaws
50
In a funeral procession, the
number of non-Masons allowed
to march between the WM and
the Tyler.
What is Zero?
10
Mythical names of assassins.
Who are Ja, Jo, and Jm?
20
First known artificer or cunning
workman in metals.
Who is Tubal-Cain?
30
Callimachus invented this at
Corynth.
What is the Corynthian
column?
40
The Widow's son.
Who is Hiram Abiff?
50
The Lion of the tribe of Judah.
Who is King Solomon?
Masonic Characters
Final Jeopardy
Topic: The Entered Apprentice degree.
Name given to Fortitude, Prudence, Temperance, and Justice.
What are the “Four Cardinal Virtues”?